There were some funny moments, like when Jennifer Granholm, the woman who destroyed Michigan, got up to talk about jobs. At least the GOP shuns their failures; the democrats embrace theirs. Believe it or not, Ray Nagin, mayor of the Chocolate City who fumbled and bumbled while people died, is now a disaster consultant. No, he doesn't advise fellow democrats on how to create them, but how to handle them, believe it or not.
It was also fun to watch Elizabeth “Chief Spouting Bull” Warren talk about how President Obama is presiding over a system that is stacked against the little guy. Sandra Fluck and a brigade of angry feminists sourly telling us how Mitt Romney would gleefully leave women to die on the steps of hospitals all over this nation was also a hoot. Not the speeches, but that so many soft-heads actually believe this overheated rhetoric.
Bill Clinton was the one bright spot of this craptacular spectacle. Even I was ready to vote for him by the time he was done.
The Hopium Smoke is Dissipating, The Thrill is Gone from Chris Matthews’ Leg
The man who promised Hope and Change four years ago has instead led us to the brink of disaster. The critics agree: It was a crappy, uninspired speech. Fellow Right Blogistani Hack Wilson provided a nice recap complete with links to reviews by the punditocracy.
The President's speech was not only a plodding slog, it was downright creepy in places…
He promised to "Lead us to a better place.”
Like the “better place” I assured my kids their dead goldfish went to?
He also told us “It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.”
That’s really scary. We don't have 15 years. Roosevelt tinkered and cajoled and canoodled our economy for over a decade, making thing worse than they otherwise would have been. If history has taught us anything, it is that an economy is too complex to be managed by a central authority.
The King's Speech
This was a dictator’s speech. This was a speech of a party that believes government, bureaucracy and central planning are superior to free people exercising their personal sovereignty in free markets. It was pure progressivism, with it’s future-shaping baloney and fatuous promises of leading us to a better place, all the while pleading for more time and more money.
The President did show a few flashes of humor, like when he said this country was a place where…
I highly recommend George Will’s column on Obama’s speech. He puts it in historical perspective:
Elder – Five “Reasons” to Re-elect Obama
Clinton Speech Fact Check
WaPo – Obama Vows our Problems can be Solved
He also told us “It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.”
That’s really scary. We don't have 15 years. Roosevelt tinkered and cajoled and canoodled our economy for over a decade, making thing worse than they otherwise would have been. If history has taught us anything, it is that an economy is too complex to be managed by a central authority.
The King's Speech
This was a dictator’s speech. This was a speech of a party that believes government, bureaucracy and central planning are superior to free people exercising their personal sovereignty in free markets. It was pure progressivism, with it’s future-shaping baloney and fatuous promises of leading us to a better place, all the while pleading for more time and more money.
The President did show a few flashes of humor, like when he said this country was a place where…
“… everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules - from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, DC.”Yeah right. An ordinary citizen steals a hundred bucks and goes to jail. Washington Cronies on Wall Street steal billions and walk free (see Jon Corzine).
I highly recommend George Will’s column on Obama’s speech. He puts it in historical perspective:
Progress, as progressives understand it, means advancing away from, up from, something. But from what?
From the Constitution’s constricting anachronisms.
Rights “adjusted and harmonized” by government necessarily are defined and apportioned by it. Wilson, the first transformative progressive, called this the “New Freedom.” The old kind was the Founders’ kind — government existing to “secure” natural rights (see the Declaration) that preexist government. Wilson thought this had become an impediment to progress. The pedigree of Obama’s thought runs straight to Wilson.
“Government is a relation of give and take.” The “rulers” — FDR’s word — take power from the people, who in turn are given “certain rights.”Forward? Are you Insane?
Elder – Five “Reasons” to Re-elect Obama
Clinton Speech Fact Check
WaPo – Obama Vows our Problems can be Solved
