Sphincter Tightener

An email from the White House, signed by the First Lady. Will withhold the smart-but comments for the end. Normally would have taken a screen shot of the little presidential looking White House emblem, but frankly I am sick of looking at it .

Tonight, Barack will deliver his fifth State of the Union address.
You might think that this speech was born out of a pile of papers or a long series of meetings. But actually, the real motivations -- and the real substance -- behind tonight's speech come from those quiet moments late at night, when Barack is at his desk reading your letters.
He reads at least 10 a day, from folks all across the country. You write him to say thank you, or to weigh in on a policy issue. You tell him about your families, and what's going on in your lives. And he listens.
These letters turn into real action. I've seen it happen: He'll write in the margins "This is who we're fighting for," and then he'll pass them on to his senior staff.
Take a look at this video -- you'll see what I mean. Then make sure to let him know you'll be watching tonight.
Barack is always up late before big speeches like this one.
And all day today, I know that he'll be making changes to the speech right up until the last hour.
It's not only because he wants to get that final draft just right. It's because he cares deeply about your stories and your hopes and dreams. That's what keeps him going every single day.
We hope you'll be watching:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu
Thanks,
First Lady Michelle Obama
P.S. -- I'm honored to be watching tonight's speech with some incredible Americans from across the country. Meet them here, and make sure you tune in at 9 p.m. ET.

Let us start at the beginning.
As the fifth of eight potential SOTU speeches, we are ready for some content that does not blame another political party or claim success where it does not exist. As a citizen we should hope that the next three addresses are not required and that all citizens are happy with the obvious improvement of conditions and require no false home run trot by a lying politician to understand success as broad reaching prosperity. Not likely for a president espouses policies that are contradictory to even the most basic prosperity requirement, that being job creation.
And the "real" motivation is not coming from the input of letters from "regular" citizens, the purpose of the address is to mark progress real or imagined and lay the groundwork for planned legislation priorities. Well folks the planned priorities are already set, only the real priorities are not the ones that will be shared by the President. He hopes to expand the Democratic base so that he can set in motion a self perpetuating liberal model, he plans on expanding that base by giving people stuff, aka creating dependency. Does anybody not know that?
I do believe that the President like all politicians, or at least minions, stay up all hours to hone speeches so that they promise enough to sate citizens basic needs while obscuring long range goals of achieving political dominance and applying fiscal favoritism for the purpose of personal reward.
There is no chance I will spend one minute watching the SOTU or the Republican rebuttal, it is all crap.

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