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Watching the President of the
The 2012 State of the
However, the week…the nation got a true dose of reality. Now, I’m not saying that I agreed with everything the President laid out…particularly about the
The President held up a mirror to Congress this week. Hopefully it was as ugly to them as it has been to the rest of us. Congress has painted itself into a corner, largely because the ideologues don’t understand the role of government beyond self-interested motives and rhetorical retraction.
Rhetorical retraction simply means they think they have to move backwards to take the nation forward. We know its empty rhetoric. They know its empty rhetoric and the President showed it was empty rhetoric.
The politics of political gamesman was really the subject of the State of the
He asked Congress what reality are they looking at - what reality do they really see? Is it the same one as the American people, or is it a contrived reality for the privileged and the socially impolitic. Both, of course, represent what the GOP is presenting as their best options to Obama in Romney and Gingrich. The President called for Congress to be fair to the American people. The GOP wants to just be fair to the rich. What they are calling “class warfare,” as the President noted, the rest of the nation calls “common sense.”
For most us, common sense is virtual reality, what is in the here and now…not a contrived one. What Americans need, here and now, is a more responsive government to address problems specific to the needs of its citizens. Hopefully, the nation heard the President and will return to its virtual senses and a common reality of what’s best for all of us. Not just a few of us.
BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, is a national columnist, managing director of the Urban Issues Forum and author ofSaving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom. His Website isAnthonySamad.com. Twitter @dranthonysamad. Click here to contact Dr. Samad. |
Friday, January 27, 2012
State Of The Union: The Only Time Congress Deals In Virtual Reality (This is a very favorable review of Obama's State of the Nation Address - I find Dr Samad's facts and logic impeccable!)
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