Jan. 24, 2012 - PPM - State of the (dis)-Union

This week PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is about the State of the Union Address.

"Tonight's State of the Union was full of the same empty rhetoric the American people have come to expect from this President."

That was Senator Barrack Obama in on January 28, 2008 in response to then President Bush's State of the Union address.

After listening to PRESIDENT Obama's speech, I'm struck by his empty rhetoric, especially again, with the Class Warfare.

Obama should have used PowerPoint and put up the below slide.

This is the REAL record. Not the fiction nor revisionist history that he offered.

When did the State of the Union become a campaign stump speech?

It was established and designed to provide Congress with an actual update on what was going on in the Executive Branch of the government. Some Presidents would actually just send a letter.

I bet everyone misses those days.