{"id":189930,"date":"2010-01-28T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/28\/ok-i-didnt-live-blog-the-sotu\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:01:00","slug":"ok-i-didnt-live-blog-the-sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/28\/ok-i-didnt-live-blog-the-sotu\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I Didn&#8217;t Live Blog the SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though thankfully, because of my Eastern European Jewish heritage, I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/i-am-not-live-blogging-obamas-state-of.html\">have no hangover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I watched, and drank every time he cock-punched the DFH&#8217;s,<sup>*<\/sup> so most of my thoughts are probably not that valuable, or coherent.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, he did call for the repeal of the Military&#8217;s &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D<\/span>on&#8217;t <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A<\/span>sk <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D<\/span>on&#8217;t <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">T<\/span>ell&#8221; policy, and now Valerie Jarrett is saying that he is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/\/News\/Daily_News\/2010\/01\/28\/Jarrett_Obama_Will_Move_on_DADT_Right_Away\/\">committed to getting it done<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s see what happens when Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman get all pissy about it.<\/p>\n<p>See video (11:35, and the interview with Jarret starts at about 3:05, and the exchange on DADT is at about 10:45)<\/p>\n<p><embed name=\"msnbc52ba5f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" flashvars=\"launch=35116723&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" height=\"245\" width=\"420\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D<\/span>irty <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">F<\/span>%$#ing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">H<\/span>ippies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though thankfully, because of my Eastern European Jewish heritage, I have no hangover. That being said, I watched, and drank every time he cock-punched the DFH&#8217;s,* so most of my thoughts are probably not that valuable, or coherent. That being said, he did call for the repeal of the Military&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,1030,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}