Last night Barack Obama said he gave a state of the union address.
He said the Constitution required him to give the report. However what Obama gave was not a "state of the union ", he did not address the real state of our union at all.
He did not say he has tried a foreign policy of appeasement, bowing in front of foreign leaders and apologizing for America on foreign soil ...and it has failed. He did say that after promising over and over again huge government spending would keep unemployment low - under 8% - it has soared to over 10. He did not report that we are now so severely in debt that he keeps trying to raise the debt ceiling.
What we heard was a re-packaging of his same old campaign rhetoric in an attempt to woo you and all Americans into believing his all-out liberal agenda will cure America's ills.
What he gave was a speech intended to reignite his Presidency.
He is trying to re-start his Presidency in the wake of the Massachusetts Senate results, polls showing Americans turning away from him and anger across our nation seen in the Tea Party rallies and August town hall meetings.
Obama hopes you will give up. He hopes everyone who took time out of their day to attend tea parties, Capitol Hill rallies, and the August Town Hall Meetings will just sit silent. He and his administration - Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Hillary Clinton - and their allies on Capitol Hill all want us to just take a breath, sit back and let them go back to work behind closed doors.
They want you to think that Obama gets it - he has heard you and the people of Massachusetts as they voted for Scott Brown. Yep, he gets it ... that's what he wants you to believe.
He thinks he can fool you into a false sense of security so he can go back right back into passing their same old tax and spend, foreign appeasement, big government, liberal policy agenda as we all sit silent.
NBC News White House Correspondent Savannah Guthrie said that Obama's speech was intended to say "we won't quit" in his agenda.
The Charleston, SC Post and Courier newspaper got it right on today's front page. They said the President is "digging in."
He is hoping that you will just grow tired and give up fighting.
He is hoping that you will fall for lines about "investments" when what he really means is he wants even more massive government spending. He wants you to believe that a "jobs bill" where the government spends more money, rather than truly helping small businesses, will create jobs.
The well-respected conservative Heritage Foundation's Morning Briefing said that Obama's speech was "A Speech Only Washington Could Love" as they accurately pointed out that his so-called "new hire tax credit" is an old recycled failed idea from the 1970s and that his spending freeze would start next year, conveniently after the elections.
It almost reminds you of a magic show where the magician says "watch this hand" as he performs tricks with the other.
Obama was performing magic last night and he wants you to buy it.
There was another audience Obama was performing to last night, the actual people sitting in the room.
As he spoke to you and other Americans at home, he was also hoping to woo Members of Congress, including those of his own party and any moderate Republicans he could peel off to support his agenda.
He and his team know that moderate Democrats have been panic stricken as they saw liberal Senator Ted Kennedy's seat fall to Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
There has been hand-wringing, and shouting behind closed doors as moderate Democrats have placed blame against liberals and visa versa, pointing fingers at one another.
So last night he is hoping that he calmed you and other Americans down long enough so that he can get back to passing their liberal agenda though Congress.
He wants us to stop contacting Congressional offices. He wants us to stop urging people to attend events. He wants us to stop coordinating our efforts.
Nothing President Obama has done in the last year has convinced us that we can believe him in his call to limit spending.
Senator John Thune wrote a letter to President Obama this week saying, "nearly a year later, the American people are worried that your words have not been matched by action. Excluding defense and veterans funding, regular discretionary appropriations have increased 21 percent between fiscal years 2008 and 2010, contributing to an anticipated annual deficit of $1.5 trillion - the biggest ever. To put it another way, the federal government has increased its spending at six times the rate of inflation. We can no longer afford to keep that pace."
Senator Thune is right.
From a stimulus plan that perpetuated waste and fraud in the federal budget to the continued liberal push to fund ACORN, Obama's fiscal policy has been about spending more and appeasing liberal special interests.
After looking at Obama's first year in office, he should have said this:
"I have spent our nation into debt, I gave out almost $1 trillion of taxpayer money for a stimulus plan that did not stimulate, I bowed to foreign leaders and apologized for America on foreign soil with no results and I have tried to pass every liberal policy agenda item possible in the last year."
However, that is not what Obama said.
Even NBC's political reporting unit got it right when they said, "Indeed, a cynic might say last night's speech was the opening salvo in Obama's re-election in 2012."
FOXNews said, "President Obama renewed virtually all his campaign promises in the State of the Union address Wednesday night."
Obama and the liberals in Congress want us to stay silent as he goes back to re-start his Presidency.
We want the Obama Administration and Members of Congess to know that we will not fall for the same agenda in a re-packaged form.
That is why we want and need your help by signing the petition
letter here.
