During Obama’s first State of the Union Address much of what we expected was discussed.  He went over the health care plan, the economic crisis, education, blah blah blah… Let’s take a look at some of the stuff that may not be mentioned in the news.

1.       Hold your applause until the end of the speech! If I wanted to watch an empty suit for 2 hours I would have stared at my closet. Take away the applause and Obama would have wrapped it up in a swift half hour.

2.       Can someone please hold the officer sitting next to Michelle’s umbrella during the Address!? Every time she stood up to clap she had the umbrella dangling like a baton. Props to her, she was one of the officers at the scene of the arrest after the deadly shootings at Fort Knox in November.

3.       Props for inviting the Haitian Ambassador.

4.       Biden and home girl next to him (Nancy Pelosi) look scary to me. You see how they were looking at each other…. Something’s brewing on Capitol Hill.

5.       Troops out of Iraq by August… for real? They zoomed in on Lieberman after it and he looked like even he was smiling sarcastically.

6.       Lot of white folks. I think I saw one chinaman in there (possibly assisting with photography), the police woman next to Michelle got well over her 15 minutes of fame*, a couple of “esses” here and there, and of course Brobama MC’ing the party.

7.       Some of the officials in the crowd sounded remedial. Yaaaayyyy is not appropriate when wearing a suit. No more incoherent grunting.

8.       Every time he said Unity, all I could think of was Rick James’ song Unity as portrayed by Dave Chappelle.  UNITTYYYYYY

9.       They need to cut down the god bless. One God Bless is sufficient. No need for the specific shout outs.  Or itll turn into something like this

10.   I kid you not; an Eli Porter looking fellow was spotted in the front row of the GOP response to the State of the Union.  I’m going to have to find the video of him shaking hands with Bob McDonnell.  I DEED IT.

11.   Bob McDonnell is like a refined baby Bush. Dude had the stutters, the religion laden speech, and of course the southern twang accent.

12.   What’s up with the “tokens” all over the GOP response? Chinatown to the left, New weave to the right. I think they over did it in their attempt to represent minorities.

UPDATE: I found a picture of the Eli Porter lookalike at the GOP Response