Sputnik moment: Barack Obama's State of the Union

There is no question that Barack Obama is one of the finest orators of our time. You hear his voice, and you want to believe. But belief is the enemy of reason, which is why Obama urged us all to "renew our belief in the government." Is that the same government that allows banks to take homes with fraudulent documents or the government that feels us up at the airports or maybe the government that has taken jobs and increased the debt by 20 TRILLION $$$???...

In the main, Obama said an infinite deal of nothing (much to do about nothing) and he said it very well. He hit all the hot-button topics and said what everyone wanted to hear. Taxes will go down. The deficit will go down.... hahahaha..... (Congress TODAY is talking about how much to raise it) We will invest in future technology. We will freeze spending. On and on, Obama droned....He made promises which are, when one thinks about it, mutually exclusive. He cannot possibly keep them all if any. Based on his prior record, he won't even try for most of them.

I was ROTFL by Obama's Kennedy-esque attempt to revive the spirit of the race to the Moon, then hijack it into support for his green agenda. I am sorry Barack, but you are no John Kennedy, and substituting clean coal for oil as an energy supply does not capture the public imagination the way travel into space did all those years ago. Your expressed devotion to incubating new technologies mirrors what I have been saying for years. One would almost suspect your speech writers read my blog. And if actions matched words I would celebrate the rebirth of the great adventure.....

But you are, after all, the President that canceled the replacement space shuttle and ended the return to the Moon. If we are to have a "Sputnik moment" it can only happen by hitching rides on other nations' rockets. America's competency in space has failed as badly as its competency in high finance. Challenger and Columbia are but firecrackers compared to the Hindenburg like conflagration of Wall Street's mortgage-backed securities fraud.:

Many pundits alluded to the fact that last nights speech kicks off Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. I agree. Obama has made a lot of promises of what he plans to do tonight, and I will hold each and every failure to deliver up to public ridicule between now and November 4th, 2012. You talked the talk, Obama. You will be a one-term President if you fail to walk the walk.....That is assuming we really elect anyone....