Another “F” For Obama

All along, I thought that the grade that President Obama gave himself was pretty generous.
First the WMD commission, and now these folks agree with me.

As expected, Barack Obama’s 70 minute State of the Union address focused heavily on the economy and the domestic political agenda. This was hardly surprising in the aftermath of last week’s catastrophic defeat for his party in the Massachusetts special Senate election, where the Republicans scored an historic victory. American voters are turning strongly against the president’s health care reform package as well as his big government vision for the economy, which has contributed to spiraling public debt and mounting unemployment, now standing at over 10 percent.

But the scant attention paid in the State of the Union speech to US leadership was pitiful and frankly rather pathetic. The war in Afghanistan, which will soon involve a hundred thousand American troops, merited barely a paragraph. There was no mention of victory over the enemy, just a reiteration of the president’s pledge to begin a withdrawal in July 2011. Needless to say there was nothing in the speech about the importance of international alliances, and no recognition whatsoever of the sacrifices made by Great Britain and other NATO allies alongside the United States on the battlefields of Afghanistan. For Barack Obama the Special Relationship means nothing, and tonight’s address further confirmed this.

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Obama’s Answer For America Is: More Obama

President Obama must be a firm believer in the old saying “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”
I guess he never heard the one about what defines doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

There’s a story of an ex hausted tenor at La Scala who, facing repeated cries of “Encore,” responded that he couldn’t go on. A man rose in the audience to say, “You’ll keep singing until you get it right.”

That seems to be the defining principle of the Obama administration — whose response to every problem, every setback, every hiccup and challenge has been, simply, “more Obama.”

Indeed, for people who aren’t sticklers for political jargon, it will be a shock that last night was Obama’s first State of the Union Address, since it was his third formal address to a joint session of Congress. Yet for all of the political déjà vu, what was most surprising last night was the degree to which Obama delivered even more of the same.

Washington graybeards and pundits have been insisting that Obama needs to “start over,” “reboot” and “tack to the middle” after Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. But Obama’s response last night was to recommit himself to the agenda that has gotten him in so much trouble.

In fairness, the president took a French-bath of Clintonism before he took to his beloved TelePrompTer. He doused himself with the scent of the deficit-fighter and trade-promoter. He unveiled a slew of small, easy, applause-gathering proposals and populist appeals that he knows will go nowhere.

He also indulged in a lot of feel-your-pain pathos, trying to connect with the real Americans suffering from the recession and the misdeeds of a “Washington” that Obama seems to think is run by someone other than him.

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From “Yes We Can” To “OK, I Get It”

President Obama’s first State Of The Union address will try and re-assure the American people that he “feels their pain” and that he is actually going to do something about it.
Good luck with that one Mr. President.

Seizing a chance to reconnect, President Barack Obama will use his first State of the Union address to try to persuade the people of a frustrated nation that he’s on their side, with a familiar sounding agenda recast to relate better to everyday struggles.

In a time of deep economic insecurity, Obama will use this stage on Wednesday to offer hope after a grueling, grinding first year of his presidency, aides say. For the many who think the United States is still on the wrong track, Obama will attempt to present a clearer sense of how everything he’s pursuing fits together to help.

And for jittery Democrats facing re-election this fall, Obama will seek to give them an agenda they can sell to voters.

Obama will propose ways to help the middle class. But any new ideas probably will play a supporting role to the plainspoken narrative he wants to tell, that his agenda works for people despite their growing doubts.

“Obviously you want to write a speech in a way that is interesting enough that people want to listen, and that leaves them feeling a sense of momentum and progress,” senior Obama adviser David Axelrod told The Associated Press. “But these are serious times. I don’t think this is a time for rhetorical flights of fancy.”

What to expect in the speech, which comes during a rocky period for Obama?

Heavy does of health care, despite the setbacks of the past week, and job creation. Obama will address the budget deficit, his bid to take on the financial industry, energy, education and immigration. All those issues, he says, fit into his plan to rebuild the economy.

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Show Your Support For Congressman Joe Wilson

Our friend Beverly has asked that we pass along the following info.

We are glad to help out someone with the courage to stand up to the President.

Below is a sample letter to send to Congressman Wilson, along with his e-mail address and a link to  site where you can send him a donation:

If you haven’t already, please send a support email to Rep. Joe Wilson R-SC. He is the congressman who showed bravado and integrity on September 9th while Obama was doing his healthcare speech and Joe yelled out, “YOU LIE!” The Democrats and the left have honed in on him and are trying to cause him all kinds of problems now.

Though Joe has raised over $1 MILLION dollars since this now famous outburst for his next campaign. His competitor, Democrat Rob Miller, has raised $750,000! And I will say it again this is money from people, companies, probably some Liberal celebrities that have acquired money from you and I, the conservative. We must be informed on who Liberal and Democrat companies are and support your fellow conservatives and their companies. I have a site here on Myspace called ActBar, where I have the Conservative Business Directory set up and about 10 or so companies have already given me their business information but imagine if we really got it rolling and could support our fellow conservatives and keep the money in conservative hands! We could easily support Joe because the money would stay in the conservative interest when something like this happens!

Here is a sample letter to right click and copy and send or please write your own. I am just trying to make it as easy as possible so that it gets done! Thank you everyone for your action!

Click Here to send Joe Wilson an e-mail

To donate:

https://secure.piryx.com/donate/WzJc4e8g/joewilson/donate

Sample letter:

Todays Date

Dear Representative Joe Wilson R-SC,

I would like to take this time to thank you very much for showing extreme integrity at Obama’s health care reform speech on September 9, 2009. The conservative and patriot people of this country have been waiting for someone to show this kind of emotion, strength and integrity in Congress and you kicked it off! Please know that thousands and thousands of patriots and conservatives are supporting you and will stand behind you if you continue this kind of bravado and ethical serving! Great job and by the way in my opinion you didn’t have to apologize to Obama but I understand, it showed you to be the “better” man!

Sincerely yours,

Sarah Palin’s Response To The President’s Health Care Speech

(Liberals by and large breathed a sigh of relief when Sarah Palin stepped down from her position as Governor.
They had the mistaken notion that her voice would be silenced.
Palin, however, stated at the time that she could be a much more effective voice for conservatism by working outside of the system.
And as her response to the President’s pep rally last night proves, she is a voice to be reckoned with.)

After all the rhetoric is put aside, one principle ran through President Obama’s speech tonight: that increased government involvement in health care can solve its problems.

Many Americans fundamentally disagree with this idea. We know from long experience that the creation of a massive new bureaucracy will not provide us with “more stability and security,” but just the opposite. It’s hard to believe the President when he says that this time he and his team of bureaucrats have finally figured out how to do things right if only we’ll take them at their word.

Our objections to the Democrats’ health care proposals are not mere “bickering” or “games.” They are not an attempt to “score short term political points.” And it’s hard to listen to the President lecture us not to use “scare tactics” when in the next breath he says that “more will die” if his proposals do not pass.

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