That’s Right Nate

I am happy to continue my long history of live blogging with Obama’s State of the Union speech.

7:52 Biden has a purple tie and Pelosi is dressed in purple—the color of royalty.   Wow!  Will the American people stand for King Obama?

7:57 Do the Judges really need to wear their robes? It’s like look at me, I’m a Supreme Court Justice la de da.

8:00 Michelle Obama is sitting next to a 4 foot tall police woman.

8:06 If we want to cut the budget do we really need 2 guys to introduce the President? Couldn’t one guy say the whole phrase?

8:13 Victory very much in doubt–not a real rousing open.  He forgot the Titanic and the Hindenberg.

8:18 Nice job by Biden on the clap fake.

8:19 Nice shout out to Bush on the bank bailout

8:28 Well if the new trains are in China, it makes sense for the Chinese to own them. Why doesn’t he get this stuff?

8:33 Boehner and Cantor eye rolling strategy key to Republican victory

8:42 Yay!  More standardized tests.  We will have the best bubble fillers in the history of filling in bubbles – take that China

8:56 Freeze spending at 1980 levels. Reagan was our greatest President and those levels were good enough for him.

9:02  You know who’d like this speech?  Bobby Jindahl

9:19  Notice Obama doesn’t mention names–he’s making up these people. I bet the money isn’t even the kid’s allowance.

9:21 Sorry for the delay in tweeting.  I dozed off.

9:30 Great we have the State of Virginia speech now

9:30 Twins freak me out

9:32 For those who say the GOP isn’t inclusive, I say to you we have an African-American on camera

9:35  An oil platform in every pool and an SUV in every garage.

9:38 The Christmas day bomber should be in Gitmo, not sent to a US court like the shoe bomber was.  In fact, let’s send all criminals to Gitmo.

9:40 I’d agree the government closest to the people governs best if I didn’t live in Chicago (Daley), Illinois (Blagojevich, Ryan)

7:02 Catchy theme song, but I like Hail to the Chief

7:05  I’m glad that Bush was able to put an end to that acting as one thing

7:06 I hate how Obama says Taliban. It sounds like he’s Harry Belafonte counting bananas

7:07 Wow! When did West Point start admitting women?

7:10 Why is Obama having so much trouble with Afghanistan? Bush was doing so well that he was able to start a second war

7:11 @Greytdog on Twitter suggested that he should have Hail to the Chief when he enters and the NCIS theme when he leaves.  I like that idea.

7:14  If the threat is this serious, we should have color codes for it.

7:20 Pakistan is pretty much Afghanistan with a good cricket team…oh yeah and nuclear missiles.

7:26 If the wars cost a trillion dollars then why weren’t they in the budget?  Liberals are such spend thrifts.

7:29 He just said we have to be nimble? He is channeling Belafonte. Barack be nimble, Barack be quick, Barack go under the limbo stick

7:31 All we’re asking for is a little gratitude.

7:36 Well it was quick enough, I’ll say that.

7:02 – I really like the parade of sick people.  That’s class.

7:06 – Oh Congressman Kimble.  I don’t think Hillary was expecting tongue when she kissed you.   That’s not going to go over well.

7:13 – Ah, the President found the parade of sick people

7:15 – Hmm, what was in the over sized envelopes he gave Pelosi and Biden? The real death panel info?

7:18 – Starting with a pledge to find Sarah Palin work is very bipartisan

7:20 – Did Obama just say he was determined to be the last President? Glenn Beck was right.

7:21 – My TV just switched to the X-Files. Oh wait, that’s John Dingell

7:29 – Bipartisan is the best ideas from the Democrats and the best ideas from Olympia Snowe

7:32 – This sounds like socialism to me

7:35 – Wow! John McCain has such a heartwarming smile

7:37 – I went to a Presidential news conference and a town hall broke out

7:40 – Congressman Kimble just confessed he was the heckler.

7:47 I will not sign a plan that makes Senator Grassley smile.

7:53 – Tort reform is how they keep medical costs so low in Texas and Missouri

7:55 – I think there’s an auction going on.  Somebody just made a bid.

8:03 – An awful lot of indoctrinating tonight.

8:07 – Good that the Republicans are going back to Louisiana for the Rebuttal.  Jindahl went so well.  This guy is a pretty dynamic speaker.

7:02- Why does he keep blaming the economy on Bush?

7:04 – Businesses wouldn’t be paying more for health care if they were frugal like me and just didn’t give benefits.

7:05 – We’re supposed to believe that there are 14,000 Americans who lose their health care every single day, get it back, and lose it the next day?

7:06 – This is an economic incentive to move. If Barack Obama or Clarence Thomas’s parents had this, would they have moved a lot as kids?

7:09 – “We will break you.” Ivan Drago, Rocky IV

7:11 – Now that he owns all these car companies, he can’t refrain from trying to seel them.

7:15 – Why do we have to change to expect a different result?  Why can’t reality change?

7:22 – Obama seems either more confident or more aggravated tonight and I can’t figure out which.

7:23 – My insurance doesn’t cover busses

7:25 -  If they want to encourage more doctors in rural communities, put Northern Exposure reruns on PBS

7:29 – Sacrifice?  What is this sacrifice you’re talking about?  Bush never asked us to sacrifice

7:30 – Just because something doesn’t work, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pay for it. Thanks for killing the F-22 Mr. President

7:31 – Take the blue pill!!!!

7:35 – I’d love to have the blowdryer concession in Washington DC

7:39 – The Chicago Tribune is still putting out a paper?  How cool is that?

7:43 – Why does Obama want more regulation?   I’m sure the banks have learned their lesson.

7:47 – Stephen Koff? Is that a real name? Come to think of it, is that a real mustache?

7:51 – Aha! I called it.  Stephen Koff was an impostor.

7:54 – When a highly respected college professor like Dr. Gates turns to a life of crime, I think it says a lot about the problems with hip hop culture.

7:02 – Fox is airing Lie to Me Instead.   Nobody gets Irony like Fox

7:03 – Did Obama really just tell those lazy goldbrick employees of mine to stay home when they’re sick?

7:04 – I’m sorry, but building an economy on maxed out credit cards is the American way.

7:06 – Yeah we get it.  You can pronounce nuclear correctly.  Big deal.

7:07 – Rewarding drive and innovation sounds like Obama code for socialism

7:11 – Obama is actually taking credit for having drugs on the Mexican border.  That’s like taking credit for having ice in Alaska

7:15 – Two word solution to Detroit’s problems — Monster Trucks!!

7:18 – OMG! Obama just admitted he wanted our cities to be bombed to smithereens

7:23 – It occurs to me we could combine the waterboarding with hand washing and protect ourselves from both terrorism and swine flu

7:25 – As far as I’m concerned Obama is just the opening act. I’m setting my DVR for the minute Governor Jindahl comes on screen for his response.

7:26 – Why is he asking Obama if we could secure Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal? This sounds like something to ask Tom Clancy

7:29 – CBS wins for best hair

7:30 – With the Democrats controlling the Presidency, they’re already able to ride roughshod over the Executive Branch. Where is the balance there?

7:37 – How can Notre Dame have a speaker who agree with the Warren (graduation speaker 1957) court on abortion? Except for Condi anyway.

7:38 – Did I miss something or did Facebook send a reporter to this thing?

7:43 – Yes President Obama if you could be a tree, an animal, a super hero, and a member of the Beatles? Which would you be? As a followup if you forward your answers to 10 friends in the next 10 minutes you will have an important policy initiative pass this week.

7:54 – We should drop Chryslers on al-qaeda and kill two birds with one stone

7:58 – “Rising up to the challenge of our rivals.  And the last known surivivor stalks his prey in the night  And his fortune must always be Eye of the Tiger,” Survivor.

8:00 – What the heck?  Where’s Bobby Jindahl?

Once again, I am live blogging an Obama Press Conference. I know that I can’t count on the mainstream media to ask the tough questions so it looks like it is up to me to hold his feet to the fire.

7:02 – The first thing Obama does is to deny his responsibility for HIS economic crisis.  How surprising.

7:06 – The Road is Long….He’s Not Heavy, He’s Obama – I need to record this.

7:08 – Excellent first question.  If the banks won’t tell us how they’re spending their money and not spending it the way we want, should we really try to regulate them?   Awesome question for a chick.

7:10 – Chuck Todd has an excellent point.  All Obama wants to do is raise our taxes and then not ask for any sacrifices from us.   Maybe we could all cut our standard of living or something.

7:14 – So we’re just supposed to take Obama’s word that Americans are making sacrifices?  None of the network news anchors are seeing any sacrifices and neither am I.  Don’t just ask the poor folk.  Reach out to the upper class.

7:15 – Who is Jake Tapper?  I think I had a fake ID that said Jake Tapper when I was in college.  Jake…Jake Tapper by day he’s a private eye, by night he’s a lady’s man.

7:19 – Chip Reid – do you have to have a cool name to be a reporter?

7:19 – Jim Cramer can probably tell you what the economy will be like 10 years from now.  The man is a genius.

7:24 – I find it very hard to believe that the budget deficit is the result of health care and not AIG bonuses and pork projects to study volcanoes.

7:26 – We need to keep Mexico’s problems in Mexico.  Those gangs there are horrible and they ship their drugs to this country.  Not only that, they buy guns at gun shows in this country to wage their wars depriving American gun collectors, the chance to buy those firearms.

7:29 – The Stars and Stripes reporter is a mumbler in an out of date suit, I bet Chip and Jake give him the business.

7:32 – Following up on Chip and Jake.  Ed Henry is such a wannabe.

7:35 – Why wasn’t he publicly outraged before he knew what he was talking about.  Trust your feelings Barrack.

7:38 – The Australian government’s stimulus plan consists of putting another shrimp on the barbie.

7:39 – By the way Major Garrett can join the cool name reporter club.

7:41 – I wouldn’t give money to charity, but if I did I certainly wouldn’t do it if I had to donate at 28% instead of 39%.  Let the middle class write off 28%.

7:44 – Hello?  If these children are homeless how are they supposed to be watching this press conference?

7:46 – Straight outa Compton comes a question about race.  Michael Steele would have a field day with this.

7:51 – Obama has been blinded by science.  Bush never touched the stuff.

7:54 – Obama loves bragging about his parties

7:58 – I love the way that Fox News can put the whole speech in to simple terms.

Well that’s it.  I pretty much agree with the analysists on Fox News’ panel.  He wasn’t fooling anybody.

I am going to watch tonight with an open mind despited wanting Obama to fail if for no other reason than it will help me to respond to his lies if anybody I know falls for them.  My big hope is that he’ll detail any plans for one of America’s most vital industries – self storage.

8:02  Oh I hope Justice Ginsburg doesn’t croak walking in.  That’d be embarrassing.

8:05  This is like Battle of the Network Stars for C-Span

8:09  Where the heck is he?

8:12  I’m glad that Billy Joel doesn’t greet all his fans when he comes in to a stadium to give a concert.

8:14  Our country’s strengths are in its lavatories.  At least Obama appreciates a good flush as much as I do.

8:16  Is Joe Biden an Uncle?  He reminds me of that dopey uncle that is a really nice guy, but always telling the same jokes like asking your 8 year old brother if he has a girlfriend yet.

8:18  Wow he’s boring.  Less than an minute of speaking and Pelosi already found something better to read.

8:25  Did he really just promise us a tax cut on April 1st?  Yeah I’m going to fall for that one.

8:26  Man, I’m really missing Bush.  I used to love when he’d do his State of the Union.

8:27  Excuse me, but any economist will tell you that self-storage is the life blood of our economy.

8:30 Why does Obama insist on all these strings when he bails out the banks?  Its their money once we give it to them.

8:36  Why do we need big ideas?  What’s wrong with the ones we’ve had for the last 8 years?

8:42  We don’t need better health care.  We need people in this country who aren’t afraid to “rub some dirt on it and walk it off.”

8:45  The problem is that insurance companies have to insure sick people.

8:46  It looks like even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was dozing.  How does Obama recommend teaching kids from the day they were born?  What about mother/child bonding?

8:48  Charter schools are great, but what about Charter Police Stations and Fire Departments.  Do you really need advanced training or accredidation to do those jobs either?

8:51  If we pass on to our children a debt that they cannot repay, can’t they just pass it on to their kids like our parents did to us? and their parents did to them?

8:52  Still nothing about self-storage

8:54  Excuse me?  Those cold war weapon systems won the cold war.  Show them some respect.

8:55  $250,000  is nothing in today’s economy.  I don’t even consider $500,000 rich really.

8:56  If George Bush could fight a war in Iraq for 7 years without having to spend a dime, Obama should applaud that and not deride it.

8:58  Oh man, it looks like that one big guy is going to eat that poor soldier

8:59  I didn’t hear this on the news, but is Obama sending his daughters to school back in the early 1960s?  I hope she the Secret Service can protect her from teasing if any of her classmates saw this.

9:00  Wow!  Pelosi’s slowing down.  Biden finally beat her out of her seat to be the first one to clap.

9:03   Forget average Americans.  People like me are far more inspiring.

9:04   Piles of rubble?  How is that different from the rest of Kansas?

9:05   We should help future lawyers, doctors, and politicians?  Won’t they have enough money to help themselves?

9:12    I can’t wait for Jindal.  He’s going to give it to us straight.

9:24   I hadn’t heard Bobby Jindal speak before.  I like his tone.  He reminds me a lot of Mr. Rogers.  I think he should have entered and put on the jacket before he spoke.

9:26   Nothing says “Americans can do anything” like the grocery store.

9:28   I had no idea New Orleans had finally recovered from Katrina.  Congradulations!

9:31   Jindal’s right.  We need to make the rest of America more like Louisiana.

9:32   Health care decisions should be made by doctors, patients, and HMO administraters.

9:32    Let’s make the schools in our country like New Orleans.

9:33    I don’t like that he’s slamming corruption.  Whatever happenned to his good friend Harry Lee?

9:37   He mentioned God a lot.  I liked Jindal’s speech better.

God bless us all, everyone!

8:00  Already Obama is late.  You know Chuck never keeps me waiting.  What makes Obama think he can?

8:03  I knew if Obama became President people would be waiting in line for food banks.

8:04 Obama claims that the federal government is the only organization that can hire these people, but what about Amway?  They’re always hiring?

8:06  Sure, more jobs and all these programs sound like good things, but does Obama reallize it will cause government to get bigger?  Isn’t that more important than a couple sick hungry kids?

8:09 Half of the job loss has taken place in the last 3 months.  What happened 3 months ago?  Hmm, that would have been the first week of November.  Nope, can’t think of anything.

8:12  Obama still can’t accept that FDR was wrong to start the New Deal.  Philosophical need for small government trumps unemployed people.  Everybody knows that.

8:15 Obama is sabotaging the commode business with his demands on corporate spending at banks getting bailouts.

8:21 If Obama is bipartisan, wouldn’t he have Republican votes?  Republicans are always willing to compromise as long as you do what we tell you to.

8:23 I love the term Rush coined–Its Porkulus.  Just like Spartacus.

8:26 We need a stimulus program to teach doctor’s better penmanship.

8:27 They don’t build schools like they did in 1850, that’s for sure.  It sounds like a landmark to me.

8:28  I miss that old broad who used to get first question.  What was her name?  Helen?  Helen Thomas maybe?

8:29  Obama blames everybody for the economy, but himself.

8:32 Obama adapts to circumstance, Bush stuck to his guns.  Which sounds more like a leader to you?

8:32 No such thing as a free lunch?  I thought that was in the stimulus plan.

8:36 Nice job demanding that Obama show proof that his plan is working.  The press never would have let Bush do something like go to war with no way to know we were winning when he was President.

8:40 I’m with this reporter, we want to see the bodies.

8:46 Obama seems to be spending a lot of time explaining what Biden meant.

8:48 Finally we got to Alex Rodriguez’s steroid use.  I hope somebody asks him about interleague play and the designated hitter next.

8:49 Helen!! She made it.

8:51 Who cares about nuclear weapons.  What about A-Rod?

8:58 What’s wrong with just blowing up the public school systems?

8:59  McCain had economists advising him?  I didn’t think he did.

9:00 “What this town needs is an enema”

I just wanted to let everybody know that I’ll be live blogging Obama’s speech tonight at 8PM Eastern time tonight.  I have a toothache and I’ve been alternating vicodin and bourbon which is helping, but I am in no mood for any Obama fish oil salesmanship.  I have no doubt that if he was still in power, Bush would have ended the recession by now.  He was that good.

I am really going to miss these debates.  Other than suing state attorney generals to prevent voter fraud, the debates are my favorite part of the election season.  I have my Mountain Dew and my doughnuts and I’m ready to blog.  I hope you’ll join me in just about a half hour for live blogging of the debate.

7:54 – Looking at the undecideds on CNN I have to wonder, if you are still undecided are you really reliably intelligent enough to operate a dial?

8:00 – This is going to be McCain in his element with his back against the rope and everybody counting him out. If I had to rename him it’d be Rocky Maverick.

8:02 – Oh sitting down. This is good for McCain. I think Bob just put down the other two moderators.

8:03 – One thing about old people is they always know who is in the hospital with what ailment. McCain has used this strategy twice successfully now. He forgot Cheney now.

8:04 – I sadly agree with Obama here. If the working poor could just access their investments, things would work a lot better.

8:08 – Joe Worksaburger? If McCain made that name up they’ll know.

8:11 – Now he’s Joe the Plumber. I like this guy. I’d like to get a beer with him.

8:12 – The last Presidential election where plumbers were this important was 1972 when Nixon’s plumbers broke into DNC headquarters.

8:17 – The first rule of surgery is use the hatchet and then use the scalpel.

8:19 – I have to agree with McCain on not funding the Planetarium in Chicago. What does Astronomy and space have to do with the jobs of tomorrow? That’s 1950s stuff from when we were chasing Sputnik.

8:20 – It is amazing when you look at impartial conservative watchdog organizations, they all seem to impartially prefer McCain.

8:23 – Its amazing that the Democrats can’t stand Obama either

8:24 – McCain brought climate change to the floor of the senate by insisting if people were cold they should wear a sweater.

8:26 – If Obama had agreed to do town halls the people at the McCain rallies wouldn’t be yelling kill him, they’d be too busy scoring the debates. Now he deserves all the deceptive ads he gets.

8:28 – Obama is just so negative.

8:31 – Joe the Plumber is back. I bet he knows Larry the Cable Guy. Now that guy is funny.

8:33 – Anytime you have a rally with 15,000 or 20,000 people you’re going to have some nutjobs. I think this explains a lot about what went wrong at Nuremberg.

8:36 – Wow ACORN may be capable of destroying the fabric of Democracy–COBRA, HYDRA, and CONTROL failed, but ACORN may succeed.

8:39 – Obama has to come clean about whose living rooms he’s been in and when he was in them.

8:40 – McCain is going to bring Mavericky people in the government.  Isn’t it obvious?

8:42 – Palin is a bresh of freath air.

8:43 – Palin understands special needs kids. That’s why she cut the funding for Special Olympics in Alaska–those people don’t need sports. It isn’t like they’re going to make the NBA.

8:45 – Wow if Biden had his way, Iraq wouldn’t be a very good place to live, would it?

8:49 – Obama won’t say what he’ll do in 4 years. Who cares about 10? I want to stop importing oil for my Jeep Cherokee now.

8:49 – Shoot, I think McCain just dozed off. That doesn’t look presidential.

8:51 – McCain is sharp. You’ve got to watch Obama carefully.

8:52 – I think the reason that a lot of Colombia’s exports to the US aren’t taxed is because they’re illegal.

8:53 – McCain wants Obama to travel a lot.

8:56 – Can’t McCain make points against Obama without trashing Herbert Hoover? If there’s anything that will make him lose my support, that’s it.

8:57 – It shows you how far America has come that Obama and McCain are allowed to be in the same pool.

8:59 – McCain is right. Let’s give the rest of this country the same high quality medical care that the veterans have. Joe the Plumber would like that.

9:02 – Whose fault is it these uninsured people got old and unhealthy? Obama needs to worry about the rest of us.

9:04 – Joe is rich now!! Awesome!!

9:04 – I’m sick of fat cats getting all these plastic surgeries and transplants just because they can.

9:07 – I like McCain’s stance on judges. Don’t nominate judges based on their philosophy, but by their qualifications which include being smart enough to agree with your philosophy.

9:12 – I wish I knew morse code. I think McCain has a message for me.

9:16 – Our education is poor because we have lazy teachers. Duh.

9:18 – I’m still crushed that Emily seems to be supporting Obama.

9:19 – We should bring the New Orleans educational miracle to the rest of the country.

9:20 – McCain has a great point here. If somebody’s been in the military there is no reason for them to take a competency test to become a teacher.

9:22 – Charter schools are the answer. There’s no reason at all you can’t get just as good a teacher for less money and no job protection. Who wouldn’t want to be in lecturing 30 7th graders on the proper use of commas in inner city Newark?

9:24 – I wish Sarah Palin was there tonight. She’s very mavericky.

9:26 – Boom! McCain just laid the smackdown on Obama.

9:31 – Obama got killed! I liked how heartfelt McCain was in talking to Obama at the end.

Thanks for tuning into more live debate coverage. So far in our debate its 3-0 that McCain is kicking his butt. Let’s hear your opinion. Where did McCain win it tonight?