We will be live blogging Obama’s SOTU speech, at least as long as we can stand it, before our ears explode.

What Obama says will be in regular text, our critique will be bracketed like this […]
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Krauthammer thought it was the best response he’s ever heard. I thought it failed to call him out on virtually anything, which is the point of the response. It din’t set forth why we should vote for Republicans over Democrats, which would also have been the main point. It concentrated on painting a nice pic of Republicans for the general election. Romney was nice. He lost.

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Nikki Haley response:
Obama’s election broke barriers. He uses soaring words but falls far short of those grand ideas. Chaotic unrest in many of our cities, the most dangerous terrorist that since 9/11 and this president seems unwilling to deal with this.

You are not naive and neither am I. A frustration with a govt that grows year after year and is never addressed, while Dem in D.C. share a lot of blame, we as Rep need to own that loss of the public trust as well. and then we need to fix it. It’s up to us to that foundation that made us the last best hope on earth.

Growing up in the rural south, we didn’t look like our neighbors and we had the opportunity to be anything. Immigrants have been coming forever, and that dream is achievable. We live in a time of threats, we must resist the call of angry voices, at the same time that does not mean we open our borders, we cannot let people in illegally and we cannot let in people who we cannot vet.

South Carolina, at Mother Emanuel, we lost nine incredible souls that night. What happened after that tragedy, is something to remember. We didn’t turn against each other, we turned toward God and we removed a symbol that was dividing us and dealt with a domestic terorist who was trying to divide us. Often people think you have to listen to the loudest voice in the room. Sometimes you have to lower the sound.

If we held the WH we would encourage American innovation, end a disastrous healthcare program and let you keep your doctor, and insist on religious liberty and separation of powers, and the 2nd and 10th amendments. We would make international agreements that are celebrated in Israel and protested in Iran. Not the other way around.

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So he deputized Biden to cure cancer, and minimized terrorist threats, just as he is about to let ten out of Gitmo, including one who has promised to kill Americans if he ever got out. Some SOTU, no connection to real concerns in the world.

Idiots in congress are getting him to signing autographs for them, like he’s a rock star.

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O: I appreciate, Mr. Speaker, working together to help pass the budget last year. I hope we can work on prescription drug abuse and heroin abuse. I will keep pushing on guns, paid leave, minimum wage, all these things still matter to hard working families and they’re still the right thing to do. But for my final address, I want to focus on the next five years and the next ten years and beyond. I want to focus on the future.

America has been thru big changes before. Movements to expand civil rights. Each times there have been those who told us to fear the future. Who told us to just get some group who was threatening America under control. We did not adhere to the quiet dogmas of the past, we made change work for us.

And because we did, where we saw opportunity rather than peril, we emerged better than before. What was true then is true now. Our commitment to rule of law, these things give us all we need to insure prosperity for years to come. That’s how we recovered from the worst economic crisis in generations. That’s how we reformed our healthcare system and reinvented our energy center. That’s how we delivered more care and benefits to our troops coming home. That’s how we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person we love.

But such progress is not inevitable, and it depends on the choices we make.

So let’s talk about the future and four big questions, regardless of who the next president is.
!. How do we give everyone a fair shot in this new economy?
Auto industry is great, we’ve cut deficits [fantasy worldddddd!]
Anyone claiming economy is in decline is peddling fiction. It is true economy is changing in different ways, especially in any job where it can be automated. More wealth is concentrated at the top, all has squeezed workers. It’s made it harder for young people to start their careers. It does offend our American belief that everyone who works hard should get a fair shot. We’ve made progress but we need to make more.

We should build on that progress by offering pre-K for all, and offering every student computer classes and recruit great teachers for our kids. And we have to make college affordable for every American. [bla bla bla] We’ve got to cut the cost of college [get govt out of it and that will cut it but you’d never do that]

We need benefits and protections that provide a measure of security. Most don’t have benefits and security of those serving in this chamber [or those who leave the Presidency who get a pension and Secret Service protection for life]

Basic benefits should be just as mobile as everything else today. That’s what Affordable Care Act is about to [well you sure screwed that up then]

There should be a system of wage insurance. Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause financial crisis. Immigrants aren’t the reasons wages haven’t gone up. [the biggest part of our taxes is spend on welfare, and immigrants will take your job so yeah you’re wages wouldn’t go up]

2. How do we make technology work for us and not against us, especially with challenges such as climate change

Under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad.

[He hasn’t mentioned one urgent national issue, he’s talking about medical research and clean energy]

Even if planet wasn’t at stake, even if 2015 wasn’t hottest on record, why would we pass up chance to sell new forms of energy for the future? [it wasn’t the hottest on record except in the hot air of your mind, climate change biggest fake out to grift money and grab control]

3. How do we keep America safe without America becoming the world’s policeman?

All that stuff about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker. USA is most powerful nation on earth. It’s not even close. [none of the joint chiefs of staff stood or clapped! All looked stern and forbidding ] AS someone who begins every day with an intel briefing [you lie, you’ve missed most of them] we’re threatened less by evil empires and more by failing states. [who helped them to fail, i.e. Libya, Obama/Clinton]

Priority #1 is protecting American people and going after terrorists networks [but you don’t do that]. We have to take them out [I said that in June 2014, and you didn’t]. They do not threaten our national existence [no one believes you, they want to kill us, all of us]. We do not want to push away vital allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL is representative of one of the world’s largest religions. We just have to hunt them down, which is what we have been doing. With more than 10,000 airstrikes we are taking out their leaders. If this Congress is serious about this, Congress needs to take a vote to authorize action [he’s trying to blame Congress for his failures]. Just ask Osama and the person who led the Benghazi attacks [oh boy you liar].

Instability will continue, in such place as Pok-istan. The world will look to us, and our sewer needs to be more than tough talk or carpet bombing. We also need to not get involved and try to nation build [like you did in Iraq and Libya?] We will partner with others and they have to pull their own weight [which is why we are doing everything in a fake 60 member coalition. That’s how we avoided war with Iran by creating deal to prevent nuclear war [you got played like a toy or consciously gave them everything they wanted]

50 years of isolating Cuba had failed to give democracy. [so you just completely abandoned the dissidents] Lift the embargo [no, you failed communist fop] [Rubio looks bored out of his mind and was using his phone]

That’s why I will continue to try to shut down Gitmo. That’s why we must reject any politics that targets people based on race or religion. The world respects us not just for our arsenal, but for our diversity and our openness. When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid is called names, that doesn’t make us safer, or telling it like it is. It makes it harder to achieve our goals, it betrays who we are as a country. We the people, all the people, we rise and fall together.

4. The future we want, opportunity and security for our families, and sustainable planet for our kids. It will only happen if we work together, if we have rational and constructive debates. Only if we fix our politics [you are the one who broke it, you are the one who preaches the politics of division in everything you do, even this speech] [shot of Kim Davis] Democracy breaks down when people think that everything is rigged. One of the few regrets of my presidency that it’s gotten worse rather than better. I’ll keep trying to be better.

So there are a lot of people who feel trapped by the rancor of their base [he just blamed the Republican base] We need to reduce the influence of money in our politics. Most people don’t like raising money, I know I’ve done it [you’re doing it constantly, you never stopped]. Over course of this year, I intend to travel the country to work on this. But I can’t do this on my own. It depends on you [so he’s saying essentially he’s failed because we don’t want change. Yes, you’re right we don’t want your change]

Our collective futures depends on you upholding your duties as a citizen, and vote, knowing each of us is only here because someone stood up for us. And not just at election time. Our brand of democracy is hard.

[He just recognized the protester] ‘who knows how much that right is worth’. That’s what makes me so hopeful about our future. I believe in change because I believe in you, the American people [no, you are not a Baptist preacher]. Unarmed truth and unconditional love will win the day.

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Promises to make it shorter. [Thank God!]

Paul Ryan is without beard. [Really all Republicans should have stayed home.]

Bret Baier notes the fact that nut all the Justices are there, including Alito, who at one prior SOTU was seen mouthing ‘that’s not true’ when Obama was saying things about the Citizen’s United decision. Alito is not there tonight.

Obama coming in, McConnell and Kevin McCarthy right behind him.

Michelle with Muslim doctor in her box.

John Kerry is there, rather than working on freeing sailors from Iran. Defense Sec and Chief of Staff both at speech also.

3 Supreme Court Justices didn’t show up, including Scalia, Thomas and Alito.