The upcoming Comedy Central series “Key & Peele” got some viral video love earlier this month with a sketch reminding us just how cool, tough and awesome President Obama is.

Just ignore those pesky economic statistics, the flotilla of broken campaign promises and the roiling state of the world. Last night, the show’s co-hosts took to Twitter to ramp up their Obama defense during the State of the Union speech.

Caution: the language is pretty salty, although, to be fair, some of the Tweets are funny. Here’s just a short sample of what the pair fired off last night during Obama’s speech:

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So, everyone had a State of the Union drinking game. Mine? Once Obama started talking, I drank.

See, to me, the speech came and went like one of those “serious” high school assemblies: you know, when a teacher finds out about a student defacing a locker with unicorn stickers, she decides we all need to sit in a humid gym for an hour and be told “it’s okay to be different.”

But in case you missed the speech, here’s my summary:

“We face challenges, IT’S NOT MY FAULT – but that’s what makes us great.”

Try that on a losing football team.

The point is, even though he never mentioned GWB, he more than alluded to the poor guy, constantly reminding us how Obie inherited this mess. Sorry dude, it’s been a year – it’s your mess now, and you’re making it messier. (more…)

While we get bombarded with the white noise of politics, this is what’s happening:

In short, China is a top-tier strategic threat to the United States, and its ideology of predatory state mercantilism constitutes one of the greatest challenges to America’s new Global Generation – like the danger posed by the Soviet Union to the Greatest Generation.

Wake up. Do not let our leadership sweep this under the rug:

But the Obama administration seems terrified of the implications of Google’s behavior. Google reportedly consulted the White House before acting, but the most the Obama people could say was that the events were “troubling,” or “raise serious concerns” or that they want to encourage China “to work with Google.

The administration’s timidity in facing the reality of China’s new superpower status was highlighted in October when the Obama White House directed the Intelligence Community to downgrade China to a Priority 2 intelligence target. This would be the first time in postwar history that China has ever been anything but a top-tier intelligence priority. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Bill Gertz of The Washington Times last week, “China should be at the top of the priority list, not moving down.”

This past November I was in Michigan filming when I had dinner with my friends’ Congressman Thaddeus McCotter from Michigan and Philippe Martinez (Producer and Director). I think McCotter is one of the special jewels in our government and I hope that  at some point he runs for national office, perhaps for the White House. He is not what one would call Project Runway material, but his humor and intellect are stunning, and he can stroll the catwalk with the best of them. Anyway back to the dinner… (more…)

Like I always do, no matter who’s in office, I tuned to the President’s State of the Union address last night. I love the event and look forward to it. The SOTU is one of the President’s most important speeches, and I listen carefully to what he says because his words aren’t chosen lightly. The speech is written, re-written, scrutinized and re-written again until it has the right effect — and when President Obama told the story of Florida businessman Leonard Abess who retired after making millions and then proceeded to hand out most of a $60 million bonus to co-workers, even those long since retired — I knew this was unlike any SOTU that had come before and that President Obama and his team are likely to be looking for work in 4 years. (more…)

The President is a great orator.  That doesn’t make him a great leader.  I know, I know – give him a chance.  But if you were able to glimpse into the future and could glean important information, vital information that a nation’s leader was actually unknowingly leading his people over a cliff; wouldn’t you…want to tell someone about it?

I am no genius.  I’m a pretty average, normal guy…but a guy who has been paying attention.  I remember the past, as it helps me extrapolate into the future and make better decisions for myself and my family.  Avoid the pitfalls.  Swerve around the danger.  I don’t doubt President Obama is a smart man, loves his family and truly wants what he considers to be the best for America.

But obviously, he hasn’t been paying attention. (more…)

Four to seven years ago, our fathers scored and brought forth on this continent, some new homes, conceived in stucco, and dedicated to the proposition that all men can get second mortgages.

Now we are engaged in a great economic crisis, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated to overspending -putting in built-in pools – blowing a wad in Vegas- buying way too much crap on eBay, then stepping up to a “C” class –  can long endure. (more…)