More On Obama’s (Where’s the Beef?) Speech
The longer I’ve thought about President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, the more I’m thinking the speech should be titled President Obama’s Where’s the Beef speech. I’ll quickly admit, though, that giving it the title of President Obama’s Alice In Wonderland speech would be equally fitting.
Think about President Obama’s contradictions in Wednesday night’s speech. President Obama promised seniors that their health care wouldn’t be rationed even though he’s proposing cutting $500,000,000,000 from the Medicare budget over the next 10 years. President Obama promised promised all of us that his health care reform wouldn’t add a single penny to the deficit. President Obama promised us that we could keep our existing coverage if that’s what we preferred.
In the aftermath of President Obama’s speech, several columnists have started questioning President Obama’s credibility. One columnist doing this is Robert Tracinski:
Remember Barack Obama’s famous speech on race, back in March of 2008? Obama had spent 20 years listening to the sermons of Jeremiah Wright, full of venomous anti-Americanism and attacks on “white America.” Yet when the reverend’s rants were revealed to the public, Obama tried to convince us that he just happened to be missing from the pews on any well-documented Sunday, and that the Jeremiah Wright we saw and heard was not the Jeremiah Wright he knew.
It was a giant, implausible lie. Yet the speech was smoothly delivered and well-turned, perfectly balanced to seem to empathize both with the grievances of blacks and with the concerns of whites. So most people seemed to believe it.
Sean Hannity was the first to question President Obama’s credibility and ties to radicalism. People looked past President Obama’s fanciful statements and his radicalist bent and elected him anyway. NO MORE will We The People let him get away with his centrist speeches and his radical leftist advisors pushing his radical leftist agenda.
It isn’t possible to believe that the man who pushed through the $787,000,000,000 pork-filled stimulus bill without legislators reading the bill is the man who’s going to wring out $500,000,000,000 of waste from the Medicare program. That simply isn’t credible.
The notion that the president who is racking up the biggest single year deficit in U.S. history is proposing deficit-neutral health care legislation is insulting. The thoughtful people who heard his speech heard that part either laughed heartily or were upset mightily. If they laughed, it was because they didn’t take President Obama’s statement seriously. If they were upset, it’s because they believed that President Obama was treating them like idiots.
I’ve said on this blog that President Obama’s credibility is being questioned. In truth, it’s been questioned to varying levels since President Obama and Prime Minister Pelosi rammed the stimulus bill down our throats. If President Obama continues telling whoppers, what little is left of his credibility will disappear.
Technorati Tags: Stimulus, Health Care, Credibility, Deficits, Rationing, Medicare, Budget Cuts, We The People, Activism, Election 2010
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 15th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Duh-1 has apparently figured out that if he sends us far enough into debt the creditors (mainly the ChiComs and Arabs) will come knocking on our door and demand repayment, just like the bank does when one defaults to them.
His hope, after handing the keys to his masters, is that they will install him as executor until the “crisis” is over, which could take decades.
Not only that, but his ideology flows so well with theirs! See, it’s a win-win situation for both the foreigners and Barack! What more could he ask for?