Hillsdale Prof. Paul Rahe: "What Should Obama Say Tonight?"

BigGovernment.com ^ | 1/25/11 | Prof. Paul A. Rahe

[hillsdale1]

Sad to say, what I wrote last year at this time is hardly less apt today: “The State of the Union Address is ordinarily a bore. It generally consists of a laundry list of proposals, and the list nearly always seems interminable. If Barack Obama has moxie, however, tonight could be different. His State of the Union Address could be a real game changer.”

“Here,” I then wrote, “is how he could do it – if he was really intent on saving his Presidency and on turning a disgraceful performance in that office into something worthy of eulogy. This evening, after the usual formalities, he could say:

My fellow Americans, let me begin by stating the obvious. The state of our union is not good. We seem to be – we may be – coming out of a recession. But, if so, the recovery is not only jobless; it is accompanied by an increase in employment.

[shiva]

I’ll make it short, I have a golf game in 15 minutes

[oyez]

Talk about timing. LOL

[toolman1401]

That would not be enough. I want him to say “I fooled everyone, I am destroying the country because I’m a communist plant, and I’m going to be taken into custody after my speech tonight”. He can go on to say, “Joe is also not up to the job, so until the next election, Boner is in charge”. It will be so shocking the GOP response will not even need to happen.

[toolman1401]

That would not be enough. I want him to say “I fooled everyone, I am destroying the country because I’m a communist plant, and I’m going to be taken into custody after my speech tonight”. He can go on to say, “Joe is also not up to the job, so until the next election, Boner is in charge”. It will be so shocking the GOP response will not even need to happen.

[LurkedLongEnough]

“I am so confident in our foreign policy that I am giving the nuclear launch codes to all of our traditional enemies and hope that somehow they will like us then.”