Obama vs. iPad

I was torn.  Which was more important?  The State of the Union or The iState of the Nation?  In the end I watch the highlight reel.

John STEWART was funny but Mark STEYN nailed him.

• Talking, talking, talking. He talked for 90 minutes at the State of the Union.
• Like any gifted orator, the president knows how to vary the talk with a little light and shade. Sometimes he hectors, sometimes he whines, sometimes he demands. He hectored the Supreme Court.
• He does Nixon impressions, too: "We do not quit," he said.  Boy, you can say that again! So he did: "We don't quit. I don't quit," he said. 
• As President Obama sees it, whatever the problem – from health care to education, banking to the environment – the solution is more Washington.
• Obama blames "Washington" – a Washington mired in "partisanship" and "pettiness" and "the same tired battles" and "Washington gimmicks" that do nothing but ensure that our "problems have grown worse." Washington, Obama tells us, is "unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems."
• So let's have more Washington! In our schools, in our hospitals, in our cars, in everything!
• Which raises the question: Does even Obama listen to Obama's speeches?
• Obama and the Democrats have decided, in the current cliché, to "double down."
• What's the end game here? President Obama gave it away in his student-loan "reform" proposals: If you choose to go into "public service," any college-loan debts will be forgiven after 10 years.
• Because "public service" is more noble than the selfish, money-grubbing private sector. C'mon, everybody knows that. So we need to encourage more people to go into "public service." Why?
• Like most lifelong politicians, Barack Obama has never created, manufactured or marketed any product other than himself. So, quite reasonably, he sees government dependency as the natural order of things.

Meanwhile, Steve JOBS looks tired - poor guy, this looks to me like his last hurrah.