Empty Words From An Empty Suit

Posted by Larry Miller on January 28, 2010 under Why | Be the First to Comment

A lot has already been written about President Obama’s State of the Union message. With all due respect to pundits like Chris Matthews who “forgot he was black for an hour”, how can so much be written and discussed about so little? To be sure, high sounding words poured forth from the ever present teleprompters. Unfortunately, these words failed to combine themselves into coherent sentences that would work for the benefit and safety of the American people.

People are seeing problems like a crumbling economy and near misses in terrorist attacks. They are looking for answers from their leaders, but as Congressman Randy Forbes (VA-4) noted, “The President had a great opportunity to answer the call. He just missed it.”

Yet even if he said the right words… told us the right things… to many of us it would not have mattered. It would be even harder for him than Arthur Fonzarelli, to say he was wrong. So can we really believe the man? In the past, Joe Wilson was roundly criticized by both parties and the press for stating the obvious. Later is words were vindicated by the President’s own actions. This time around Supreme Court Justice Joseph Alito let the world know, in less audible tones, that the teleprompters words were false.

It is reported that the Republican leadership gave the troops marching orders to be quiet and respectful of the President. I guess they did not want the event to mimic the British House of Commons with it’s shouting and heckling from the back benches… which is really too bad as the British body is great fun to watch – kind of cathartic one would imagine. And, it knocks the pomposity right out of just about every speaker, including the Prime Minister.

So rather than analyzing the speech as a policy statement, I will just look at the event where the ‘leader’, backed by his Vice President and a Speaker of the House pulling him toward a more radical agenda is speaking to three groups of people in the room and an irrelevant audience of citizens out somewhere in televisionland.

The first group is the Republican delegation, who, because of the inability of some to stand on principles, has also found itself relegated to irrelevant status. This should bode well for the Barack Hussein Obama implementing is destructive agenda, but for two redeeming factors: an armed an angry population and the recent loss of “Ted Kennedy’s seat” in the liberal bastion of Massachusetts.

Because of these factors, he still has two more groups to deal with. First are the progressive loyalists, the ideologues, who, like homicide bombers, are willing to sacrifice themselves and their political careers on the altar of government expansion and control. Perhaps they believe their loyalty will ensure their positions on the touted and denied death panels. The second group is populated by the career politicians, for whom nothing is more sacred than re-election. So many see their prospects of reaching this goal inversely proportional to their support for the President’s agenda. Depending on the balance between these two parts of the Democrat delegation, we may be watching a lame duck president with three quarters of his first (and only) term remaining.

Glenn Beck is fond of saying, “don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.” We have seen video clips of the President talking to ACORN, telling them of his goal of a single payer, government run health care system, then we have heard him telling us, the gullible American public, that he was not interested in a government run program. Time and time again video of this man talking to his core constituents and telling them of plans that directly contradict his public pronouncements.

We can only conclude that these words, no matter how high sounding, honorable and tickling to our itching ears fall to the ground with the rest of the empty platitudes that have been uttered through the ages. The Apostle Paul described it well when he wrote, “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”