It Was so Much Better to Listen to Obama than to Bush
From left: Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi
Despite the dire economic news, which President Barack Obama delivered before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, it was a much, much better speech and experience than any of the stilted, mumbling, awkward State of the Union, or non-State of the Union appearances by his predecessor – the 43.
A new national poll indicates that two-thirds of those who watched Mr. Obama’s address reacted favorably to his speech. There were a surprising number of standing ovations – at last count some 66, and for a change very few – if any embarrassing grammatical and mispronunciation errors. Quite a refreshing change, at least for those of us, who have gone to school and who do know how to read and regularly exercise that ability.
If you haven’t had a chance to watch Tuesday’s address, you can always catch up.
Another refreshing change was the much lighter (probably by at least 100 pounds) backbench. You know, the seats where the vice president and the speaker of the house sit, behind the speaking president. The combination of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi seemed positively thin and fit, when compared to the Dick Cheney/Dennis Hastert combination. We wonder also about the intelligence and evil indexes difference…
The president’s words described a rather ambitious agenda, including health care reform, catching up to Europe in education, and to Japan and Germany in solar energy, finally bringing the troops home. All of this despite truly crummy economic news and record deficits. We wish him luck. Maybe reducing the size and scope of our global empire might be a good idea, not only from an economic, but also from a diplomatic point of view?
And even though this is not strictly related to Tuesday’s address to a joint session of Congress, the really big news is that the Obamas will be getting a Portuguese water dog sometime in April. By the way, Senator Ted Kennedy owns two Portuguese water dogs and lobbied hard for the breed. There is no doubt that both Malia and Sasha are counting the days now. 
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awwww. a portugese waterdog..
awwwwwwwww,,, awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..
have you considered the puppy cute factor in the writing of this post ?
you had to know that the puppy would get more comments than Dick and the Balls.. how could you even show those evil bastards in the same pic with that cute Puppy and of course our new Obamarobians.
yes lastnite was a change, they did the O’Wave as my dh calls it – I call it Obamarobics. they’re thin, they’re smart and they’re jumpin UP for America !!!
Yes We Can, ooops mean Yes We ARE
LOL Whatever,,
Don’t worry, dogs can detect evil. That puppy is going to grow up and bite any evil bastards, who get near the girls – Obamarobics, Obamatronics, or whatever
It’s a long row to hoe but I’m glad it’s Obama leading the way.
I totally agree. I couldn’t stand watching Bush on TV, he was so annoying. I felt like I should want to watch our President and be informed of what was going on in our government, but I just couldn’t bear to watch him for even 1 minute. Plus half of what he said was a joke anyway. I loved watching Letterman and Leno make fun of him. That was priceless.
great blog, I’m glad Bush is gone. My latest post might interest you.
Thank you. I agree with you. Wonder how these people can even justify their existence at this point…
Did you know that Bush, Cheney, and Obama are ALL related.
Something worth thinking about ref NWO.
I knew that about Dick and Barack, but W?