Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?

Catching up from the past several days…

So everyone… including Jon Stewart… is making fun of President Obama bringing his teleprompter with him during a visit to a 6th grade class in Virginia. The implication is that he is so concerned about appearing cerebral that he had to rely on what has become his security blanket. I think it’s just further verification that he’s been speaking to all of us as if we were kids…

Of course, he’s going to be using that teleprompter extensively tomorrow during his first State of the Union address. The speech has likely been extensively rewritten since the election of Scott Brown to fill the vacant Senate seat from MASSACHUSETTES (intentional misspelling poking fun at Massachusetts Attorney General and Senate runner-up Martha Coakley). The big question now is whether the speech will mark a Bill Clinton-like transition to governing from the center or an all-out fight to continue pulling to the left, especially on the issue of healthcare reform…

Speaking of tomorrow night, what are the odds that news networks covering the speech will have extra cameras on hand, looking for the next outburst a la Joe Wilson?

I was debating liveblogging the speech, and I may still do it, but the last few days have been really long and tiring. I don’t know if I could stay awake for the whole speech. I’ll probably have a quick reaction to it, hopefully the same night.

And, hopefully, he’ll finally start talking to us as caring, thinking, voting adults.