Obama “Address” on Debt Ceiling: Unpaid Political Spam!

By John W. Lillpop



Traditionally, the announcement that the “President will address the nation at 9PM this evening,” is delivered in somber tones with classical music in the background, and means that:

( )America is about to engage in Kinetic Military Action (War, in American English); or

( )America has been attacked, like on 9-11-01, 12-07-41; or

( )A high-value enemy combatant (Osama bin Laden) has been killed, and the evil carcass has already disposed of at sea; or

( )President caught lying is getting the hell out of Washington before being removed from office (Richard Millhouse Nixon).


Those used to be the rules of engagement for major addresses from the president.

Until Monday night, that is.

In yet another atrocious misjudgment of epic proportions, Barack Obama has altered the storied “Address to the Nation” from a unifying, inspirational message into a tawdry campaign stop where the incumbent attacks political enemies for disagreeing with him, and does so on the dimes of networks and cable companies.

The real tragedy is that, while Obama was delivering his “Collateral Damage” warning and John Boehner was responding in equally-irritating style, no one was working on the bloody debt-crisis!

In his coast-to-coast political attack on the GOP, Obama used all the catch phrases and cliches to get those “phones ringing,”-- at the office of Speaker Boehner.

Repeatedly, The One uttered the words “Fair Share” and “balanced” to convince the American people that a monthly federal deficit of $100 billion or so is not so much a spending problem, as it is a major rip-off by those who already pay 90 percent of all taxes and whom should be forced to pay even more to fund unneeded, liberal spending programs.

That argument, in a society where most pay zero—nada, none—in income taxes, is specious, at best!

If Obama really gave a tinker’s dam about the economy and the public debt, he would work to close the outrageous loopholes that allow 51 percent of working people to pay NO TAXES!

Regardless of how warped the progressive mind may be, the fact is that zero is NOT a “fair share” for anyone!

Any future Obama “Address to the Nation” must be carefully reviewed by cable and network executives to assure that the integrity of the medium is maintained.