SOTU Giddiness

I had to give it an overnight rest to let pass the euphoria that I get whenever Obama talks to me. Had to let it wear off before I could process objectively about his State of the Union address last night.

I already admitted that I knew it would happen, no matter my disappointment lately, once he did that thing he does so well when he opens up his mouth to speak. I had expected to get all giddy again, and I did.

Frankly, I suppose I can't help but be biased still, but not only was the speech delivered with his regular panache, I think it did good tagging all the stuff that should have been tagged. Despite some thinking it was too much of a mashup of affairs ("they had decided to serve up a buffet of all of it" so thinks Politico"), I would suppose that if it had not, he would have been beaten up for being too à la carte.

Really, he had no choice but to bring it all up, though. I mean, a year ago he did come to the table with an already full plate of less-than-savory leftovers to nosh on. Looking back on it, he admitted last night that he had eyes bigger than his stomach back then, but also that he had at least given it his best shot and is still committed to working at finishing it off.

Most of the blame he put off on those that have been late to serve it up in a timely manner, that stodgy and pigheaded one side of the room. But honestly, what did he expect to happen? Campaign rhetoric of sweeping change is one thing, pushing through all of what he sweared to do was obviously more than he had bargained for.

He did confess as much, humbly acknowledging his own missing of some of the marks so far, but also resolutely commited to hanging tough to his game plan to still win at the end so many points, albeit going into overtime.

I thought that overall he pulled off one fantastic speech last night. Now, if come next year and he is still eating mostly crow, I might not get so tickled with him making excuses for why. Maybe starting out year two, though, with all of that romantic idealism gone, displaced with reality of how it really goes down, he won't be so inclined to promise in short order what surely will be a more long term process.

That should go a very long way toward stifling all of the flack he's been getting, particularly from us Democrats. For whatever reason, we have been just as dunderheaded as he was at the beginning, believing he really could work so many miracles practically yesterday.

Let's give back to the Republicans the job of making common sense objectives difficult to achieve, and again get behind the president we one time believed would make things different for the better. Just like at the first, our mantra, "Yes, we can!" Only this time, paying more attention to the "we" part. Then by next year maybe at least fewer apologies might be necessary, and I can get giddy all over again.