Obama: Talks Reagan while acting like Marx

This first Obama State of the Union message in front of a divided Congress will
be extraordinary theater as the president seeks to sound like the uniter people
voted for in 2008, rather than the partisan leftist whose policies have driven our
nation to the brink of insolvency.

Obama has seen a minor resurgence in the polls by virtue of his carefully burked
Tucson speech calling for civility. Of course, this call was after four days of
vitriolic attacks from his colleagues on the left, blaming conservatives from Sarah
Palin to Rush Limbaugh for the actions of a Marxist anarchist who did not vote in
the 2010 elections. 

So the president will clearly renew his civility call, ironic in the wake of his
failure to denounce a member of his own party in Congress who called House Republicans
Nazis during the debate to repeal ObamaCare. So, while the words will be mouthed,
the president’s own silence in the face of true hate speech belies the real underlying
message — hate speech is anything that disagrees with his policies, and should not
be tolerated.

The pre-releases on the speech by Obama officials promise a speech about fiscal
responsibility, while urging increased “investment” in big-ticket items like education.

This standard Democratic tactic of mouthing the words of fiscal restraint while
using the feel-good education mantra to justify business as usual demonstrates to
everyone who is watching closely that a president who has flung $2 trillion in short-term
“investment” spending in the past two years at the economic wall has no intent of
changing course, but instead wants to set the battlefield over the fight over the
budget.

Ultimately, Obama’s intent is to sound like Ronald Reagan, even though his actions
are more like Karl Marx, and tonight is the merely the opening scene of the opening
act of the 2012 battle for the presidency. It will be interesting to see if anyone
outside of Washington is watching.