SOTUS: Obama's vision thing defined

by Clifford F. Thies

The Great Obama, quoting Lincoln, said the purpose of government is to do only what people are unable to do for themselves. Judging by his State of the Union address, we the people, as individuals and as citizens of our states, cannot be trusted with education, health care, infrastructure, international trade, housing, mortgages, credit cards, banking or insurance, energy policy, the environment, the workplace, consumer goods, the internet, or what industries or jobs are to grow. Other than those things, and anything else he might have failed to mention, we're o.k.

Instead of dealing with the fiscal crisis of the federal crisis, he's in denial. Companies and jobs are going overseas, he says, because tax rates in this country are among the highest in the world, the solution to which is to raise them. And, just like reducing reimbursements to health care providers is the way to lower the cost of health care, the way to make college affordable is for the federal government to regulate tuition.

The State of the Union is, he says, "not grave." Those who say otherwise, don't know what they're talking about.

"Not grave," how's that for a goal. Hey, the country is no longer #1, but we're not last! Thank you Oh Great Obama.

We avoided a Great Depression! Thank you Oh Great Obama.

Only 25 million people are out of work! Thank you Oh Great Obama.

The number of people under the poverty line only grown to 40 million! Thank you Oh Great Obama.

And, you can look this one up. every day that Obama has been President, the very oxygen we need to breathe has been there for us, the Sun has risen in the east, and we have avoided the cataclysmic earthquakes and volcanoes that have devastated other countries.

At which point, the audience bursts into chants of "Thank you Oh Great Obama! Thank you Oh Great Obama!" Women are overtaken by orgasms and Chris Matthews has a tingle go up his leg.

"Fairness" is his vision for the country, which means more for those on his side. Will somebody propose that Freedom is the other vision for the country?