Obama’s Empty Talk Hides the True State of the Union
Officially, it was the State of the Union address – the annual report, constitutionally mandated, from the president to Congress.
Back in the day, it wasn’t a big thing. Many such reports were simply letters from the president. Over time, however, they have grown in prestige and pomp. And they have also become less of “giv[ing] to the Congress information of the state of the union” and more of “recommend[ing] to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
In other words, it becomes a pageant for the president’s further agenda. And that’s exactly what we saw the other night.
Despite virtually everyone’s concern about the state of the economy, spiraling debt, and job creation, Barack Obama’s speech the other night was focused far too much on lofty goals than the nitty-gritty we need to refloat our ailing ship of state.
While rhetoric is expected at such addresses, Obama has probably the most dangerous rhetoric of all: empty.
His repetitive talk of “achievement” and “innovation,” without a willingness to promote the initiatives that led to America’s success in these areas in the past, means that — as usual – he is all talk.
Not once in his speech, for instance, did he really concede that his health care plan is dragging down the economy. Not once did he mention the necessity for us to keep up oil drilling initiatives as the world looks for greener energy sources. And again he sought to mislead Americans by dishonestly speaking of his “tax cuts” which were little more than keeping the tax rate under George W.Bush.
Empty talk. The new, new strategy. Don’t you wonder whether they will every have a strategy that has a chance to improve the economy or help Amercans?
They want the Republicans to make a proposal about SS and medicare financial reform. When they do, the demagoguery will make Tucson look like a new born kitty pawing at its mother teat.
Whatever they say, you can be assured that there is an ulterior motive.
95% of what they do is deception and traps. The other 5% of their time is dedicated to undermining the country directly.
This isn’t normal politics, people.
This is war, and armageddon is in 2012. Which side are you on?
This is indeed War, as it has been for the past 2 years. Not only was his “speech” empty, but it stated the aims of conservatives all across the country. It sounded like what Bush wishes he could have said. But the empty part is that it was all a big fat LIE, and he didn’t mean any part of it. He wants to reinvent himself to the voters, but he can’t even do that convincingly, since he hasn’t lived any of it.
His Party members are switching party in record numbers, because they are becoming convinced that the “Democrat Party” has dumped them and become something else entirely. And that is true. It has become a combination of Green Party, Socialist Party, and Communist Party, using the good of our concern for the environment to usher in the controls in the law for implementing the other two. Just as Islam teaches, Obama justifies telling lies about what he is doing because it furthers that cause, the destroying our economic base, our patriotism, our military, our religious heritage, and our family unit. Just as with pre-Nazi Germany, a weakened nation is susceptible to any solution. Once you can see that, it all starts to make sense, and real Americans WANT NONE OF IT!
This is indeed war. You have called it for true. The empty-headed trolls who spin and sneer at this or who point quavering fingers of outrage and indignation are either willfully ignorant or evil – or both. One need only consider the destructive meme set in motion by Antonio Gramsci at thebeginning of the last century. Demoralization, destabilization, and finally ‘normalization’ – a euphemism for the gulag and the mass grave. Most of these lefty cheerleaders really have no idea what it is exactlt that they’re cheering for.
I suspect that they’er about to find out.
The entire speech marked him as an ntellectual lightweight and an empty suit of a president. But more than anything else, the president’s wave-of-the-hand dismissal of the country’s looming insolvency demonstrates that no one who ever actually thought he was a serious- or sober-minded man can cogently think so now.
This is a man whose heart is no longer in the job. He is just marking time now.
This is a decidedly un-serious president.
Probably because he knows he will have to show proof of citizenship in 2012 and he really cant. Since AZ, TX, GA and 7 other states with Republican governments are passing legislation that would demand proof of eligibility to be put on the ballot.
I’m not a birther, but NO ONE spends almost 2 million dollars on keeping his personal records hidden, if he has nothing to hide.
The focus of the SOTU speech should have been on what Barry has done to help the country, not what he will do in the coming year. But since he hasn’t done much to help the country he didn’t really have any talking points so he tried another of his “I am the master of all things and it’s all good” speeches which, of course, his drones lapped up.
We are privileged to have Donald Sensing comment on this site. A visit to Mr. Sensing’s site will provide much needed perspective to Obama’s SOTU speech.
So, the frontman seems somewhat disillusioned with his beliefs, his ‘people’ and himself. He’d better buck up. He doesn’t want to give his handlers the notion that they would be better off without him. Where would he go?
One of the main reasons he’s in the White House is that the boys who run Chicago didn’t want him there.
Whenever we hear Slamma Jamma Bama start sentences with “We will….” (fill in blank with lofty goal), it’s a clear cue that nice-sounding empty promises will follow. He and his Ship of Fools and Scoundrels believe in constant campaigning, pep rallies even at what should be somber memorial services, and simple phrases for the duping of the easily manipulated and/or the leeches. Conservatives need to better learn the underhanded tactics of the liberals, such as catchy jingles. Here’s one to start it “Liberals: no facts–personal attacks.” Before the 2008 disaster, I knew that Owe-Bama would be elected when more than 50% of America is stupid. I knew we were close, but we are actually there. Hire a rainmaker and pray for rain on election day.
Obama embraces the ghost of Ronald Reagan and the lapdog press swoons about his move to the center. Fool me once etc.!
Its obvious what his strategy is. Pretend there is no fiscal crisis, invoke lofty goals, ignore the real perils both foreign and domestic. Then when the confrontation occurs with tea party controlled House this Spring, castigate them as the dour pessimists that would deny America’s essential greatness. Talk about chutzpah from a putz!
Unfortunately the inconvenient deficit projection for fiscal 2011 came out the next day…1.5 trillion! And Obamacare waivers now top 700! He just looks clueless and manipulative at the same time! WTF!
The American People will never know what Obama really thinks or feels, because he cannot speak without a tele-prompter. He simply reads bed time stories for his disciples.
“Want innovation? Remove tax burdens and regulations from the throats of businesses to increase profits, create jobs, stimulate growth, and encourage entrepreneurship.”
Hear, hear!
Instead Obama wants to “invest” more in education, to make us more competitive? I think it’s more about paying off the incompetent teachers’ unions that contributed to his election campaign and still support his socialist agenda.
Old school Camelot era meaning of investment:spend money on new science and technology by going to the moon.
New school, “yes we can” investment era meaning: spend more money on free condom and needle exchange programs for pre-teen sex education classes and midnight basketball.
Old school New Frontier ethical ideal: We will pay any cost and make any sacrifice in the defense of freedom. The ethical New Frontier reality:you won’t have to make any sacrifice or pay any cost, if you’re a female or a male with a college draft deferment or other occupational exemption from military service–unless when male and disqualified by showing up in drag for an induction physical as a last resort.
New school Harvard post industrial ethical ideal for the defense of freedom: Tobacco use is grounds for firing and demotions, or the refusal to hire; quotas are illegal, but given the new popular demand to serve in the well paid armed forces, so many token females and homosexuals are required for staffing the new age military: however, only “straight” males are required to “die” in defense of freedom in the line of duty: the new volunteer armed forces are still exempt from equal dying for equal pay between the genders. Feminists of the female sex are still exempt from mandatory draft registration, formerly known as universal Selective Service. The military draft does not count as “affirmative action.” So the bond holder and Paris Hilton still don’t have to experience the post induction mandatory military haircut. Only poor black males can get away with saying “bitch.”
Can a conservative media site PLEASE publish the names of the people who got the health care waivers. It would show America who is in the good books and being paid for their contributions to Obama.
Captaingrumpy #11 – If you go to this website (you may have to copy and paste) there is a whole list of Companies who applied and received waivers – it seems the list keeps getting longer. What a suprise for ‘such a great’ bill ??? It is Little suprise that there are a lot of UNIONS, who received waivers… hmmmmm..
http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html
“HOPE AND CHANGE’? How’s that mantra workin’ out for ya?
I honestly could not stand to listen to this mans empty empty empty Words.
Lies to Americans, placating to his constituents, basically a new hopy changy speech. More spending spending spending. If people fell for these words, they need their heads examined. I am done with Obama. I don’t care ‘how wonderful’ his Tuscon AZ speech was. 2012 cannot get here fast enough.
I read somewhere once that those who live and work in Washington DC, this place is a world of its own. Elitists, Academia, Governing, Bills, Policies, earmarks, constituents, Lobbies, Unions, Bureaucrats, on and on and on… No ‘real’ world views beyond DC…
Do these people ‘really’ ‘know’ what goes on beyond the borders of DC??
This administration has ruined the lives (as they knew it) of so very many hard working people. The ‘dreams’ of so many hard working people – Businesses, Family Businesses, Start up businesses. Everyday hard working people who got up each morning, and even on the mornings they didn’t ‘really want to’ got up and went to work each day. Did their best, worked hard, paid their bills, paid their mortgages, lived within their means. POOF! GONE!
I hope Pelosi, Reid, Barney, Obama and his Czar regulators and all the Democrat Congress and Senate, Socialist utopia clan, are all HAPPY with their handiwork. So, in trying to be so self-righteous to those who demand an unsustainable everything is free Utopia, the redistribution of wealth – have now made 15,000,000 PLUS people a lot less wealthy so, far as ‘wealth’ goes. (even those who are in the middle class).
Obamas ‘message’ is a fantasy in his own head and those of his writers.