8:13 p.m. CT: The American military is better than the American government. I don’t think you’ll find much disagreement there.

8:14: Education, manufacturing, jobs, technology, investment. Evoking the Greatest Generation. Oh, if only.

8:17: Good delivery tonight. Strong overtone of “there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be solved by what’s right with America.”

8:21: At least he gets that manufacturing is the most important sector. A bit disconcerting that he measures success by three auto companies.

8:24: Lulz at Boehner’s grudging applause during attacks on outsourcing. Smile, bud. (Although hasn’t Obama been pushing this stuff for four years?)

8:28: Inspections of unfair trade practices and high-tech worker training in conjunction with community colleges. Hell yeah.

8:30: Unemployment into re-employment with training. Damn, that’s good.

8:35: DREAM Act . . . hoo boy.

8:36: Equal pay for women? Really?

8:40: R&D, domestic oil and gas, other domestic energy. Same ‘ol. With oil.

8:43: “I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.” No, he’ll just shift oil subsidies over there. Tsk tsk.

8:46: So spend half the amount of money you would have spent on the wars on infrastructure, and the other half on debt reduction. Sounds like something I would have come up with.

8:47: “A deficit of trust.” Dude, you DID NOT steal that from Huntsman.

8:49: Lame spilled milk joke. More stealing from Huntsman?

8:52: Plenty of boos for Richard Cordray, but he probably expected that.

8:54: Kind of loving the tone of “Get stuff done or I’ll kick your ass.”

8:59: Ah, “Washington sucks” talk. I think the only people who approve of Congress are in it.

9:00: LOUD boo on insider trading by members of Congress. I bet that guy is rich.

9:03: Booing Lincoln? Assholes.

9:04: Pakistan is officially an enemy now?

9:11: That guy who keeps booing sounds an awful lot like Ron Paul. . . .

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See more of Jess’ work at The Future American

About Jess Chapman

Jess Chapman, 22, dreams of relocating from her hometown of Winnipeg, Canada, to the United States and making it her home base as the next great centrist pundette. She is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg, where she majored in communications, and currently works as a producer for a national talk show. She has written one post for her blog, The Future American, every single day since March 4, 2009.

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