What is worse is people still believe him and love that narcissistic socialist nutcase.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman thought the speech was "nothing short of masterful":
If one speech can replenish a presidency–and I'm not sure it can—Barack Obama's State of the Union address was just such a speech.
Writing for The Daily Beast, Christopher Buckley offered similar praise, calling it "one hell of a speech":
Tonight Mr. Obama proved—once again—that he hears the American music and can play it like a maestro. As well as Ronald Reagan.
Time magazine's Joe Klein called it a "terrific performance," a "fighting speech" that was "easily digestible":
Again and again, he challenged the opposition. He challenged them to come up with good ideas on health care. He challenged them to join in the leadership of the country, now that they had 41 Senate votes and insisted on a 60-vote super-majority to pass any bill. Even a lapidary line like, "Now let's clear a few things up..." was barbed, since it referred to the shameless distortions that the Republican Party––and its house demagogues on Fox News––had inflicted on the health care reform process.
The Wall Street Journal interpreted Obama's speech as a call to "stay the course" of his presidency to date, meaning the country is in for a "long year":
If President Obama took any lesson from his party's recent drubbing in Massachusetts, and its decline in the polls, it seems to be that he should keep doing what he's been doing, only with a little more humility, and a touch more bipartisanship.
