SOTC Speach

Tuesday night President Obama issued his SOTC speech (State Of The Campaign).  It was filled with platitudes,self-aggrandizement,exaggerations,  half-truths,and outright lies by my count,but you have to recognize that I am not exactly one of the President’s groupies.  It was performed to his smallest audience yet according to Lisa Mores of the Washington Post.  Perhaps that is because we have all heard it before and knew what to expect so many watched reruns of I Love Lucy instead.

What was most notable in this speech was the almost total exclusion of any reference to Obamacare or his cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline.  Why would he fail to even mention what he touted as his singular greatest success of the first two years of his presidency? Could it be that he has figured out that when two thirds of the people in the country want it repealed it might just not be a really popular idea?  What about the pipeline which would create tens of thousands of jobs,add to US security by making us less dependent on oil from regions that hate our guts,create tax revenues,enhance trade with our closest neighbor,and would be totally privately funded and not cost the taxpayers a dime.  Instead he wants to spend taxpayer monies and borrow more from China to promote “green jobs”like Solyndra and he did state that in his speech.

Instead he concentrated on the word “fair”.  If you counted the number of times he said that word or a variant of it you would have been busy for most of the 75 or so mind-numbing minutes of the thing,and you probably would have surely lost count somewhere in the middle.  Obama positioned Warren Buffet’s secretary,a woman that reportedly earns some $200K per year,  by his wife Michelle so that he could point out that she pays a higher percentage of income tax than her boss which is,yep you guessed it “not fair”.  That was so he could call for a new tax,“The Buffet Rule”that would say that you must always pay more percentage of your income in taxes than your secretary,or something like that or else you obviously are not paying your “fair share”.

In all “fairness”he did one thing worthwhile.  He thanked and congratulated our US military for their service.  He then went on to claim personal responsibility for the elimination of Osama bin Laden and drone attacks that have eliminated other terrorist leadership. Of course he conveniently forgot that the groundwork for the intelligence that led to those successes and the special equipment used was all laid by his predecessor.  Much of that groundwork was the same things that he personally criticized when running for president,but what do you expect from our Community Organizer In Chief?  Then he added further insult to the military by promising to cut military budgets to fund more of his social welfare spending programs,a proposal designed specifically to buy votes for himself and his cronies.

He then proceeded to sink into an exercise that will be the center of his great campaign strategy.  That of dividing the American people by describing the US as a class-oriented society of the “haves”and the “have nots”. Pure unadulterated class warfare!   It is an attempt to speak to the “have nots”about the evil “haves”that have at least $1 more than them and don’t want to give it over for redistribution to pay their “fair share”.

This was pointed out in Mitch Daniel’s Republican response to the speech,“No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us,to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others”   It is sad that the United States of America should have a president that attempts to limit the opportunity to excel in this country by describing our way of life in such blatantly Marxist class society terms.

America is better than that and historically there has been nowhere in the world where there was more upward mobility available for people to improve their lot in life.  Newt Gingrich explained the alternate way  well when he commented recently about jobs.  Newt said he wanted everyone to,“have a job,get a better job,and someday own the job”.  That is the American way to help people to get a job,help them to improve themselves so they can move up in their job and give them the opportunity to someday be able to own a business to give jobs to others. That is the reason people have emigrated to this country for the last 200+ years.

He did receive applause from the Republican side when he quoted Lincoln with the line “. . . government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves –and no more.”  He then followed that with a huge defense of the regulatory nightmare that is Washington DC under the guise that it increased “fairness”. Along with that he promised more of the same to,yep you guessed it,make everything even more “fair”.  Guess he just doesn’t understand Lincoln and didn’t take seriously that “no more”part. Heaven help us all.

At the conclusion of this exercise in trivia Obama took off on a three day,five state campaign tour of the US where he will take his show on the road to America,at the taxpayers’expense of course,but then what else is new?