Obama’s State of the Union ADDRESS Review

President Obama was more of a European-style prime minister who has just lost a no-confidence vote when he stood before Congress Wednesday night. He seemed angry and defensive. He has polarized the parties and federalized the elections. President Obama spent very little time on Security. He never mentioned the Christmas Day Bomber or the Gitmo prison. He gave no solutions for dealing with terrorists. He did not explain why he allows terrorists to have lawyers that cause them to refuse to talk. He appeared to condemn war without mentioning the fact that Americans were fighting in Yemen as he spoke. It is very frightening in view of the execution of the Iran opposition leaders today.

The eighty six times the State of the Union Address was interrupted by clapping sounded as though people were “hired” to clap, because of the lack of substance in the speech. Mr. Obama’s speech had many errors. He said he came to Washington to “close the credibility gap and end the outsized influence of lobbyists”. He also said He had “excluded lobbyist from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.”

This cannot be true because he put William Lynn in the Pentagon as Deputy Defense Secretary when Mr. Lynn was a lobbyist for Defense Contractor Raytheon? In addition, Eric Holder was a registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm. Tom Vilsack was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association. Eight other persons in policy-making positions or nominees were registered lobbyists.

How could the president speak so negatively of the Supreme Court ruling on political donations with the judges sitting right in front of him? If he disagreed with them, he should have done so privately, not with all the Democrats standing up around them clapping. Did he not know that the ruling did not affect foreign donations as he claimed? His incorrect judgment on this issue reduces his creditability.

President Obama clearly appeared to have misunderstood that the American people spoke in VA, NJ, NY, and MA. It is unbelievable that he is continuing with his Socialist agenda. The fact that the president wants to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy for the military, shows that the President is not in touch with the Military leaders and the majority of the American people.

He promoted his administration's supposed creation and saving of a couple million jobs despite the loss of 7 million jobs nationwide, and blamed the economy on Bush. He spoke of the 95% of Americans receiving tax cuts last year...and the money recovered from the bank bailouts (by the way that was under Bush). If taxes have been cut, as he claims, fees and service charges of a wide range of goods and services have been added. He proposed using the 30 Billion recovered from the bailout to the banks to extend credit to help small businesses to stay afloat, but we just used that money from the banks.

Overall the speech was full of statements meant to inspire yet they fell short of providing non-partisan solutions. He was lecturing, talking down to the Republicans, all the while acting like a candidate who deeply cares about the American people and the Constitution. He seemed sarcastic and unprofessional in his rhetoric. Certainly not the type of address we have come to expect from a President of the United States.