State of the Union

‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’- Ronald Reagan

I just finished reading the Narcissist in Chief’s State of the Union Address from last evening. No, I didn’t watch it on television. Yes, I’ve seen snippets of it on every news channel from Fox to CNBC. The overall context of the speech, as I interpret it, is that we need more Obama in our lives, now more than ever before. He is still the one for whom we’ve been waiting. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I, we, us, I, I, me, my, and mine. It’s all about Obama, and he is the only one who can save us from ourselves.

This man, who has no background in this country of ours, who was not raised here, who did not form even one of his life’s opinions on American soil, proposes to ”feel our pain.” To understand the little guy who can’t find a job. To fret over the teacher who may lose her job. To understand a small business owner who can’t float a loan to sustain his business. He’s spent the majority of his brief time in office talking scathingly of the banking industry, the automobile industry, the insurance industry, and Wall Street, and how they’re all out to hurt the little guy and he’s not going to put up with it, so he’s instituting all kinds of new rules, regulations, laws, and taxes to punish them for their bad policies and make them toe the line. After spending his first twelve months in office denigrating these industries and harping on their corporate greed, and crying over what the previous administration left him, he stands there innocently, scratching his head, wondering why our economy didn’t jump up and improve, the very minute he said it should.

He says that he never said that change was going to be easy, or that he could do it alone. Well, it hasn’t been easy for Americans to swallow, and he did have far more help than we expected to plunge us into head first into his Progressive agenda. While there is precious little to celebrate at this point, you can bet that he will be there ready to stand with his head cocked and his chin raised, to take all of the credit for whatever improvement may be identified. Until then, he will continue to blame everyone else, including his fellow elected officials, and especially the former administration, for all that is wrong.

Many say this president is out of touch with America. I argue that one can not lose what one never had. This foreigner can not be expected to understand the depth of feeling that defines every American. He’s not an American, not in his heart. Why do you think it’s so hard for him to find his heart when he hears the National Anthem? Why do you think it’s so easy for him to bow to the leaders of foreign lands? Why do you think it was so easy to make fun of Scott Brown because he drives a pickup truck? He is not one of us. He does not understand freedom or liberty as the average American does. He was raised in a foreign country, and when he did come to this country, it was to go directly to the hallowed halls of big education, to be indoctrinated further into the liberal-elite mindset of educators.

This passage in his speech speaks to his thoughts on our Constitution. I read not one reference nor did I hear any pundit comment on these words: “Abroad, America‘s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it, that if you adhere to our common values you should be treated no different than anyone else.” While I appreciate the reference to that great document, I question his wording of “the notion that we are all created equal,” and “that if you adhere to our common values, you should be treated no different than anyone else.” The Constitution does not directly address equality of men, and as I remember from the Declaration of Independence, there was no notion of the equality of all men; rather, there was a declaration of equality of all men. Nor was I aware that the Constitution protected our common values. The Constitution outlines the definitions of government and frames the rights of the individual people of the land. Notions and common values. Is this what our leader thinks of the rights and privileges which are preserved by our founding documents?

I fear that to him and his friends, we are the little people, the ones who pay for the likes of him and his minions. There are so many of us that to have won our vote is to have won control. To control all of us is the gateway to unlimited power and resources. Does that sound familiar to you? He’s only just begun to taste it. He is the one for whom we have waited. He is the one who will change America. And he was telling the truth; he has changed America. We are less free today than we were a year ago.  Are we going to do anything about that?

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