State of the Union

I just could not do it. I turned on the TV to watch Obama's state of the union speech and after two minutes of watching Washington insiders greeting each other while waiting for Obama to show, I gave up. I just have no patience for listening to lies. Instead of watching, I read the text of the speech. I find this a better way to absorb what actually is being said. No distractions while the Obamacrats jump up and cheer to make Obama look good. No shots of Joe Biden in the background trying to remember how to count up to five. No shots of congressmen or senators trying to stay awake. Just the actual words, the essence of Obama's message.

So after reading the speech, I have to say that I was disappointed. At one point, I almost started yelling at my computer screen. It was when Obama said this: "This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy – a strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs."

That statement calling for an "all-of-the-above" strategy came from a president who has fought for his entire term for a none of the above strategy. Coal -- oh gosh no! Domestic oil -- no drilling in the USA on government land or offshore. Natural gas -- let's investigate fracking to see if the federal government can ban it. Nuclear power -- are you kidding? Solar energy -- only if it is being produced by one of Obama's big contributors. Wind -- not if you can see the windmills from the Kennedy compound. The truth is that I think that the only energy source that Obama likes is power produced by chipmunks running in wheels in cages. Obama's statement is the kind of total and blatant lie that makes Americans cynical about their government.

How about Obama's big claim that he opened up trade for the USA. He touts the trade agreements with South Korea and Colombia that were recently passed. Is he kidding? The trade agreements with these countries were negotiated during the Bush administration. The Democrats in the senate, however, blocked them from passing until Obama took office and then he withdrew them from consideration. Supposedly, these agreements were going to be "improved", but three years later essentially the same agreements were finally presented to Congress again by Obama. Now, they were passed. So Obama delayed the agreements by three years and blocked the creation of tens of thousands of jobs as a consequence. When Obama finally relented and let the Bush agreements pass, he wants to claim credit. What a joke.

Oh, and then there is the lengthy discussion by Obama about how he wants to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to keep these programs solvent. Oh wait, there actually was one sentence in the endless speech where Obama says he is open to reforming the program in order to keep them solvent. That's it, nothing more. Three plus years into his term, Obama still has no proposal for fixing social security. As for Medicare, Obama has already removed half a trillion dollars from the program through Obamacare and made the future of Medicare extremely precarious. Nevertheless, Obama has not proposal how to fix it. I guess he figures that the problem will have to wait until after he leaves office.

Obama has got to go or we may not survive.