State of the Union Address

Yup, just another campaign speech.  Does Obama know how to do anything different?  It’s been over a year since he took office and he’s still in campaign mode, still blaming Bush for all his problems, and still as naive as the day he placed his hand on the Bible and got sworn in as our president.  Not only that, but he’s petty, thin skinned.  He takes everything too personally and has absolutely no class.  To dress down the supreme court like he did in front of the entire nation, nay, the world, shows a total lack of class.  There they sat with no way to respond to his vicious attack on them.

He is one year in and still can explain no concrete plans on how he plans to implement his highfalutin ideas for our country.  Of course all his plans require billions, with a B, of dollars to implement.  This at a time when we are trillions, with a T, in debt.  Does he not see this?  If any other person in the U.S. decided to keep spending once they ran out of money, they’d be in jail.  But not our government (Democrats and Republicans).  They just print more money and spend it.  Or they deficit spend.  Lucky, lucky us.  The CBO recently calculated that thanks to our national debt, every man, woman, and child owes $40,000. 

For once I’d like to see a State of the Union Address where the president gets up and admits that his/her plan is not working.  We did sort of get a little taste of that when he talked about healthcare reform.  Thanks to Scott Brown we no longer have the imminent risk of having a socialist healthcare bill rammed down our throat—a bill that 63% of the Americans didn’t want.  They were all ready to ditch one failing government entitlement program for another bigger, more expensive government entitlement program.  We were unbelievably close to basically scrapping the best medical care system on the planet.  What person in their right mind would want to do that?  On top of that, Obama likes to state that he knows nobody who likes, truly likes their medical insurance.  Well here I am Mr. President.  I love my health insurance and wouldn't trade it for anything.  My insurance rocks!

There were a couple of other parts of the speech that bothered me, but I won’t go into them here.  They are touchy subjects in the best of times.  They are things that should be left alone.  But again, naiveté won out and the Obama goes and starts mucking with things he knows nothing about.  It’s easy to fundamentally change things when you know you won’t be affected by the change you’re forcing on others.  Think about it.