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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.

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