I did watch the Sunday News shows Sunday. There was actually some pretty good stuff. There was a great discussion on To the Contrary, where one of Erbe's conservative commentators went off the wall in saying that Planned Parenthood shook down their clients and made them have abortions. How silly.

There was talk about the Tucson shooting, the upcoming state of the union address, the death of Sargent Shriver, and the 50th anniversary of the famous "ask not what you can do for your country" speech of John Kennedy, which was his inaugural address 50 years ago.

Everyone is saying that Obama is going to play for the middle in this speech. I think that is what he will do. The middle is ok on things like deficit reduction and government spending, but it isn't ok for things like unjust wars, occupations, unjust imprisonment, etc. Obama had the nerve to bring up "human rights" to the Chinese president, when we still have guantonamo bay prison open, and have been holding prisoners for many years without due process. It's like we pretend that all those things aren't really happening. So Obama strikes out for that kind of thing.

And Mrs. Obama is dealing with the devil when eliciting promises from the largest discount store chain in the US. I'm not sure this is the way to go, but she is trying to use the existing system to make changes. I can understand that, but I wonder just how much trust they deserve? We desperately need our kids to have really outstanding food. If we provide them with that, their minds will develop much better and we will have a lot better ideas and understanding of how to deal with our current problems than we do if we load up the youngsters brains with crap.

I don't think Obama will try anything daring at all in his speech tomorrow. We'll see.