Are You a Middle Class voter?

If so, then Obama was talking to you, in his State of the Union speech tonight. Lets see - stop offshoring jobs! A plea to get those nicely paid manufacturing jobs back. Tuition is too high! Responsible homeowners should be rewarded! $3000 for each of them! Drill baby drill, off our coastal shores!

And do you know why he had to raise the debt limit by $1.2 Trillion just last week? It was to pay for those tax breaks for the uber-rich, like Warren Buffet. Wait, are you sure that money didn't go to pay for the interest on the national debt? Or a B-1 bomber? Or maybe 99 weeks + 2 more months of unemployment insurance for millions?

What is an investment, and what is a payoff to supporters, and what is money down a black hole?

And how exactly are those promises going to be kept? I would like nothing more than manufacturing jobs to return.. but saying it does not make it so. Please, tooth fairy, I know I didn't lose any teeth lately, but I truly believe, and maybe that 50cents I got when I was 6 years old should continue to be compensated now, due to inflation you know.

Bottom line, there is no "there" there, no substance in this speech. But, it does precede his annual budget proposal in February, which will also have no bipartisan support. For now, it is promises to voters, who he hopes will remain on his side through November 6 at least (at most). Its the promise of "hope" and "change". Well how well did that work out last time ?