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Is this our moment? -- do you agree with him? is this our moment? >> was another wtf moment. the sputnik moment he would inspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. i listened to that sputnik moment talk over and never again. we need a -- you are one of those reporters who get...

52% very positive reaction to the speech last night, so it reminds me of one of those clinton speeches when all the experts said too much detail. the public loved it. your thoughts? >> i heard some of the commentators say too little detail, and i think they missed what was going on as we often do. people out there in the country heard a very powerful narrative, rooted in american history, saying we could be first to the future and doing it specifically in terms of innovation, education, a whole ...

Didnt just surpass the soviets, we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. this is our generations sputnik moment. >> sean: this is a man who last year single handedly took an ax to nasas budget. at the time neil armstrong warned the presidents plan would cause this nation to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. the space race was the result of the cold war not indiscriminate government spending. the presidents shout outs to communist regime did...

Communist china. this is a guy who didnt believe in american exceptionalism, when asked about it. >> the sputnik thing grabbed me, what was he trying to say? remember, the concern about sputnik was the soviet union had launched something into space. the idea was they might be able to, by controlling the high ground of space, gain an advantage in the cold war that would put us at a huge disadvantage militarily. is this our sputnik moment? our response to the aggressiveness of soviet communism mak...

Or call 1-866-51-reclast. year-long protection for on-the-go women. oh, yes, im hoping its time. >> it is indeed. time for news you cant use. sarah palin on fox news giving her official response to president obamas state of the union address. now if you work through this a little bit, the theme of the speech was win the future. >> yes. >> wtf, the fun and common abbreviation used by the kids or whether theyre texting or using the facebook or what have you. >> what are you talking about. >> wtf...

Talking about clean technology as the sputnik moment of this generation. >> bret: are democrats, chris, do you get a sense their reaction to the "state of the union" address has been overly positive? are they backing this administration saying hey, great job? >> well, look. obviously, they are backing the president. but, there is a difference between backing the president and believing that anything that he said is likely to be put in to effect. frankly, there is a wide admission that what took ...

Criticism. next she tried to go after the presidents sputnik moment. >> that was oanother one of thoe wtf moments. his sputnik moment. he would aspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the rm toer communist ussr and their victory in that race to space. yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> all right, well, theres a couple problems with that. sputnik was launched i...

>> balloon head. >> what was she doing looking at the wrong camera? >> i call her a balloon head for a reason. >> who looks at the wrong camera? who looks at the wrong camera. >> good evening from new york. im lawrence odonnell. today president obama reiterated his state of the union call for a new sputnik moment in america, by visiting wisconsin where a piece of the soviet satellite sputnik crashed nearly 50 years ago. the visit to the 2012 battleground state included quick tours of renewable e...

>> weve got to lead the world in innovation. i spent a lot of time talking about this last night much thats how were going to create the jobs of the future and thats how were going to build the industries of the future because we make smarter products using better technology than anybody else. thats how well win the future. >> president obama won wisconsin in 2008 but since then, the republicans have won a senate seat there and governors mansion and both houses of the state legislature and they ...

On fox. win the future, oh, you can abbreviate it to what, governor? >> his theme last night in the state of the union was the wtf, you know, winning the future. and i thought, okay, that acronym spot on. there are a lot of wtf moments throughout the speech. >> governor, last night there was discussion about the sputnik moment that the president calked about. -- talked about. do you agree? is this our moment? >> that was another one of those wtf moments, that when he so often repeated the sputni...