Last Tuesday night I watched President
Obama's State of the Union address. I'm not going to get into the
content of the speech other than to say it was heavily into the
wealth inequality that seems to be the signature issue of out time.
It was a good speech that showed the President back in campaign form
and maybe ready to finally take on the GOP head on. One can hope.
As watched the speech I chatted with a
friend and tried to keep up with a wildly out of control twitter. It
seemed as if everybody was watching and had an opinion on it which was
good to see because it shows that as the election year begins people
are far from turned off by it. They know what the stakes are this
year and just want to get past the joke that is the GOP primary
season and get to the main event. One way or another I think this is
going to be a very interesting year.
I truly love politics and take some
pride in usually have a good guess about what is going to happen but
these primaries are driving me insane. Newt Gingrich, the very
antithesis of the conservative GOP, just wont go away and at times is
the front runner. Willard Romney, who I once thought was the GOP's
best hope, cries of wealth envy and has most of his own wealth in the
Cayman Islands. Than there is Ron Paul who continues to amass
delegates but to what end? He has nowhere near the money to spend as
the other candidates but seems to only need a bus ticket to the next
state to add to his delegate count. What Paul plans to do with them
is the first big question of the campaign.
Some election year randomness.
The always popular Rick Santorum on
President Obama's policy in Libya, “We should never go to war
simply to topple a dictator.” Somebody needs to hand him a history
of the war in Iraq. After the GOP debates in Florida it seems
Santorum is running more to be Willard Romney's running mate than
anything else.
In Georgia a judge ruled President
Obama must appear in court in a case which challenges his being on
the Georgia ballot for the November election, once again the question
is his citizenship. The President's lawyer boycotted the hearing
saying it was “baseless, costly and unproductive” while lawyers
for the challengers said the president should be held in contempt for
not complying. Recently I talked with somebody who said he thinks
Obama was born in Kenya at which point I just wanted to shake the
crap out of him. In all seriousness, what must the man do for these
people?
And finally as the US and Iran drift
back and forth from the brink some Republicans still have the gall to
accuse President Obama of appeasement. One has to wonder what Osama
bin Ladin, Muammar Gaddafi, and some recently deceased Somali pirates
would have to say about that.
