SOTU: My perspective
Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 3 months ago to Government
SOTU: My perspective
It was difficult to sit through over an hour of self righteous, arrogant, contradictions, non sequiturs, and sophistry.
I cursed more in that hour than I have all year. I will need at least three bars of soap in my mouth now just to overpower the bad taste…
He promised bi-partisan cooperation, implying a willingness to compromise (not that that is necessarily a good thing), but threatened at least four preemptive vetoes… that’s bi-partisan cooperation?!?!?
All in all it was an address filled with more grandiose Utopian pipe dreams and platitudes, with more of the same tax and spend policies which are/have driven our nation to financial and moral bankruptcy. Thanks to him and other statists our Nation is as bankrupt as our President's policies.
Promising two years of “free’ community college as if the money would just magically fall from the sky like manna from heaven.
He took credit for the lower gas prices and near energy independence, though it actually occurred in spite of his policies not because of them.
http://freedomforce.com/1097/obama-decei...
He also raised alarms again about global warming/climate change citing the NOAA which has been shown to play loose with the truth and NASA claiming they found 2014 to be one of the hottest years on record despite the fact that we recently received a revised report suggesting that assessment was not accurate.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/12/satell...
http://currmudgeon-patriot.blogspot.com/...
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/18/b...
The list could go on and on, but the memory is too painful to recount.
SOTU Fact Check: Obama claims credit for an incomplete recovery
By Associated Press January 21, 2015
http://nypost.com/2015/01/21/fact-check-...
The Joni Ernst GOP reply was more promising and brief, but lacked specific strategy.
I call B.S. on the whole lot of it.
The Joni Ernst GOP reply was better, but the best speech of the evening was delivered by John Stossel.
Stossel’s take and SOTU- http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/21/re...
Respectfully,
O.A.
It was difficult to sit through over an hour of self righteous, arrogant, contradictions, non sequiturs, and sophistry.
I cursed more in that hour than I have all year. I will need at least three bars of soap in my mouth now just to overpower the bad taste…
He promised bi-partisan cooperation, implying a willingness to compromise (not that that is necessarily a good thing), but threatened at least four preemptive vetoes… that’s bi-partisan cooperation?!?!?
All in all it was an address filled with more grandiose Utopian pipe dreams and platitudes, with more of the same tax and spend policies which are/have driven our nation to financial and moral bankruptcy. Thanks to him and other statists our Nation is as bankrupt as our President's policies.
Promising two years of “free’ community college as if the money would just magically fall from the sky like manna from heaven.
He took credit for the lower gas prices and near energy independence, though it actually occurred in spite of his policies not because of them.
http://freedomforce.com/1097/obama-decei...
He also raised alarms again about global warming/climate change citing the NOAA which has been shown to play loose with the truth and NASA claiming they found 2014 to be one of the hottest years on record despite the fact that we recently received a revised report suggesting that assessment was not accurate.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/12/satell...
http://currmudgeon-patriot.blogspot.com/...
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/18/b...
The list could go on and on, but the memory is too painful to recount.
SOTU Fact Check: Obama claims credit for an incomplete recovery
By Associated Press January 21, 2015
http://nypost.com/2015/01/21/fact-check-...
The Joni Ernst GOP reply was more promising and brief, but lacked specific strategy.
I call B.S. on the whole lot of it.
The Joni Ernst GOP reply was better, but the best speech of the evening was delivered by John Stossel.
Stossel’s take and SOTU- http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/21/re...
Respectfully,
O.A.
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Always good to hear from you.
"Will we survive?" I suspect we will. "We" are likely to be far better off than those that have their heads in the sand.
What the nation will look like, is up in the air...
Regards,
O.A.
I understand. It is difficult, but so is standing up to tyranny and speaking out.
As long as you have trustworthy alternatives to endure it for you then you may be better off if it is too much. I completely understand.
In the days of Reagan, I actually enjoyed it for the most part. I am unfortunately, a bit of a romantic and I keep hoping...
Respectfully,
O.A.
Thank's for staying tuned.
You are so right regarding our present state and direction regarding education. Knowing the system is corrupt, I take it upon myself to try and help educate my great nieces and nephews (I read to them and encourage them) as I did their parents, as well as anyone else willing to listen. I know far too many young people who do not read anything more than facebook or twitter... Such a shame.
"I cannot live without books..." Thomas Jefferson
Regards,
O.A.
Thank you and you are welcome,
O.A.
I do read much of what you write and it is informative and interesting, thank you.
Outside of the gutch and probably a few other web sites that support Objectivism I think what we say here would not be understood by 90 percent of the country. I read an essay years ago by Peter Schwartz in 'THE OBJECTIVIST" TITLED "WHY JOHNNY CAN'T READ" and being written in the 80's that should tell you that if our youth couldn't read then is is certainly worse to day I give you 0 as my proof. so if he can't read those coming behind him can't either.
Yes. He is as set in his ways and as stubborn as his parties symbol (donkey)...
We have primarily a two party system, statist and statist light. Either we need a viable third alternative or we need to change/infiltrate one of the existing parties.
Regards,
O.A.
Yes someone has to do it. I have carried plenty of water in my time... :)
I am an over the hill man, yet I am still filled with determination and resolve.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/37...
Regards,
O.A.
Understood. Praemonitus, praemunitus. (To be forewarned, is to be forearmed.)
It is my way of being informed and empowered so I might speak authoritatively when trying to correct the record and help direct those still willing to open their minds... those still drinking the koolaid for lack of exposure to other input. I definitely have more enjoyable things to do. I would much rather get back to my reading. Have you read any of my book reviews?
I agree with your assessment regarding the next 2 years.
Respectfully,
O.A.
O.A."I" think you could have done something much more enjoyable than subject yourself to an hour and one half of stupidity.
IF things get better in the next 2 years because the congress is republican I will be very surprised.
I presume you did it for the sake of the above appreciated analysis.
Still, you're a better (person) than me, Gunga Din.
(I've learned not to assume a writer's gender in the Gulch--unless a moniker gives a clue).
All I need to do is make a paste up of his past speeches and comments and I would have this one. Did anyone actually believe he would say anything new or change his attitude? I'm glad I didn't waste my time by listening to his speech. I just read the pundits, and then, only one or two.
Obama your sins will find you out. And,
Your cheatin' heart, will tell on you.