Obama's First SOTU: Boo Science!

[kunschner]

Science is flawed and tax cuts? WTF you guys our 13 trillion dollars in debt you people don't make science.

[DJK1726]

Chris Matthews -Not one of his shining moments. Did Matthews make that comment just as he realized there would be no post-coverage of the first presidential limo on spinners? His comment was lost on me.

[DJK1726]

The SOTU was a wash for me. It neither confirmed nor challenged my original sense of where the country is headed. The response was asking to be lampooned. Gee, what better way to cast aside aspersions of the GOP as a regionalist party than to host the response in the capital of the Old Confederacy? *smacks forehead* It was just the same talking points. At least the president TRIED to triangulate.

[jschrein]

good video dood !!

[SabraMagdalena]

Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with Chris Matthews? Great vid as always, Kotecki!

[jcm1883]

Boo Kotecki

[chukmaty]

I preferred the old James Kotecki, you know, the one willing to make fun of everyone regardless of what side of the political aisle they were on compared to the newer, shriller, and more liberal iteration.

Hey, I am all for people expressing their political beliefs; but this claim that booing environmental extremism just because the proponent said it was "scientific" is somehow anti science... yea that's pretty silly.

Like saying "science" should get conservatives to agree to something stupid.

[chukmaty]

Oh James, maybe people boo (other than it being kindergartenish for a SotU) beause they are sick of the word no longer indicating a process in which evidence is examined via the scientific process and instead come to mean anything that the left deems society should do. The word science being used as a billy club to push some very unscientific beliefs makes people angry, and they boo. This is not rocket science (A PUN!) this is commons sense.

[gammafighter]

maybe they were booing because of all the evidence coming out that climate change data is fake. Like the fake data. And finding that certain glaciers aren't melting. And finding that climate change doesn't cause natural disasters.

The problem with your analogy is that people actually die from heart disease, while there's little to no evidence in support of climate change.

Remember when you used to pretend to be non-partisan? Good times.

[Filchmeister]

wow your way to conservative to me...

[davisfleetwood]

making a "speech to people who already love you filled with lofty yet vague policy ideas"

isn't that what we do, james?

just joking. seems like you have made a concerted effort to lighten things up around here- like old school EC. Soon, I expect to sing some pencil puppets & dancing from you!

nice to see you back on the INTERNET

(pause. hold for laughter. pause some more. cricket)

[ObamaWatch1212]

Speech in front of supporters with vague policy goals is what Obama does all the time. It's what he calls a townhall.

[gammafighter]

yeah, i can't believe James passed up that obvious joke. It's like "Have you even HEARD of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign?"

[ObamaWatch1212]

ROFLMAO.

[ObamaWatch1212]

Well, considering all the evidence of corruption in the IPCC, climate change science is on the ropes.

[HayaJi]

Frist class as ever James :-)

[SparklestheClown]

Funny James - Sadly on the issues the State of the Union sounded more like a Chewing Out and Call to the Republicans to jump on board the Democrat agenda! Not much I could buy there! As for Chris Mathews - There are no words for insanity!

[HarryNRubin]

Haha, great James.

[great1138]

lol yeah the Republican response was one big corny joke. I thought it was cute how there was a Black woman and Asian man framing him perfectly. All he needed was a Hispanic person just above his head to make it perfect that the Republican party is all about diversity.

[chukmaty]

Yea, I guess the party of the KKK and the party of "affirmative action" should start freely lecturing the party of colorblindness on race. Being politically correct to a fault does not mean that your policies actually help minorities not does it give you the right to comment condescendingly whenever the GOP works (not always successfully) to feature its ethnic and cultural diversity.

[great1138]

actually their political affiliations changed for the most part during the 60's. But the Democrats were the party for oppression against minorities for much of their history and I know of a few democrats who did not vote for Obama because he is half black. But I have every right to point out an obvious attempt at bullshit.

[chukmaty]

I don't know a single Republian or conservative that voted against Obama because of his ethnicity. Oddly enough, if a black conservative with experience comparable to a Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush were in the running, I cannot think of a single right wing friend that would not rush to the polls to vote for them.

The very fact that you realize that calling a Dem racist despite the parties seedy past is Bullshit only emphasizes how stupid you folks are for calling the GOP racist.

[great1138]

Never said they were, racism knows no political party and here in the south, many conservatives made it clear of their decision was based on ethnicity and many democrats as well. I was referring to the overwhelmingly majority of the Republican party is represented and benefits wasps.

[chukmaty]

"Republican party is represented and benefits wasps."

The GOP does not benefit wasps, at least not conservatives. The conservative ideology is based upon the philosphy of economics which empowered Pols, Irish, Swedes, Chinese, Jews, and countless other immigrant groups to come from situations of dire poverty to get productive jobs so they could begin creating wealth. Of the major economic figureheads that I draw my influence from, one is a dead Jew and two others are black.

[chukmaty]

The Democrats use affirmative action, welfare, the minimum wage, unions, abortion, and silly criminal justice policy to prevent the free market from uplifting today's poor like it did for my Eastern European Great Grandparents and grandparents. The victims of poverty, welfare entrapment, unemployment, and abortion are overwhelmingly black, Latino, and other groups that democrats have betrayed and marginalized while claiming to care for. Hey, at least they can pretend to be politically correct.

[kirby4d]

False. The people of East Europe were not even remotely poor. And only a handful of small countries managed to super advance their economies and are now in financial trouble. Much of that advancement is due to revitalized sociocapitalism not the free market. The free market cant make poor people richer.

[chukmaty]

Your an idiot, my Great Grandfather barely escaped with his life and had no worldly possessions.

"The free market cant make poor people richer. "

I don't even think many Stalinists would be that brazenly and obviously wrong. I know its youtube, but that comment is a special variety of stupid.

[Eastmanarium]

@chukmaty O rly? Explain why the gap between rich and poor increased SO much during Reagan and the 2 Bushes? Far more than it did under Clinton - or even Carter.

[chukmaty]

A gap in wealth is not bad. Someone being vastly more wealthy than another hurts absolutely nobody, especially in a free market society with enormous income mobility.

No, billionaires are not a world problem, the impoverished are. A free market society will see the gaps in wealth, but it will also see mobility change ones income over time.

Societies with less of a gap in income, usually have a consistently LOW income across the board.

[darrekw]

@chukmaty A free market maybe, but free markets tend to become owned markets over time. When the people at the top of the corporations pick people to promote based on *** kissing instead of good business ideas it becomes an economic problem. The people with the money and hence the power aren't smart enough to use it wisely. It has been shown that taking a small percentage of a growing economy gets more than taking a large percentage of a failing one.

[chukmaty]

@darrekw

When you pick someone based on reasons other than quality of the individual, then you suffer by having less productivity. A free market at least helps keep stuff like nepotism and favoritism from being rewarded. You think big government takes that away? It makes it WORSE! Like a lot.

You think that a big government and regulation based system will magically put power in the hands of the competent? That is naive. A true free market punishes people who are dumb.

[chukmaty]

I would also note I never said Democrats are racist. So yea, bullshit blow back in your face foo.

[great1138]

/face palm , never said you did say Democrats are racist I stated the fact that the large majority were 40 years ago with their offshoots Dixiecrats etc.

[chukmaty]

Then what were you trying to say? I was responding to someone who was making a typical, the GOP is a whitey party, remark. I said it was ironic that it has been the democrats that have historically and currently implemented policies that either intentionally or unintentionally created ethnic disparity even though they come of as more politically correct and the GOP cannot get its image straitened out.