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Christie’s flattered that Obama imitated his State of the State theme in the State of the Union

The Governor is disappointed that the President did not address the “big things.”

By Art Gallagher

There was no classic “YouTube moment” confrontation at Governor Chris Christie’s Middletown Town Hall meeting today.  But if any of Christie’s statements today are to “go viral” or make national news, this is probably it.

Christie reminded the crowd of over 200 who came out in the snow that he broke from tradition in his State of the State address.  Rather than an address that “strokes the erogenous zones of every constituency,” the governor said quoting columnist George Will, Christie said his address was designed to deal with “big things;”  fiscal discipline, government employee pension and health care benefit reform, and education reform.

Christie said he noticed that President Barack Obama invoked a similar theme in his State of the Union address last night.   Christie said that he was flattered that the President was imitating him. 

Christie didn’t say it, but I will, maybe Vice President Biden wrote that part of Obama’s speech.

At about 2:20 in this clip, Christie says that he is disappointed that Obama did not address the federal “big things,” entitlements, in the State of the Union address.  Christie said that federal entitlements are analogous the pension and employee heath care reform on the state level, and the President “never mentioned boo about it last night”

In the remainder of the clip, Christie made his case for doing the “big things.”  He said he didn’t run for governor to be somebody, that he already was somebody. He said he came to do something.

Christie’s not running for President.  He is running for another term as governor.  He said he “guaranteed” that there will be somebody on the ballot opposite him in three years promising the easy way.  He said that his way will return New Jersey to prosperity and that the easy way would lead to economic ruin.

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Posted: January 26th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Barack Obama, Chris Christie | Tags: , , | 9 Comments »

9 Comments on “Christie’s flattered that Obama imitated his State of the State theme in the State of the Union”

  1. M. Ward said at 10:39 pm on January 26th, 2011:

    can you post the entire town hall on your youtube channel?

  2. Christine Hanlon said at 11:23 pm on January 26th, 2011:

    Glad you mentioned the “be somebody/do something” comment, Art. That was a profound and memorable statement by the Gov. The best takeaway from the town hall!

  3. ArtGallagher said at 11:31 pm on January 26th, 2011:

    @M. Ward…I won’t get to that tonight and I missed a view minutes with a full memory card. I’ll post what I have unedited on Youtube tomorrow.

    Thanks for asking

  4. Elyse Jankowski said at 12:15 am on January 27th, 2011:

    Ironically, the points you mentioned in this post & post below are exactly what I got to see today between the video stream crapping out!

    I respect Christie’s intentions of tackling big issues and not being afraid to be the “bad guy” – I just hope he keeps the greater good of NJ in mind – meaning all of us broke ass, non-lawyers who don’t have the privilege of being “somebody” …yet.

  5. ArtGallagher said at 12:22 am on January 27th, 2011:

    Elyse,

    You are somebody.

  6. Shelly Kennedy said at 2:27 am on January 27th, 2011:

    Art, I sure do wish that comments on this site had “Like” buttons next to them! Several here would get lots of thumbs-up!

  7. Russ said at 2:30 am on January 27th, 2011:

    @Shelly

    Ditto.

  8. AlyssaRILEY34 said at 8:09 am on January 27th, 2011:

    Some time ago, I needed to buy a building for my business but I did not have enough money and could not buy anything. Thank God my sister suggested to take the loan from creditors. Thus, I acted so and was satisfied with my short term loan.

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