Bernie's take on President Obama's State of the Union Speech.

[Uncle Joe]

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
35 mins ·

President Obama raised some enormously important points in the State of the Union regarding the long-term future of our country – much I agreed with. Not only can we effectively combat climate change, we can create good paying jobs. Yes, we have to destroy ISIS, but we must do so through a coalition, and we cannot get bogged down in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East.

I also appreciated the president’s point that we need more civil politics, that we need to get big money out of politics, and that at a time of tremendous wealth and income inequality we must revitalize American democracy.


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It was a great speech, definitely one of his best, if you haven't seen the speech, it's well worth viewing.

[Punkingal]

1. Was Bernie at the speech?

[Uncle Joe]

2. Yes, they showed him several times.

[Armstead]

3. He was also on the post speech coverage, interviewed by Maddow and Tweety

He was in a jovial mood, which was goid to see

[bettyellen]

4. was funny when he said he thought Obama picked up points from him.

I guess you'd think that if you weren't following along closely for the last 8 years.

[Armstead]

5. He was joking...and there's elements of truth in it

Obama has addressetjose issues, but not as forcefully as Bernie. I got the sense watching Obama that he was very aware of the positive response Sanders has gotten on those issues

[Uncle Joe]

6. I would say with one

notable exception; the TPP, that speech would've carried over well at an Occupy Event, the vast majority of it aligned perfectly with Bernie's message.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Yep. The TPP was a disconnect. But hey, 90% connection isn't bad at all. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

8. I can't help but believe President Obama's speech

greatly supplemented Bernie's candidacy and I wouldn't be too surprised if more conventional Democratic Leaders start coming out of the woodwork and endorse Bernie.

I'm not counting on it, but I believe this speech magnified Bernie's message to the nation.

[99th_Monkey]

9. And Hillary's absence? What was that about? Hell, even Kim Davis got invited.

Incredibly, Hillary was raising money (as usual) in Detroit tonite.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/12/29/hillary-clinton-fundraising-detroit/78047656/

[Uncle Joe]

10. Some would argue that she's not in government anymore, but from a political standpoint, Obama's

last State of the Union speech and to give that up for a fund raiser?

That doesn't seem too politically astute to me.

[safeinOhio]

11. It might have been astute as

a camera wasn't on her face when when Obama made his points that we need more civil politics, that we need to get big money out of politics, and that at a time of tremendous wealth and income inequality we must revitalize American democracy.

[JDPriestly]

13. Obama did not come out and back Bernie, but his speech seemed to be almost inspired by

Bernie's campaign. It's as if Obama was handing the torch to Bernie. That is especially true of Obama's very moving discussion about the changes we need in our politics. Also true when Obama talked about the gerrymandering and the social justice issues.

[JDPriestly]

14. I also thought that maybe Obama has been listening to Bernie's speeches and watching

Bernie surge in the poll. Obama surely knows about Bernie's fundraising success.

I thought Obama was feeling the Bern! And it made me very happy!

[JDPriestly]

12. K&R. With the exception of his plea for the TPP, Obama sure seemed to be feeling the Bern!

That's great news.

I think Bernie would be a good president to follow Obama and carry on Obama's ideas and dreams, the many things Obama wanted to do but couldn't.