At President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night he definitely didn’t hold back. I can’t believe how split the audience is in their response to what he’s saying. The Democrats standing and applauding while the republicans sit there with no response. At one point the President mentioned that he was put billions into creating more jobs and he stopped to say to the Republican side something along the lines of he expected a positive response from them. It drew some laughs from the otherwise silent half of the crowd.
President Obama also at one point called out a supreme court judge on a resent decision. Obama’s ability to ad lib a little softening blow before doing so, as the democrats cheered there was a slow motion replay of the judge saying, “that’s not true.” It seemed a little disrespectful to do that towards the president, but i guess he was getting called out. They said that a Pres has only called out the supreme court on a recent decision two other times in all the past State of the Union’s.
Another issue the President brought up was getting rid of the Military’s don’t ask don’t tell policy, while the country is at war with two country’s. The Joint chiefs of staff sat there stone faced. literally expressionless maintaining there military disaplin. It was almost uncomfortable to watch as the democrats again cheered Having served In the Marine Corps and served in both combat theater’s, i can say that in my unit it really didn’t matter. I had a friend who we all knew was gay, it didn’t have to be said. He was one of the best Marines i know and will probably be in for life. I’ve only seen it used as an excuse for people that can’t hack it and want to use it as a loop whole to get out. In that case, they get no respect.
