Obama’s Deficit Speech
Politicians, in general, are despicable people, much like gangsters, televangelists, and entertainment industry agents. Which is why I do my best to avoid watching them on television as much as possible. Sadly, I happened to catch a bit of President Obama’s yawn-inducing, staid, brain-dead speech on his “plan” for deficit reduction and was pretty annoyed at how hypocritically malicious it was in it’s rhetoric.
It’s pretty common knowledge that Obama was elected as a post-partisan, a uniter not a divider, someone willing to rise above the fray, yadda yadda yadda. That was the main messaging of his campaign: I’m an adult. I’m competent. I am willing to work with people calmly and honestly. I’m not a politician. Yet Obama plays all the same old tricks he once condemned. And the way he does it is so aggravating because not only is it hypocritical, not only is it underhanded, but it is also insultingly obvious.
Obama has the amazing capacity to stand at a podium with a straight face and utter statements like “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the poor” or “I’m not for giving tax breaks to the super-wealthy” or “I won’t allow elderly Americans to be deprived of their benefits” etc.etc.. Now what I hate about this is that 1) It implies that anyone who disagrees with him is in fact FOR those things and 2) that tax breaks for the wealthy, balancing the budget on the poor, and throwing Granny under the bus are their PER SE objectives and 3) there are no other implications to be discussed. People who disagree with Obama love the rich, hate the poor, have no other motives than these emotions, and have no factual, empirical, or theoretical framework that contectualizes these policies. Cutting taxes for the rich has no other effect than to make the rich happy and the poor suffer. This is amazingly insulting to the intelligence of the American people. Please Mr. President, please.
