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What Obama SHOULD say in his State of the Union Address
After including President Obama’s preview of his State of the Union address in yesterday’s post, I began thinking of what Obama should say in tonight’s address (aside from “I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow”).
But Paul A. Rahe over at BigGovernment.com already beat me to the punch. And in grand style, too. So rather than try to reinvent Mr. Rahe’s well-developed wheel, I’m posting a portion of his proposed speech for your enjoyment.
My fellow Americans, let me begin by stating the obvious. The state of our union is not good. We seem to be – we may be – coming out of a recession. But, if so, the recovery is not only jobless; it is accompanied by an increase in employment.This is contrary to my expectation. When I became President, my economic advisers told me that the rate of unemployment would be considerably lower now than it is. They were mistaken, and I erred in taking their advice. The fault is mine. I may not have gotten us into a severe recession, but I advanced proposals and I pursued policies which have prolonged and deepened it. I am at fault.
To be precise, I signed into law a so-called stimulus bill that has thus far retarded economic growth by greatly increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, the expense of supporting it, and the national debt. I encouraged Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation that, had it become law, would have greatly increased the cost of energy, and I encouraged Congress to pass a healthcare reform that would have increased not only the cost of medical care but the burden on employers attendant on hiring. Everything that I did in my first year in office contributed to economic uncertainty and made employers less likely to hire and investors wary of investing.
When I became President, I knew next to nothing about economics. I had never run a business, and the only political experience that I had had was in running for office. I have now had a tutorial, and the lessons have been learned at a considerable expense – not just to me but to you. The fault is mine.
I have now learned those lessons, and I am now intent on doing everything within my power to promote an economic recovery and prosperity. To that end, I invite everyone in Congress – Republicans as well as Democrats – to join with me in reversing course.
It’s satisfying to think of President Obama actually speaking the truth, isn’t it? There’s a lot more, so grab a beverage and read the whole thing. I guarantee, it’ll be far more edifying than the partisan fingerpointing and mindless calls for increased spending that we’ll hear in the presidential pep rally later tonight.
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RELATED: Conservative commentator Andrea Tantaros wrote an excellent preemptive analysis entitled, “Obama the Centrist? Don’t Be Fooled By His State of the Union Speech.” Just a taste:
If Obama’s inaugural address was any indication, expect a lofty oration that’s thin on details and heavy on the soaring rhetoric that helped propel the president into office. But don’t believe the spin that he’s moved to the middle. To win re-election, President Obama will, in true chameleon-like fashion, return to the man we met on the 2008 campaign trail, but only on the outside.
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RELATED: Ed Morrissey nails the SOTU to the wall.
Instead of previewing this particular speech, though, I decided to reflect more on the empty political spectacle of the SOTU and its transformation into a political grocery list and a media-fueled grandstand for both presidents and Congress. So bad has this trend become that the addresses now rarely describe the actual state of the Union beyond the obligatory “the state of the union is strong!” proclamation and the de rigeur salutes to our military and first responders, but instead almost entirely consist of campaign speeches and demands for more money and more federal jurisdiction and authority.
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RELATED: Neal Boortz lists the realities which hide behind Obama’s flowery speech, based upon his past two years’ mismanagement of presidential duties.
- He still dislikes the free markets and private enterprise.
- He still believes that the economy should be planned by a central government.
- He still believes that our nation is no more exceptional than, as he has said, Greece.
- He still harbors an intense resentment toward America for what he believes to be it’s role in the colonization of Africa.
- He still believes that America’s greatness comes from government, not from free people living and producing together under the protection of the Constitution.
- He still believes that the Constitution is an inconvenient document.
- He is still a man who spent his childhood years being raised in cultures where American history was not part of the learning experience, or a footnote at best.
- He still believes that the tax code should be used to seize one person’s property to give to another out of a sense of “fairness.”
- And … perhaps most importantly … Barack Obama is still a man who believes it is his mission to “Radically Transform The United States of America.“
- He is still, therefore, a radical.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
How about, "I quit. I'm running for Mayor of Chicago"?