President Obama gave his second inaugural address today — I only saw the last ten minutes of it. Due to all the missed school days from Superstorm Sandy, I had work today.
Ten minutes was enough. Soaring, airy rhetoric, to be sure. Delivered well, but the same ol’ horse manure. In the mere ten minutes I watched, I heard the utopianism of LBJ, the statist progressivism of Wilson, and the interventionist democracy agenda of Dubya, mixed in with a little sprinkling of the duplicity of Alinsky and classism of Marx. Obama certainly went all out. I eventually did read the whole transcript, which was a lot less stressful than I imagine watching it would have been!
The Blaze today compiled a “Top 5 Reactions to Obama’s Second Inaugural Address,” which was instructive, especially Krauthammer’s take. I’ve always felt that Obama is the anti-Reagan and Obama’s speech today sadly reinforced that.
