politicartoons | not a cartoon, but a prediction

Well, you know they write their reactions to the speech before they even know the content of the speech.

granted. It just feels like you could run electric current through a lot of people these days and their voiceboxes would automatically say "OBAMA IS HITLER1!"

lol i get that impression as well

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why can't they find someone who can give a speech without seeming like he's trying to convince a group of first-graders?

And what's with the shrugging???

Who are we what now?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTWB1M9VPOte4M77spW7Z62NsGyQD9AK4ULO0

because he's trying to convince a group that thinks like first graders (congress)

and they applauded him 42 times in 43 minutes. Every time i watch state of the union/address to congress by any president it gives me flashbacks to the Brezhnev's adresses to Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Personally, I like Obama, I think he's a neat guy. I also think that he's suffering from the Carter curse. Smart, nice Presidents simply don't seem to be able to be effective in the position.

Snicker. You guys come up with some of the craziest horseshit.

That wasn't me trying to say that Obama is communist or whatever... it's just the flashbacks that I get. Back in USSR there were many jokes about mandated applauds during the speeches.

it's the curse of intellectual - everything looks neat on paper but not in life.

The applause was predictably plotted to the speech and broke along party lines based on what he was talking about. I'm pretty sure no "applause" light was needed as in TV studios of yore.

But that would be pretty funny if it were the case.

Also: you counted??!

As long as he can learn from Carter and Stevenson, he'll do better. I think the first order of business is canning Emanuel and finding a true congressional operator.

yeah i mean people applauding is totally like the USSR

I heard that every Soviet exhibited bilateral symmetry, and breathed in and out something like 82000 times every single day!! 0_o
WE BETTER NOT START DOIN THAT STUFF HITLUR

In Soviet Russia, your hands give you the clap.

...wait a minute...

So he's elected, and they forgot to warn him that he's dealing with stupid people? Considering he was a Senator, he should have known that, right? But just in case, here's the first rule of government service they should have told him when dealing with Congress: Never get into an argument with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

yawn... borring

some reporters counted. They applauded 42 times and laughed once

i know it's a boring argument. that's why i'm mocking it.

it's not an argument... you are hopeless

I know it's not a real argument, too.

I get what you're saying here. I think it's a hallmark of politics in general, although I think that there'd be serious repercussions for not applauding enthusiastically in your aforementioned anecdote.

It's mostly about the presenter actually reading outloud "Pause for applauds" during the speech

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