Jo's Cafe

I really couldn’t put into words my feelings after watching Obama’s State of the Union address last week.  To say I felt betrayed by the part of the nation who voted this snob into office is mote.  Every one should feel that way.   The arrogance of this man poured from him in waves (sweeping Nancy to do the Pelosi Aerobics again) and soured the whole evening.   From out and out lies to calling out the Supreme Court with another lie made the whole evening sour any food you may have had in your stomach.

After days of seething about what he said, how he said it, and what he ultimately wants for this country, I got to wondering just when was the first SOTU and what was said.

At Early America.com I found George Washington’s first State of the Union.  He gave it in the Senate Chambers on January 8, 1790.  You read the words of a man who cared about this budding nation he was honored to preside over as its official leader.   There was no calling out people who disagreed with him.  I don’t know if he had his own aerobics matren working behind him, but from what I’ve read – this man had no desire for theatrics, but wanted to get things done for his country.

I didn’t get that from Obama.

Here are a couple lines that are mentioned on this page of Early America – as the original article from the Massachusetts Spy is hard to read.

Washington considered “it expedient that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.”

Sounds like the first immigration policy.

Also of importance: “Facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by attending to the post office and post roads.”

That behemoth called the US Postal Service got started then?  No wonder its broke.

“A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined. And to be independent of others” by becoming self-sufficient domestically.

As a life-time member of the NRA – I don’t see the need to comment on this.

It was the duty of Congress to encourage “….teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights….to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority….”

This is the one that stuck me the most.  This does not mean you try and re-implement the Fairness doctrine.  You don’t attack Fox News for trying to be fair with their reporting.   Washington here is stating the people need to know and value their own rights and to know when they are being oppressed.

I think that one speaks volumes when you compare the two SOTUs between Obama and Washington, the snobbery of the first is affront to the honor of the later.

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