President Obama will give The State of the Union address tomorrow. I'm not really expecting anything he says to have much relevance to me and my life. I'm African American and The President does not address any issue directly related to African Americans. Well unless he gives a speech telling us Black folk to be responsible.
Oh and he cut funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
But he didn't make any promises to us while he was running for President (like he did for others). So how can we hold him accountable? Well as the Congressional Black Caucus found out, we can't.
So what has Obama done in his first year for everyone else? He didn't hesitate to give billions of dollars to the greedy incompetent bastards on Wall Street and in Detroit.
That's about it.
Oh by the way, wasn't it great theater when Obama pretended to be upset that Wall Street is giving billions in bonuses to its employees. You didn't fall for that faux outrage did you?
Anyway Obama hasn't really accomplished anything of real substance. Even though he is the leader of the Majority Party he still couldn't find a way to get Health-Care Reform passed. That's just pathetic. In fairness it wasn't all his fault. That idiot Nancy Pelosi is a total incompetent. But how can you have the majority and still not get your signature Bill passed?
Well I'll tell you how. Obama is a wimp politically.
The Tea-baggers walked all over him. The Republicans walked all over him. Pharmaceutical companies walked all over him. Even so-called Blue Dog Democrats walked all over him.
I guess Obama doesn't want to be the angry Black man.
So next November the Democrats will more than likely lose the Majority. When that happens The President will be even less effective than he is now. The Republicans will eat him alive.
So, there's nothing worthwhile The President can say on Wednesday. He's already a lame-duck President. Expect nothing to get done in the next three years much less in the next.
Sarah Palin might just make a comeback after all.
6 comments:
You have ruined my day. LOL.
I tried hard to offer rebuttals. Sadly I really couldn't. Obama has failed, hasn't he? That's just all there is to it.....
I hope things do improve though.
@Don
Oh my, sorry to ruin your day. Lol
Politics is a dirty game. He has to fight to get what he wants. So if he's not willing or able to do so then he's toast.
The Institutions came to Washington begging.
He could have given the bank bailout money to local credit unions to pay off every American's credit card debt ($960bn est) and/or paid off every American's outstanding student loans ($940bn est.) and still helped the economy.
The big banks would have had money to loan, local credit unions could have become the means of service (no "Too Big to Fail"), people would not have have the onus of debt.
But he helped those in power instead of those with none.
Health care could have been accompished with a network of hospitals and clinics owned by the people which would have competed with existing companies.
The V.A., Indian Affairs and MediCare could have been consolidated into one company that serves the masses through this new publicy owned company.
people would have an incentive to discourage waste and coruption (it would have been their company).
On, and on, and on...
Toast is a good term. LOL. America doesn't want change no more than Iraq wants democracy.
Change has to be accepted.....in order for change to take place.
It's bad enough that we elected George W. Bush twice. If we put that crazy "dumb as a bag of hammers" heifer from Wasilla in office we deserve what we get!!!
@UBJ
Those are good plans you outline. Unfortunately they make to much sense for the government to consider.
@Don
Yeah they seem to be fighting against democracy pretty hard over there. I guess George Bush was wrong.
@Reggie
If Palin is ever elected President or even Vice-Pres I'm moving to Canada!
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