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Obama's Statist of the Union address

President Obama made his State of the Union speech/lecture recently, opening with the obligatory, "I am happy to report that the state of our Union is strong." As any entertainer will tell you, it is smart to start with a good joke.

A friend told me that Obama should have gone to the podium with an announcement: "There is a truck with Massachusetts tags parked outside the Senate. Please move it as it is blocking my agenda."

The speech was classic teleprompter Obama: arrogant, dismissive, patronizing, and uncontaminated by any sense of reality. I felt like I was listening to a high school principal who calls the students together after a troubling event in the parking lot, lecturing, casting aspersions, and implying that he knows who did it. Obama's speech was full of scold and scorn, with none directed toward himself.

It would be fun to see Obama's overworked teleprompters unionize, demand fewer hours for more pay, and then start fund raising and committing...full column text

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