Tweets from Obama's speech
GraniteGrok is on Twitter - for this speech, instead of live blogging here, I just decided to tweet as Obama spoke. Tweeter allows for looking backward at what one does, so here's what I said during Obama's time at the rostrum. Entries are in reverse chronological order (latest first).
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The hash tag (the "#" character) TCOT stands for Top Conservatives on Twitter - allowing us to broadcast to a rather wide audience all over the Web. If you see and "@" char, that is a response from me to another person on Twitter about what they may have said as well. [anything in these brackets is my attempt, just here on the 'Grok, to give a bit of context]
@rorycooper #tcot #sotu #nsotu Great point - he got to redistribute his wealth HIMSELF; Obama wants govt to do that for him [the FL banker that decided to share his bonus with his co-workers - LARGE sum of money!]
@apackof2 #TCOT Stopping the Great Liar.....that is now the mission. [get a Repub, a good CONSERVATIVE REpub in the WH]
@DavidJohnsonSV 2 hours...oy! There's LOTS of snow here in NH....let me go freeze myself [my reaction if I had had to listen to him for 2 solid hours]
@DavidJohnsonSV welcome! A bad movie at least has a plot.....and an end....this may never stop!
@apackof2 #TCOT Yeah, the reason I left MA - couldn't stand the price in my taxes [MA - mandatory cradle to grave care]
@trevor_shipp class warfare - nothing more. [separate the groups, set one against another - so much for being a Uniter, eh? Isolate, denigrate, then destroy an entire class of Americans]
#TCOT and more money for military living quarters....the Marines get crap compared to the other branches - I saw my son's shared room. [his room was pretty bad....I could see giving up a B2 for better barracks]
@NHJennifer #tcot #gop amusing, isn't it (if it wern't so serious) [Jennifer made a good observation]
@DavidJohnsonSV #tcot Channel cheerleader - good observation! [Pelosi channeling being a cheerleader]
#TCOT Wars do not end....you either win or you lose.....Ties get you North Korea [If you quit a war, that is a retreat. You've lost. Americans hate losers]
#TCOT OH MY GOD - he DID just say tax free Universal health accounts?????? [IF this is what I think it is, I COULD be in favor of this...]
#TCOT - he just threw small biz owners under the bus w/<$250K [revenue from most small bizs flow directly as personal income - and most make over that in entirety. Not good, as they ARE the economic and jobs engine of America. Mark my words, they will shut it down - it JUST WILL NOT BE WORTH IT]
#TCOT he just said it - weapon systems we don't need [dialing down the military - WHY am I not surprised and WHY am I thinking that it will not be just a couple weapon systems?]
#TCOT over / under he DOESN'T get the savings - and the over / under he does only by slashing Military (the only Constitutional spending) [he will not reach his "slash the deficit at end of 1st term' and if he does, the military will pay a lot of it]
#TCOT Chutzpah - not passing debt on to our kids....yer about a week late, dude....and enuff with the inherit already [you just spent a trillion bucks and NOW you want to cut back? ahahahaha....uh-oh....sobsobsobsobsob]
#TCOT I'm fine with the parent is responsible for education....will he give them school choice? [he lavished so much praise on parents on their kids education, will he give them COMPLETE authority and power??]
#TCOT oh great, what did Hatch and Kennedy cook up????? [no clue here]
#TCOT we will NEVER have the highest level of college grads int he world - if we do, a degree will be worth the same as a dollar. [inflation from his spending will ruin the dollar - if everyone has a degree, what's the difference?]
#TCOT, so, one is unpatriotic if you don't stay in school? [will he mandate that everyone has to get a college degree - to help the country?]
#TCOT Let's just do away with local / County / State govt and make it easier for the Imperial Obama to have his decrees implemented [there seems to be no separation of powers in his mind - it is all Feds all the time
#TCOT Barry JUST socialized Education FOREVER! [Free education until you die? Oh my!]
#TCOT wanna watch how FAST healthcare insurance provider stock is going to fall tomorrow??? [expect a LOT of downward pressure on stocks tomorrow - but Obama just announced a huge competitor for them - the Federal Government. Who can compete against taxpayer funded programs?]
#TCOT instead of having Govt or Employers run healthcare, why not let PEOPLE run their own & get the other 2 out of that business!!! [Use Health Savings Accounts, catastrophic insurance - after all, my car insurance doesn't pay for my gas. Get govt AND employer distortions out of the marketplace]
#TCOT major cost of healthcare? Betcha Obama will NEVER mention the government mandates that raise the cost of insurance [Obama was complaining about the cost of healthcare. While modern equipment, techniques, and medications are costly, govt HAS has a large heavy hand at both the State and Federal levels]
#TCOT he refuses to lower my mortgage and my house is worse less [sorry, he IS rewarding bad behavior and he CANNOT admit that he can't tell the good for the bad]
#TCOT Notice that the only entity that is not ever at fault in his speech is Government & it s policies (and yes, he loves HUMONGOUS Govt) [everything that was and is wrong get blamed EXCEPT government. I can forgive the little stuff, but the stuff that has can be directly tracked back to govt policies]
#TCOT The Most Esteemed wife, the unpolitical 1, has a steady stream of invectives towards the TV (I have nailed down all throwable objects) [she was not a happy camper....tv still intact]
Oh please...Biden in charge...he actually is proud of saying that??? [O announcing Biden in charge of the Stimulas oversight]
