Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Exit Obama - the State of the Union Has Survived Him
President Obama's last State of the Union address came unglued by Iran's "arrest" of 10 US sailors accused of "snooping." He didn't mention them, but they threaten his legacy Iran nuclear deal, disliked by most Americans, who think Iran will cheat and make nuclear weapons anyway. Monday, Obama said he regrets that political divisiveness in the US grew during his two terms as President. The Iran deal is a big reason why Obama's to blame for America's divide over serious political issues - Obamacare, gun control, immigration laxity, unconstitutional executive orders and many others. Obama wants to get his last agenda through Congress this year, but Republicans in Congress are not interested in saving unsettled Obama issues that GOP voters disagree with -- gun control, open-ended immigration and an Asia-Pacific trade agreement. The White House recently said it has given up hope of working with the Republican-controlled Congress on many issues. The 10 Iran-held sailors will add greatly to Obama's problems if not quickly released. ~~~~~ In 2016, Obama will use his remaining clout with Democrats to help secure the election of a Democrat successor. Her rejects the idea of Donald Trump as the next US President. In an NBC interview, Obama characterized Trump’s policies as feeding the fears of voters. Most Republicans and many Independents and Democrats disagree, judging by recent polls favoring Trump. So, this may be just the latest example of Obama being very out-of-step with America. ~~~~~ What's far more interesting is Vice President Joe Biden's interview with CNN's Gloria Borger on Monday. Biden described Bernie Sanders as more authentic on economic inequality than Hillary Clinton and defended Sanders' record on gun control. He said he never felt Clinton was the prohibitive favorite to win. Biden said Sanders speaks to "a yearning that is deep and real" on issues of wealth disparity and people left out of the economy. He said Sanders has credibility on the issue, but that for Clinton, the issue is relatively new : "Hillary's focus has been other things up to now...no one questions Bernie's authenticity on those issues." He went on to say people question anybody who hasn't been talking about the issue for a long time. He also said Clinton -- who has a lot of Democrat establishment support but whose wide lead in the first two primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, has collapsed as Sanders has overtaken her in both states -- has a high bar to meet as the perceived favorite to win the Democrat nomination. Biden told CNN : "I never thought she was a prohibitive favorite. I don't think she ever thought she was a prohibitive favorite." Neither Biden nor Obama has endorsed a Democrat candidate, and Obama's chief of staff recently said the President won't take sides in the primary. But, Biden's endorsement would be a big prize and he came close to saying Hillary won't get it. Obama has pushed Democrats on gun control by announcing he won't endorse or campaign for any candidate who opposes what he describes as common sense gun control, including a mention of liability for gun-makers, which Sanders voted against in 2005. This could have been read as an attack on Sanders, who comes from a rural state and is more moderate than Clinton on gun control. But, Biden put that to rest, supporting Sanders : "Bernie Sanders has said that he thought the President's approach is the correct approach. Bernie Sanders said that he thinks there should be liability now." Asked whether Sanders needed to change his position to qualify for Obama's support, Biden said no. ~~~~~ Dear readers, Fox News says the FBI is investigating the possible connection of Clinton Foundation donations, the grant of State Department contracts and whether processes were followed when Hillary was at State. Is Joe Biden's public support for Sanders the Democrat Party's farewell to an ethically tarnished Hillary Clinton, unliked and fading in the polls And also to Barack Obama and his divisive presidency that is out of step with Americans, who hope that 2016 goes quickly.
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Last evenings B arrack Obama Show was the most disgusting example of a ‘State of the Union Address” that I have ever watched – PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteFrom a man that publicizes himself as an expert ‘Constitutional Lawyer’ his presentation was so far off the mark. What we heard last night was the ramblings of a delusionary liar that has been given by the American people 8 years to produce results in all the areas that he enumerated as short-comings in the American political & societal systems.
What has he and his inner circle of Progressive Socialists been doing for the past 8 years except destroying the Constitution, Rule of Law and the political framework given to him to preserve and protect on January 20, 2009.
While in law School preparing for his “career” in Constitutional Law he must have been absent when the subject of the previous Farewell Presidential Address came up.
To sit and listen to someone who is nothing more than a Chicago political hack lecturing me about home security when you’re at my backdoor trying to break in Mr. Obama is nothing close to delivering your final (thank God) State of the Union Address.
Friends the “State of the Union Address” should be just that about the health of the nation.
ReplyDeleteWhere we are strong and where we need work. Not lies about the employment health that is not really what the number presented show. Not the false home sales numbers. Not pleasantries about our depleted military. Not praise for our educational system that is at near rock bottom. And not rhetoric as how spending more dollars that we don’t have will fix all ills.
If (and we certainly do) the United States has problems it is all because of the path that Obama has chosen to take us down, not his presumptuous ideas that it’s the “other parities” fault for not genuflecting to his iron strong socialist ideas.
When listening to an address like last night’s State of the Union, we should take a lesson from the past and remember that the devil is in the details.
ReplyDeleteBut in last evenings speech there were no details as is the ‘fingerprint” of Barrack Obama speeches. He only makes charges and disparaging remakes about “the other party’s lack of doing just what he wanted done.”
Never once has Obama gone before the American public and accepted blame for a policy gone wrong. And last night was no different. Even a ‘hat salesman from Missouri got it right when he said …”The Buck Stops Here” - meaning the Oval Office Mr. Obama.
The damage this administration has done to our country--at home and abroad--is almost incalculable.
ReplyDeleteAnd it continues every day with actions like rolling out onerous gun control orders, opening our borders to a flood of illegal aliens that mock the Constitution, inflaming race passions that set one part of our society against another, and a schizophrenic foreign policy that has thrown the Middle East into chaos and jeopardized Israel's future and our own.
I believe that Barack Obama is the first and only president we've ever had who doesn't love our country
And I believe his address last night was more proof of his almost contempt for the United States.