Posted on 01/26/2011 6:52:01 PM PST by Kaslin
State Of The Union: If President Obama's intention Tuesday night was to shift the inspiration away from the forces arrayed against him, his hour-long paean to government spending failed. "Sputnik" has crashed.
Jimmy Carter's malaise speech of the summer of 1979, in which he seemed oblivious to the American spirit, ended up in the judgment of history as the archetype of his presidency. Barack Obama may have just done the same thing to himself with the "Sputnik Speech."
Even supporters of the president and the Alinskyite radicalism that dominates his party will find it hard to acclaim this gifted orator's decision to spend 60 minutes sermonizing about government being more important than suffering Americans give it credit for during a hard recession.
Are you impressed with the Internet? With your iPad? With that gadget on your car's dashboard that gets you back on the Interstate after you get lost in a strange city?
Thank Washington, because according to the president Washington "planted the seeds for the Internet. That's what helped make possible things like computer chips and GPS. Just think of all the good jobs — from manufacturing to retail — that have come from these breakthroughs."
If you don't remember Presidents Carter or Reagan or Clinton bragging about the initiatives of their administrations that would one day bear the fruit of global social networks like Facebook, handheld communication devices like BlackBerrys, and the mobility revolution of Wi-Fi, it's because they didn't.
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“I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation with reorganization, and a wonderful way it is to create the illusion of progress while producing demoralization and inefficiency”.
Petronius - died AD 66
Same old, same old.
I forgot to add: Petronius described Obama over 2,000 years before the Bamster was born.
Same old, same old.
The Obamessiah likes to think of himself as the American Caesar. His speech last night had no fewer than 66 self references!
I wonder when he wants to be addressed as Dominus instead of Principes.
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