Finally getting around to reviewing the POTUS SOTU speech.  A few observations:

1.  If you want a good distillation of this president’s wrongheaded view of the United States of America, look no further than this rhetorical bit from the end of the speech.  “No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together. This Nation is great because we worked as a team. This Nation is great because we get each other’s backs.”

Unity is central to American identity, but not the way Obama envisions it. E pluribus unum is not Latin for, “Hey, bro, let’s invest in some infrastructure together.” The notion that this nation is one big team that acts collectively toward shared goals set by the state would be completely foreign to the men who founded it. But that is Obama’s concept of America.

2.  Groundhog Day?  He talked about jobs and energy dependance.  Didn't he just nix the Keystone XL pipeline last week?  Of have I awakened in early January again?

3.  If you're going to quote a fellow POTUS, get it right.  Some of us actually pay attention to that kind of stuff. 

Toward the end of his State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a paragraph that was so blatantly absurd and self contradictory as to actually become clarifying—so incoherent that it shed a bright light on his thinking and his grave dilemma. It’s hard to believe he actually said this, but he did:

I’m a Democrat.  But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed:  That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.  That’s why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States.  That’s why we’re getting rid of regulations that don’t work.  That’s why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program.