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2015 State of the Union Address - TYT Reaction (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 OP
Good example of out of touch ultra-left punditry, and that is the plain truth of it. RBInMaine Jan 2015 #1
 

RBInMaine

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1. Good example of out of touch ultra-left punditry, and that is the plain truth of it.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:18 AM
Jan 2015

This State of the Union was a PROGRESSIVE speech and a damn good one. It had bold initiatives, he is going on the road, it had veto threats, is celebrated successes, and it did a LOT. There is a LOT here for mainstream Progressives to be happy with. What do these guys do? They trash it more than celebrate it. They wanted him to come out with a machete and go for the Republicans' throats. You NEVER do that in a State of the Union. You JAB the other party, and he did, but you don't go for their jugular in the State of the Union. It is more dignified than that. This is the problem with ideological extremism on EITHER side. There is "Progressive," and then there is FAR LEFT. the TEA-LEFT. And that isn't good either. That doesn't work either.

Obama gets BIG kudos for this address, and TYT needs to wake up and break out of its far left mindset in reviewing it. It was a speech for the large majority, not just the far left. And it was PROGRESSIVE.

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