OBAMA: POSITIVE HE CAN FOOL ENOUGH PEOPLE ALL THE TIME

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. George Bush had difficulty reciting this old saying, inadvertently reversing it once (to my recollection). President Obama, on the other hand, doesn't have to keep this old saying straight in his mind because he has his own personal variation: Not only can I fool them once, I can fool them time and time again. President Obama's State of the Union Address was, in my opinion, the best speech he has ever given. It was clearly an improvement upon his campaign speeches, yet eerily packed full of the same rhetoric and promises. He promised to put a halt to earmarks and insisted that earmarks be posted on the Internet before any vote in Congress. Aside from the blatant inconsistency of this promise, Obama is counting on people to have forgotten that he claimed his stimulus bill had no earmarks, while a conservative count measured over 9,000 earmarks within the bill, and as to transparency, he promised that any health care bill would be posted on the Internet for all to see before any vote. I personally felt the liberal destruction of education was complete, but how it must have annoyed President Obama to have to promise to a re-commitment to total destruction of education since the election in Massachusetts clearly indicated that their job was not yet finished. He proposed increased tax incentives for higher education, but I fear that could easily apply only to fields approved by the Obama administration. He again promised to 'look into' clean coal, bio fuels, nuclear energy, and oil and gas production. This was identical to promises made during the campaign, and the result was no incentives, much less any lifting of barriers, making it virtually impossible for a nuclear plant to get off the drawing board, and claimed advances in bio-fuels resulted in a tripling of the cost of produce, reduction in food exports, and proving to all but the unimaginably dense that bio-fuels are environmentally unsound. And while the lip service to clean coal technology was obscene, nothing can compare to his crowing about having opened up millions of acres for oil and gas exploration early in his presidency. Not only were the vast majority of the opened lands of unknown potential, they were in areas in which extraction would cost two to three times more than areas of well established reserves.

Perhaps the most grotesque component of President Obama's spewings was an announced freeze in government spending after 2010. Obama claiming this was a commitment to fiscal responsibility would be laughable if the freeze were enacted today. Not only have most government budgets increased by nearly 20 percent in 09', Obama gives congress a whole additional year to pad budgets before the freeze. Logically, this will result in a significant increase in spending more than if there were no freeze at all.

Finally, Obama's commitment to clean up the status quo in Washington is worse than comical. Even though one could argue that JFK brought Chicago politics into the 1960 election, it took Obama to bring Chicago politics to the White House.