Contemplating the chore of listening to yet another Obama State of the Union speech to the Congress and the nation,
The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan pronounces a
verdict on the first five years:
Looking back on this presidency, it has from the beginning been a 17,000 word New Yorker piece in which, calmly, sonorously, with his lovely intelligent voice, the president says nothing, or little that is helpful, insightful or believable.
Getting down to particulars, Noonan observes of Obamacare:
The program was passed only with the aid of a giant lie. Now everyone knows if you liked your plan, your doctor, your deductible, you can't keep them. When the central domestic fact of your presidency was a fraud, people won't listen to you anymore.
I will not listen Tuesday night; I will likely read it on Wednesday.
