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Obama’s Latest Disgraceful Speech an Appeal to the Dumbest of Americans

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Barack Obama’s most disgraceful speech yet is appealing to the most ignorant of our population. It is clear what he is doing here.

Obama’s latest disgraceful speech is an appeal to the most ignorant, shallow, uniformed, uneducated, dumb and stupid of American people! ~Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama managed to out-do himself by uncorking what very well may have been the most dishonest, demagogic, and bitterly partisan speech of his presidency.

From Townhall.com ^ | April 3, 2012 | Guy Benson

Obama Speech on 04/03/12 a Disgrace, Profound Disrespect for Supreme Court

Today we witnessed something truly remarkable. Barack Obama managed to out-do himself by uncorking what very well may have been the most dishonest, demagogic, and bitterly partisan speech of his presidency. I render that assessment as someone who has sat through and analyzed countless Obama lectures, some of which earned very high marks for deceit and ideological invective. Indeed, today’s Occupy-inspired rant takes the cake. It was a depressing and enraging preview of the next seven months, over which this president will unleash a barrage of sophistic and pernicious arguments deliberately designed to sow discord and divide Americans. He will do so with no regard for the truth, history, or the Constitution he swore to uphold. I genuinely cannot see how anyone who considers him- or herself a “conservative” in any meaningful sense could watch this screed and not immediately redouble his resolve to help defeat the man who delivered it. Adequately addressing and debunking this speech is going to be a Herculean undertaking. Nearly every single paragraph is littered with distortions, scorched straw men, and flat untruths. But I’m going to take a stab at it.

Disclaimers: (1) This is going to be a very long post, even as I try to pare down my responses. If I dissected every misstatement and fib in the full remarks, this piece might achieve War and Peace proportions. (2) I’m working from C-SPAN’s rush transcript. (3) I’ll add video as it become available. And with those items securely in place, we’re off … President Obama begins by feigning fealty to the private sector and free markets. After ticking off a list of Republican presidents who supported some form of government expansion, he assails “trickle-down” economics, branding the conservative vision for America a failed “experiment:”

Show me a business leader who would not profit if more Americans could afford to get the skills and education that today’s jobs require. Ask any company where they would rather locate and hire workers, a country with crumbling roads and bridges or one committed to high-speed internet and high- speed railroad and high-tech research and development? It doesn’t make us weaker when we guarantee basic security for the elderly, sick, or those who are actively looking for work. What makes us weaker is when fewer and fewer people can afford to buy the goods and services are [our – corrected by avid reader] {You shouldn’t write so fast Guy!} businesses sell. When entrepreneurs don’t have the financial securities to take a chance and starting a business. What drags down our entire economy is when there is an ever widening chasm between the ultra rich and everybody else…Yet, for much of the last century, we have been having the same argument with folks who keep paddling some version of trickle-down economics.

How is it possible that America remains plagued by “crumbling roads and bridges” after we’ve just spent $825 Billion of borrowed money on a stimulus program ostensibly fashioned to fund and execute precisely those types of “shovel ready projects”? Obama’s solution is more spending, more borrowing, more failure. Next, income inequality exists, but this “ever-widening chasm” language is both exaggerated and unsupported by the facts. The presidential “education” goes on:

They keep telling us that if we convert more of our investment in education, research and health care into tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, our economy will grow stronger. They keep telling us if we strip away more regulations and let businesses pollute more and treat workers and consumers with impunity, somehow we will all be better off. We are told that when the wealthy become even wealthier and corporations are allowed to maximize profits by whatever means necessary, it’s good for America and their success will translate into more jobs and prosperity for everyone else. That is the theory. The problem for advocates of this theory is that we have tried their approach on a massive scale. The results of their experiments are there for all to see. At the beginning of the last decade, the wealthiest Americans received a huge tax cut in 2001 and another huge tax cut in 2003. We were promised that these tax cuts would lead to faster job growth. They did not. The wealthy got wealthier, we would expect that. the income of the top 1% has grown by more than 275% over the last few decades to an average of $1.3 million a year. But prosperity sure did not trickle down. Instead, during the last decade, we had the slowest job growth in half a century.

Here, our “post-partisan,” self-stylized messiah accuses Republicans of supporting pollution and worker abuse. How insulting. I’ll address this point when he revisits it with a vengeance later on. His unserious (Divided States will change this to: insincere) caricature of free market capitalism is hardly worth responding to. It’s the equivalent of a petulant Republican president standing up and saying the Democrat vision for the country is to transform it into a North Korea-style police state. This brand of rhetoric is below the presidency, but has never been below this president. The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts helped pull America out of the recession that President Bush inherited. It led to more than 50 consecutive months of job growth and declining deficits (prior to the 2008 crisis) — even as we spent heavily on two wars. President Obama is asking Americans to turn their backs on the “bad old days” of 5.3 percent unemployment (Bush’s average)* and annual deficits that look like foothills compared to today’s Obama-institutionalized Himalayas of red ink. And does this president really want to gripe about previous “slow job growth”?

The typical American family actually saw their incomes fall by about 6% even as the economy was growing. there was a time when insurance companies and insurance — and a financial lenders did not have to abide by strong enough wedges — strong enough regulations and found ways around them. what was the result? Profits for these companies soared, but so did people’s health insurance premiums, patients were repeatedly denied care, often when they needed it most, families were enticed and sometimes just plain tricked into buying homes they could not afford, huge, reckless bets were made with other people’s money on the line and our entire financial system was nearly destroyed. We tried this theory out. you would think after the results of this experiment in trickle-down economics, after the results were made painfully clear, the proponents of this theory might show some humility. might moderate their views a bit. You would think they would say, you know what? Maybe some rules and regulations are necessary to protect the economy and prevent people f rom being taken advantage of by insurance companies or mortgage lenders. Maybe, just maybe, at a time of growing debt and widening inequality, we should hold off and giving the wealthiest Americans another round of big tax cuts.

read more here: Guy Benson Blog

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