Obama’s State of the Union addresses remind me of nothing so much as
the Orwellian speeches of brazen tyrants disjoined from reality and
(unlike Obama) untethered from the corrective reporting of a free press.
And this one was no different: Our economy is booming, our country is at peace, our enemies are disarmed, our union is strong.
For icing on this fruitcake there are particular gems like this: “Since
I’ve been President, we’ve worked responsibly to cut the population of
Gitmo in half.” Which is why one out of every three Gitmo releases
results in the return of a terrorist to the battlefield to kill more
Americans. Which is why – for my health of mind - I stopped watching
Obama’s speeches live many years ago and now just read them afterwards.
This year while the great fabricator was testing the nation’s credulity,
I watched a terrific hockey game in which the hits were real and I
could relax while I believed my lying eyes.
His smugness also treated his audience to wretched admonitions to practice a better politics: “A better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads that pull us into the gutter” – like, for example, the campaign ad in which he accused his presidential rival, Mitt Romney, of murdering a cancer patient. What I took away from this speech, like the previous ones I’ve had the pleasure of skipping, is that our president is both a deceitful man and a dangerous one. Not of ordinary dimensions mind you, but of dimensions that should make one fear for our country so long as he is in the White House and so long Democrats and progressives continue to support him.
His smugness also treated his audience to wretched admonitions to practice a better politics: “A better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads that pull us into the gutter” – like, for example, the campaign ad in which he accused his presidential rival, Mitt Romney, of murdering a cancer patient. What I took away from this speech, like the previous ones I’ve had the pleasure of skipping, is that our president is both a deceitful man and a dangerous one. Not of ordinary dimensions mind you, but of dimensions that should make one fear for our country so long as he is in the White House and so long Democrats and progressives continue to support him.
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