I just finished listening to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech for the third time. My desire is to nitpick at each little thing that he said; to pick it apart like a piece of my mother’s fried chicken… but to do so would be monotonous and just as frazzling as listening to it three times in a row. There are political pundits that are much more astute in there criticism of the speech than I will be… yet this is America… and this is the internet, so here is my two cents worth of a humble opinion.

First: President Obama tried desperately through patriotic “oprah-ized” rhetoric to play the heart strings of the fiscally hurting people of America. As the grieving tone of his voice uttered soothing words to irritated pocket books one could almost hear the man from Arkansas’s sweet southern phrase, “I feel your pain” echo in the halls of congress. The past hope that was so prolific on the campaign trail was resurrected but yet it fell short. We have had a year of this administration and action has been demanded… yet action has not been delivered. Only when fiscal results are hard to find do we hear the platitudes of liberal “compassion”.

Second: As the President laid out the sorry story of the economically hurting people of America… he submitted four points that will help bring America back onto the road of fiscal recovery: 1. Serious financial reform, 2. Encourage American innovation, 3. Export more of our goods, 4. Invest in the skills and education of the people. Notice… these four things happen by the control of the government. The verbiage spewed by the president was not about how great the American people are but how weak they are and how they need government to help them. Many were worried that Obama would shift to the center and play the “Right” Card and act like a conservative. Yet, he did not. He did a “Head Fake” to the center but he didn’t move there. Governmental control is at the heart of his political philosophy and was not absent in his speech.

Third: There was a defining silence on the war, world affairs & terrorism. With the Christmas day bombing still fresh on the minds of the American public, he gently glossed over that pesky war on Terror. He also didn’t mention the tragedy of Fort Hood or the albatross of Guantanamo Bay. He did have a little to say about the Haiti earthquake, but yet in all, world affairs and our security were shallow to non existent. I frankly can’t blame Obama… this is his weak spot and he doesn’t want to tarnish that perfect political persona that many have been hoodwinked by.

Fourth: After a year of frenzied pushing of government controlled health care down our throats, there was a break in the clouds of doom. His time spent during the speech on the subject of Health Care was trivial. The amount of Health Care propaganda that has been sent out to America has been overwhelming and also contributed to its death, yet in tonight’s speech… it was almost nil.

In closing, Obama’s speech was nothing spectacular… no matter what the pundits on MSNBC say. Also, this president is turning out to be nothing spectacular. Let me quote the late Socialist Historian Howard Zinn, who died hours before the State of the Union. In his last public & published comment… he talked about Obama. Howard Zinn said: “I’ ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies… I expected him to be a traditional Democratic president…. I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president–which means, in our time, a dangerous president–unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

When the State of Massachusetts and Howard Zinn turn on a Socialist President within one week.. then you know that the Democratic Party & its President is in trouble. Zinn is right, he is going to be a dangerous president… yet the movement of Conservatism will hopefully push him into a better direction in 2012… which will be his humble home in Chicago.