Now He's Just Babbling

Did I see Obama sort of blink at one point in his speech yesterday, and think to himself, “Shit, I should have read this speech first,” when he reached the point of saying this? Actually, no, he read this from his copy without so much as batting an eyelash.

Either we ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share in taxes, or we’re going to have to ask seniors to pay more for Medicare. We can’t afford to do both.

Since both things increase federal revenue, how can we not afford to do both? The man is reduced to babbling nonsense at us. Who writes this stuff for him? He followed that without pausing for breath with another one,

Either we gut education and medical research, or we’ve got to reform the tax code so that the most profitable corporations have to give up tax loopholes that other companies don’t get. We can’t afford to do both.

How can we “not afford” to do one thing that reduces cost and another thing that increases income at the same time? And what exactly does the “most profitable corporations have to give up tax loopholes that other companies don’t get” mean? This is what passes for eloquence today?

Did Obama read this speech beforehand and think that these items made any sense? Or does he simply know that nobody is paying any attention to anything he says, so it doesn’t matter if what he’s saying is gibberish?