While directing his attention to Obama’s State of the Union Address Matt Miller found himself in awe at Obama’s bland statements that everyone has heard before as well as his false promises. Matt Miller states “Can a president really be a “year of action” hero armed with just his “pen and phone”? Or is that the formula for what I call a kinder gentler decline?” Miller questions the president’s leadership ability because in truth Obama does not have a great amount of power anymore, and he is forced to make smaller decisions, so telling the people this will be a “year of action” is considered false hope. Miller goes on to say “I agree with the vision of America that Barack Obama laid out. Trouble is, I’ve agreed with it since I first heard Bill Clinton lay out the same version.” Obama has run out of helpful ideas to save the economy and he has now laid out an illusion of action that will not take place in order to save him some time to come up with a back-up plan. Miller explains the problems within the white house by stating “Republicans have no ideas, and Democrats have puny “pen and phone” ideas. The result is little progress, paired with a rhetoric-reality gap among Democrats that’s rising faster than our concentration of wealth.” Miller makes a great point and it goes to show how fast our government as well as our economy is coming down. With a president that has just as much power as the men below him and congress coming up with no new plans for America’s future this State of the Union Address will be “unescapable.”