Posted on 01/22/2015 4:28:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Enthusiastic, entertaining, energized and eminent, President Obama's demeanor and delivery at the State of the Union belied his political reality. Unbowed, unbroken and possibly unaffected by the recent midterm Republican wave, Obama displayed his great skill by delivering an emotional teleprompter-driven speech that was a throwback to his first election. Varying tempo, pitch, passion and inflection, his speech was more a theatrical performance than a delivery of a prewritten, pre-released text.
He was unbounded by his political reality.
Possibly no one in his staff had informed him that he had 90 fewer elected Democrats in his audience than has any other Democratic president in the past 90 years.
Or possibly his reality is so unbounded by voter action that he does not care.
In an attempt to pull us together psychologically, the speech began and ended by referring to the time frame, our nation being 15 years into the new century, and by pulling us into a specific story through the use of the narrative of Rebecca and her family.
Obama then suggested we suspend reality together. "But tonight, we turn the page," Obama offered, moving from reality to fairy tale. This was an attempt to reframe the listeners' minds from the current reality of a resounding Republican midterm election victory to a new state where Obama still gets to set and drive the agenda.
Unbounded by reality.
Like melodies in hit pop songs, phrases were repeated again and again to pull the listener along the storyline and allow Obama, the storyteller, to build anticipation and resolution.
The repetitive phrases moved from "Will we accept ... Will we approach ... Will we allow," followed by "We believed ... We believed ... We believed ... We believed," to "As Americans ... As Americans ... As Americans," then a hopeful, "A better politics ... A better politics ... A better politics," finally closing with, "I want ... I want ... I want ... I want ... I want."
His repetition moved from "we" to "me." Obama's vision of the future is bound by his wants, rather than the want and will of the American people.
Unbounded by reality.
His psychic state was fully revealed in his ad-lib. In response to Republican applause after he noted that, "I've run my last campaign," a seemingly triumphant Obama paused, smiled and retorted, "I know, because I won both of them."
Naturally, this response by Obama was greeted with applause from his democratic allies; his smile and smugness of having won twice provided a glimpse into his state of mind. Instead of being subdued and humbled by the midterm Republican wave, Obama remains sure that his perspective and agenda must surely come out on top.
He is unbounded by the reality of the recent voter actions.
"It's now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years, and for decades to come," said Obama, emphasizing that he wanted to "focus more on the values at stake in the choices before us."
The values are clear. Obama's vision includes a future where more government leads to a better life for Americans. He is untamed by the recent scandals and proof of bureaucratic incompetency at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service and in the rollout of the health care exchange website.
Unbounded by reality.
While Obama is correct that Americans don't mind paying their fair share of taxes, they want to be certain that what is being spent is used wisely and effectively.
This has yet to happen.
Unbound by reality, Obama shares his message: I am from the government, and I am here to help.
While it may be an attractive phrase, "middle-class economics" does not exist. The economy is an integrated system that comprises all the people, institutions, (public and private) and companies in our nation. For it to work at its best, all need to be encouraged to work not only harder, but also more efficiently and effectively -- the rich and poor as well as the middle class. More money leading to more waste does not lead to better outcomes.
This week, we saw the president, in a brilliantly delivered speech, describing a reality that does not exist.
Lowest viewership...only 31 milllion tuned in....everyone knows he lies and is one big phoney!
The GOP should have had congressman Joe Wilson who said “he is lying” deliver their response.
I did not watch it either, first of all, I gag when I hear his voice now. Second I know I am going to get an hour of BS and lastly, I know the GOP will kowtow to his presentation.
He should be enthusiastic. The Repubs are caving on virtually every issue. With this bunch of pansies in the GOP, the show is his to write for his final two years. Nobody will effectively stand in his way.
Author forgot that Rebecca and her family was also fairy tale.
He’s the President and that’s a reality, of sorts...because it’s NOT like the majority of Americans WANT him there.... when you consider voter fraud and media bias.
Similarly, I have toilet paper at home... NOT because I have a choice whether or not to buy it... another ‘reality’.
Couldn’t bear the thought of witnessing more irritating, boring, tiring, maddening, nonsense.
Just a few seconds was like watching a 7th grader display his new-found public speaking skills.
IMHO
Huh?
47% are gladly willing to vote for a fairy tale
It’s called plenty of GOP think about re-election above all else, when it should be the other way around, risk losing election to do the right thing.
Huhhhh....?
What a stupid question....when you consider that most of ‘earning’ and ‘taxpaying’ Americans will be retired or dead in the next 20 years or so....
31 million = 10%
The president lacks followers
I’m starting to disagree. Whatever this man determines is reality becomes reality. It’s like living in an insane parallel universe. 50 percent believe in him, he is elected TWICE, he is for gays and single parenthood and illegal amnesty...everything he is FOR I am against. But the reality here is that his vision of it becomes reality, not my vision. So he actually is GROUNDED very well in reality, regardless of reality. And we have a Republican majority that is grounding him in his unreal reality daily. My Senator, Tim Scott, just voted to prove climate change is not a hoax. I give up.
I had Fox News on, but my TV was muted because I didn’t want to miss the rebuttal by Joni Ernst.
Ego-driven Obama is the face of irrelevance. The ding-a-ling was slaughtered at midterms---the ****less jerk was politically castrated. The lowlife is so self-serving, he refuses to accept we, the people's, verdict on the dark days of his dismal presidency.
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The treasure trove of midterm, and down-ticket state wins, have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know: when voters entered the voting booth, THE LAST THING on their minds was "we want you Repbubs to work with Obama."
VOTERS DUMPED THE PARTY OF OBAMA IN DECISIVE, STUNNING HISTORY-MAKING TERMS
<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;
<><> Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,
<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,
<><> 110 Of 140 Southern States election districts went Republican.
<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.
<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;
<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.
<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.
<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub
<><> GOP now controls the MINN State House.
<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)
<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D
<><> Britt Hume: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.
<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).
<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.
<><> GOP holds every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...
<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.
<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.
<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.
<><> Clinton's labeled politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.
<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,
<><> Arizona House recount race went Republican.
<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),
<><> Repub McSally's win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,
<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman admin after WWII.
<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.
<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.
<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.
<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states' legislature and Governor are Dem-held).
<><> 12 states, including Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, NC will push income tax cuts and fiscal reform.
<><> Illinois’ new Repub Governor’s top priority is reforming its nearly-bankrupt public pension system.
<><> Vermont Democrats allied w/ VT conservative Repubs to ward off voter backlash
<><> controversial and seemingly incompetent VT Democrat governor did not get the requisite votes to stay in office.
<><> VT poised to install Vermont's first Republican governor in over four years
<><> Republicans now control two-thirds of the state legislatures.
His followers aren’t rxactly grounded in reality either .... They think all this help and assistance comes from some secret magical Obama stash at the end of the rainbow .....
We are in the middle of a corruptocracy never seen before in the US. The Chicago criminal kingpins in the WH sure know how to loot and pillage the govt.
Attributed to George Washington: "The last official act of any government is the looting of the treasury."
Woman Showcased by Obama in SOTU is a Former Democratic Campaign Staffer
Jan 22, 2015 — 9:26am
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from Washingtonfreebeacon.com by Brent Scher
The woman whose story of economic recovery was showcased by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address is a former Democratic campaign staffer and has been used by Obama for political events in the past.
Rebekah Erler has been presented by the White House as a woman who was discovered by the president after she wrote to him last March about her economic hardships. She was showcased in the speech as proof that middle class Americans are coming forward to say that Obama’s policies are working.
Unmentioned in the White House bio of Erler is that she is a former Democratic campaign operative, working as a field organizer for Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.).
This also wasn’t the first time the White House used the former Democratic campaign staffer as a political prop. Obama spent a “day in the life” of Erler in June so that he could have “an opportunity to communicate directly with the people he’s working for every day.”
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