State of Confusion Address

The President gave his long awaited State of the Union Address last Wednesday. In this speech, he made many remarks that caught the attention of your pridefully humble correspondent.

The President spoke of the proposed healthcare legislation. He implored that it was time to finish the task and to not yield to opposition. What the President fails to understand is that the greatest opposition to this bill is not the weasel Republicans in Washington. It is the majority of Americans who have decided they don’t want this bill. The majority does not want it, yet the President still insists that he is representing the majority of the American people.

“The longer it was debated,” said President Obama, “the more skeptical people became.” Actually, the more people found out about the bill, the more they realized they didn’t want it.

The President said that now is the time to move forward and forget the past, yet every time there is opposition, he decides to blame “the past eight years.” It strikes me funny, how in 2010, he still says the past eight years; when the last of those eight years was the first year of his administration. Yes, the past eight years have been pretty bad, including President Obama’s first.

He also seems to talk about the Republicans like their actually the majority. News flash! Democrats are currently in the majority. Other than the Scott Brown victory stopping the filibuster-proof majority, Republicans really don’t have any great affect. I guess even in the majority, against chicken hearted Republicans, Democrats are still the weaker of the two.

President Obama also spoke of the resilience of the American people in the face of hard times. He said that even in a recession, Americans are still able to adapt and overcome, which only proves the need of a small government. People are capable of succeeding if you would stop punishing success. Desire for work cannot be fulfilled by the discouragement of prosperity. If government would stop trying and let Americans start doing, then we can become better as a nation. The sooner our President realizes this, the better it will be for the American people.