Winning the Future

I was a little busy last night so I didn't get to watch the president's speech. I rarely watch speeches anyway. I did, however, read the text this morning.

From what I could tell there wasn't much new said last night. I was a bit surprised he didn't push a little harder against Republican repeal efforts of HCR. I guess it's better to not bring it up only to rehash old arguments.

We have to look at the context of this speech, however. For the first time President Obama stood before divided government. Gone was Speaker Pelosi in the background and in her place was a very tanned and probably drunk Speaker Boehner.  The economy, too, is different from his last SOTU.  The uncertainty still remains but the overall strength of the economy is in a much better place than last year.  And health care, well health care is a closed book no matter how many times the GOP-controlled house votes to repeal it.

Maybe now the future is something we can quit talking about and start working toward.

*Update:

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) used his twatter page during the president's speech to call him a Socialist.  Really, what's the point in that?  I couldn't imagine the reaction if a Democratic Member of Congress had posted on the internet that George Bush was a terrorist during his SOTU.  I couldn't imagine the heated reaction that would have followed something like that.  Mr. Broun you are a pathetic person.