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The American Spectator : Obama's Most Audacious SOTU Lie
Obama's State of the Union: 6,419 words and almost as many cliches by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.comIt is difficult to say with certainly which of the many whoppers President Obama told tonight took the most crust to utter, but my money is going on this assertion, made a few minutes into the speech: "Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs." I know "Orwellian" has now become rather hackneyed, but there is simply no other adjective that better describes this statement. It is not merely a lie. It is the precise opposite of the truth. It is just as absurd as "war is peace" or "freedom is slavery."
This wasn't Barack Obama's first State of the Union rodeo. He didn't just fall off the turnip truck. He's been around the block a few times on Capitol Hill. He knows his way around a teleprompter.
Obama used to be known as a Real Good Talker. He made his initial national bones with a speech.
But the last two -- his Inauguration and State of the Union -- are tired, boilerplate, bits and pieces of campaign rhetoric cut and pasted into recycled collections of empty phrases that sound swell -- until you read them. Obama's top speechwriter, overpaid at the top White House salary of $172K, recently abandoned ship for even better Hollywood dough.
The bad news is we've still got 1,437 days of this guy's gabbing to endure. The good news: Yesterday it was 1,438.
It was stunning last night to hear and then read among the 6,419 words likely the most colossal collection of yawn-inducing clichés in recent American political history. (Scroll down for video of his complete remarks to a joint session of Congress.)
Chris Stevens Was Not Even RememberedThe state of our union is weak and fraying. This president has launched attacks on faith and is going out of his way to divide our people. Our economy is not growing, it contracted in the final quarter of 2012. Our economy is not growing jobs. On the international front, North Korea greeted President Obama's 2013 rendition of Give Me More Money with a nuclear test — a sure sign that his strategy of engagement, which his soon-to-be defense secretary supports, is a failure.
But like with all of his other failed policies, Barack Obama declared that he will just keep on doing them all.
So he declared that he wants to hit the wealthy with more taxes. This will not create jobs or grow the economy. He just raised their taxes a month ago. How much will be enough? Liberals never answer that question. Barack Obama pretends that it is never asked.
He wants to "ask more of our wealthy seniors," a line that Sen. Obama and his speechwriter, who once penned lines for Ted Kennedy, would have dubbed a "war on grandma."
He called on getting arguments out of politics, which really is a call for duly elected Republicans in Congress to forget who elected them and why, and just do what he wants.
Obama recklessly claims America is 'Stronger' in State of the Union | Washington Times CommunitiesIn his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama failed to mention the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who died on Sep. 11, 2012 in the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
He mentioned the victims of the massacre in Newtown, CT in December, and invited the families of victims of other violent gun crimes to watch from the gallery. But the Benghazi victims' families were not present at all.
HURT: Obama's agenda is simple — take more of your money - Washington TimesDuring Barack Obama's first State of the Union address of his second term, the President claimed that the United States is seeing more economic growth and that as a nation we are "stronger" today than we were before.
Though when President Obama claimed that the state of our union was "stronger," one could only ask: for whom?
22.7 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking for work under the Obama administration. The unemployment rate when Obama took office was 7.8%; four years later, it stands at 7.9%. Are these Americans living in a "stronger" nation?
Obama lays groundwork to bypass Congress in second term | WashingtonExaminer.comThe state of our union, President Obama now tells us with "renewed" confidence, is "stronger."
Stronger than what, exactly? The deepest bowels of a recession?
"There is much progress to report," he says, dreamily.
Tell that to the millions of Americans who are still unemployed.
Tell that to the broken taxpayers who have shouldered the burdens of all his bailouts and government schemes-gone-bust.
Tell that to the generations to come, for whom the American Dream has been sold downriver in order to pay for trillions of dollars in debt with which he has saddled them.
Even with all the damage already done, a president without an agenda is a dead duck.
Going into his second term, President Obama is facing a dilemma. On the one hand, he still wants to pursue an ambitious liberal legislative agenda. On the other hand, he knows that as long as Republicans have control of the House and 45 seats in the Senate, he won't be able to enact it. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he responded by laying the groundwork to bypass Congress in his second term.
