State of the Union

If I were to give Barack Obama a grade for his State of the Union address, It would be a 70%. Obama is a very talented public speaker, but his state of the union speech just wasn't nearly as impressive as some of his other speeches, such as his campaign speeches or his inaugural speech. Certain things that were said bothered me. For example, when making allusions to immigration  the president never actually gave his own plan with what to do, he just said something needs to change. But something he did say made it sound like he wanted to keep immigrants and give them amnesty. Also, Obama was trying to force the same agenda he has been trying to push through for two years now, right back at us. Especially infrastructure and internet, and not extending tax cuts for the top 2%, which will promote class warfare. Mr. President also talked about our "sputnik moment" as an analogy to say to say that he wants to see that kind of progress for our country today, that it had at the height of the space race. However, at least in my opinion, building high speed railroad, providing high speed internet or hiring more teachers, is no apollo project. One last thing, senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina said on his facebook page " When your car is spinning out of control off of a cliff, you hit the break, not cruise control." Hitting cruise control was exactly what Obama did when it comes to freezing spending, which he says will be result in a saved $400 billion is merely a drop in the bucket when an administration spends $5 trillion dollars in its first two years like his did. C-