Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times
SAN DIEGO — January 26, 2011 — For the past two weeks, leading all the way up to last night’s State of the Union message, we’ve been inundated with a plethora of pundits announcing that Obama (out of strategy and a desire to get reelected after reading the November election’s writing on the wall) is moving to the center. Actually, our president is much more strategic than people give him credit for. He talks as if he has moved to the center while espousing the same old policies.
?Following the Arizona shooting, Obama urged people to “tone down the intense political speech,” but failed to say anything when, one week later, Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) compared all who oppose our recent health care law to Nazis. The explanation for this inconsistency is simple: Inflamed rhetoric is defined as a disease of conservatives. When liberals do the same thing, it’s only “healthy dissent in the rich tradition of our freedoms.”
This week, in the face of Pro-Life protests in Washington, Obama reminded our country that women need to have the same opportunities as men. This, of course, was code for saying that mothers should have a right to kill their unborn babies. But Obama is smart enough not to phrase it that way. Otherwise, people might think about what is actually happening during an abortion.
Indeed, our president’s lexicon includes a whole host of nice sounding words whose meanings are seldom pondered. Bi-partisanship is a perfect example. Most of the time it means that Republicans should do things the way Democrats want them done.
But last night highlighted the topper of them all. The key State of the Union word was invest. “Invest” means borrowing more money to “stimulate” the economy once again. He’s probably hoping we have already forgotten his previous stimulus package and the crackerjack job it did of fixing our financial crisis. Personal favorites include: 2 million for swine odor research in Iowa; $300,000.00 for helicopters to hunt radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State; and 3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state. In all fairness, the last time I visited a museum I was quite upset that it didn’t float. I almost forgot: There was also $219,000.00 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women. Hmm…Call me a nut, but aren’t there already enough freshmen males who will volunteer to conduct this study for free?
More examples of Obama’s move to the center include his insistence that the children of illegal aliens be entitled to an American college education, his glee that gays can now serve openly in the military, and a ringing endorsement of last year’s brand, spanking, new health care law. If this is a trek to the center, geometric rules must have changed while nobody was looking.
To be fair, Obama offered to make a few microscopic adjustments in the interest of “bi-partisanship” but for the most part, this magician’s act of announcing clear skies while it’s raining outside seems polished as ever. How does he pull off such an interesting phenomenon? How does he insist that he’s anchored in the center while moving further and further to the left right before our eyes? Probably because he hopes America is just that stupid or sincerely misled. When he remembers that he got elected the first time, his hope is nourished.
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