Welcome to State of the Union Wednesday.

It is Wednesday, January 27, 2010, State of the Union Address Day for our nation. Let me again tell one and all that while I am extremely dissatisfied with the principles and policies being followed by our current President, I fully appreciate that he is our President, and he is also a husband and a father, and he deserves all the respect and honor that comes with the office. I pray for him and his family and continue to seek God's help in forging the direction of our nation. Having said that, I now will proceed with my show and tell for today.

I will likely be at our local fellowship meeting place for our regular Wednesday evening Bible study while our President addresses the joint session of congress. However, they have pretty much leaked much of what he is going to talk about, therefore, I will get caught up, after the fact, on the flip flop. They have determined now that he should suddenly become interested in the middle class. In case you didn’t know, that’s most of us, those he previously described as the folks out there that during difficult economic times we tend to cling to our guns and our God. I don’t know about clinging to guns but I sure recommend we all cling to our God, in the good times and in the bad. Perhaps we end up being the butt of the joke he made about Scott Brown who won the senate election up in Massachusetts where the President questioned his trustworthiness because he drove a pick up truck.

This shows just how out of touch our President is with the common ordinary schmuck who is currently occupied with doing everything he can to provide for his family, that is, if he has a job, which we now understand has become the number one priority of this administration. Can you imagine that: People with no jobs being a priority? What about Copenhagen? What about health care? What about making the world love us? Someone must have whispered in the President’s ear that without folks working there’s no one to pay the taxes and printing money like there is no tomorrow is going to eventually have to end, one way or the other, with mostly horrific consequences especially to elected officials including the one who occupies the desk at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now that kind of information will get a politician’s attention faster than the speed of light.

The disconnect thus far comes from folks viewing these people who have lived as if they have thrones but now want everyone to think they are basically just like the average American who can’t get a job and can’t get a clue as to who took a screwed up mess and make it very much worse. The part about being clueless may be on target but I love our country too much to want to see more damage done to working families. I hope there really is a shift in priorities where the full resources of our government will now be focused on what it should have been focused on over the past twelve months. Maybe the regular Wednesday evening “Happy Hour” at the White House which was implemented by the Obama’s can be changed to a job summit meeting each week to focus on something that really does matter to the American people. Maybe the huge entourage who, we, the tax payers, provided with first class accommodations for the wasted climate control summit in Copenhagen can now find a few minutes to spend on helping the family climate here at home. I can already guess how the rhetoric will be strong and heated as the President pleads his case. Yet, his track record thus far indicates not much more meaningful progress than that achieved by his unplugged teleprompter. Remember this verse from the Bible: "The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes." (Proverbs 21:1) Amen. ……More later.