Don’t Panic!: Is the U.S. really going to withdraw from Iraq in August?
Unlike many of Obama’s other big first-year promises like health care or closing Gitmo, this one is actually on schedule
President Obama’s State of the Union address was a disappointment.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a perfectly acceptable speech, but the event itself lacked the visceral drama I’ve come to expect from political gatherings with so many Republicans in the audience.
When they get together, GOP-types love to call Obama a Socialist, a Communist, a fascist, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Stalitler, Halin or HilStaliMao. They deny his American citizenship by calling him Kenyan or Indonesian. They even deny his faith by stating or insinuating he’s Muslim. But we didn’t get any of that.
At the very least, I was hoping for an outburst similar to the “You lie!” offered by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolinistan, during Obama’s health care speech last year.
(My real-time Twitter response to “You lie!” last year was quoted on CNN.com, elevating me from Z-list pundit commentator all the way up to Y for a whole 36 hours. I was hoping to repeat the trick this year, but didn’t get so much as a “You misrepresent!” or even a “You leave out key details that perhaps undermine the point you’re trying to make!” to hang my snark on.)
With nothing inane to exploit, I’m stuck searching for excitement within the actual text of Obama’s speech. I think I found some.
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