SOTU the last, dammit

I know Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947 as a direct response to FDR’s four election victories. It’s a damned shame it did. I think Barack Obama would win a third term if he were allowed to run again, particularly against the loonies in the current Republican race.

I’d like to have him around again just for the pleasure of hearing zingers like this:

Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn’t deny Sputnik was up there. We didn’t argue about the science, or shrink our research and development budget. We built a space program almost overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.

Or this:

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. Immigrants aren’t the reason wages haven’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. It’s sure not the average family watching tonight that avoids paying taxes through offshore accounts.

Or this:

Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.

Ah well. Congress was obstructing Obama even in 1947, 62 years before he took office. It’s magic!