Posted by
flagwaver on Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:01:41 AM
Last night's State of the Union address was the final confirmation of what we conservatives have known all along, that despite liberal swooning over the supposed communication skills of President Obama, the man has no idea of how to communicate with people. Take it from me, because I know.
As many of you know, I am facing the dissolution of my marriage of 14 years (15 in March) and a great deal of the problems that my wife and I created stemmed from our inability to honestly communicate with each other. We both would talk, but neither of us really listened to the other. We tuned each other out way too often in order to focus on ourselves, and never really cared about what the other person was saying; we just went through the motions of hearing without listening and all it got us was heartache and pain. And that is what President Obama and his cohorts are doing right now, hearing words without deciphering the meanings.
Take his constant whining about what he inherited and how this current mess isn't his fault. One of the things that he should have learned after Virginia and New Jersey is that the old "Blame Bush Express" has run out of gas. No one wants to hear how it was W's fault, especially since it wasn't W who is running well into the trillions of dollars in projected debt...and who lobbied Congress to raise the national debt limit even higher so that we can run an even greater debt in the future. The people have loudly expressed their displeasure with such plans, yet the President continues to spend money like a drunk at a strip club. He heard...but he didn't listen.
Or look at his decision to double down and continue to push for health care legislation that the people are rejecting in droves. There is not one poll anywhere, done by anyone that shows public support for the President's health care takeover scheme...yet the President and his cronies still push for it. He even uses his SotU speech to let us know that "I don't quit!" You would think that after losing a Senate seat in one of the bluest states in the country to a guy who basically ran his campaign as being the 41st vote, someone in the White House inner circle would tell the President just what that means. However, the President lets us know that it is not the will of the people that he cares about, but simply forcing his will on the American people is his ultimate goal. He knows best, so we may as well just bend over and do an ankle grab! Is that listening?
Finally, look at his inclusion in his speech the determination to bring "Don't ask, don't tell" to an end in the military. While many people see the measure as an affront to gays and lesbians serving in the military, I see it as a reasonable idea: keep your personal life personal. Hell, I wish that there was a "Don't ask" policy for all of society, because I frankly don't care who you diddle....and I damned sure don't want to hear about it. But for all of that, I have heard no clamor from the public to repeal the policy; as a matter of fact, hardly anyone even discusses it anymore save for a few hardcore "gay rights" groups who are bent on turning the US military into a playground for left wing social engineering projects. What the people wanted to hear the President talk about is what we are talking about: what is the strategy in Afghanistan, what will constitute a "victory" there, and how long are we staying? Hardly a word on those subjects, yet there is time to tell us how "Don't ask" needs to go? In this one case he has been listening...but not to us.
For a man who has ears the size of Rhode Island, President Obama refuses to hear anything that he doesn't want to. All he hears are the daily affirmations of his hand-picked cadre of "yes" people, the pleas of his special interest friends, and the voices of his own grandiose visions rattling around in his oversized head. He has not heard and will not hear the vox populi, choosing instead to believe that finding the right formulation of words will turn his sows ear proposals into silk purse programs. But if he doesn't start listening soon, he and his friends are going to find themselves where I recently found myself. Bruised, battered, and wondering what the hell just happened.