January 29, 2010

I watched with an anxious expectation, as I’m sure many Americans did last night, President Obama’s first State of Union address. My anxiousness was a hopeful expectation that Mr. Obama would signal a move toward a more centrist platform. My expectation was not realized. Cries from Independents, Conservatives and Blue Dogs alike have demonstrated what we already knew; Mr. Obama is an awesome speaker, but a terrible listener.

Instead of a reconciler, he played the ideologue. “Ideologues can only give you themselves.” He is not capable of a repositioning. In exchange, we will experience an “outcome-based presidency,” for at least three more years. An outcome, I might add, that has failed on nearly every front.

With regard to pleasing his hard left base, he is loyal to the death, theirs mostly! Leadership is an admirable attribute that Republicans would do well to rediscover. On the other hand, leadership that continues to narrow the field until no one is left, is not leadership at all, but it is a sign of a desperate politician taking his last stand. Perhaps this is why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is distancing herself from this President and has indicated that she does not see herself in a second term as Secretary of State, potentially setting up her challenge for 2012.

Obama’s pledge to overturn the Military Eligibility Law of 1993, known as —“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” a policy that governs homosexuals in the military, is desperately irresponsible. It would place the military in the strange position of actively recruiting personnel who intend to violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice (which still prohibits certain forms of sexual conduct including homosexuality). This is not an American value that we all share.

“Mr. Washington” tossed the Republicans a bone: promises of nuclear energy, offshore drilling and an extremely narrow spending freeze. Unfortunately for Middle America and working families, their only benefit follows Obama’s vision for family— “Place your child in government run child care and go to work in place of the existing Child Tax Credit, which may allow one parent to stay at home.”

I give Mr. Obama - the classical prototype of Washington D.C. - an A for style, even though his speech was flat and uninspiring but smooth nonetheless; a D for substance, liberal ideology has its watermark all over this “vision” of unlimited government and did not reveal “his” plan for increasing taxes; and I give him an F for preserving and protecting the nation’s most vulnerable resource—Marriage, Family, Faith and Freedom.

May God have mercy on this Nation!

God bless!

Gene Mills

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