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June 16, 2010

Obama's Address: An Intellectual Black Hole

Posted by The MaryHunter at June 16, 2010 8:48 AM

The Heritage Foundation put out a concise, spot-on analysis of Chairman Zero's absolute nothing of an Oval Office address. It's a short and highly recommended read; here's their closing paragraph:

In his 1979 "malaise" speech, President Carter told the American people: "I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. ... The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence." Carter was wrong. America was not suffering from a crisis of confidence. As the election of President Ronald Reagan would show the next year, it was the Carter administration that was suffering ... from a crisis of leadership. Today, our country is in crisis again. The Obama administration's constant blame shifting, politicization, and lack of organization demonstrate a crisis of competence. To restore America's faith, the White House should drop irrelevant policy priorities, refrain from making the economic damage worse, end unnecessary bureaucratic delays, and restructure the response and recovery efforts. As MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said following the address: "It was a great speech if you've been on another planet for the last 57 days."

As Daniel Foster at NRO noted: "Oval addresses are best reserved for wars and resignations." No brilliance, no useful information, not even a decisive statement of a new policy direction ushered forth out of Dear Leader's pie hole. Just tired class-warfare politics, a pitch for an economically destructive energy policy, lawless threats against BP, and more lies. It was as if his presence on my TV screen sucked the light right out of the room. It exemplified, even for even the progressive cheerleaders at MSDNC, the utter lack of creative and intellectual brilliance that now resides in the (erstwhile) most powerful elected office in the world.