SOTUS analysis from RJMoeller

I am feeling like I was run over by the Super Chief hitting 90 MPH between
Barstow and Needles. I dragged myself over to the computer to post this
analysis from RJ Moeller from Voice in the Wilderness. He looks at politics
with alot of Judoe-Christian insightfulness.

There have been quite a few dissections of Obama's SOTUS. I have read far
too many ot them. This is one of, if not the best one in my most humble and
pain blurred opinion. May be all I can do today, just have to see....



Unlike the number of viewers for the president's first (of four) State of the Union Address, the length of this year's speech increased drastically. It was more than 70 minutes, more than 7,000 words, and full of surprises. The biggest surprise had to be that the president sounded largely committed to forging ahead with policy initiatives such as Cap-and-Trade and health care reform that have sparked the bi-partisan back-lashes we've seen since the town hall meetings of August 2009.




I've read and re-read the transcript of the SOTUS few times now, and here are some of my thoughts on a lack-luster performance.



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After dispensing with the customary pleasantries, the first thing that stood out to me was this sentence here:

It's tempting to look back on these moments and assume that our progress was inevitable -- that America was always destined to succeed...And despite all our divisions and disagreements; our hesitations and our fears; America prevailed because we chose to move forward as one nation, as one people.

'Tis true, Mr. President, that many Americans take their freedom and prosperity for granted. In fact, I'd say that this ingratitude and total lack of awareness is one of the most glaring shortcomings of our modern society (and education system). But what he, and most progressive-Left politicians, almost never want to accept, let alone proclaim, is that the two primary causes of our success as a nation have been military conquests and free market economics. (Not welfare entitlements or same-sex marriage ballot initiatives.)


If you are serious about teaching the history of this nation, you must include the good with the bad. It hasn't been all racism and Jim Crowe. It hasn't been all government intervention saving the poor, huddling masses from the exploits of monopolistic fat-cats. It hasn't been a secular, "Get your Church away from my State", mentality that gave the American people their moral clarity and fortitude to win wars and overcome domestic tragedies.


This is a Judeo-Christian, free market, liberty-loving, hard-working, government-mistrusting nation. This is a God-Family-Country (and in that order) nation. This is a Center-Right nation. That doesn't mean atheistic or liberal or progressive-Left citizens are less patriotic. It simply means that the ideology that informs their view of the world hasn't been emblematic of our story. We've succeeded where others have failed because of our ideas, ideals, and values. I believe Dennis Prager explains those values best:



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