The aftershock of the State of the Union address to the nation will reverberate for some time to come. We have grown to understand the constant rhetoric coming from a president whose only worthwhile capacity is that of a consummate pontificator, or in street corner terms, a union or community organizer capable of manipulating the ill-informed. If our President were stripped of his academic book smarts, he would have little to offer beyond his skills to talk a good talk. His practical skills and experience in the real world are personified by his lack of acumen in matters that ail this country for addressing what is best beyond his own narrow ideology.
During the State of the Union address the President made use of his often abused bully pulpit to publicly criticize the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to support the 1st Amendment rights of corporations and unions to advertise their support for candidates. The personhood of corporations has been a hotly contested topic for many decades, and it is not likely to end anytime soon. The President may not like a decision made by the Supreme Court, but in a total display of his personal ideology used a national stage to condemn their decision. It shows his inexperience in practicality of a clearly elementary understanding of "praise in public, criticize in private"! He couldn’t even stop at his total disregard for etiquette, but continued by encouraging Congress to enact legislation that would strike down the Supreme Court decision. It is not only clear that this President has not learned a single lesson in his first year in office, but he is apparently tone deaf to he and Congress’s penchant for arrogance. As patriots we should all long for the day that Congress is bold enough to enact legislation that limits a capped campaign contribution to only the individual registered voter. With today’s media tools available, the only uninformed voter is probably someone that has no intention of voting. We should wholeheartedly agree with part of a statement the President did make. "I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." My suggestion would totally eliminate any threat of that. Unfortunately, the President just wants big business out of the way. He slid into White House on special interest campaign contributions so his appeal to Congress was disingenuous at best.
The rebuke of the Supreme Court on national TV and broadcast worldwide shows how dangerous this President is for the future of America. When we are faced with the financial uncertainty of our country, out-of-control unemployment, mishandling of security and terrorism, how do unrelated Supreme Court decisions and homosexual rights fit into the catastrophic mix? They don’t! This President has no intention of doing anything to promote bipartisanship, transparency, free market enterprise, or cut spending. The next three years will be a quagmire of legislation, large and small, that will haunt any patriotic American for decades. We have an opportunity in November 2010 to make Barack Obama a lame duck President, and there should be no more urgent a call for the Tea Party Movement.