Last Night, Barack Obama Became President

[Blue_Tires]

It's a wonder he didn't laugh out loud.
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Looking out over the frauds and lightweights and bland hunks of man-cheese that make up the assembled political establishment, and beyond them to a spavined and impotent political culture that would embarrass any self-respecting monkey house, and beyond that to a country willing to abandon almost anything it once deemed important to the first huckster who turns up weeping on cable television, Barack Obama must have been sorely tempted to let out one final, mighty guffaw and close his first State of the Union address with the words, "And I am the only president of the United States in this room, motherfuckers," after which he would return to the White House and eat Mitch McConnell's gonads on toast.

But, of course, he didn't do that. There were the usual sonorous banalities about how everyone in Washington should work together, and about how great the American people are. There was something in the address to piss off just about everyone. He came out for more nuclear plants, for the marketing mirage that is "clean" coal, and, if not for "Drill, baby drill," then for "Drill a little bit there, baby." He talked about tax cuts until hell wouldn't have them. "Thought I might get a little applause there," he said, grinning down at the wax museum that is the Republican congressional leadership.

At the same time, he stuck the Republicans in a box over why they can't go along with a fee to get back the rest of the public money that the government shoveled into the banks so that Tim Geithner wouldn't be hanging from a lamppost in lower Manhattan. The lumpy Caucasians of American "conservatism" sat there motionless, freezing themselves into the opening frames of every campaign commercial that will be run on behalf of a Democrat come fall — if the Democrats are smart, which is always a long shot.

He had a whole truckload of ideas on making college more affordable. He talked tough on regulatory reform. He even mocked the Republicans on the spending freeze that was so unpopular with Obama's own base. When some hay-shaker snickered about the fact that the freeze doesn't start until 2011, he pointed out, "That is the way budgeting is done." And get that weak-ass shit out of my house.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/reaction-to-state-of-the-union-2010-012810#ixzz0dxKnSRcY

[Fire1]

1. If only and I wish! They have no intention of working to get

anything done as long as he's in the WH. I'm convinced of that. After his term or terms I am done with voting and politics. The dems could have Alan Grayson, Kucinich or a freakin monkey for a candidate. I am finished.

[firedupdem]

2. Usually I try to talk you out of that...but I'm feeling the same way...

and they won't get that little kucinich or grayson or any of the rest of em...they will get rich ass republicans.

[Fire1]

3. You know how I feel about this already. We've supported

every single democratic president that has been in office. The good, the bad, the ugly. Didn't matter. This is/was the party of our people. This is/was the party that "cared" about us. All white presidents. DIDN'T MATTER! He was OUR president, too! What do WE get? A TOKEN! Naw, I can't do it. If the man was ignorant, unqualified or anything along those lines, I'd say well, ok. He ain't shit. But, THIS man is one of the smartest and brightest presidents this country has seen in quite some time, with the exception of Bill Clinton (got to give it to him. smart mother fucker). Two steps forward and three steps back.

In all good conscience, I cannot vote for another president cause every time I walk into that booth I will remember this.