Editorial: Fiction better than Obama’s view of reality

President Obama’s days in office are numbered, and the end can’t come soon enough for the Kitten in Chief.

Of course, it remains to be seen whether the next occupant of the Oval Office will be any better than the current guy. People who say “it can’t be worse” often find out that it can be.

After taking in last week’s State of the Union Address, your humble editor, like many Americans, found himself grateful that he wouldn’t have to sit through another one of those from B.O.

To sum things up, the world is all rainbows and unicorns in Barack Obama’s fairytale world. For example, there was no mention of American sailors being held by the Iranians, just gushiness over the nuclear deal his administration had orchestrated with the regime. We are safer, we are freer, health care is more affordable, and life in general is just dandy, according to the president.

There was little mention of guns even though just a few days earlier the president was crying like a little girl on national television while trying to make a bold statement with executive orders on guns.

It wasn’t long ago that a Fox News commentator got the ax after he proclaimed that the president was a…. Well, we can’t go into it here since we’re a family publication, but the guy was right and probably should have been rewarded rather than fired.

While President Obama may be able to get away with looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, the rest of the country has to live in reality.

The legacy of this president – much like his predecessor – will most likely be the continuing division of the American people. You either like this guy or you really, really don’t.

He wanted to bring change to America. And on that he’s succeeded. Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee, but look who is giving her a run for her money. Bernie Sanders.

Think about it. A self-described, all-out, full-blown socialist is polling strong in the race to be the Democrats’ nominee for president. Can you imagine this happening 20 years ago? Back then, it was bad enough to call your opponent a liberal. This guy makes liberals look like Reaganites, and yet he has a strong following.

Obama’s claims to fame comes down to two things, it seems. The death of Osama Bin Laden (round of applause, please) and the so-called Affordable Health Care Act. The down side of the first accomplishment is that the president sometimes acts like he killed Bin Laden himself, directing the whole thing with a PlayStation controller on a big screen in the White House situation room.

And the downside of the second accomplishment is that health care is anything but “more affordable.” Yes, millions of people have signed up for health insurance… under the coercion of law and the threat of fines by the IRS. And, if you believe the commercials, some slackers can get health insurance for as little as $24 per month. But in the real world, many Americans still can’t afford insurance and are going to get fined by the IRS for not having it; and those who do have insurance have seen their costs continue to go up. Thanks, Barry. Hell of an accomplishment there.

One of the biggest feel-good moments of last Tuesday’s speech was when he put Vice President Joe Biden in charge of curing cancer. I suppose old Joe is somehow going to get this done in the next 12 months, because after that, he will be unemployed.

The cancer bit reminded me of an old episode of The West Wing, in which the fictional staff of President Jed Bartlett considers adding curing cancer to one of his State of the Union addresses. They wrestled with it, and its supporters were in favor of dreaming big and setting lofty goals the same way Kennedy wanted to put a man on the moon. But in the end, they didn’t include it in the fictional speech because it was too far out there. A cure for cancer would be wonderful… but it’s not that simple. There’s not just one kind of cancer to start with, and chances are Congress isn’t going to write a blank check to cure every known cancer.

It’s a sad statement that the fictional liberal White House on television was more concerned with fiscal responsibility and reality than the Obama administration is. Of course, the fictional President Bartlett also always demonstrated more statesmanship and backbone than Obama has in the last seven years.

Perhaps, since the president has checked out of reality, we can all immerse ourselves in Netflix re-runs of The West Wing over the next few months and enjoy an example of true leadership while we run out the clock on Barack Obama and nervously await whoever is chosen to take his place.