To know what the president plans to say tonight, take a look at the guest list
posted at 4:15 pm on January 24, 2012 by Tina Korbe
All we need to know to know that tax reform will be a prominent part of the president’s speech tonight is that Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, will be in a box with the First Lady. Bosanek says she couldn’t sleep last night because she’s so excited — even though she knows she’ll have to wake up in time for a dawn flight tomorrow morning to be sure to report to work on time.
Bosanek isn’t the only interesting guest on the list, though. The First Lady has also extended invitations to: Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs; outgoing Rep. Gabby Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly; and Adam Rapp, a cancer survivor that the Obama administration says was helped by Obamacare.
Obama will likely touch on something relevant to each of these guests: about efforts to stimulate technological innovation, for example; about what we learned from the Tucson shooting and the incredible story of Giffords’ recovery, perhaps; about the effectiveness of Obamacare, assuredly.
That’s not unusual; every president since Reagan has used guests to illustrate important points in his addresses. Personal anecdotes are always an effective way of touting a particular stance on an issue. Plus, they serve as an important reminder that policy matters because persons matter. Mentions of these guests — even if they’re misleading about the overall effects of Obama’s policies — will at least enliven a speech that otherwise promises to be dully divisive.
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P predict that Barky will tell lots of bald-faced lies tonight, sprinkled with historical ignorance. His usual performance.
If we’re lucky, he’ll throw in “profit and earnings ratios” and finally explain what they are and since when it was considered anything less than retarded to translate division or a ratio to “and” in English.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 24, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Can we give a shout out to Chief Jay Strongbow?
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Obama is always coming up with some grandiose scheme that ends up falling flat like a piece of raw liver on a cement floor. Tonight will just be more of the same.
rplat on January 24, 2012 at 4:42 PM
And anyone who needs a job along the gulf coast, or between North Dakota and Alabama. Or anyone that uses gas or deisel, or eats food, or……. I’m sure you don’t get it.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 4:42 PM
I can’t speak for anyone other than myself, but I hate anyone who takes from society without giving to society. I won’t be so cold hearted to call them moochers (again), but the permanent entitlement folks in this country get no love from me Period.
D-fusit on January 24, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Fat chance of that. Last year, Barry was telling us all that he was going to “invest” our money in green energy companies which would provide us with energy security and create thousands of new jobs. He pointed to Solyndra as a prime example of how green energy investments pay off, and said it was the business model for America’s future.
Think anybody in the MSM is going to be pointing out tomorrow that Solyndra has gone bankrupt (at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars), that the Obama administration has pi$$ed away billions more tax dollar “investments” in similar failed green business ventures, and that the promised new “green” jobs and energy security never materialized? We already know the answer: Obama is never held accountable for anything he says or does, no matter how devastating the consequences to the country.
AZCoyote on January 24, 2012 at 4:44 PM
..makes the Paul Wellstone rally look like High Mass at the Vatican.
The War Planner on January 24, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Why so oblivious, Parasite prof? perhaps?
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Sure, I get it. I get that president Obama was given a failing economy from a failure of a president and he has done the best he can with a do nothing congress. Yeah, I get it.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Why would anyone watch this?
neuquenguy on January 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Well played. It takes a lot to make me lol these days, and I did at this, twice.
Hueydriver on January 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM
The Biggest Loser is still on tonight. On all networks.
NoFanofLibs on January 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM
Let’s have a SOTU drinking game, but you had better have a designated driver.
Only one rule: One shot for every time you here any of the phrases mentioned below.
“Let me be perfectly clear”
“we’ve got more work to do”
“previous administration”
“American values”
“my Republican friends”
“end to hostilities”
“energy policy”
“House and Senate Republicans”
“failed policies of the past”
“America’s working families”
“the right thing”
“pay their fair share”
“do nothing congress”
“millionaires and billionaires”
If you make it 20 minutes into the speech and can still walk, your liver is probably mush by now. Good luck and keep a bag handy.
MJZZZ on January 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM
Your own overlords will never let that happen. But, thanks for outing yourself as a heartless disgrace. You are a true conservative! bravo!
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM
First thing you said that was correct.
D-fusit on January 24, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Totally clueless. Stay in NYC. (hoepfully). The real Obama gives me enough welts.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Bruins goalie Tim Thomas will not be in attendance…
radjah shelduck on January 24, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Boehner invites Keystone workers.
Instead the House should vote to pass the pipeline project and send it over to Reid.
Schadenfreude on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Beddy by, which socialist policies have ever taken a country out of recession? Ever?
Yeah, I get it.
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Obamacare has already kicked in, I thought it wasn’t due until 2014.
RickB on January 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
It was the ONLY thing it could have been–an under 26yr old covered who got cancer…http://tinyurl.com/7nt6kla …although the fact that FEWER in that age range having coverage now WILL NOT be revealed tonite..
hillsoftx on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
The President is going to try to convince the American public that because there’s people who have more than a secretary they owe it to him/her.
After the vigorish of course.
Speakup on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Who Gives More?
A book by a liberal who set out to prove what you believe, and found the truth. Conservatives give more to help the needy. It just needs to be VOLUNTARY and anonymous. Not mandated by the Government stealing the money, laundering it, and doling it out.
kirkill on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Free awesome soundbite for Paul Ryan: “Everybody loves anecdotes, but what America really wants to hear about are antidotes for the nation’s ills.”
Christien on January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM
El_Terrible firing on all 57 cylinders.
mickytx on January 24, 2012 at 4:50 PM
I think he will say that after three years he realizes that America is not yet ready, doesn’t measure up to the greatness of Obamba and Moochelle, and he’ll step down (or UP actually).
neuquenguy on January 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM
I get that president Obama was given a failing economy from a failure of a president and he has done the best he can with a do nothing congress. Yeah, I get it.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Would that be the Dem Senate who has failed to pass a budget in 3 yrs or the Dem Senate has refused to take up 28 jobs bill passed by the House? Or both?
hillsoftx on January 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Me. Me. Me.
I. I. I.
Uh. Uh. Uh.
No effing way I’m watching Leni Reifenstaal’s newest production.
What?
annoyinglittletwerp on January 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Unlikely to say “By the Grace of God, Gabby is still with us”.
Likely to say, “.22 to the dome and she’s still breathin. Can I get a he** yeah?
[Democrats] “HE** YEAH!!*
[The Won] “Yeah folks. See, them tea partiers can’t even shoot straight.”
[Democrats faint by the dozen, scream, cry...general mayhem ensues]
[The Won] “Settle down folks. I got more awesome than that in my pinky. Word is bond. Aight! Let’s bring it!”
CorporatePiggy on January 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
For a second there, I thought you were BedBug trying to answer a question.
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Wonder if he’ll cover Canadian oil going to China. Wonder if he’ll explain why our money developed Brazil’s off shore drilling and they sending it all to China. Wonder if the cancer survivor will explain to me why my insurance is being reduced and made more expensive? Wonder if he’ll finally apologize to Sarah Palin for his party’s accusations that SHE caused Gifford’s shooting.
I’ll read all about it tomorrow. I really, really can’t stand listening to him any more.
Oh, is the the Court going to show up to be castigated again…and is everyone going to have a Democrat date?
Portia46 on January 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
BedBug has defined himself.
He’s a parasite – and, therefore – a Socialist.
Don’t play with the Lil’ Fella – it’s your attention that he craves. That, and your money.
OhEssYouCowboys on January 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
“Everybody loves anecdotes, but what America really wants to hear about are antidotes for the nation’s ills. The president’s proposals are a prescription for disaster.”
Christien on January 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM
NICE.. shorten it to 3 words.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM
BTW, is there anyone on Earth who thinks that anything Barky says in his bullsh#t speeches has any meaning, at all? Seriously. He’s a retarded liar. Period.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Nah-that’s too intelligent sounding for him.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 24, 2012 at 4:54 PM
Yep, Nancy and Harry’s Congress that took over in 2006, when teamed with Bush’s Progressive big government handouts, started the recession, and then Obama pours gas on those flames. 16% REAL unemployment later and there are a few more gullible people who will vote for Democrats, without thinking.
kirkill on January 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM
.
Yeah, I’m sure he feels that way too watching the carnivorous Rep meltdown. If you listen tonite- you will hear his Big Got agenda trotted back out-all is well and moving forward – and since the Republicans are so dysfunctional and unified- Obama will prevail over the “conservative” chaos, that will be broke and jaded by August. Maybe we keep the house.
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And yes, the economy is very slowly improving. We will have missed the chance to remove Dohbama- just as he pissed away his super majoority.
FlaMurph on January 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM
Way to sidestep, champ. If, and I say a big if, Obama loses, do you really believe that Newt or Mitt will be able to do any better? They are going to owe a lot of people. It will be the same game played over again. Only, YOUR party will be blamed. It is amazing how you guys believe your candidates have your best interests in mind.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM
And here I was..Thinking I would have to look up that old recipe for HOME MADE DDT again. Yes Bedbug. You CAN make it at home. Try not to decompensate now.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM
Facts? He don’t need no stinkin’ facts.
Wethal on January 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM
You people really do hate disadvantaged people, don’t you? Well, you, Mitt, and his off shore accounts.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM
No, we love you.
hillsoftx on January 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM
He is going to tell us how much he is planning on giving each of us out of his stash. He will then go on to say that he can’t give us that now, even though he was going to. And this will be because of Republican fat cats like his opponents in the coming elections who are refusing to pay their fair share and skimping on their taxes.
If it weren’t for people like Warren Buffet’s secretary paying in more taxes than all those Repblican vulture capitalists, he wouldn’t even have the money to pay for his teleprompter’s electricity or give healthcare to this one person that Obamacare could afford to help this year.
If it weren’t for people like his opponents in this election and a do nothing congress who refuse to even submit a budget, we could have all had the really great swag that he was planning for us.
But now, you won’t get ANYTHING. And it is all your own fault because Obama and his policies are awesome but you let congress get in his way.
So vote wisely America. Don’t get stiffed again next year.
Lily on January 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM
When one thinks about it, the resemblence to the rise and fall of ancient Rome is quite striking. When Rome was at it’s most corrupt, it built the Coliseum, and fed ‘red meat’ to the masses to keep them entertained while the government officials stuffed themselves with riches. They played to the lowest common denominator of the Roman mob, and then Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Our current politicians play to our heartstrings, feed our basest human emotions, while they fatten themselves at the public trough. And we seem to eat it up, just like the Roman mob ate up the gladitorial combats.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
gravityman on January 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM
You people really do hate disadvantaged people, don’t you? Well, you, Mitt, and his off shore accounts.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM
No, we love you.
hillsoftx on January 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM
You came close to owing me a new keyboard.
LoL
annoyinglittletwerp on January 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Funny how when China embraced free market principles, they were no longer the joke economy of the world.
BedBugs are parasites.
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM
still not going to watch it….
cmsinaz on January 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Bad weather heading our way, it will probably knock out Wildblue and Dish thus saving this house from watching any of it. So Netflix it is.
jazzuscounty on January 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM
You cannot fix the unfixable. The crap coming out of the house is not good for anyone except Boehner and his tears. You guys cannot even agree on anything in the house anyway.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM
You are right, the guy who has run the economy the last few years is indeed a mega failure of a president, and I haven’t see a more obstructionist, do-noting body than Reid’s Senate.
neuquenguy on January 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM
The White House are such hypocrites. Steve Jobs hadn’t taken a salary in years. Most of his and his wife’s money was taxed at 15%.
Even all that stock he sold was taxed at a lower capital gains rate. But of course the people in the WH don’t know anything about taxes. Except their stupid mantra that the rich should pay more.
and to put her next to Warren Buffet’s secretary.
Idiots
Ricki on January 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM
J-O-B-S? Wait, that’s four words, sorry.
How about “More bad medicine?”
Christien on January 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM
For all the talk about Buffet’s poor secretary, I have yet to see anyone question why she is so poor. Many of the secretaries at MocroSoft, Netscape, and many other corporations (especially computer/software types) became millionaires off the stock options they were given. How bad of a boss is Buffet that she is apprently NOT rich after 20 years working for the richest man in the world? Or is she actually rich with stock options and nobody is willing to call them on it?
dentarthurdent on January 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Microsoft not Mocrosoft – darn fat fingers….
dentarthurdent on January 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Taxes, gun control, and class warfare
pat on January 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
unanimous consent?! bedbug is an a-hole! AYE!
wrong again.
t8stlikchkn on January 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Why does Apple manufacture their products in non-union China?
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Plus, I’d be interested in what state that 26 yr old was from. Since joining a healthcare company last September, I’ve learned that some states already had a requirement that dependents could be covered until the age of 26.
dominigan on January 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Tina when will you realize that Obama is nothing but a marxist hack? When will we have a Republican that will take a bat to democrats? And fight for us? Right now only Newt has stood up. Mittens is too busy complimenting the president on the “improved economy.”
Raquel Pinkbullet on January 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM
“There are those that say…”
“I got Osama”
“As I have always said…”
jukin3 on January 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Easy killer.
I was thinking “antidotes, not anecdotes.”
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Don’t let facts get in your way. They all do it, but it only outrages you when a democrat does it. I understand Bush and Cheney had the front office of Halliburton and La Raza in their box.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Will this be on in all 57 states?
kirkill on January 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
You’ll know when Barry is lying, his lips will be moving.
GarandFan on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
That Democrat Senators are stuck on stupid…?
dominigan on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Precisely!!! Has anyone SEEN her tax returns. MAybe that’s why she can’t sleep.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Yes, but only 7 states will have Austrian subtitles.
Bishop on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
That’s it? Truth made you lash out, huh? Boehner versus the tea party. Comedy gold!
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
BedBug, we only want to hear you defend socialism.
Crickets
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:05 PM
I wonder if ObaMao will say anything about Senator Mark Kirk who took his Senate seat that is recovering from a stroke in the hospital?
If he does say anything it will be something along the lines of “Mark Kirk should resign the Senate seat, put country and family first.”
Raquel Pinkbullet on January 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
I hope for historic – record BOOING and preferably a walkout by at least one branch…. :)
golfmann on January 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
thats it dude, exactly. thanks. peace bro.
t8stlikchkn on January 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
No, Boehner Can read the writing. It’s you who seem to have it hard.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
I just hope Michelle doesn’t spend the entire speech shoveling Funyuns and DingDongs in her face again, like she did last year (the noise was very distracting). Hey, Big Mo – NO EATING during Barry’s speech, and for God’s sake, please, leave the MD 20/20 in the limo.
Pork-Chop on January 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Buffet’s always liked posturing, subtly. Read any interview with ‘the world’s best investor in the history of humanity’. His people feed lines into the narrative like, ‘lives in the same modest home in Omaha he bought 40 years ago’, ‘eschews the limelight’, ‘holds conservative values’, etc. etc.
I prefer filthy rich Americans on the Larry Ellison line. He’s worth far more than Jobs was, has planes, houses, and boats, coming out of his rear end and eschews this deeply dishonest BS class warfare schtick.
CorporatePiggy on January 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
BedBug represents the “Creed for (and by) the Unproductive” aka socialism
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
The best the Left can muster is the lame claim that they aren’t pushing for Socialism on a National level.
Chip on January 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
This will be on in all 60 states with Austrian subtitles, but will it be streamed on Al Gore’s internet?
Raquel Pinkbullet on January 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
If Buffets secretary is paying 28% income tax its because she’s making between $500 to $1 million a year according to Beck.
Zcat on January 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Except for those 28 job bills sitting over in the senate that the creppy undertaker won’t let get to the floor because that will make Bammy look bad. You funny troll.
D-fusit on January 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Look it up, BedBug: your hero Karl Marx died with carbuncles over his entire body from the lack of bathing. A Creed for (and by) the Unproductive
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
I wonder who benefits from El Presidente Downgrade’s canceling of that jobs producing program?
Chip on January 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
That’s clear, concise, and catchy. I’m impress.
Christien on January 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
You can keep repeating it, little man, but it doesn’t make it true. I just don’t believe as you do. I really don’t trust politicians, but you guys seem to bow at the altar of anyone that tells you what you want to hear, all while shunning the one man that tells the truth. Your party is being torn apart because you guys don’t even know how to proceed. You don’t see democrats fracturing, do you?
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
28 job bills most likey written in crayon because your leader, Boehner, cannot control his tears. Harry Reid doesn’t believe they deserve the light of day. A part of your own party don’t believe they do either, but the tea party just lives to be contrary.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Wrong picture for the thread! Wrong finger showing!
KOOLAID2 on January 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM
What a defense of the Creed for (and by) the Unproductive!
Actually, such a limp defense fits your lazy belief system perfectly.
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM
And kept a woman sex slave in his house (Black?). Rules are only for the rubes!!!
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Ron Paul, he’s our Savior. Nice try idiot. redistribution of other peoples money is bad no matter whose doing it. You hero is a BIG redistributor. Suck on that.
D-fusit on January 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Uh, Debbie, you do know that you’re being used as a pawn in dear leader’s reelection campaign, do you not? This appearance will do nothing to lower your taxes.
Kissmygrits on January 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM
It’s hard to fracture… one big A$$!
KOOLAID2 on January 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
And he lost a child to exposure because he was too lazy to get a paying job. What a shock that Marx designed a system where we all throw in.
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Are you a supporter of Socialism?
Chip on January 24, 2012 at 5:20 PM
They are fracturing. WITHOUT our help. Your just in damage control mode.
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Nope.
BedBug on January 24, 2012 at 5:22 PM
What does that say about us, that 52% will follow that sophistry
WryTrvllr on January 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Perhaps he will express a hope that the slob Warren Buffett will now pay his back taxes from as far back as 2002 since he’s flush with capital gains from his railroad stock. That’s the stock that has appreciated because of Bammie’s blocking action on the Keystone pipeline.
slickwillie2001 on January 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
I’d have to question the “eschews the limelight” comment now. He seems to be eagerly seeking the limelight on a regular basis – and he’s enormously hypocritical – call off the lawyers and pay your last 10 years of taxes due, THEN you can comment about tax rates.
Larry Ellison – yes indeed. How many people were employed because of the money he spent on all those things? For the libs here I’ll answer myself – lots.
dentarthurdent on January 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
BedBug lost the debate
Nemesis of Jihad on January 24, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Then are you a supporter of the Socialists in the National Democratic Party?
Chip on January 24, 2012 at 5:26 PM
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