By now you have heard all the reviews of President Obama’s State of the Union address. There was the sameness of his message, his failure to mention Al Qaeda, his frequent threats to use the veto, and his concocted story of Rebecca, the Democrat plant who, joined by her husband, sat in the gallery with the first lady.
Surprisingly, I was still awake by the time he got to his pitch about “a better politics.”
“A better politics is one where we debate without demonizing each other; when we talk issues, and values, and principles, and facts, rather than ‘gotcha’ moments or trivial gaffes, or fake controversies that have nothing to do with people’s daily lives.”
With Obama, it is his opposition who are demonizing him, who play loose with facts, who magnify his gaffes, and manufacture “gotcha” controversies about him and his administration.
He, however, during his glowing state of the economy, conveniently left out the fact that 90 million Americans are no longer seeking employment and that the number of people on food stamps has increased by 15 percent during his watch.
Cartoon courtesy sodahead.com)
“Gotcha” controversies, formerly labeled as “phony” controversies, still bother him. If they didn’t, he wouldn’t continue to attempt to belittle them. Fast & Furious, ObamaCare, the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, the Stimulus and those shovel ready jobs, the Bergdahl case and Benghazi top the list.
He talks of values and principles, yet he believes these examples of duplicity in his administration have nothing to do with people’s daily lives.
