The State of the Union address reveals a president of two minds:

Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe.

The dominant liberal lobe favors Adams's dictum that politicians should not be "palsied by the will of our constituents." It exhorts Democrats to smack Americans with what is good for them -- health-care reform, carbon rationing, etc. -- even if the dimwits do not desire it.

The other lobe whispers Freud's reality principle: Restrain your id -- the pleasure principle and the impulse toward immediate gratification. Settle for deferred and diminished but achievable results.

Obama was mostly in Adams's mode Wednesday. His nods to reality were, however, notable.

Such speeches must be listened to with a third ear that hears what is not said. Unmentioned was organized labor's "card check" legislation to abolish workers' rights to secret ballots in unionization elections. Obama's perfunctory request for a "climate bill" -- the term "cap-and-trade" was as absent as the noun "Guantanamo" -- was not commensurate with his certitude that life on Earth may drown in rising seas.

Last Feb. 24, when unemployment was 8.2 percent, Obama said in the second sentence of his speech to Congress that the economy "is a concern that rises above all others" and later that his agenda "begins with jobs." After 11 months of health-care monomania, he said Wednesday that "jobs must be our No. 1 focus." Unemployment is 10 percent.

He called for a third stimulus (the first was his predecessor's, in February 2008) although the s-word has been banished in favor of "jobs bill." It will inject into the economy money that government siphons from the economy, thereby somehow creating jobs. And you thought alchemy was strange.

Not until the 33rd minute of Wednesday's 70-minute address did Obama mention health care. The weirdness of what he said made it worth the wait.

Acknowledging that the longer the public has looked at the legislation the less the public has liked it, he blamed himself for not "explaining it more clearly." But his faux contrition actually blames the public: The problem is not the legislation's substance but the presentation of it to slow learners. He urged them to take "another look at the plan we've proposed." The plan? The differences between the House and Senate plans are not trivial; they concern how to pay for the enormous new entitlement.

Last Feb. 24, with a grandiosity with which the nation has become wearily familiar, he said, "Already, we have done more to advance the cause of health-care reform in the last 30 days than we have in the last decade." He was referring to the expansion of eligibility to an existing entitlement -- the State Children's Health Insurance Program. But that expansion was minor compared to the enormous new Medicare entitlement for prescription drugs created under Obama's predecessor. Before the Massachusetts nuisance, this year's speech was to be a self-coronation of the "last" president to deal with health care.

Last Feb. 24, he said he had an activist agenda because of the recession, "not because I believe in bigger government -- I don't." Ninety-seven days later, he bought General Motors.

Wednesday night's debut of Obama as avenging angel of populism featured one of those opaque phrases -- the "weight of our politics" -- that third-rate speechwriters slip past drowsy editors. Obama seems to regret the existence in Washington of . . . everyone else. He seems to feel entitled to have his way without tiresome interventions in the political process by the many interests affected by his agenda for radical expansion of the regulatory state. Speaking of slow learners, liberals do not notice the connection between expansion of government and expansion of (often defensive) activities referred to under the rubric of "lobbying."

Lamenting Washington's "deficit of trust," Obama gave an example of the reason for it when he brassily declared: "We are prepared to freeze government spending for three years." This flagrant falsehood enlarges Washington's deficit of truth: He proposes freezing some discretionary spending -- about one-eighth of government spending.

Obama's leitmotif is: Washington is disappointing, Washington is annoying, Washington is dysfunctional, Washington is corrupt, verily Washington is toxic -- yet Washington should conscript a substantially larger share of GDP, and Washington should exercise vast new controls over health care, energy, K-12 education, etc. Talk about a divided brain.

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Originally posted by Bill Koski:
To this point "STONER BARRY" has been walking in fdr's footsteps. Now he has jumped into lbj's with his $8,000,000,000.00 dollar hi-speed rail boondoggle!
In 1965 lbj and the socialist donkies passed an $8,000,000,000.00 hi-speed rail program, how many dollars is that in todays money, and the entire $8,000,000,000.00 was pissed away without a single hi-speed train to be seen anywhere!

Yet another prime example of, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result!"
Besides the fact that United States engineering companys have zero expertise in hi-speed rail so the money would actually have to be pissed away in foreign countrys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"STONER BARRY" jingling along his merry way spouting bull shyt lies every step of the way!
In his SOTU speech "STONER BARRY" blathered about off-shore drilling and nuclear power plants!
If he was serious about off-shore drilling he should have issued an executive order Thursday allowing it, DID HE?
Now rumor is, this should get the leftists living in the 19th century irate, "STONER BARRY" is going to propose 100 new nuclear power plants in the budget he sends to congress, in the United States no less! This will never happen either because "STONER BARRY" will quietly order the epa to issue NO permits!
LIES, LIES, LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Bill Koski:
"STONER BARRY" jingling along his merry way spouting bull shyt lies every step of the way!
In his SOTU speech "STONER BARRY" blathered about off-shore drilling and nuclear power plants!
If he was serious about off-shore drilling he should have issued an executive order Thursday allowing it, DID HE?
Now rumor is, this should get the leftists living in the 19th century irate, "STONER BARRY" is going to propose 100 new nuclear power plants in the budget he sends to congress, in the United States no less! This will never happen either because "STONER BARRY" will quietly order the epa to issue NO permits!
LIES, LIES, LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You sure are spreading lies today old man.

Any facts to back up your nonsense????

Obama unveiling $3.8T federal budget blueprint

Monday, February 1, 2010; 8:28 AM

The $3.8 trillion budget blueprint President Obama is submitting to Congress on Monday calls for billions of dollars in new spending to combat persistently high unemployment and bolster a battered middle class. But it also would slash funding for hundreds of programs and raise taxes on banks and the wealthy to help rein in soaring budget deficits.

Obama Jobs Program Could Cost $100 Billion

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's push to create jobs may carry a price tag in the $100 billion range, his top spokesman said Sunday

$100 Billion







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The last budget President Bush and the Republicans passed had a deficit of roughly $170,000,000,000.00 for fiscal year 2007 and to think we were complaining about the money being pissed away.
In fiscal year 2008 with the socialist donkies writing the budget bill the deficit skyrocketed to $400,000,000,000.00, PLUS!
NOW, three (3) years after the GOP had a $170,000,000,000.00 deficit "STONER BARRY" wants a budget with a $1,600,000,000,000.00 deficit a full ten (10) fold increase for the future generations to deal with!
So much for "STONER BARRY's" lie about no tax increases for the middle class, no unemployment deduction, no college tuition deduction, no charitable donation deductions, of course the leftists never donate anyway because they want the government to do it, and the President Bush tax cuts go bye bye for everybody!
Just a few nuggets for you duped boobs to consider as you pony up the cash!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama Pushes College Tax Credit and Debt Forgiveness

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama touted education among his top priorities in his first State of the Union address, proposing a $10,000 higher-education tax credit for families and debt forgiveness for people who have been repaying their college loans for at least 20 years.

“Let’s tell another 1 million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only 10 percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after 20 years -- and forgiven after 10 years if they choose a career in public service,” Obama said.

Obama Pushes College Tax Credit and Debt Forgiveness







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Don't listen to "STONER BARRY's" lies, his budget bill takes away the college tuition tax credit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"STONER BARRY's" liars are going to have to 'fess up Friday!
There are 824,000 unemployed the liars haven't been counting to keep the unemployment rate at 10%! As "STONER BARRY's" racist pastor is wont to say, "the chickens have come home to roost!"
824,000, if there are 8,240,000 unemplyed now this will jack the rate up one full point!

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Obama: Close Gitmo Within Year
Media reports are casting President Obama's move to close down the Guantanamo prison one of three executive orders he signed yesterday dealing with terrorism suspects in a positive light and as an indication that he is wasting no time in reshaping Bush-era policies. In a front-page story titled "Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes To A Sudden End," for example, the Washington Post reports, "Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away." The Los Angeles Times reports Obama's orders were "designed...to show a dramatic break with the Bush administration," and the Financial Times says closed "the book on the Bush administration's controversial 'war on terror' policies." Along similar lines, AFP to "a sharp reversal of the controversial Bush administration 'war on terror' policies."









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"STONER BARRY" and the socialist donkies doing what they normally do, fudging the numbers to get the desired results!
More layoffs in January, along with close to 1,000,000 laid-off people they've been hiding, and the unemployment rate dips from 10% to 9.7%??????????????????
Some temporary census hires, how will the leftists hide the numbers as these jobs end?
Makes good news for today for the left-wing main stream moron media to trumpet! Of course the same media will miss reporting the adjustments to the numbers as they are made!

One of the left-wing main stream moron media outlets unintentionally blew the whistle on the "STONER BARRY" cabals bogus unemployment percentages!
They reported that total EMPLOYMENT numbers in the United States DROPPED in january!
The only way "STONER BARRY" and cronies could report lower unemployment percentages was by jacking up the total number of jobs available in the United States!
We'll see how many states report lower unemployment percentages?

Could someone tell me when and where did obama donate his peace prize money to??? He said it would go to charity, you would think that whatever charity he donated it to would make a big deal of thanking him for the 1.4 million. Surely he didn't lie again, surely.......

Why I am surprised at someone denouncing a member of his own Democratic Party.

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Originally posted by BD:
Why I am surprised at someone denouncing a member of his own Democratic Party.

Can you answer the question or not???

I did I think. What question in case I didn't?

You have to understand the socialists are so wedded to their ideology, the socialist donkey platform, it is impossible for them to understand how a person could see the faults of someone from their own party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of people being wedded to their idealolgy, hummmm, wink, wink.

Dan

That's a fact, I'm a CONSERVATIVE through and through!
That being said I won't tolerate or support someone that is dishonest or does not support our constitution no matter how imprtant they alledgedly are in CONSERVATIVE circles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the opposite of what the liberal/socialists will do as they blindly ignore the failings of their brethren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!