Posted on 01/28/2011 6:30:31 AM PST by Obadiah
The state of the union is ... leaderless.
Sounds harsh, but when it comes to digging America out from what President Obama calls its "mountain of debt," I'm becoming increasingly worried that this assessment is accurate.
The president talks the talk about fiscal responsibility. But the evidence suggests he's not willing to spend the political capital to translate that talk into action.
Judge Obama by his own standards. "We have to signal seriousness in this," he told The Washington Post just before the inauguration, "by making sure that some of the hard decisions are made under my watch and not under somebody else's."
So what hard decisions has the president made? On the plus side of the ledger, the president worked to ensure that the costly expansion of health coverage was coupled with potentially cost-saving measures to control Medicare spending. Emphasis on potentially.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he proposed a five-year freeze on discretionary spending, two years longer than his previous offer.
But as the president himself recognized, this kind of nibbling around the edges of the budget is entirely inadequate.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“....if he only had a brain......”
Leaderless? I disagree. He is leading us to ruin and total collapse.
How many times did he make reference to himself?
It should have been called:
The State of the Obama speech.
‘We have to signal seriousness in this’-—————he only has to ‘signal’ it, not be serious about it, as with all things Obama, it’s about the deception!
America is being led from Brussels, New York, Switzerland and/or Rome.
The abbreviated version of the State of the Union address: "I want ... I believe ... I've seen ... I've heard ... I said ... I will be ... I'm asking ... I don't know ... I challenge ... I urge ... I set ... I know ... I'm proposing ... I ask ... I took ... I made ... I would ... I intend ... I've ordered ... I will not ... I've heard ... I am eager ... I'm not ... I'm not ... I'm not ... I am ... I've proposed ... I care ... I recognize ... I'm willing ... I've proposed ... I created ... I don't agree ... I am prepared ... I hear ... I will submit ... I ask ... I will veto ... I will travel ... I call on all ... I know ... I stand..."
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