The well-sourced Ron Fournier of National Journal reports that White House aides say they and the president were “stung by the coverage of the inaugural address.” They were evidently surprised that the feisty liberal speech was seen as a feisty liberal speech.
And so, they say, Barack Obama is going to be less partisan in his State of the Union address Tuesday and will talk more about jobs and the economy than about gun control and immigration. Sounds like still another pivot to jobs, which we’ve been hearing about for nearly four years.
This apparent failure to anticipate how others would respond to his words fortifies my suspicion that Obama may be actually sincere in believing that every decent person with common sense would share his views. After all, just about everybody in the places he has chosen to live—Manhattan, Cambridge, the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago—does.
Far from being an instinctive compromiser with respect for those with different views, he seems to be an angry non-compromiser with no idea how decent people could disagree with him.
I thought that I had missed the SOTU when I heard it mentioned a few days ago. Then I remembered that it was the inauguration that I "missed" by keeping the TV off from a Saturday through Tuesday a couple of weeks ago. Now I have to remember to do the same when this hot mess takes place, when is it? Next week or something?
Quote: FP123 wrote in post #4I thought that I had missed the SOTU when I heard it mentioned a few days ago. Then I remembered that it was the inauguration that I "missed" by keeping the TV off from a Saturday through Tuesday a couple of weeks ago. Now I have to remember to do the same when this hot mess takes place, when is it? Next week or something?
Oh, and for the record:
FUBO!
Brother, you don't want to miss this fiasco. The Rats are going to pack the House with all sorts of guests to pedal gun control. Rubio is giving the rebuttal in a foreign language and Rand Paul is now giving the Tea Party rebuttal. It is going to be a three ring circus.