Called it the "least fresh" and most cliché-ridden such speech in over 30 years - I must admit I thought it was great. Perfect, in fact. We couldn't have asked for anything better.
As Forrest Gump observed, "Stupid is as stupid does." It doesn't get much stupider than to ignore the First Rule of Holes - when you're in a hole, stop digging - except to insist that the way to get out of the hole is to keep digging ever more feverishly, and to blame everyone but yourself for the hole you're in.
The SOTU speech confirmed that we have a narcissistic fool for a president - all ego and no brains. He is, with stupidly obdurate stubbornness, going to keep doing exactly what has caused his agenda to fail and his approval ratings to sink ever lower.
This almost guarantees that he will keep his party on the path to electoral disaster in November. How could we ask for more?
A CNN poll released Tuesday (1/26) indicated only 30 percent of Americans want Obamacare passed in anything approaching its present form. But in his SOTU, the president urged Congress: "Do not walk away from reform. Not now. Not when we are so close."
A CNN poll released Monday (1/25) indicated nearly 75 percent of Americans think at least half the money in the "stimulus" bill passed in February -- which the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday will cost $862 billion -- has been wasted. But in the SOTU, Mr. Obama urged the Senate to pass a $154 billion second stimulus bill the House passed last month.
The performance of the stock market was the one bright spot in the otherwise dismal year for the economy in 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 65 percent from its March low, causing many to hope it was a harbinger of recovery.
President Barack Obama has fixed that. Last week the Dow fell 552 points in the three trading days since the president announced his plans to "reform" the financial services industry.
Of course -- solve the wrong problem, demonize Wall Street, and misdirect attention away from the real culprits, politicians in Washington. Perhaps this president should be nicknamed "Red Herring" Obama.