2010 Soap Box Archives

State Of The Union

You've got to hand it to Obama; he is a talented public speaker of almost spellbinding proportions. You can literally get carried away by his oratory and forget what he's actually saying.

As I watched Obama's State of the Union address, I couldn't help but admire his gift of communication, his emphasis on certain words and phrases, his quick wit and public persona.

But, as usual, the devil is in the details.

Obama tried to walk the middle line for much of his speech sounding as if he was ready to try some proven, time-tested, conservative methods to jumpstart our stalled economy. He talked about tax breaks for small businesses and eliminating the capitol gains taxes for them, things that make a lot of fiscal sense, but these moves pale in comparison to his other debt increasing measures he proposed.

When you distill Obama's speech down to its essence it's nothing more than a continued move to the left, fiscal irresponsibility and massive government spending.

Obama and this Congress cannot stand to have any money lying around. To a financially responsible person, any money the banks pay back from their bail out loans should be applied to the national debt, which will soon approach fourteen trillion dollars.

The money is owed not to the government but to those who the government borrowed the money from, but Obama wants to spend it on some jobs program, and my guess is that in the end it turns out to be just as impotent as his last efforts.

How long is it going to take the citizens of this nation to realize that no matter how many jobs the federal government provides, they're temporary, they run out when the funding runs out and if the government doesn't put more of your tax money into them they just go away?
The only jobs that last are those that are created by the private sector.

He threw a bone to the left by repeating the old liberal mantra about allowing gays in the military. If you happen to notice the Joint Chiefs sat unsmiling as Obama brought this up while Nancy Pelosi nearly jumped off the podium.

Obama is good at addressing a subject without ever approaching the underlying problems.

He talked about ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but never mentioned the ramifications of what kind of powder kegs we'd leave behind in both countries, the danger of starting other wars for America to fight by prematurely pulling out.

He spoke of fighting al-Qaeda but never used the term War on Terror.

He never even mentioned the insanity of Eric Holder trying terrorists in the heart of New York City, a trial New York neither wants nor can afford.
All in all, Obama's address showed no change of direction, no new and innovative fiscal efforts, no increase in the War on Terror, nothing to make America feel that we're turning the corner or that we'll be safer from attack or that we have anything to look forward to except taxes and crushing debt.

It's was just more of the same, smoke and mirrors, slight of hand, semantics and word games all designed to disguise America's long and painful march toward socialism and loss of freedom.

And on top of that he still has the same bunch of clowns in his cabinet.

And Obama did something I've never seen a U.S. President do. He intentionally humiliated the Supreme Court justices in front of both houses of Congress and the world. It's the Court's job to interpret the Constitution, not kowtow to the tastes of the President.

Mr. Obama showed poor taste in publicly castigating the Court. It's the most no-class remark I've ever heard come out of a President's mouth during a State of the Union address.

Could it be that since Obama has control of the other two branches of government he wants to control the judicial branch too?

Don't bet against it.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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