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SOTU Poll

What is your opinion on the SOTU


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How do you think Obama did last night?

He got 83% approval from this CBS Poll.
 
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I don't care.I didn't watch. I do not regularly watch state of the unions.Its all nothing but a bunch of hot air until the president does something.
 
I don't care.I didn't watch. I do not regularly watch state of the unions.Its all nothing but a bunch of hot air until the president does something.

Ditto.....
He is a charlatan......;)
 
Mediocre. A lot of hypocritical double talk (his stance on partisanship mixed with what he’s actually done in the past year and the partisanship shown in his speech. His stance on not campaigning while he’s continually seeming in campaign mode), a great deal of spinning of what he’s done in the past year, blaming Bush’s foreign policy for any and all bad while taking credit for foreign policy that is right in line with what Bush was doing (Such as the Iraqi pullout this year), and a lot of lofty goals explained with extremely lofty rhetoric that are either rehashes of goals he’s failed to accomplish thus far or seem beyond what he’s going to be able to do.

Nothing stood out to me, nothing he said really swayed me or changed my opinion of him that has been lowering since he came into office, and nothing wowed me. He didn’t utterly and completely infuriate me as he did at times during the campaign with some of his speeches that were littered with errors and factually questionable comments, but it wasn’t great in my eyes at all.

For a speech that started out in part talking about needing to end partisanship, which he’s talked about the whole time he ran up to election, it was just more of the same “We end partisanship by you all shutting up and doing what I say we need to do” mentality that has defined the way he’s attempted such “Bipartisanship” in the past year.
 
Pretty terrible. It was a repeat of a year ago. More bash Bush and pat myself on the back with lies.

Everything for everyone means little will get done again this year and Obama will continue to blame Bush and the GOP.
 
Disappointing. He didn't even get to health care until 35 minutes into the speech (after he found the time to talk about community colleges), and then spent a mere 5 minutes on the subject. His claim that he doesn't quit would have been a lot more believable if he had actually talked about the subject instead of just whisking through it as quickly as possible to get on to something else.

I think he made it blatantly clear that he no longer cares about health care reform. If they don't pass a health care bill, I will not be voting this November.
 
Back on the campaign trail. No surprises. Politics as usual.
 
Agreed, I didn't watch it and don't care. Anyone can get up and talk about problems, all I care is what they actually do to solve them. Someone let me know when Obama actually accomplishes something.
 
Agreed, I didn't watch it and don't care. Anyone can get up and talk about problems, all I care is what they actually do to solve them. Someone let me know when Obama actually accomplishes something.

He is to busy blaming the GOP and Bush. Solutions would mean taking responsibility something Obama doesn't want to do.
 
He is to busy blaming the GOP and Bush. Solutions would mean taking responsibility something Obama doesn't want to do.

I don't care who he points fingers at but he wasn't elected to blame others, he was elected to solve problems. So far, he's miserably failed to carry out every single campaign promise he made and the situation isn't improving any. Obama has been a whole lotta lip-flapping and virtually no positive action.
 
Yep, its a gross exaggeration to say he's failed at all of his promises.

That said, he has either stalled or moved the goal posts on an extremely large number of his promises thus far and one could argue that not doing it by the time you originally campaigned on could be a "failure" though I don't particularly do it myself.

Guantanamo Bay is still open

We're still going to have people indefinitely detained

We're not going to be out of Iraq any faster than wish Bush's plans

Health Care still isn't solved

Little to nothings been done on immigration reform

The top end Bush Tax cuts hasn't been repealed, and its looking more likely that its going to expire all together which won't just affect the top end earners.

We haven't had every bill posted online for multiple days prior to him signing it

We didn't have the health care debate broadcast the whole time on C-Span

And those are just the stalled things and not touching stuff like Lobbyists which failed, which by fact checking accounts from ABC he even mislead people about in his SOTU address, or questionable things like his promises of "post partisanship" and "change from politics as usual"...

Saying he's broken every promise he made is a great stretch. However, its also a bit dishonest to not point out he has moved the goal post for a lot of his promises and has failed to actually get many of his bigger promises completed as of yet. So while not failed, many of his campaign promises are woefully incomplete. His "stalled + failed" total is above his completed, and that's not even touching "incomplete" which is in the high 200's but is understandable at this point. Its his first year, he's got time to right that, but he also shouldn't have set such lofty rhetoric for how quick he'd have things done just to get elected if he wasn't going to go out of his way to make sure they happened.
 
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He had some highs(pushing to repeal DADT, some of his economic ideas are not bad), but overall, nothing great.
 
Notice he gave no dates on repealing anything

Almost as if he does not know for sure when congress will get it done. Wow, thanks for pointing out that Obama cannot see the future, I never would have guessed....
 
His speech was an arrogant array of lies. It was simply atrocious and I was appalled by it.
 
Almost as if he does not know for sure when congress will get it done. Wow, thanks for pointing out that Obama cannot see the future, I never would have guessed....

No he wants no responsibility. If it is just another lie on his long list of lies it doesn't matter to him. He just wants people to think he will do something.
 
I detest the State of The Union Requirement and they always bore me to tears, even when I like the sitting president. That being said I not only don't support this particular potus he makes me physically ill everytime he speaks, so I will not subject myself to an hour of his garbage. In other words, I don't care.
 
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PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises

You might disagree with the specifics on this website, but you are making a very strong statement here. Can you back it up?

The major promises, the ones that got him into office, have not been met. This includes getting us out of Iraq, closing Gitmo, fixing health care, etc. The things Politifact mentions that he's done are not the things he campaigned on, but things he mentioned once or twice.

"Working on it" doesn't mean squat. Let's see him actually ACCOMPLISH something.
 
The major promises, the ones that got him into office, have not been met. This includes getting us out of Iraq, closing Gitmo, fixing health care, etc. The things Politifact mentions that he's done are not the things he campaigned on, but things he mentioned once or twice.

"Working on it" doesn't mean squat. Let's see him actually ACCOMPLISH something.

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.
 
Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.

Besides, it's well-known that Politifact, an arm of the St. Petersburg Times, has a serious liberal bias anyhow. It's no wonder that they don't criticize Obama (or most liberal politicians) to the same degree that they would a conservative politician. It's in their nature.
 
The speech itself wasn't bad. The fact that he continuously fails at actually doing any of the things he says is what makes it terrible.
 
I don't think you can really blame half of the stuff not done on Obama. I personally feel its the Congressional Democrats' faults. They have one of the largest majorities in decades yet the idiots still cannot get anything done. They should all be impeached for incompetence, and sent to jail...

But Obama's speech itself wasn't bad. He said what he was going to do, and if he (by which I mean Congress) can get it done, then good for him. But I really doubt that anything will happen. The Congressional Democrats are being real wusses, and its really freaking pathetic.
 
Besides, it's well-known that Politifact, an arm of the St. Petersburg Times, has a serious liberal bias anyhow. It's no wonder that they don't criticize Obama (or most liberal politicians) to the same degree that they would a conservative politician. It's in their nature.

Lately I have yet to see a source that someone does not accuse of bias, so unless you have a conservative version of the website, its the best tool we have.
 
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