Statist of the Union - are you better off than 3 trillion dollars ago?
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President Obama made his State of the Union speech/lecture last week. He opened with the obligatory, “I am happy to report that the state of our union is strong,” which any good entertainer will tell you, it is smart to first loosen the crowd up with a good joke.
A friend told me that he should have gone to the podium and said that he had an announcement to make: “There is a truck with Massachutes tags parked outside the Senate, please move it, it is blocking my agenda.”
The speech was classic teleprompter Obama; arrogant, patronizing and undaunted by the reality of what most American’s really want.
It felt to me like those times the assistant principal in high school called the class together because of troubling event in the parking lot, to lecture them by casting dispersions and implying he knows who did it. His speech was full of scold and scorn. It was like reading a book on government with no examples or context.
Obama has given 419 speeches in his first year in office and it feels like he wants to set some record or something and that he feels he is making history by just speaking on a subject. Sadly, he never seems to do anything about them.
The media loved the speech of course as they all shared a Chris Mathews moment when, yet again, a chill ran up their collective legs during an Obama speech. They will not take time from cooing and braiding the Obama admininistration’s hair to point out that is rhetoric seldom matched his actions.
It is always fun to watch “Plugs” Joe Biden and Nancy, the Picasso face, Pelosi cheer Obama on during his speech. I guess the “change” Obama spoke of must have been referring to Nancy Pelosi’s face and Joe Biden’s hair.
Biden is always shaking his head with agreement when his boss speaks. He reminds me of the assistant sales manager at a used car dealership stand beside the owner as he tries to fire up the sales force. Nancy Pelosi, and most women in Congress, dress like lady real estate agents at an open house.
The thing that Tiger Woods and Nancy Pelosi have in common is that both of them will probably lose a house next year. So all of sudden, after the message sent, but never publically acknowledged, the Democrats want to talk about jobs. They are concerned, all of a sudden, about job lost in America—mostly theirs’.
They just seem like the reality of actually governing is really much harder than they thought when they were giving those soaring and second guessing campaign speeches. The Democrats seem belittled, kind of like a stripper who now has to wear a change purse with quarter in it on stage. Yea, they are still on stage, but that is not a good sign when interest in what you got cooking wanes.
