Last night the president spoke in front of a joint session of congress and, in front of the nation. Among other things Barack Obama talked about America inventing the automobile...only, we didn't invent the automobile, the Germans did. The speech was hyped as "Reaganesque" determined to paint him as a liberal version of the big Gipper the media drones were out in force last night to cover history. What? this makes it how many historic moments now? And I suppose the first time he went to the bathroom in the White House was historic, and the first time he wiped his nose in the oval office was historic; you get the picture right? I thought so troop. My problem with the speech, other than it being excessively long and drab, was that it lacked everything "REAGAN" and all things substance. Simply put the speech was an over hyped snore fest. I found myself playing a game of television channel catch up. It's where you have two of the same shows on two different channels and you switch back and forth so that whoever is on will literally finish his or her own sentence on a different channel. I know it sounds childish but I was that bored and tuned out. This was not a speech to win over the Libertarian crowd, I know because I am one. And judging by Frank Luntz's focus group analysis on Fox News well, it didn't win any of those folks over either. One guy who was unemployed said he simply doesn't believe Obama will get him a job and that expects to be unemployed for quite some time.

More important than the lack of new solutions was the barrage of old tired regressive solutions. "Using the full force of government" Yeah like we haven't heard that one before. Jimmy Carter said it hundreds of times in his speeches. What is this guy trying to pull? He's nothing new, in fact he's as old as time itself. His ideas, and his solutions to problems are older than the republic. These ideas come from European progressives and they don't work. If that were the case then why are workers rioting in France? Bobby Jindal had it dead on in his response. Though, Bobby could stand to learn the tricks of the TV trade, he looked nervous and robotic but that didn't chip away the truth of his words. He talked about the American spirit as an individual looking to his or herself for creative development and the answers, Obama proclaimed that the American people will realize their worth and then relinquish that worth to government in the name of a larger collective agenda. Again, Obama speaks in terms of a collective society; not a self reliant, individual one. In Obama's perfect Utopia there are no more individuals with the hassle of rights and the burden of personal responsibility, no, in Obama's world the government rallies us to do thy bidding.

Remember what his wife said during the campaign. She said "Barack will make you work. He will not allow you to sit on the sidelines." Well, we're seeing the coach rally his players now aren't we? I for one do not desire Barack to make me work. I'll work when and where I damn well please. But for the rest of you soft headed monkey children go ahead and follow the leader. Take in that malaise redux speech, digest the talking points, and when your rights are gone, when you're slaves to the state, and when this country is not longer recognizable then maybe you'll wake up. But by that time it would have already been too late. Words matter folks, and those words last night in that speech were prophetic. They sealed our big government, collectivist society fate.


Ah well, time to build that bomb shelter.