Also known as "give Chairman Zero 77 free minutes of national campaign time."
Sheesh. It was worse than the one last year. Revisiting the podcast I did on that event last year:
Besides all the attempts to appease non-Leftists with centrist-sounding rhetoric (Clue, Zero, we already know your record), and telling only half the story of the purportedly "great" things that are going on in this country, and suspiciously leaving out the huge issues of Solyndra, Fast & Furious, and his stepping over the Constitution to get his appointments in, the thing that really annoyed me was the fake enthusiasm showed by Dems on the floor.
On cue, they would stand up, clap, and sit down. At one point, I wondered when Obama was going to pull out a fish bucket and we'd start hearing horns. Arf! Arf! Arf!
Kind of like what Nancy Pelosi did in 2009:
But, what do you expect from the Party of Astroturf?