Greats like Kennedy and Roosevelt and Reagan and Gingrich... :D

It's just that Obama should acknowledge that those words were not his.

However, I am guessing that Obama's ego simply will not allow him to acknowledge that he is not as great as he thinks he is...

Speaking of ego...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/27/dr-keith-ablow-president-obama/

Michale.....

President George H. W. Bush

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand

Neil Young

Apparently, YOU didn't...

Early in his address, Obama said that he wanted the nation he leads to be a "light to the world." The last president who set such a mission for the nation he led, and in those exact words, was Woodrow Wilson.

In a 1991 Washington, D.C. address sponsored by conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation, Margaret Thatcher coined a phrase Obama made his own in his second State of the Union address. Thatcher told her American audience that "no other nation has been built upon an idea." In a slightly revised form, Obama, in his second State of the Union address, all but repeated it, using additional words.

And......

There was a certain Back to the Future feel to the masterful tributes Obama paid those Ronald Reagan might have described as “ordinary heroes.” After all, it was Reagan who began the practice of inviting citizens who had done extraordinary things to sit beside the first lady in the House gallery as the president recited their achievements. It was also Reagan who reminded his listeners that the greatness of America emerged not from the hand of government, but through the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people.

And....

Obama received his most sustained applause when he said, "I know there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth." Leaving aside the faulty grammar (people change places with people, not with nations), the poaching from John F. Kennedy's immortal inaugural address was obvious enough for the most historical of Obama's listeners to notice. ("I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.")

And....

Most pointedly, the low point of Obama’s speech came when he brought back government re-organization from the ash heap of failed efforts of previous presidents who sought to save money without inflicting pain on a public that had grown accustomed to government largesse. This one, like all that talk about all those green energy jobs that lay before us, had fallen out of the presidential repertoire with retirement of Jimmy Carter. Obama might have had the decency to have Carter on hand to witness the moment. He will have another chance should he, when he delivers his budget, bring back that other Carter flop from yesteryear, “zero based budgeting.”

And....

Even Obama’s feigned attempt at humor had an antecedent in the remarks of a predecessor who spun better yarns than this president. Obama informed his listeners that salmon comes under the jurisdiction of one department when swimming in fresh water and under another when swimming in salt water. He rhetorically inquired what happened to the fish when “smoked.”

Somewhere in the White House library resides a published letter Franklin Roosevelt wrote to an adviser in which he complained that some bears were the property of the Interior Department, while others belonged the National Parks System. FDR, tongue in cheek, warned of a pending custody battle over cubs that emerged from illicit unions of bears crossing departmental jurisdictions.

Like the article says, if anyone had submitted that SOTU speech as a college paper, they surely would have been booted for plagiarism...

Hint for you. Next time, read further than the first paragraph.. :D

Michale......

Comparing the United States to a shining light and referring to the American people as a family is plagiarism?

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2011/01/26/obamas-state-of-the-union-was-tantamount-to-plagiarism

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Michale.....

DADT was simply a convenient excuse to bar the Military from Campus..

It WILL be interesting to see if the Universities and Campuses will heed Obama's call...

I have to give credit where credit is due.

Obama is dead on with this...

Michale.....

" the first time any president has suggested ending the massive (and expensive) corporate welfare the government hands over to the oil companies each and every year. Republicans, being against welfare, should just get right on board this bandwagon, right?"

But then he turns right around and wants to give that money to someone else. So he takes my money from me in Taxes to give to someone else and calls it investment, then forces me to pay SIGNIFICANTLY higher Energy prices.

If he was saying "Let's cut off ALL corporate Welfare" or lets do this as part of a deficit Cutting but to make us PAY HIGHER energy costs while giving money to others.

Then lets look at what these Subsidies to Oil and gas company's are. Is the Federal Gov handing over my money collected from MY check to oil and gas Companies?

About 65% of the FEDERAL subsidies are TAX incentives for the oil Companies. So that is not taking my money and giving it to others, That is letting them keep more of their money. Most Conservatives would have NO problem with tax cuts for those involved in providing "Green Energy". Also the tax credits include "Income tax credit for purchase of clean-fuel burning vehicles"

The 29% that is "direct subsidies " is for things like CORN subsidy for Ethanol and new research for cleaning burning Oil and gas.

http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/energy/subsidies/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jul/09/keith-olbermann/olbermann-says-oil-and-gas-subsidies-account-88-pe/

http://cleantech.com/news/node/554