Wizer looks at the SoTU #1

We all knew that what Mitt Romney wanted was not necessarily the best for the country. He wanted to be the President. You could see that in his heart. In telling us his story, we saw the issues lurking in his proposals. He would run the government like a business. He would make our choices for us, but tried not to say "we weren't in a position" to make them for ourselves. He didn't have any particular problem with Obamacare, and thought Obama himself was an upstanding citizen who meant well, but he was just just a little over his head. In fact, Romney was clearly misjudging Obama, Obamacare, and the serious issues of the day. His own plans for micromanagement of the US economy,had been tried before by Hoover, and we had just already gone through George (Hoover) Bush and Barry (FDR) Obama for the last twelve years and didn't need to start anew down that path.. In the spirit of "better the devil you know", enough people voted against that kind of change to prevent it from happening.

So, what did we get instead? Instead, we got liberalism on steroids. Our first look at Obama unchained came this week with the annual State of the Union address. As we have in the past, it is instructive to strike a contrast between what the president is talking about doing, and what a hypothetical good president would do instead. As we will show, the gap between Obama and a hypothetical good president couldn't possible be any wider than it is now.

Item #1. You can get ahead no matter who you love.

Was it really necessary in the first 3 minutes to attempt a pander to a special interest group? It is mindless and vapid to advocate for unity by calling attention to differences. If Obama really wanted everybody to unite, then why does he say things that underline those differences? Obama routinely chooses to identify people along his pet categories. It's as if he tells them that they don't really belong, but he's throwing them a bone anyway. Shouldn't he be inclusive to a fault? A hypothetical  good president already has everybody in mind when he says something like "you can get ahead". You can get ahead because you're an American. period.