State of Union Address

Obama's State of Union address had moments of interest and some good points, but I tried falling asleep about 8:45, and I don't honestly believe he'll follow through with the ideas he had that were pretty good. By starting off with the military situation of no soldiers in Iraq, he was smart in doing something interesting and sneaking into American values and economy with the WWII referencing. His economy plan is to move forward, and he wants to bring manufacturing back into the US. I actually agreed with his idea of business in America. The idea of tax deductions of businesses who stay at home instead of outsourcing is actually a wise idea that many Americans would agree with, but I still feel as though he won't follow through, but I do also agree with his beliefs on teaching and schools. Working on keeping good teachers, rewarding fantastic ones, and firing the ones who aren't helping students is pretty smart, but the thing I agree most with is the dropout idea. Not being allowed to until graduation or age 18 in every state is the best and most logical thing he has tried pushing for in his campaign. However, I disagree with some points such as his discussing "betting" on peoples' jobs during the auto crisis, or some of his ideas on immigrants. I don't believe we should make all the immigrants who have been living illegally in America citizens now. With the oil discussion, he became incredibly repetitive in his feelings on we should have cleaner energy, which is the point I started wanting to sleep.

The debt discussion was kind of aggravating. $250,000 is struggling? Uh, no. Coming from a household of MAYBE $40,000 a year, I am terribly biased on that, I'm sorry. But I disagree. I don't think he should punish the wealthy for being so, and that's what he sounds like he is doing, even though he is wealthy himself. His plan is supposed to benefit the poor, but not improve their lives. Instead of his plans on reducing the deficit with taxes, his jobs that he discussed opening should be more than minimum wage jobs, and should open up better Welfare options. I DO agree when he said Washington was broken. Another thing I noticed that was Republicans, McCain specifically, did not really applaud or anything until Obama stated he agreed with Republican Abe Lincoln. I don't really have anything much to say on his discussions after that moment, because it just seems like something you can expect from a politician and nothing new. His plan to create a Veterans Job Corp is nothing new, and already exists in that most already are doing jobs he mentioned. The speech ended, but I really did not honestly gain anything from this, or have a new image of Obama. It seemed like a typical Obama speech, with nothing that really stood out, other than his campaigning for presidency.

***I am not and have never been an Obama supporter. Things like this just remind me why. Typical politician, nothing from the heart, as though he was just checking off a list that people EXPECT him to talk about.