Obama's Sputnik speech

  Some of us couldn't stay up last night to finish the speech, since it seemed interminable, replete with admonitions, excitement to spend a trillion more dollars and mockery for the TSA patdowns. Apparently there won't be any patdowns on high speed rail trips, regardless what Big Sis has already said. (After all, the ruling elite do not have to endure patdowns or potential radiation.) How stupid do you have to be to buy the line that we need to be more efficient because we are on an unsustainable course financially but let's spend more on high speed rail, education, etc.
  More calls for (failed) green energy, more windmills, more stuff to make sure YOU can't drive your own car and control your own life. More centralized living, like Europe.
  Now come the reviews.
  The MSM, of course, loved it.
  Chris Matthews, Christiane Amanpour, Piers Morgan all gushed about The One's magnanimous tone and setting the tone for a new bipartisanship (now that the Republicans won and he has no choice....signaling that Republicans better do what democrats want.)
  There were repeated references to The One's speech being "Reaganesque." (NOT)
  An immediate CBS telephone poll of 500 people (who in the East Coast wants to be called at 10:30 at night by a pollster, which suggests that the callees were West Coast,  which oughta tell you how skewed THAT was) revealed, as CBS gushed, that 92%, that's NINETY TWO PERCENT, of the pollees loved the speech, thought it was marvelous and loved the idea of high speed rails.
  Which, of course, won't cost anything to build.
  The Tatler has a list of items that were not discussed. Those would be the really difficult problems.
  Professor Jacobsen says the speech was a "million points of trite."
  Mediate takes delight in mocking the Fox News panel's reaction to the speech. Referring to Kirsten Powers as the "token" democrat, while ignoring the presence of Juan Williams, whose dismissal from PBS has apparently neutered him as a liberal. Mediate has grown increasingly partisan in recent days, sometimes becoming viciously partisan in their essays about 
  Sarah Palin points out the numerous contradictions in her Facebook page:

He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending isup by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.

  Powerline's Scott has some painful observations:

UPDATE: How could I have missed the high speed rail, the electric cars, the green jobs, the expansion of the Internet, the misstatement of the American creed, the class warfare, or commendable parts of the speech such as the tribute to our military and to the Center Rock company that I overlooked above? My pain threshold has hampered my ability to stick with it.

Obama has been well served by his relative absence from the podium over the past few months. When he addresses the issues, we are reminded why he must be resisted with with every ounce of our being. 

  On a positive note, Boehner's lilac tie had metaphorical significance,as it replaced Pelosi's purple victory suit from last year and phony smile. Boehner sure didn't have a phony smile. Heh.

  The truth is that this speech was boring. One good thing about the kumbayah sitting together moment is that there wasn't as much clapping, interruption and sycophantic thrown kisses from the dopey audience.
  Krauthammer was right; it was flat and uninspired.
  And the Midnight Trucking guys are right. The MSM has taken the presidential butt kissing to a whole new level. 
  And they have the audio cuts to prove it.
  Are we all having fun yet? (from Instapundit)

  Looking forward to Fox and Friends.