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SOTU 2014

By Jeralyn, Section Obama Administration
Posted on Tue Jan 28, 2014 at 08:00:58 PM EST
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President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address. Here's a place for your thoughts.

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    Was Joe Biden texting during the speech? (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Slado on Tue Jan 28, 2014 at 10:03:10 PM EST
    Biden

    Obama is still good at reading a TelePrompTer.  I'll give him that.   As for the substance what can you say?  Is it 2016 yet?

    What are your hopes for 2016? (none / 0) (#4)
    by oculus on Tue Jan 28, 2014 at 10:18:54 PM EST


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    Good question (none / 0) (#5)
    by Slado on Tue Jan 28, 2014 at 10:59:53 PM EST
    I in a weird way would like to return to the good old days of split politics.

    A republican house and Senate with a Clinton in the White House.

    Then maybe we'd get some bipartisan reform like we did with Bill.

    If you make me choose a Republican id guess for now I'd go with Scott Walker.   I like Christie but am worried he'd not play well against Hillary.

    Still a long way off.   My bet is both parties have someone we haven't thought of yet that could win the whole thing.

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    There's (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Jan 29, 2014 at 07:31:49 PM EST
    not going to be any bipartisanship with a crazy tea party and frankly Hillary is not going to deal with people who believe she is satan. She's not going to try to hold their hands and be nice to them like Obama has.

    Republicans may very well rue the day that the tea party came into power.

    If she gets anything bipartisan it will be marginally like her husband did with a lot of stuff. She'll peel off a few GOP votes like Peter King in the house and maybe someone like Susan Collins in the senate but other than that she's not going to get any GOP votes on most anything.

    But the difference is that she' not naive about who the GOP is/was like Obama was. I mean she knows these are the same people who were pilfering her underwear drawer and saying she murdered Vince Foster.

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    I shudder to think what the GOP is (none / 0) (#16)
    by nycstray on Wed Jan 29, 2014 at 08:32:15 PM EST
    going to be like in 2016 . . .

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    I fully (none / 0) (#18)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Jan 30, 2014 at 07:59:33 AM EST
    expect a full on crazy nominee who is going to spout conspiracy theories and make crackpot statements. It ought to be entertaining if nothing else.

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    I was thinking about the whole of the GOP (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by nycstray on Thu Jan 30, 2014 at 11:57:16 AM EST
    (not just the nominee) and after