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Obama’s address; Bully, or BullSh*t, pulpit?

Regardless of what I personally think about Mr. Obama's ideology and actions, historically, when the President of the United States speaks from the White House's oval office it is usually a serious address pertaining to an important issue that the nation is grappling with at that very moment.  Indeed, with a few exceptions, such as Jimmy Carter's infamous "malaise" speech, they have generally been important and worth listening to; which is why, armed with many grains of salt, I gave him my undivided attention last night.

It was notable, for reasons I'll shortly expand on, but first I should summarize its 3 important points; to paraphrase Mr. Obama;

1)  I know that lately it looks like I've been mainly concentrating on vacationing, partying with aged and pre-pubescent rock stars, and playing a lot of golf.  But, I assure you that despite those inconvenient truths, as well as the photos of my communications staff members engaging in important beer-pong meetings, we've actually been all over this mutha since day one!

2) Hey, what this really underscores is the need to pass the craptastic cap-n-trade bill, HEROICALLY! passed by the House of Representatives last year in their orgiastic fit of budget-busting, government expanding, legislation that they'd been dying to pass for the last 15 years; each followed by a throaty chorus of WE WON! after that bill was voted on.  I mean, forget about the facts that, much like Obamacare, we have no actual idea what this will cost the public or do to the economy macroscopically, or that Spain has had to recently abandon a similar scheme because it was costing them more jobs, and public money, than it actually returned in beneficial results, or that any plausible possibilities are being pursued by Universities and, you know, evil capitalistic corporations who might look forward to the crazy money they'd make off of finding a substitute for fossil fuels-specifically oil.  No, friends, the President made it clear that by the power of his incredible awesomeness, and a couple of hundred billion dollars of our money, his soooooooooper jeeeeeeeenyus Secretary Chu at the Department of Energy could indeed come up with a magial elixer, the fabled substance known to engineers and scientists of all disciplines as unobtainium, that would clearly solve all of their problems and, in this case, provide an inexpensive, ecologically pure, fuel of incredibly high energy density such that when used in ordinary vehicles it would yield triple the current miles-per-gallon...

3) I BLAME BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

Now, among what I found most notable about this speech was its abject political craven-ness.  The President has obviously read the polls and tried to hit all of, what he considered, the required themes in the hope of reversing the tide of public opinion; if not among the whole of the populace, at least among dispirited partisan Democrats.  As shameless, was his open use of this environmental disaster as a vehicle to pimp cap-n-trade; conveniently restyled as an "energy bill", dont-cha-know.   And of course, there was his predictable, but still completely gutless, attempt to pin the actual responsibility on his predecessor.

Typical Obama palaver, that was an emotionless lecture, until of course, he reached the part about cap-n-tax.  Then he was FIRED UP! and excited to talk about how, in the classic American fashion, with our usual inventiveness and innovative thinking, we indeed could develop auto fuels from unicorn flatulence.  Or maybe that's what it sounded like to me...

But, I mean, never let a good crisis go to waste, eh ?

So, in short, a dodge, a lie, and a con.  It sounds like the story-boards from the movie, The Sting, except we're the ones getting taken to the cleaners!  Very much like Mr. Carter's "malaise" speech, this was noteworthy for essentially saying nothing; save for attempting to get the latest talking points to the faithful electronic brownshirts-to Soros’ minions.  But even the usual nodding head on MSNBC weren't buying it; clearly the whole lot are apostate RAAAAAAACISTS!

It's no wonder that some of the faithful have been thinking that Obama's "Carter moment" was drawing near.  In my opinion, we saw it Tuesday evening.

May God have mercy on us all.

Rocketman