State of the Union? More like State of Obama. Big on talk, light on action that means anything.
Like jobs, jobs, jobs. Jobs are talked up as number one, now that we’re at 10% plus unemployment. But where are the details? And where was the job focus in the wake of promises that unemployment wouldn’t top 8%.
Even the Washington Post characterized him as one who brings change in the opposite direction of his campaign sloganeering, saying, “One year had taken him from a self-professed unifier to a historically divisive president; from the man selected to solve the country’s problems to the person often disparaged as their cause.”*
Yet he talks, not using his oratory power to unify and bring hope to America, but to divide, by spending precious time blaming the past instead of painting pictures of real action on real change-making ideas for the future.
It’s been said already, but blaming the opposition minority party for his own failures doesn’t hack it, when he’s had a bullet-proof majority. And now that he doesn’t, the line is that the system is wrong to require a 60-vote majority, and the republicans aren’t cooperating, and George W. left him with a mess.
We don’t need his rehash. It gets us nowhere. What we need is new hash. Sadly for the country, he has none. It’s still like Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail. “All he has is a speech he made in 2002.” And all he’s added to date is more speeches and more debt.
And more unemployment. While claiming to have added/kept us from losing jobs!? Any monkey could tell that doesn’t make any sense!
*via Obama’s State of the Union address takes a harder tone – washingtonpost.com.
