Obamas State of the Union reveals a shrinking lame duck presidency, the most corrupt in history -Yesterday, we noted that the American people see the state of the union as divided, troubled and deteriorating. Last night President Obamas fifth State of the Union address, (sixth if you count his 2009 non-State of the Union), showed the shrinking lame duck Obama presidency. You can see this clearly by surveying the medias reaction to the mediocre speech. In an Associated Press article titled, Analysis: Obamas Agenda More Bite-Sized Than Bold, Nancy Benac wrote that, The presidents State of the Union address Tuesday was an amalgam of modest proposals designed to chip away at some of the same problems hes been working on all along: persistent unemployment, middle-class insecurity, lagging schools and more. That theme was continued on CBS News when John Dickerson reported, If you look at the specifics of what hes going to do - hes going to raise the minimum wage for companies that work with the federal government. Well thats a very small amount. Hes gonna set up a special thing at the Treasury Department, a savings account. Thats a very small thing. Hes going to convene C.E.O.s., hes going to meet with college professors, hes going to cut some red tape and take care of some permitting blockages. That is very small bore stuff compared to the claims the President made tonight and his aides have been making in terms of his acting. Also during CBSs SOTU coverage, Norah ODonnell put it this way, I think the rest of his speech really just proved, that Obamas proposals have gone from grand to granular. Right? From these grand sweeping proposals at the beginning of his second term to the granule, kind of more modest scaled back proposals. David M. Drucker, Senior Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Examiner, Tweeted that Obamas speech was littered with small ball ideas hes previously offered. In an Article titled, Obama Outlines Modest Plans in State of the Union Before Country Turns the Page: Audacity of a more limited scope, Times Alex Altman and Zeke Miller, reported that Obamas SOTU speech was littered with recycled ideas, He offered a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class. But virtually all of them, from manufacturing initiatives to wider broadband access, were ideas Obama has plugged before. On Fox News, The Daily Beasts Kirsten Powers said the speech was oversold and poll-tested, The things he listed off, whether its student debt or Pre-K funding are things that he brings up all the time because they poll very well. But the speech was definitely oversold by the White House in the sense that we were told to expect sort of this urgency. I really did not hear any urgency, I was expecting more of a, you know, were in really dire straits and thats why I have to pull out my pen, and why I have to take things into my own hands. And that was really missing from the speech. Not exactly rave reviews. In the accompanying video, you can watch a discussion about how last nights State of the Union speech fared in CNNs instant poll.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:01:10 +0000
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