it would be amazing to see obama propose something fresh. tax the rich? ok, tax the rich: ain't gettin no further this year than last. really, our politics is frozen where it has been since the new deal: tax the rich, no don't etc. regulate, don't. government is your friend, your enemy. i don't know: give me something, anything. you've got all these supposedly smart people, but they can't think of anything, maybe cause they think in herds or parties. who speaks for the middle class? dunno, really, but i know who speaks for the mediocre ideas. shit is boring. let's say creativity is lacking. it'll be the same little catch-phrases, produced mechanically. that's one thing about newt; even the little dose of something fresh he provides is thousands of times greater than a figure like obama or the clintons etc. i don't know that you can really give people hope and be utterly without imagination. obama ought to put on a tape of last year's speech and hit the sack.
the only really watchable part of a state of the union is the red-carpet phase: walking in, shaking hands, scanning the supreme court, the joint chiefs, whatever emblematic peasants michelle will be dragging along. it is our most monarchical moment.
