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President Obama’s speech before Congress Wednesday was disappointing.

There was a lot of empty eloquence. There were few specifics about what Obama wants in his health insurance bill, which really is a health spending bill and a power grab.

He provided no leadership on health reform, but he gave his backers some nasty and dishonest talking points.

Obama’s backers called it a great speech. They were sucked in by the rhetoric and show.

But if you listened to the speech instead of watching it, you found that it was misleading, demonizing, inaccurate and meant to rally Democrats, not to inform Americans.

Robert Wilson was right when he impolitely called Obama a liar on the bill’s provisions for illegal immigrants. No the bill doesn’t give them insurance, it just makes sure that they will get free care and that more illegals will come to the U.S. for free care.

Similarly, Obama lied about dealth panels. No, there are no death panels, but the bill was written to provide government-funded end-of-life counseling, which would eventually become end-of-life recommendations to suck it up and die as comfortably and quickly as possible.

Like Clinton, Obama played with words to convey sincerity but actually showed that he believes as he always has in funding health care for illegals and that he believes Medicare spends too much on its beneficiaries last months of life.

As The Wall Street Journal’s editorial this morning notes, Obama gave a mean, dishonest and partisan speech.

He is willing to sacrifice control of Congress to win more power for himself. It’s all about Obama. He doesn’t care whether Reid is re-elected, Pelosi keeps her job or Blue Dogs stay in Congress.

Why that doesn’t anger Congressional Democrats is a mystery. But maybe it does anger enough Democrats to cause a backlash that will doom ObamaCare. We can only hope.

Obama blamed Republicans for opposing ObamaCare. Yes, they oppose his radicalism because they don’t believe the government can run anything or should try and for political reasons.

But, as the editorial points out, Dems and Obama have not allowed Republicans to help write health reform bills, and Obama clearly stated in his speech that if opponents won’t accept his plan, he won’t talk to them.

Obama attacked insurers’ profits. A socialist, he doesn’t believe in profits. He doesn’t understand economics nor profits. He won’t accept that political greed for power is much worse than greed for profits.

And he vastly exaggerates the problem of insurers dropping insureds who’ve become sick. He doesn’t point to millions of insureds who have been covered throughout catastrophically expensive illnesses.

Most of us know more people who’ve had their expensive recoveries covered by insurers than people who’ve lost their coverage. I don’t know anyone who’s lost insurance after becoming sick, and I know lots of people.

So, on balance, Obama gave such an obviously partisan and dishonest speech that the public will see through it, and they will continue to oppose it.