Obama Speech is UNFAIR

Dear President Obama,

I saw and heard your apppearance before Congress tonight. I am sorely disappointed in your speech. You were patently unfair to Republicans.

How are Republicans supposed to respond intelligently to a speech such as that? The Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal tried very hard to repond to it and failed miserably. Instead of responding, he talked about how he pulled himself up by his bootstraps (who has boots with bootstraps?), and then deplored the federal government's disgraceful response to Katrina. This was a very poor response, and perhaps Bobby Jindal is suffering an onset of dementia, forgetting that the Katrina reponse (such as it was) came from a Republican administration. So here is poor Governor Jindal complaining about how ineffectual government is at solving problems and pointing his finger at a Republican president running a Republican administration.

How are Republicans supposed to respond to calls for an end to torture, keeping close track of bailout money given to banks, serious proposals to help out homeowners facing foreclosure, close scrutiny of the spending of bailout money, priortising the economic recovery health care and education? All of this makes way too much sense. I admit, Bush was much better for both parties. The Republicans got to admire him and Bush left plenty of room for Democrats to rightly criticize his incompetence and stupidity.

But Obama:

"We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," he said. "The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation."

How are Republicans supposed to answer a call to hope and optimism like that? It is UNFAIR to Republicans. It puts the GOP at a tremendous disadvantage. A speech like the one Obama gave tonight rallies the American people to support the Democratic program and reject the Republicans. All they can say is something like, "Obama's program will saddle future generations with debt" and "We have better ideas, the free market system," when, of course it was the free market system unfettered and Bush's expensive war which got us into this mess. Not to mention the $2 billion a week his war has cost us for several years, week after week.

Let's hope President Obama will take pity on the Republicans and give less impressive and less inspirational speeches in the near future. Otherwise he threatens to cripple the Republican party as it dithers and obstructs in its efforts to save its political future.

All they have to offer so far is Bobby Jindal, a GOP presidential hopeful for 2012. President Obama, you have got to give them a chance to do better than THAT. Just in the spirit of FAIR PLAY.

Regards,

NEWSGUY