Last night as I watched the State of the Union, I felt proud
to be a Democrat. I felt proud to have a President that is such a great
speaker and that in an election year, is not afraid to ruffle a few feathers.
Obama touched almost every subject that is on everyone’s
minds. From a great opening where he touched our hearts as we witnessed the
warmth in his embrace to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to the recognition he
expressed towards our men and women serving this country in the military.
Nothing that Obama said in the SOTU was outrageous. But
today we are hearing the expected comments from the Right. Today, I read an
article from Los Angeles Times “'Republicans blast Obama for ‘efforts to divide us’” that summarizes what the GOP thought of Obama’s speech. What caught my
attention is the ridiculous assertion that Obama is constantly trying to divide
us. Really? These people must have a different concept of what dividing means,
because for the last 3 years that’s all they’ve done, not Obama. If anything,
Obama’s base has been upset because he has tried so hard, and in their opinion,
he has conceded too much to the Right in order to get things done, and they say
Obama is a divider?
Mitch Daniels, the Governor of Indiana, resents what according
to him Obama insinuated, if we are to believe Gov. Daniels, Obama said that
this nation is a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’, I did not hear anything at
all that resembled that statement, but Gov. Daniels said the opposite and answered
to his imaginary assumption with “this nation must always be a nation of
‘haves’ and ‘soon to haves’”… that must be a damn joke! For the last 10 years,
this nation has become a nation of haves and have nothing, the dream of ‘soon
to have’ it’s slowly vanishing and will soon disappear if a Republican wins the
elections. For the last 10 years all it has matter for every Republican in
Congress is the financial health of the corporations and multimillionaires that
keep them where they are, not the working class. The working class is nothing
more than the instrument that lines with money the pockets of these
Corporations (people now) and multimillionaires; it is true that the tax cuts
they have managed to give these corporations create jobs, theirs and trickle
down economics – to their bank accounts, not to the working class. So far, in
10 years of these tax cuts, jobs have been decreasing not increasing. If that
was true, we would have a 0% unemployment rate, what’s more, we should have to
bring people from other countries to fill the vacancies, lies! Nothing could be
further from the truth! For Gov. Daniels to even make mention that Obama is
‘pro-poverty’ it’s an insult coming from a party that has blocked every effort
this administration has proposed to promote or create new jobs. For Gov.
Daniels to be either so delusional or such a great lair as to claim that the
GOP is the only hope to “restore America in an upward mobility and equality”
it’s in and by itself laughable. When has this country seen any equality or
upward mobility during a Republican administration in at least the last 30 years?
Obama knew the Republicans were going to call him a ‘class
warrior’. Anyone daring to touch the super wealthy of this country is accused
of dividing this country by class or of being a socialist or worse yet, a communist. It is so ludicrous to claim that by Obama
not wanting for the margin between the very wealthy and the middle class to be
as abysmal as it is now he is dividing the nation, that it would be as
ridiculous for someone to claim that is terrible to want to close the gap
between an “A” grade student and a “D” grade student. But that’s the GOP for
you… Illogical, arrogant and indifferent to the needs of the working class!
Then, we had to hear from the candidates. Mitt Romney used the same rhetoric that the far right uses time and time again and that their stupid followers
believe: that Obama wants more taxes, more spending and more regulations, but
of course, he doesn’t stop and clarify that the ‘more taxes’ are for the
wealthy, not the working class; that the ‘more spending’ is to create jobs and
that the ‘more regulations’ is to keep an eye on previous corporate offenders,
like the ones that have contaminated our environment; the ones that made
thousands of people lose their homes and the ones that brought this nation to
the brink of a second depression. No, Mitt Romney conveniently left the
explanation out, allowing his followers to think that the taxes he was
referring to were the taxes of the working class, the more spending was to fill the pockets
of the rich and the ‘regulations’ was to increase the size of government.
Next we have the worse offender, sorry, candidate of them all: Newt Gingrich. I
have no idea how he dares to criticize anyone, with a record such as his. For
this pig (I can’t call him anything else and I must apologize to the pigs) to
claim that Obama is a radical and out of touch with America is offensive. A
guy that has no moral values, who was asked to resign from congress and from
his position as Speaker of the House for basically stealing and fraudulently
issuing checks with no funds; a guy that is the only member of Congress and the
only Speaker of the House, in the history of this nation, that had to pay a
fine of $300,000 a guy who goes to Tiffany as we go to Walmart, to claim that
he is in touch with America but not Obama, is laughable. Certainly the America
I live in is not the America Gingrich lives in.
The only one that said the truth, up to a point, was Rick
Santorum. He said “Over the last three years, he has made it clear that his
values are not our values” – and that is so very true! Obama values his wife,
his children, and his family. Obama values the American Dream. Obama values
the right to love whoever you chose to love. Obama values the health of this
country. Obama values the environment. Obama values the working class. So
yes, Rick Santorum was right, Obama’s values are NOT, in any type, shape or
form those of the Right, and for that I thank Obama.
That leaves us with Ron Paul. His response was nothing but a long
list of complains, not one serious response to any of the points made by Obama
in the State of the Union address. We all know that Ron Paul wants to return
to the pre-Civil Rights Act era, we all know that he wants the country to run
by itself, with little or no government – probably only two people in
government if he wins: he, the ‘king’ and his prince, Rand Paul. We would all
be so stoned that will not care what is happening around us, probably why he
supports making drugs legal. We would return to the Wild, Wild West. All joke
aside, his response was just a litany of his usual complains, nothing at all
related to what Obama said and of course, he closed his so-called response with
the a new complain, the “TSA treatment of his son, Rand Paul”… You know what?
I must thank the TSA, if I have to endure getting screened, touched and x-rayed;
whom does Rand Paul think he is to be treated differently? I’m telling you,
Ron and Rand Paul think they are above the law.
All in all, the response from the GOP was what we all expected. A
complete and utterly denial of accepting any responsibility for the state in
which this country finds itself, a self-evident negative attitude, a perennial
effort to obstruct any help this country needs to move forward, to help the
working class to get the jobs that will help them fulfill the American dream;
for Republicans the only people that matter, the only people that can have an
‘American dream’ are wealthy people and we, the working ants, should be
grateful for the crumbs they let us get.
Wake up America! Remember what got us to where we are today.
Obama is good, but he can’t undo what took 8 years to accomplish; Obama can’t
perform miracles it is up to all of us, we the people, must work together, roll
up our sleeves and help him shape our own future.
