Thoughts on Pres.Obama's State of the Union Speech

First of all, what a grand spectacle. All three branches of government in one building! The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches all hanging out together.
That's cool. Talk about a security issue.

I watched Obama's S.O.T.U. Address at the UOG computer lab, on hulu.com streaming LIVE. Good thing I had my headphones. It was on a 12 noon Guam time. I like to see the President make his entrance and exit, shaking hands with politicians en route.

All the Republican senators on one side and the Democratic senators on the other side. haha.
I really like how all these American political leaders stand up clap, cheer, and even boo the President on what he says in the middle of his speech. And the thing is Obama allows for responses to happen. haha.
It's nothing novel, this is typical for State of the Union Speeches for all President's but it's interesting to see Obama in this situation and how he handles it. We all remember when one republican senator yelled out "You Lie" to Obama during one of his three speeches to the chamber.


It was funny to see the President call out the Supreme Court judges about their landmark decision to allow no caps on companies who want to donate to a political campaign, going against a 100 year old law. Then the camera showed the judges and Judge Samuel Alito was shaking his head and mumbled something saying "that's not true." There was a big debate on CNN about this particular part on the speech because they said we rarely get to see a reaction from Supreme Court judges. Haha. I was suprised to see the judge shake his head. Obama definately saw that, because all the judges were sitting in the front row.

I also liked the part where Obama was talking about climate change, and there was some commotion when he mentioned that he knew some (the republicans) would disagree on the scientific evidence of global warming. See the clip below:


Some other quotes that Obama said regarding education.
"In the 21st century, the best anti poverty program is a world class education"
"Price of college tuition is just one of the burdens affecting the middle class."
"In the U.S.A. you should not worry about being broke just because you decided to go to college."