Are we living in a parallel universe?  What America heard and what America knows surely leads to this conclusion.  Before we go any further, fix the data on this chart firmly in your subconscious and, neither listening left or listening right, do what you know in your heart you MUST do in November.

Contrary to many opinions, the Obama address was not all bad.  Number one, Michelle Obama looked exquisite in that bright blue dress.  Number two, if Barack follows thru on this it would be great.  Stop ALL insider trading within the congress in some sneaky attempt to enrich themselves in exchange for providing  favorable legislation from committtes on which they sit.

If you think this was not a trial run for the Obama Campaign rhetoric in the oncoming months, think again.  Team Obama has had Romney in their sights as the probable GOP nominee for months.  While not mentioning Romney by name, of course, the President threw several barbs Romney’s way last night.  Point one was Warren Buffet’s secretary sitting next to Michelle.  Obama also said, “Tax reform should follow the Buffet rule;  if you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes.  Romney had just released his tax returns which revealed he paid a rate of under 15% on his income.  Obama also used the word “fair” several times through out his address when referring to Romney.  When Obama uses this word this is barely disguised code for class-warfare.

Obama remains sold out to the “Greenie” mindset.  While he is smart enough to know that the Sierra Club is not key to his re-election, his decision (without elaboration) to nix the Keystone XL pipeline continues to demonstrate this belief.  With Al Gore backing his decision, I would suppose Obama considers all this “settled science.”  Solyndra, the Lil Kennedy bankrupt project, and numerous other foundering and nearly insolvent companies are a mere distraction.  In last night’s address, Obama continued to stress the importance of this “innovative” and “clean” energy approach.  He is going to get the Defense Department, and particularly the Navy, involved.  (I would have thought perhaps Defense had a somewhat more important mission.)

As the minutes became what seemed to be hours and then days, it occured to me that this speech was not a determined “To do List” but more of a “Wish List.”  I thought of an Amazon.com Gift Registry, as a matter of fact. 

You are aware that a sort of “Bingo List” was floating around the cubicles these past days about words Obama would use to pepper his speech and to “instruct”/guide his subjects.  Here are just a few.  Did you pick up on many?  “Investment” (Spending taxpayer money on Obama re-election constituencies such as government employee unions.)  “Sacrifice” (Tax Hikes)  “Regulations” (The government leash attached to the choke collar around the neck of the economy)  “Obstructionists” (House Republican lawmakers who have actually passed a budget, NOT the Senate ProgLibs who have refused to pass a budget for over 1,000 days)  “I” or “Me” (Center of the known universe.

Domestically, Obama is in deep doo-doo, as proven by the chart shown at the beginning of this article.  On the international scene, it is equally abominable, if not worse.  He did give credit to Seal Team Six for taking out bin Laden and then he put on his “professor” hat and instructed us that as a nation we need to respond as the Seals, with teamwork.  Additionally, we would almost have thought he led that charge himself.  He moved fom this episode to the current Taliban status with this, “The Taliban momentum has been broken and some troops in Afghanistan have begun coming home.”  His latest Intelligence Estimate suggests the Taliban will continue playing along with the idea of “talks” while continuing to stall until troops leave.  At that point, they and the War Lords will reestablish control.

                                                            A recent nightmare

The poor guy just can’t seem to ever be the leader America wants and so badly needs.  He has the audacity to call for government regulatory restraint after ramming the behemoth and onerous Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank finance Bills down American throats.  In this SAME speech, he calls for even MORE new Obama Regime agencies.  He now wants to establish a Trade Enforcement Unit and a Financial Crimes Unit.

He smiles and tells us “America is back!”

Karl Marx, from time to time, spoke a few grains of truth.  He once stated, “History repeats itself…first as tragedy, second as farce.”