Will You Hear the SOTU Tonight?

[MineralMan]

9 P.M. Eastern Time (more or less) on most media channels. As his first SOTU as a lame duck President, we will hear some proposals that are unlikely to actually come to fruition, and President Obama looks to be planning some hard-hitting stuff, targeting the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, following the 2014 election.

So, will you be watching or listening? I will hear it on WCCO AM in the Twin Cities.

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[Callmecrazy]

1. After all is said and done...

More will be said, than done.

It's the same old song and dance regardless of political party.

Not gonna watch.

[yeoman6987]

2. I will hear highlight on ABC Good Morning America

They do a great job going over the news. I have been traveling for a month and finally will be home at 3 today. I have to catch up on some Amazon Instant Video TV shows. I am behind on Madam Secretary, Stalker, Law and Order SVU and Chicago PD. everyone who has the time to watch the SOTU tonight, enjoy. I wish I had the extra time. Too much traveling.

[JNelson6563]

3. I'll read about it & watch it on YouTube afterwards.

I am a baker so I will be asleep during the speech, otherwise I'd watch it.

Julie

[MineralMan]

8. Bakers work while the rest of us sleep.

Fresh baked goods first thing in the morning = heaven.

When I was a high school kid, I worked every morning from 5-8 AM delivering milk to people. Our first stop was a bakery in town, where we delivered two 5-gallon cans of milk. The driver and I bought a dozen fresh donuts and ate them all in the next three hours. I still couldn't gain weight, since I burnt off all those calories running up to people's houses for three hours, carrying a wire carrier full of milk bottles. Skinny kid, but I could sure run!

[JNelson6563]

9. Nice place to be during our cold winters!

And yes, we work while you sleep--like elves!

Julir

[on point]

4. More marketing bs typically. I WILL watch what actions are taken.

No to TPP for instance

[onehandle]

5. I'll be watching it with local liberal friends. nt

[Proud Public Servant]

6. Nope, never watch it

The State of the Union is political theater at its absolute worst, from the cheesy use of ordinary Americans as props to the kabuki of one party jumping to their feet as the other sits on its hands at the end of every freaking paragraph. It is unbearable.

I'll read the speech in the morning, and long for the antebellum days when the SOTU wasn't a speech at all, but an annual letter.

[Faux pas]

7. Will dvr it

so I can ff though the boring bits.

[bigwillq]

10. No. Have to work.

No DVR at home. Will read articles and/or catch some video highlights.

I am not normally a big fan of the SOTU.

SOTU? Awful.

Unless you're a 1%er or one of our elected "leaders"


$ AND GREED have ruined government and this country.

I would rather watch other things then more of the same old BS.

[Journeyman]

11. No. I prefer the measured way Jefferson & Lincoln presented their reports: In writing. . .

Every Report on the Union's status from Jefferson to Wilson was read to the assembled House & Senate by the Sergeant at Arms, in a dispassionate voice. There were none of the histrionics that so characterize it these days, no idiotic clapping by one side at every pause, no petulant hand-sitting by the other. And no irrelevant "response" by select political morons who grandstand but add little to the understanding of the moment or insight into relevant alternatives. None of the bullshit.

So no, I won't watch. But I will read, and consider, and engage in the debate that will follow. But the clown car will have to drive around the Mall without me hanging on, riding a runner board.