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Blogging SotU, 6

DateWednesday, January 27, 2010 at 09:19PM

I'm sorry.  This is just so phony.  

A new decade stretches before us [but we can't forget how crappy the last 8 years were.]

Well, I commend him for keeping this to 70 minutes.

No pivots.

Charles Krauthammer: "He tries to speak as an outsider but he's on the inside.  He is Washington."

I didn't get the whole, "I'm not a quitter" thing.  It was incongruous.  I'm not sure anyone thinks he's really doing anything except getting in front of the cameras [C. Krauthammer says: "He's on TV more than Regis."]

It's striking how all of this is personal- someone will look at the speech and find that he said "I" or "Me" more than 200 times.

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So he won't quit getting in front of cameras.
January 28, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteraelfheld
Buy liquor stocks.
January 28, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterbbmoe

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