A SEERS REFRAIN
On the heels of a moving, inspirational speech at the Tuscon Memorial Service, President Obama is poised this evening to make his mid-term State of the Union address. Much of the nation’s press and punditry are agog in increasing certitude that Mr. Obama will deliver again the kind of oratory that cements a world leader’s mark on history. It seems to me that there’s every reason to expect this will occur. But if history is any guide, it shouldn’t surprise us when a person with President Obama’s gift of oration hits a home-run: it’s simply a matter of probability.
The real question which I fear will go unanswered or even unasked by those who long to see Obama’s Shekinah restored is, “what are you going to do?” It wasn’t long ago when the “Hope and Change” mantra went grossly unchallenged on its substance by the media of record. This abdication en masse resulted in a massive lurch toward socialized medicine in response to a non-existent crisis. While it’s arguable that the unfunded mandate of non-discriminatory “health care” for all has been a waxing fiscal strain on our country’s deficit, the manufactured ruse that federally mandated “health insurance” for all is timely, necessary and proper medicine has been a near fatal distraction. It is the created crisis which has divided us even further into ideological camps.
The real tragedy of being wooed and wowed by the silver tongued elocution of our 44th president is that the moony fawning over his remarkable style will cause the weak-willed middle to forget that effective address of our jobless rate, outrageous national debt and crippled global economic status has been purposely ignored for two years. That is unfortunately as much a statistical certainty as tonight’s address being more stump than stuff.
