Obama is very good at making people feel engaged, even though they're really not. This smacks of the farce that was the public meetings on healthcare shortly after the teleprompter-in-chief took office.

name: William Bittner
city: Baltimore, MD
question: Are you going to comply with the Georgia judge and the subpoena to appear for the "Birther Case" or show that you are above the law and refuse to appear.

@oldnantroy- Thank you, sir! May I have another?!?!

From Steve Bourg, Ellicott City MD, twitter name: mrbogey: Question, is
Obama: You said 'everyone should play by the same rules', then great, why not have everyone pay the same income tax rate -- 15%, 18%, whatever ?? No one pays zero and everyone has skin in the game. And don't answer that soc sec taxes are included, because that is a specific system with a specific bft formula, that because of the 90%, 32%, 15% factors for calculating the final ss bft, benefits lower-paids BETTER than higher-paids. So don't answer with any reference to SS. That's already an income redistribution system from higher-to-lower paids. And while I'm asking, why don't you release your Occidental and Columbia transcripts and all papers (grad thesis, applications) ??? -Steve Bourg, Ellicott City, MD -- twitter handle: mrbogey

When the teleprompter was talking about companies who ship jobs overseas, do you think he meant Apple (which made $40 billion last quarter and has $96 billion in cash)?

1st~ As an independent for 52 yrs I vote for who makes sense and relates to challenges of average citizens, the country & follows Constitution guidelines to operate our democracy.

2nd~ With exception of a few items, it seemed like the president's state of union articulated same themes as GOP candidates. I thought something odd about this ~ including his disclosure of his demonstrated inability to get the members of his own party to support his initiatives when they controlled congress and now to support him. One can be smart, but if your colleagues shun you, they render you ineffective.

3rd~ In regards to GOP candidates, I thinking purely of getting the job done ~ if we were possible to wrap all 3 into 1~ good chance to pull the country out of it’s slump in short order. ~Romney could develop plans to clear waste, create efficiencies and creative initiatives to generate business and revenues and thus jobs ~Newt could work the inside to get them implemented & ~Paul the watchdog to assure they did not stray outside the boundaries of the intent of the constitution.

Hopefully, as the GOP begins to narrow to 1 candidate, it will combine the themes of all 3 and articulate a 4 yr plan forward for US. I believe both parties will grab on to a 4 yr plan (parties already have similar themes as articulated by Obama’s). In the end they all have a chance to be winners and create a better environment for constituents.

I watched with interest last night as Mr. Obama tried desperately to get his constituency excited about all that he might do if just given four more years to extend and expand the supposedly marvelous accomplishments of the past three years. Let's start with the central theme of "fairness". Just once, would some one define for me what would be the "fair" tax rate? Currently, the segment of the population receiving the most benefit from the federal government is paying no income taxes at all. I think that those of us that are paying at least some percentage of our income in taxes should DEMAND that these sloths pay the same rate that we are paying. I'm perfectly willing to accept a lesser percentage from someone whose income is orders of magnitude greater than mine, but paying nothing, well, it's just not fair!