He promised a short speech but then droned on for what seemed like a hell of a long time. He said he wouldn't give a laundry list and instead just sort of dumped laundry on the table. There were feints toward the sort of optimism—the hope and change—that energized his original victory, but nobody in or out of the Capitol was energized by it.I post Gillespie's reaction since I couldn't muster the masochism to watch the SOTU. COTTonLINE is, after all, not a career but a hobby. I feel no need to suffer for it.
There's no question that the Republicans are awful in their ways, too. But if the best that Obama can do with the end of his time in office in sight is to invoke the hope and change he originally ran on, he must be judged a failure.
Later ... Variety reports many Americans agreed with me as TV viewership ratings for the speech were the lowest in 15 years. That "duck" is sure enough lame.
