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Speach was platitude upon platitude
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President Obama’s State of the Union address said more about the state of his approach to governing than it did with the present condition of this nation under his governance.It was an uninterrupted march of platitude upon platitude, with nary a solution offered to any of the problems facing the United States.As anyone with one cent’s worth of intellect understands, the United States is not only broke, but up to its thinning hairline in debt to — of all places — China, which despite its communist government is acting more like a capitalist regime than an old Moscow-style dictatorship.He was clearly in favor of virtue and opposed to sin in all of its many forms -- except, of course, to homosexuality in the armed forces, which seems to have won his unspoken acceptance. It was a joy to behold the stolid reaction of the Commandant of the Marine Corps to Mr. Obama’s apparent acceptance of the legitimacy of same-sex relationships in the armed forces of the United States. For the most part, the speech was his attempt to disguise his quasi-socialist agenda as being an approach to political and social moderation — not an easy task for a chief executive who has just shoved a version of socialized medicine down the throats of the American people.With the sole and surprising exception of CNN, which unlike the other networks chose to broadcast the Tea Party response delivered by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the president’s speech went mostly unchallenged.Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., spoke for his party but his remarks were lukewarm compared to those of Rep. Bachmann, which cut right to the heart of the Marxist aspects of the president’s address.Needless to say, it wasn’t the president’s speech which raised the ire of the so-called mainstream GOP, but Rep. Bachmann’s well-aimed barbs.