What an incredible SOTU speech. That's MY President!

[ConservativeDemocrat]

76. Fringe complaints

Fringe leftist purity trolls the President. Color me shocked.

> Get corporate money out of our electoral system?
No, that was the SoTU two years ago when he took the Supreme Court directly to task before the nation for violating 100 years of precedent in Citizens United. Because of that, some of the the GOP nutcases (Scalia, Thomas) on the court no longer even show up.

> Rein in the drug wars?
It's not a "war". Second, that's too out of step with mainstream thinking (although mainstream thinking is changing, slowly)

> Reject the pipeline and drilling and sale of the Gulf of Mexico?
Because Americans don't need jobs or anything. Energy independence is overwhelmingly popular.

> Stop the new massive free trade agreement?
Because Americans don't need jobs or anything.

> Stop the warrantless surveillance of all Americans and the militarization of our police departments?
Although I cheer Senator Wyden's efforts, this is not a topic for the SoTU. Besides, Chinese hackers and Anonymous seem to be far more mischievous in this regard. I've never heard of a single person with standing to complain about anything from U.S. intelligence agencies. As far as "militarization of our (local county) police departments", should he mention dog-catchers too?

> Stop the corporatization of our schools?
Um, you do know that "corporatization" is not a word, right? Also, last time I checked, they are still called public schools, staffed by public employees.

> Or stop indefinite detention and the "kill lists" and claiming the right to murder American citizens without due process?
U.S. citizens openly plotting to kill Americans get all the privileges that were accorded to the U.S. Confederate citizens in the civil war who were doing the same. These are called "acts of war" not "murder".

> Anything about these major policies?

No, because half the time you're wrong. And the other half when you are right, the President knows that to change people's minds, you need to nudge them slowly. Coming off like a leftist version of Glenn Beck is counterproductive. It may be able to garner a handful of fringe votes from an utterly non-representative website like D.U., but it wouldn't actually fix anything.

Go back to worshiping at the altar of Ralph Nader, woo. Just let the rest of us never forget that people like you gave us GWB.

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