Dennys Global Politics: Full Transcript: 2012 President Obama State of the Union Address

Dennys Global Politics: Full Transcript: 2012 President Obama State of the Union Address: From Denny: This State of the Union address, though well written and well delivered, fell like a thud upon both the American public and the news media.

There was not much to impress - or give hope to a weary middle class, first losing their jobs to seven years of massive layoffs, the BP Oil Spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico - and then losing their homes to foreclosure.

President Obama's promises were weak as rainwater and without any follow-up as his past three years of promises and economic fixes. Most of the news media panned the speech with only a handful of comments and practically zero analysis.

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More Empty Promises: Obama 2012 State of the Union Address

From Denny: The usual suspects reared up for notice, slickly detailed into the typical State of the Union Address.  Yes, it's an election year all right.

President Obama made yet more promises to get votes.  If these promises are anything like his last three years of promises, then don't go looking for anything to happen at all.  


When the promise details are out of public sight for this Obama administration, then that means the promises are out of their mind to get done. With Team Obama it's all about sounding the right tone, delivering the inspirational speech, then sitting down on the job and turning their attention away from the country's dire problems, hoping no one is watching.

What were the promises?

Cartoons: Just Good Old-Fashioned Political Comedy

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From Denny: Sometimes, Life is just too amusing and these cartoonists certainly have capitalized on the opportunists capitalizing on us. Lots of funnies about President Obama's SOTU address, "addressing" the silly school child culture that surrounded the days before the speech. You know, just who asked "you have got to be kidding me!" to sit with them instead of in the usual stiff-necked partisan division. It was all about the political marketing of trying to convince America how Congress and the President are so serious about working together for our common good. Yeah, sure left me speechless too. :)

Then this week was the 100th birthday of deceased former President Reagan. Everyone tries to capitalize upon his charisma too. While I did not agree with his conservative agenda and was not ttoo thrilled about how he was the first president to run up a $1 trillion debt, the guy was a sweetie personality-wise. In fact, he was originally a Democrat until he married money and his father-in-law convinced him to come over to The Dark Side - Republicanism. What that father-in-law saw was what the Republican Party sorely lacked - and still does - anyone with a heart.

GOP 2012 presidential wannabe contenders like Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin have been invoking Reagan's memory and comparing themselves to him. Reagan was an original, folks. Ain't no one like him in the political sphere today. Not even Obama can - or should - compare himself to Reagan.

It is rather creepy how the GOP has been promoting Reagan to God status just like they did the Constitution. Enough already and the cartoonists agree! :)


Just plain good old-fashioned political comedy: