Tonight, the President of the United States came out as a socialist. He stated that he was not an American and added that his sole objective is to destroy America and all it stands for.
Wait.
Never mind.
The tone was too light in my estimation. People are struggling and angry. That wasn't the route to go. The President proposed a slew of moderate legislation, including a spending freeze and a capital gains tax cut for small businesses. He also proposed a liberal jobs bill and pressed for the watered down health care reform bill. He maintained his promise to end the war in Iraq and see the war in Afghanistan through. He also called for the end of the exclusion of openly gay people in the military.
The President told the nation that the United States must be number one. He wanted to keep jobs from going overseas. Yet, later in the speech, he advocated providing help for people of other nations. These two points on engaging the world seemed, if not contradictory, at least confused.
You got the feeling that the President could have said, "Guns for all! Abortions for none!" and the Republicans still would've sat there twiddling their thumbs. Just once I'd like to hear a president say, "The state of our nation is... well, I don't want to talk about it."
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