Well, that was a dismal performance last night. Watching the talking heads on PBS try to spin the State of the Union speech being a great performance was to view an exercise in futility, as even Mark Shields admitted the speech wasn’t one that would be remembered in history. I didn’t catch the entire thing but what I saw was a vintage Obama campaign speech. That means it was devoid of substance, filled with lies, and highly partisan.
The AP put out a fact check that took the President to task on multiple statements and promises he made during the speech last night. All are valid points and I’d like to add the one that managed to really anger me: the claim to have supported the protesters in Iran. Those of us who have followed the protests there have been frustrated with Obama’s refusal to support them and weak criticisms of the ruling dictatorship he wants to negotiate with so badly.
Despite the voters in Massachusetts rejecting Obamacare in shocking fashion earlier this month, the President showed himself to be no Bill Clinton. There was no attempt to triangulate, or at least no intelligent one, by moving away from health care “reform.” Instead, Obama showed himself to be utterly committed to passing that corrupt bill no matter the cost. Nobody is buying that it will lower costs, Champ.
Of course, he whined constantly about inheriting all the problems and this shows the Democrats inability to do anything other than “blame Bush.” That isn’t going to work anymore and will be completely without effect by the elections in November.
Another thing jumped out at me was when he announced the spending freeze and that it wouldn’t hurt people today because it would be implemented next year when the economy was better. No applause when he made his typical “stop for the adulation pause” and scattered laughter followed. Mr. Cool lost his cool and glared at Congress and ended up evoking more laughter.
Empty promises are the medium politician work with, but this one was such a whopper that even a chamber full of pols couldn’t believe it. Obama believes everyone is so stupid that they’ll buy into the ridiculous concept of making an emergency cut in funding after it is no longer needed! That way it won’t hurt!
Oh, please.
More people are waking up to the fact that President Obama is a con man who doesn’t really care about the people of this country. If he keeps throwing out farcical pronouncements like the spending freeze, his only supporters will be the diehards in the Democratic Party. It is already getting dangerously close to that as recent special elections have shown. By the time November rolls around, the Democrats in Congress will be in dire shape.
But we are stuck with this fraud in the White House for another three years and he will do a great deal of damage through the bureaucracy. Barack Obama is simply the wrong man at the worst possible time to helm America.
ADDENDUM
I forgot to mention the direct attack on the Supreme Court that was made to their faces. That was not a Presidential action and showed just what a demagogue Obama really is. Trying to cajole Congress into writing what would be another unconstitutional law to override the SCOTUS decision freedom of speech shows what disdain the so-called Constitutional scholar has for the Bill of Rights. It also made clear how little value he has for the separation of powers across the three branches of government.
Barack is not a class act.
