Obama's State of Union Speech2012

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145812810/transcript-obamas-state-of-the-union-address

A good essay is often a bad speech:  it's easy to read, but hard to listen to.  The nature of speech is informal; the nature of writing is formal.  You can try to make a written essay conversational, but as the saying, goes, " You can't chase out nature with a stick."

 It can be fixed by some simple extemporaneous speaking adaptions: -- overviews, internal summaries, final summary (repeating the overview) followed with a  culminating "essay style" conclusion.

None of that Bill Clinton style was present in this State Of The Union 2012  speech.  It was too similar to Reagan's flowery rhetoric with light shades of an Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg address beginning.

I'm working on an edited version of this speech that will be posted on a latter date.  Stay tuned.

My NPR post

Ozzie Banicki (Oz7com) wrote:

Best line in Obama's State of the Union speech, "I am an Abraham Lincoln Democrat." Conversely,the Republican Rebuttal was crystallized by, "It's a Math problem." Go figure.

One guy is talking about human needs for all Americans and the other is not empathizing with that situation -- it's a math problem.

Yes, classic lines were followed. The haves and the struggling haves have different needs. The Independents will decide in the long run. I'm hoping they come from religions that value compassion and pragmatism, not just Macro-economics.

It's the little clues in the speech that count.

Obama said in his State of the Union Address, "I am an Abraham Lincoln Democrat." Then we realized that he was speaking about the needs of all Americans -- Democrats, Republicans and others.

The Republican Rebuttal was about a "Math Problem."  Go Figure.

At-Will Employment - Overview

At-Will Employment - Overview:

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Very Important Information to young workers, especially teachers and professors.  Various State Right to Work Laws and At Will Laws could cause you great harm.

Presidential Candidates without Compassion

Presidential Candidates who are mere Accountants without signs of Compassion can't be trusted; for they are mere thieves awaiting opportunity.

Compassion is not to be confused with pity.  Pity is sorrow without action, or the desire for action.  Pity is a form of superiority.  The arrogant man shows pity to accent his superiority and replace action with inaction, justifying his pity by loathing the observed condition and justifying his inaction.

No, character in the highest office in the land requires Compassion, not pity.  Compassion is virtue, not a weakness.  Tyrants of the world are the dogs that attract  the fleas.  They are not clean and deserving to be the leader of good people.  The dog that bites to defend is better than the dog that bites passersby, or the weak dog because he can.  Pick a man of Compassion.

The Homeless & Reaganomics History Gives Insight to the "New Republican" Economic Outcomes.

http://goo.gl/qd3Aa    

Should the U.S. President have had CEO Experience?

A CEO's principal responsibility is to maximize the PROFITS of his shareholders (not necessarily create jobs).  Job creation may in fact create overhead that diminishes profits in some cases.  In those cases, the goal is to reduce jobs, add duties and perhaps replace some with computers.

Experience shows: curriculum flexibility maintains teacher enthusiasm.

My forty years of experience in adaptation paid dividends -- enthusiasm maintained.

Having been a full-time professor of Speech and Director of Intercollegiate Speech and Debate at Community Colleges and Universities in Florida, Ohio, Mississippi and Texas for thirty six years (plus four years of adjunct), I gained enormous insight into Darwin's most famous principle:  "If you can't adapt, you won't survive."

My position is simple:  the current push for rigidly control of teachers will prove to be counterproductive in the long run.  Why?  Enthusiasm is contagious.  If you squelch a creative teacher, you squelch the kid

Adam Smith on "Conspiracy" in Wealth of Nations

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.

Smith, Adam (2008-11-27). The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations) (mobi) (Kindle Locations 2015-2018). MobileReference. Kindle Edition.

Yes, Barack Obama is a Good President for Even Republicans

 I think we got one thing settled:  Barack Obama is an American Citizen.

There was so much confusion during tough times that we really weren't thinking clearly as a nation.  Name calling and scapegoating become natural during times of stress.  We're thinking more clearly now.