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Tue Jan 24, 2012, 10:32 PM

Matariki (15,024 posts)

1. Elaborate.

please.

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62 replies	Author	Time	Post
I heard a different speech than many here. [View all]	mmonk	Jan 2012	OP
Elaborate.	Matariki	Jan 2012	#1
Specifics would be nice	SunsetDreams	Jan 2012	#24
Would you please elaborate?	Bicoastal	Jan 2012	#2
I suppose the best way to put it is people hear the same thing and interpret differently.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#9
Yeah, I had my audio running backwards, too. nt	valerief	Jan 2012	#3
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Seems I did too	slay	Jan 2012	#4
he "needs" to do that?	onenote	Jan 2012	#7
No, let's just all pretend the Republicans are solid leaders, with the best interests of the people	slay	Jan 2012	#10
SO you think he should talk about unity while attacking unity? I'm sure that would play well	FarLeftFist	Jan 2012	#15
How has his talk of "unity" helped over the last 3 years? The way Repubs just block everything?	slay	Jan 2012	#20
Funny, I heard lots of -'going to do this right now' in his speech.	Matariki	Jan 2012	#13
I hope you are right	slay	Jan 2012	#14
I noticed he didn't talk about making congress pass bills but will "send a bill to congress", over &	uppityperson	Jan 2012	#18
"making" Congress pass bills?	Bohunk68	Jan 2012	#47
What? Are you saying you can lead a horse to water AND can make it drink?	uppityperson	Jan 2012	#49
You can lead a horse to water and pressure it to drink.....	tpsbmam	Jan 2012	#58
So Obama is spineless, simply backing off since he can not make repubs do what he wants. Gotcha.	uppityperson	Jan 2012	#59
I wasn't talking about Repubs.....read my post....I was talking about HIS Party, not the opposing	tpsbmam	Jan 2012	#60
My apologies. Are you saying Obama has not pushed the democrats enough? What?	uppityperson	Jan 2012	#61
I don't think Obama has pushed the Dems enough	tpsbmam	Jan 2012	#62
All those things are nice, but when there's no money attached to executive orders	sad sally	Jan 2012	#55
All the kids have always known, the emperor wears no clothes, but you bow down to him anyway,	Electric Monk	Jan 2012	#16
I guess...	slay	Jan 2012	#25
Sounding a lot more appealing because they are.	SammyWinstonJack	Jan 2012	#28
:)	slay	Jan 2012	#30
OCCUPY!	Hell Hath No Fury	Jan 2012	#53
The fact is, this was one of the most specific State of the Union address in ages. nt.	nanabugg	Jan 2012	#29
"he really needs to just flat out call the republicans criminals serving their corporate masters."	Number23	Jan 2012	#38
If all the criminal politicians in Washington went to jail...	Larry Ogg	Jan 2012	#50
so you think they're not criminals serving their corporate masters?	slay	Jan 2012	#51
!!!!	dionysus	Jan 2012	#56
Call them CRIMINALS?	Inuca	Jan 2012	#52
You don't think they are?	slay	Jan 2012	#54
Did you accidentally have it on Telemundo?	Drunken Irishman	Jan 2012	#5
No	slay	Jan 2012	#12
I'm sure Republicans would agree with you......	FrenchieCat	Jan 2012	#8
They would hear something different from me as well as you.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#11
Well, there is only one of two parties that can win the elections come 2012.....	FrenchieCat	Jan 2012	#17
I tend to not look at teams other than I am not on the red one.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#26
So all agree frenchie or we are GOP supporters? This is a horrible thing to say!!!	Logical	Jan 2012	#19
If the choice is between Obama and some GOP idiot in 2012 - I pick Obama!!	FrenchieCat	Jan 2012	#23
Frenchie was speaking for herself. That's quite a jump you made! nt	gateley	Jan 2012	#41
There's just one speech	bigtree	Jan 2012	#21
It's fairly easy for me.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#32
centrist trying to sound liberal	bigtree	Jan 2012	#36
Not him specifically. The speech.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#37
I'm SO surprised.	DevonRex	Jan 2012	#22
I'm sure everyone is shocked.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#27
Funny, that's what my GOP friends are saying on Facebook	Stuckinthebush	Jan 2012	#31
There are NEVER details given in SOTU speeches. Obama is not unique on this. Specifics come in the	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2012	#33
That is by design and always holds in today's world.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#34
Yep. Nothing out of the ordinary.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2012	#35
Good for you	Obamacare	Jan 2012	#39
I live in reality. That's my problem.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#40
I don't think any of us liked the shale reference or opening up oil and gas (wondering if	gateley	Jan 2012	#42
Yep.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#44
That's the way I felt too	Raine	Jan 2012	#43
Oh... it's you!	lamp_shade	Jan 2012	#45
Or maybe as Keith Olbermann put it, he "proposed everything" including opposite positions.	mmonk	Jan 2012	#46
Yeah..	kentuck	Jan 2012	#48
i'm sure you did	dionysus	Jan 2012	#57

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