Come The Revolution, The Second Thing We’ll Do Is Fire All The Advisers

by tristero

This morning the New York Times has an article previewing Obama’s SOTU entitled, “Obama to Press Centrist Agenda in His Address” in which we read:

…his speech would be geared more broadly toward the political center, to independent voters and business owners and executives alienated by the expansion of government and the partisan legislative fights of the past two years…

In his speeches, policy choices and personnel appointments, Mr. Obama has signaled that after two years in which his response to the economic crisis and his push for passage of the health care bill defined him to many voters as a big-government liberal, he is seeking to recast himself as a more business-friendly, pragmatic progressive.

Wow! Can you imagine any better way for Obama to rally the country, especially his base? Well, actually… if instead of his speech Obama read this in its entirety, he would stand a better chance of rallying the country, especially his base.

But, trust me, the speech won’t be a snoozefest… okay, it might be, I have no idea, but! You can bet your bippy that the reaction to the speech certainly won’t be. Why? Read on:

Advisers said the president would describe five “pillars” for ensuring America’s competitiveness and economic growth: innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction and reforming government.

Now there’s a deeply arresting image. Pillars! Five pillars! Five pillars… Where have I heard about Five Pillars before? Hmmm…oh, yeah, now I remember!

Well… I suppose you can make the case that since neither Obama nor the fucking morons he’s hired as political consultants ever heard of the Five Pillars of Islam, that’s proof positive that Obama really is not a Muslim but instead [sarcasm] As Christian As Every Other American [/sarcasm] .

Now while you can make that case ’til you’re as blue in the face as a creature in a bad 3-D summer movie – that Obama really wasn’t dog whistling his Muslim socialist nazi terrorist pals – no one’s gonna listen.

Oh, America…