@revelette,
revelette wrote:
It is really no big surprise that you found the President's SOTU address boring, some so called Christians were even driven to using abbreviations for curse words.
His Sputnik moment may have fallen flat for some of you, but his use of the word was relevant for his overall point.
We'll it's a surprise to me.
I wasn't bored. My interest was kept throughout the speech by the slim possibility that he might say something that suggested he truly has realigned his viewpoint to a more central position.
The use of Sputnik was intended to invoke the spirit of the country during the "space race." It failed.
People need jobs now; not after 10 years or so of "investment" in green energy bear fruit ( That is if they ever do)
The national anxiety of the time of Sputnik was not unemployment and the economy, it was the perceived existential threat of a nuclear Soviet Union controlling space.
Obama and/or his speech writers, for some reason, thought that he could generate a sense of patriotic competition with China and India through the vehicle of "green energy."
I doubt it registered as more than a blip on the American psyche, and a blip that has already faded to nothing.
Obama's rhetoric is capable of whipping up resentment or encouraging smug sanctimony, but he comes up short on united will.
In the end, it was simply a restatement of his liberal policies, without the blatant call outs of Republicans and the Supreme Court we heard last year.
