Obama: "We Do Big Things" -Video
State of the Union Speech: You can read our full coverage below. The signature line everyone will remember came at the end: "We do big things."
[Editor's Comment:] Yes, that's what Obama does. Big things. And he's right to boast about them (more so than Bush anyway, who was pretty good at boastin' too). -In Iraq Obama still is killing a lot of people, creating terror & mayhem on a daily basis, continuing where Bush left off. In Afghanistan he does things in a seriously big way as well, terrorizing many, and killing thousands of innocent civilians (oh, yes, children too), in the streets, in people's homes, in mosques and market squares. -Impressive! Why, in Pakistan he even murders them using drones, killing hundreds, thousands of them from a distance. So you see, retail clearly is not worthy of a Peace Laureate. Wholesale, that's the way to go. So if you're lookin' to do somethin' really, really, really BIG in the way of peace, Obama's the man...Why not join the Army?
WSWS: Obama outlines right-wing, pro-corporate agenda in State of the Union speech In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama outlined a reactionary political agenda that amounted to a full-scale embrace of the policies of the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The speech was a demonstration of the bipartisan consensus of the American ruling elite. Both Democrats and Republicans serve the interests of the financial aristocracy, from whom they are taking their marching orders to cut domestic social spending and enact further tax breaks for the wealthy. Obama displayed utter callousness and indifference toward the social distress of tens of millions of Americans. There was virtually no reference to unemployment or the staggering growth of economic inequality, and no proposals for creating jobs for the 17 million workers who are jobless or forced to subsist on part-time and temporary work. The words “poverty,” “foreclosures,” “hunger” and “homelessness” were not uttered, despite sharp increases in all four during the first two years of Obama’s tenure. Listening to Obama’s desultory remarks, one would never have guessed that just 28 months ago the American financial-corporate elite brought the American and world economy to its knees, precipitating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The speech was a paean to American capitalism and the very financial bandits who are chiefly responsible for the catastrophe facing the American people.
The Economic Collapse: Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s State Of The Union Address Was Completely Wrong About The Economy What the American people really need are some very real answers to some very real problems. So were there any real answers in Barack Obama's State of the Union address? Well, Barack Obama promised that America will "out-innovate, out-educate and out-build" the rest of the world. He also pledged that America will become "the best place in the world to do business" and that the government must "take responsibility" for our deficit spending. But does all of this rhetoric mean anything or is all this just another batch of empty promises to add to the long list of empty promises that Barack Obama has already made and broken? The American people certainly don't need any more empty promises. Millions of American families have been pushed to the edge of desperation by this economy.