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July 24, 2008
Compare, contrast [Darleen Click]
Now the world will watch and remember what we do here — what we do with this moment. ~Barak Obama, “A World that Stands as One”. 2,983 words. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. ~Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” 285 words. Brevity and humility just aren’t in the Barry arsenal, eh? (via Dennis Prager) 36 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=12996 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 7:39 pm #
A world that stands as one, huh? Against Venusians maybe?
Not sure if it’s O!’s sheer transparency or those who worship Him that’s the more concerning. Nah, it’s his co-dependents. What a zoo.
Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 7:43 pm #
The man is simply a bald-faced liar.
Comment by Karl on 7/24 @ 8:03 pm #
Plus, Abe was eulogizing fallen soldiers, while Barry was snubbing wounded ones.
Comment by Pablo on 7/24 @ 8:17 pm #
Karl, that is a profoundly stupid move and the rationalization for it doubles the foolishness.
What a douchebag.
Comment by Log Cabin on 7/24 @ 8:19 pm #
Marx tells us there is no God… and Barack is apparently the prophet. All that yummy touchy feely hopey changitude!
We are in deep trouble, folks.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 8:28 pm #
“…The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign. …”
But then as some wag pointed out, today’s GRAND SPEECH wasn’t a campaign speech at all.
So, to campaign or not to campaign, that is the weasel.
Comment by Darleen on 7/24 @ 8:54 pm #
What I note most is that for O! it is all about him, the royal “we” who will lower the oceans and banish cynicism… Look at “we” and the world trembles and remembers.
Lincoln was “the world will forget me, but not the sacrifice of these soldiers”
Lincoln was partially wrong, we will still be honoring him even as Barry is an asterick on a page in an ignored book.
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 9:04 pm #
Is it that Obama is afraid of having his photo taken with wounded soldiers? Does he fear such photos would be used against him by the left when he ramps up Afghanistan?
Or is it that he doesn’t want to hear from them that they believe in their mission?
Honestly. The reporting from Jake Tapper this morning- before everyone put 2 and 2 together- was Obama saying to reporters what are you going to do tonight? “Huh? Huh?’ How obnoxious. Was he trying to sound really casual, as if he’d never had anything planned? And he was saying that after he knew he was making the choice to do nothing rather than see soldiers. So….why?
Comment by Jeff Y. on 7/24 @ 9:12 pm #
I’m surprised, really I am, at Nobama’s hubris, at Europe’s naivete, at the media’s insensibility.
Is the world mad?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/24 @ 9:13 pm #
weeeeellllll, according to Caleb in the comments of an earlier post, it’s because all us right-wingers would make a big deal about O! using troops as political props since he’s campaigning (really? I thought it was, um, not a campaign thing). myself, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. at least they could vote for him if they felt so moved.
Comment by MayBee on 7/24 @ 9:23 pm #
I don’t believe I have ever once in my life complained about a politician visiting our troops, much less our wounded troops. My goodness, it is an act of kindness. He certainly felt free to visit a civilian hospital for the cameras (where was that? Indiana?) He certainly could have asked his darling press corps not to come, or not to take photos.
My guess is that it has more to do with the Code Pinks, for whom visiting a veteran’s hospital means protesting outside it.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/24 @ 9:28 pm #
*giggle*
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/24 @ 10:44 pm #
Yes.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 7/24 @ 11:44 pm #
“….it’s because all us right-wingers would make a big deal about O! using troops as political props”
- Because they know that we know they have nothing but contempt for the troops, so any such meeting would be exactly what they are afraid we’d make of it.
- They know they’ve blown their cover on too many occasions to even list. It would probably take a 500 comment thread to even make a short list, with Clark doing it just yesterday with the surge and troop effectiveness denials.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 11:57 pm #
If you were to learn that Obama had gone quietly, without public fuss, to visit wounded troops, to sit and talk with them, spend time with them, act generally as a number of politicians have done, exhibiting genuine concern for the wellbeing of these men and women without showing any need to be rewarded for that concern, I’ll bet that you, as I, would gain a measure of respect for Obama neither of us has at present, huh BBH?
But of course, as that scenario hasn’t happened yet, we have as yet no inkling that Obama has ever behaved as I described above. Until he does I’ll remain suspicious of his motives when he approaches the wounded with cameras in tow.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 7/25 @ 12:30 am #
- Exactly right Sdferr, but you jbow, as most everyone does, the Left doesn’t give a damn about real intentions, its all about “appearances”, and “perceptions”. They do nothing if it isn’t right out of the pages of the Marx handbook on politics.
- Personally, I doubt Obama has any real antipithy toward the military, he probably has no concept of personal sacrifice for home, family, and country. The same zero principles that all the nutroots share. But for them, military service is what you do when you can’t afford college.
- In the mean time the Democrats continue to try to guide their erstwhile candidate through the mine field of this campaign, giving everyone the least possible opportunity to look inside his empty suit.
- Unfortunately for them the other side of the “tunnel vision” coin is that the very voters they want to try to reach are not going yemd to vote for someone they simply don’t know, and have largely unanswered questions about.
- A clear case of trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Comment by B Moe on 7/25 @ 2:58 am #
He certainly could have asked his darling press corps not to come, or not to take photos.
They wouldn’t have been allowed to come.
Comment by B Moe on 7/25 @ 5:22 am #
Another interesting comparison:
He is noted for his quick rise in politics – going in six years from County Executive to Vice President of the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/4wvmr
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/25 @ 6:02 am #
Was that the royal ‘we’?
Just askin’.
Comment by BuddyPC on 7/25 @ 6:05 am #
Sixty years after the airlift, we are called upon again. History has led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril. When you, the German people, tore down that wall — a wall that divided East and West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope — walls came tumbling down around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed, and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the spread of information and technology reduced barriers to opportunity and prosperity. While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history.
48 Laws of Power
Law 7- Get others to do the work for you. Take all the credit.
Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.
This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets. No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO’s first mission beyond Europe’s borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done. America cannot do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at stake to turn back now.”
Waitaminit. Obama voted to cut funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, but now The Distinguished Gentleman calls upon others to do more?
Law 25 -Re-Create Yourself
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
Law 27 -Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power.
Law 32 -Play to People’s Fantasies
The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes for disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.
  Law 34 -Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
The way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated; In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others. By acting regally and confident of your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.
Law 37 -Create Compelling Spectacles
Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power – everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, then full of arresting visuals and radiant symbols that heighten your presence. Dazzled by appearances, no one will notice what you are really doing.
Law 48 -Assume Formlessness
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.
We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for democracy,
By sending Nancy Pelosi to Damascus.
Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words “never again” in Darfur?”
But only if they, um, threaten the security of the US, right? Otherwise we need to respect their sovereignty. Does BHO think his Save Darfur campaign is going to look differently than OIF?
“Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”
It’s August. We’ve finally had our first landborne tropical storm.
My famine fear is using the food supply for ethanol.
“And this is the moment when we must give hope to those left behind in a globalized world.”
Screw NAFTA.
“Let us resolve that all nations — including my own — will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere.”
Start by shutting yer yap.
US carbon emmissions down, Kyoto signatories up?
“…instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children.”
Cos nothing reduces the carbon we send into our atmosphere like another coal drop.
Comment by Lurking Observer on 7/25 @ 7:08 am #
Interesting, the Obama supporters’ reactions on his not meeting w/ the troops.
When the wounded (and dead) started to return from Iraq, the Left regularly pilloried Dubya for not meeting w/ the wounded and the families of those who’d died. They attacked him for not attending the funerals.
Yet, as is now well known, Bush was meeting w/ both the wounded and the surviving family members. He was just doing so out of the glare of the klieg lights and without the press caravans. Sometimes it was quiet side visits. Sometimes it was invitations to the White House.
All of which suggests that the Left (yes, I’m equating Obama’s supporters w/ the Left) doesn’t quite understand the importance and significance of visiting troops without the presence of TV cameras and a press pool to portray the event.
Comment by jon on 7/25 @ 7:13 am #
So which politician who hasn’t been dead for 140-odd years contrasts with Obama? I notice most bills passed in Congress today aren’t as concise as those found in the earlier volumes of the Congressional Record, which must mean those non-Whigs are all a bunch of logorrhea sufferers. Plus I’m dead certain that Abe fella didn’t use many words when he was debating.
I get it. Obama isn’t Lincoln. But you’re criticizing someone for not being someone who isn’t running. When Dems go after Bush and McCain in this election, there’s a standard “Bush isn’t running” response. But really, who’s running as Lincoln?
He’re my suggestion: McCain should campaign down South in an orange Dodge Charger with an American Flag on the top and “Gen. Sherman” on each side. The horn could play “Yankee Doodle” and it would really rouse the crowds that come to see him.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/25 @ 7:56 am #
True. He’s running as Christ.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/25 @ 8:00 am #
Christ and Lincoln had humility. Obama, not so much.
Comment by Pablo on 7/25 @ 8:03 am #
Ooooh, sorry. Despite peace, Belfast walls are growing in size and number
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/25 @ 8:24 am #
I get it jon. You are disappointed that we haven’t seen the light and joined the worshipping multitudes.
You see, there’s this little thing – I am an adult, and I like to know what force I am bowing to before I do so. And I don’t worship other humans – especially not politicians.
But if you want to follow blindly, feel free to do so.
Comment by Squid on 7/25 @ 9:06 am #
Jon writes: I notice most bills passed in Congress today aren’t as concise as those found in the earlier volumes of the Congressional Record, which must mean those non-Whigs are all a bunch of logorrhea sufferers.
On this, I’m happy to say, we’re in perfect agreement. Legislation written by professional lawyers is a lot more convoluted and obscure than laws written by men with real jobs. It’s nice when we can find points in common, isn’t it?
I get it. Obama isn’t Lincoln. But you’re criticizing someone for not being someone who isn’t running.
We’re not criticizing Barry H. Christ for not being Lincoln; we’re criticizing him for being longwinded and self-centered. The point of the Lincoln quote was simply to throw the quality of the Berlin speech into sharp relief; far from being a picture of humility and brevity, it was an exercise in verbosity and vanity. We understand that Lincoln isn’t running; that doesn’t change the fact that Obama is really enamored of the sound of his own voice.
Comment by Ouroboros on 7/25 @ 9:06 am #
~Pvt. Joker, “Animal Mutha Address”. 11 Words
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/25 @ 9:15 am #
Now the world will watch and remember what we do here  what we do with this moment.
~Barak Obama, “A World that Stands as Oneâ€Â. 2,983 words.
One World,
One People,
One Leader –
Obama!
Comment by Sdferr on 7/25 @ 9:20 am #
Lincoln had something particular he wanted to say. He said it.
Obama had a particular image he wanted to pose for. He Vogued it.
Comment by mojo on 7/25 @ 9:52 am #
Ein volk
Ein reich
Ein Deutchland!
– Nazi Party
Comment by Sort-of-Mad Max on 7/25 @ 10:10 am #
Please welcome the new President of Metrosexuala, Barack OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObama! (applause)
Comment by Largin Testin on 7/25 @ 11:17 am #
The world as one thing is what got jfk 2 in trouble in ‘04. Lets hope it resonates the same to your standard pathetic suffering, God loving, firearm drooler, American today.
Comment by Jethro Ouroboros on 7/25 @ 3:55 pm #
I have guns.. Lots a guns.. an I dont drool all that much cept’n when I breathe through my mouth.. Jus sayin is all..
Comment by Rusty on 7/25 @ 7:00 pm #
#22
Comment by jon on 7/25 @ 7:13 am #
He’re my suggestion: McCain should campaign down South in an orange Dodge Charger with an American Flag on the top and “Gen. Sherman†on each side. The horn could play “Yankee Doodle†and it would really rouse the crowds that come to see him.
Haven’t been down south much, have you.
Comment by Freedoms Truth on 7/27 @ 5:01 pm #
“If you were to learn that Obama had gone quietly, without public fuss, to visit wounded troops, to sit and talk with them, spend time with them, act generally as a number “So which politician who hasn’t been dead for 140-odd years contrasts with Obama?”
Obama is another Jimmy Carter.
If Carter was a particle, his anti-particle would be called Reagan.
Draw your own conclusions.