Ouch! Look what top names say about Obama's speech

Barack Obama's State of the Union speech is finally over.

If you're still conscious, you don't want to miss what big names such as Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Rush Limbaugh have to say about it.

Hint: It ain't pretty.

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'OBAMA THINKS FREE ENTERPRISE IS CAUSE OF PROBLEMS'

Rubio's response casts president as out of touch with reality

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‘Obama thinks free enterprise is cause of problems’

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., charged by Republicans with delivering a GOP response to Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union, said in prepared remarks the president probably needs first to understand the problems of the nation.

He said Obama actually blames the free enterprise economy, which has made America for generations the biggest economy in the world, as the problem.

“This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business,” he said.

“And when they succeed, they hire more people, who in turn invest or spend the money they make, helping others start a business and create jobs. Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free enterprise economy is the source of our middle class prosperity. But President Obama? He believes it’s the cause of our problems.”
He also said the president’s policies have failed to protect the poor and middle class wage-earners as Obama has claimed.

“Mr. President, I still live in the same working class neighborhood I grew up in. My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. They’re workers who have to get up early tomorrow morning and go to work to pay the bills,” Rubio said.

“They’re immigrants who came here because they were stuck in poverty in countries where the government dominated the economy. The tax increases and the deficit spending you propose will hurt middle class families. It will cost them their raises. It will cost them their benefits. It may even cost some of them their jobs. And it will hurt seniors because it does nothing to save Medicare and Social Security. So Mr. President, I don’t oppose your plans because I want to protect the rich. I oppose your plans because I want to protect my neighbors.”

Rubio noted that under Obama’s leadership, the American economy “actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.”

That’s going the wrong direction, he said, because the nation needs growth of 4 percent a year to “create millions of middle class jobs.”

A byproduct would be reducing the nation’s deficits by some $4 trillion over 10 years, he said.

“Tax increases can’t do this. Raising taxes won’t create private sector jobs. And there’s no realistic tax increase that could lower our deficits by almost $4 trillion. That’s why I hope the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and instead work with us to achieve real growth in our economy.”

He said Obama simply needs to shut down the government checkbook for awhile.

“The real cause of our debt is that our government has been spending $1 trillion more than it takes in every year. That’s why we need a balanced budget amendment. The biggest obstacles to balancing the budget are programs where spending is already locked in. One of these programs, Medicare, is especially important to me. It provided my father the care he needed to battle cancer and ultimately die with dignity. And it pays for the care my mother receives now. I would never support any changes to Medicare that would hurt seniors like my mother. But anyone who is in favor of leaving Medicare exactly the way it is right now, is in favor of bankrupting it,” he said.

Rubio clearly stated his pro-life position, that “every life at every stage is precious.”

But he blasted Obama. “His solution for virtually every problem is for Washington to tax more, spend more…”

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Rubio said Obamacare already is costing Americans their health insurance, their raises and even their jobs.

He also suggested an update immigration plan, a balanced budget, and more help for kids to pay for schools.

Talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh said, too, that Washington needs to get a grip.

“It’s not the State of the Union. It’s the Misstatement of the Union. … It’s an absurd sight, folks, to sit there and watch our government stand and applaud itself as it’s ruining our economy.

They’re gonna sit there and applaud themselves all night long, and for what? Ruining the country, bringing the private sector to its knees, exploding the deficit, Obamacare, bye-bye freedom here, bye-bye freedom there,” he said.

CBS interviewed former Vice President Dick Cheney in advance of Obama’s speech, and the former Wyoming congressman said Obama appears to have an agenda aimed at hurting the U.S.
He cited Obama’s nominations of Chuck Hagel and John Brennan for secretary of defense and CIA director.

“Just in the last week, their performance in front of the committees that have to confirm them has been pretty poor,” he said. “And that’s, you know, not my judgment. That’s the judgment, as well, of senators on both sides of the aisle.”

Cheney said Obama’s choices would make for a “second rate” national security team.

“I think the administration’s policies are terribly flawed. I think the president’s performance, by my standards, in the international arena, the Middle East and so forth, is worse than many of my friends and colleagues deem his domestic policies,” he said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who delivered the response from the tea party, said in prepared remarks Congress simply is out of control – and failing to following the laws of the land.

“Washington acts in a way that your family never could – they spend money they do not have, they borrow from future generations, and then they blame each other for never fixing the problem,” he said.

“If Congress refuses to obey its own rules (the Democrat-led Senate hasn’t produced a budget in years, in violation of the law), if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say: Sweep the place clean. limit their terms and send them home!”

He said unless the deficit is cut by trillions, America’s credit again could be downgraded.

Paul also called for work on the nation’s existing immigration system, where laws are not enforced and borders not secured.

“The path we are on is not sustainable, but few in Congress or in this administration seem to recognize that their actions are endangering the prosperity of this great nation,” he said.

He pleaded for common sense, suggesting the U.S. should end “all foreign aid to countries that are burning our flag” and that Obama should “stop giving F-16s and Abrams tanks to Islamic radicals in Egypt.”

“Big government debt keeps the poor poor and saps savings of elderly,” Paul said.

“The president offers you free stuff but his policies keep you poor.”

He said he will propose a five-year balanced budget soon. Lower taxes and less government are the keys to a revitalized economy, he said.

Obama’s speech called for an amnesty program for illegal aliens, he boasted that Obamacare already is cutting health care expenses, he called for a boost in the minimum wage, he called for more jobs being created, said the nation must do more on global warming, and asked for expanded preschool offerings to reduce violent crime and strengthen families.

An instant tracking poll by Bing showed any unity message that Obama may have intended about working together clearly fell far short of its mark. The graf shows members of the GOP and independents tracking their responses virtually in unison throughout the speech, while Democrats were isolated in another part of the spectrum.




WHAT DID YOU THINK OF OBAMA'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH?



  • I truly fear for America's future (38%, 329 Votes)


  • I absolutely refuse to waste another minute of my life watching this man speak (21%, 188 Votes)

  • It's the same old socialist drivel. I'm tired of hearing it (12%, 101 Votes)

  • This man has disproven P.T. Barnum's axiom: Apparently you CAN fool all of the people all of the time (11%, 94 Votes)

  • I liked Marco Rubio's response speech better (7%, 62 Votes)

  • I didn't watch it. These speeches sound exactly the same every year (4%, 37 Votes)

  • I liked Rand Paul's response speech better (4%, 31 Votes)

  • I'd rather listen to Ted Nugent (3%, 26 Votes)

  • I feel better about America already (less than 1%, 2 Votes)

  • I liked John Stossel's speech better (less than 1%, 2 Votes)

  • Other (less than 1%, 1 Votes)

  • I'm so glad that diversity is now reaching into alternative reality (less than 1%, 1 Votes)

  • I don't know. I nodded off five minutes into his speech (less than 1%, 1 Votes)

  • I know Obama will save the nation from the GOP's disastrous ideology (less than 1%, 1 Votes)

  • In the words of Louis Farrakhan, 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking' (0%, 0 Votes)

  • It's the finest moment of his presidency (0%, 0 Votes)

  • It's one for the ages. This goes down with the Gettysburg Address as one of the greatest speeches of all time (0%, 0 Votes)




Total Voters: 876


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