WSJ: Was he serious?

Hot Air 10:12 am on April 14  "The Wall Street Journal editorial board couldn’t believe what it heard yesterday in Barack Obama’s deficit speech .  Well, believe is probably the wrong word, since Obama offered little of substance other than rhetorical bombs aimed at Paul Ryan, accusing him of trying to kill an entire generation of retirees while offering nothing specific to oppose it.  The WSJ dismantles Obama’s speech in their lead editorial as fundamentally demagogic and as unserious as a President can get:"....
"If this is what passes for a major policy speech, this administration has completely run out of gas."

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Mona Charen: Obama’s Demagoguery  "Last week, Rep. Paul Ryan was asked whether he and the Republicans were making themselves vulnerable to demagogic attacks by taking on entitlement spending directly. “We are,” he replied. “They are going to demagogue us, and — and it’s that demagoguery that has always prevented political leaders in the past from actually trying to fix the problem.”
"You might have expected President Obama to be shamed out of his worst instincts by that prediction. He wasn’t."

Obama Cedes the High Ground   "Paul Ryan was actually hurt by the president’s remarks. He expected better. He somehow believed he and the GOP leadership were now players in the budget game and not tackling dummies. What he and Speaker Boehner don’t seem to realize yet is what a gift the Republicans in Congress have been given. With his speech at GWU which was long on invective and short on inspiration, the president essentially ceded all the high ground on fiscal matters to the opposition. He announced he does not want a solution to America’s deficit and debt crisis."