Tuesday, January 25, 2011

SOTU. No, it isn't Japanese...

It’s that time of the year again. The President of the United States must give his annual address to Congress on the current state of the union. It’s called, the State of the Union.

I really hate it.

“But Josh!!! You love history and Presidents!!!!! I thought you of all people would like the SOTU!!!!!!!!!”

I mostly hate the inane applause after every other sentence. Most of the time, the applause is partisan. That may change as Democrats and Republicans decided to sit together and pretend to like each other for a night. The speech is probably only 20 minutes long, but 40 minutes are just applause.

Also, I hate the rebuttal SOTU address by the opposing party. What is the point? Why don’t we let the media put the speech under the magnifying lens and see what was correct or incorrect? Why have some partisan ramblings after what should be a non-partisan event?

It’s hyped up and then we forget about it for a year. Bluh.

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