The status of the State

  Union: The act of uniting, or state of being united. One thing even the President had to admit, and that is, as a county, we are divided. Not since the Civil War has the vitriol  been this viscous, never the edges of that divide so sharply defined. The truth is that we are a divided people, and that ain't good. Also, if you are a believer in the old adage that together we stand, divided we fall, then the state of the Union isn't strong, but dangerously weak. In truth, I didn't bother to watch the president's speech, because I already know his talking points, and though from what I hear he presented them quite elegantly, they were afterall, the same old ones he always talks about, so why listen in and get aggravated by the futility of it all? The nation is divided, no one, left or right denies that, but to who should go the blame? I didn't watch the speech, but I tuned in after it to see the reaction. Came upon a focus group of twenty-two people, split 12/10 either for or against the President. I listened to the supporters views, because I wanted to understand how they could be so blind. For the most part, they were well spoken and articulate. How could this be I wondered, how can intelligent people be so.. , so dumb? The millenials I can understand, afterall, they're kids, but the adults? There was an elephant in the room, and he wasn't a Republican. The simple fact, that the only alternative to annoiting Hillary Clinton as the first woman president and party standard bearer, was an avowed Socialist. If this doesn't prove how far left the reasonable Democrats have been pulled by this administration, I don't know what will? So we're divided, the new Socialists against the Republicans, and let me tell you, that is about as far apart ideologically as you can get. But whose to blame for this terrible state? Again, the group split along party lines, the Obama supporters blaming Congress, and the other side blaming the President. Granted, Congress has become little more then an inept bunch of political elitists, who go around patting each other on the back. But it isn't the job of Congress to lead, that is the job of the President. What we needed was a leader, and that means, to be out front, c'mon follow me, I'll get us out of this mess type of guy! What we got is a term I'm not familiar with, Leading from behind? I haven't a clue where the term came from, nor do I know what it means. I do know that, at this point in our history, we are hopelessly divided, and that fault is squarely on Barack Obama. Someone once said, and I believe it was a Democrat, that the buck stops here. It stopped, but nobody was there? Out golfing the sign said? The name of the elephant is Press, because these people aren't truly ignorant, just uninformed. Honestly, for me, the most disheartening and scary thing, is the politicalization of the press. From Benghazi to the shameful act of the IRS targetting non Democrats for harassment, it didn't matter how big the story, if it hurt the Obama regime in any way, the network news organizations wouldn't cover it. The people aren't stupid, just uninformed.