Palin on Hannity After Obama SOTU: Obama White House Disconnected from American People!

Sarah Palin's first impression of Barack Obama after his State of the Union speech was that his White House is disconnected from the American people. Appearing on Hannity for post-speech analysis, Palin opined that the Obama White House is disconnected due to the fact that its philosophy is to rely on government to fix problems, versus empowering the American people (including private businesses) to fix the country's ills. In addition, she also felt that Obama's tone or overall quality in his speech was very lecturing. Regarding lecturing, that is certainly a very apt description as Hannity confirmed when he had to contend that Obama's speech was unorthodox in how partisan it was for a State of the Union speech.

On Hannity's second question, Palin was also disappointed in how Obama failed to live up to how, apparently, "inspiring" his past speeches were, and she placed the blame for this squarely on his pervasive and incurable sense of being disconnected from the American people. With regards to healthcare, for instance, Obama made it clear during his State of the Union that he was going to obstinately press ahead with it, unpopular as it is with the people due to its quality being that of a government-takeover. This, Palin asserted, is primarily why his speech failed to live up to his past grandiose moments.

The issue of Obama being out of touch with even his own track record was visited next, and Palin foreshadowed that the "fact-checkers" would have an awfully busy night trying to reconcile Obama's misleading claims with what he's actually done. In example, on the issue of lobbyists, during the speech, Obama talked a good game about doing away with them, yet in real life, Palin reminded the audience, Obama actually has at least 11 high-powered lobbyists that are part of his administration. Clearly, this is not the action of a president who is not under the influence of lobbyists, the opposite of what he ran on even!

In the speech, there was even a scandalous moment involving SC justice Samuel Alito, regarding which Obama made a discreditable assertion that painted the Supreme Court in an unflattering light. Obama charged that the Supreme Court had violated precedent and in a recent ruling permitted the special interests such as corporations, domestic and foreign, to "bankroll" American elections. Justice Alito was actually caught on video mouthing "not true" in reaction to Obama's baseless charge. Alito's actually correct when you analyze the issue. Spending money during federal elections-even by corporations-is just another factor of free speech as voters vote with their pocketbooks by "bankrolling" their favored candidate. It's really a free speech issue, and Obama only made that unfair charge because of the perception that corporations donate more to the GOP, who are more business friendly.

In response to this, Palin analyzed that Obama was really disrespecting the separation of powers by using such a big bully pulpit to make an accusation that could well be untrue. In fact, as per my above explanation, it is very untrue as far as the accusation went.

Palin's commentary on the Obama speech closed with her thoughts on the Obama healthcare debacle and terrorism. On healthcare, she declared that Obama was wrong to cast it as a failure on his part to "explain" to Americans what's going on; on the contrary, she asserted, Americans know and reject Obamacare, which is why there recently was the phenomenon of the GOP sweeps in VA, NJ and MA, all reprimanding Obama's policies.

On terrorism, after Hannity astutely cited Obama's hypocrisy on his silence to stand in solidarity with the Iranians last year as they were being killed by their Islamonazi government during protests, Palin concurred that that was another failed opportunity for Obama. She lamented how he failed again to make a stand and assert that the US would speak out for human rights in Iran and elsewhere in the future and warned that if he didn't, then his credibility would be increasingly undercut.

All in all, a very disappointing at best-and completely objectionable at worst-State of the Union speech by Obama. But with him having failed all of his first year on the job as numerous polls will attest, what can you really expect from Barry at this point? Not much is the answer, my friends...not much at all.

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Sources:

AdoringPalin, On Hannity Gov Palin Reacts to SOTU (January 27 2010), YouTube

John Stanton, GOP Response: Obama Relying Too Heavily on Government to Fix Country's Problems, Roll Call

Calvin Woodward, FACT CHECK: Obama and a toothless commission, AP

Martin Kady II, Justice Alito mouths "not true," Politico

Reza Sayah, Several killed, 300 arrested in Tehran protests, CNN