I was struck by a singular observation that puts Obama’s soaring paean to freedom in its proper context. Sayeth Obama, “Born as we are out of a revolution by those who longed to be free, we welcome the fact that history is on the move […]. Because wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the United States.”
— to which I silently appended, “Unless those people longing to be free happen to live and work in Madison, Wisconsin. Or China. Those folks can kiss my Big Labor-owned ass.
“Now. Can I get an amen!“
Or…or…or………………………..
It would be a shorter list to name those places where he will befriend and defend the longing to be free or the facsimile thereof that works best for the optics.
“by those who longed to be free”*
*offer only good in certain situations. n.korea,iran,syria,honduras,czech republic, poland need not apply.
I was thinking.
You know how sports teams are always buying coaches and jocks out of the middle of their contracts?
If everybody kicks in like ten-fifteen bucks each, can we get Obama to take off to whatever south-side based foundation office space for $600 million dollars?
Obama: I am going to pander to my base in Wisconsin!
The whole world is just one big backdrop for the Obama Saga. I bet he’d make a good chief of staff, too.
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That reminds me.
Today, Michael Medved repeatedly referred to the “Magic” word used by whatshisname on his old tv show.
So.
“Say the Secret word “putz” and win an extra hundred dollars.”
The proud and noble people of Honduras collectively puked all over themselves. What a dishonest fucking poofter he is.
That BS artist had the effin’ nerve to say that we have to stand with governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of their people…Unless, you know, that “aspiration” conflicts with Obama’s statist agenda…
This entire speech made my blood boil. For the first half, he essentially patted himself on the back for “taking the lead”. Then, in the middle he contradicted himself by going on about letting “our partners” in this vast international coalition “bear the burden of responsibility”. Then, in the end, he patted himself on the back some more, for being such a great humanitarian, and of course, for being the anti-Boooooosh!, and for his promise not actually expiring, as is usually the case; that promise being that the entire operation would be handed off to NATO…
Regarding that point, as one who’s been on the sharp end of these operations, I can assure you that NATO led action, and unilateral US efforts, are equivalent on an operational level.
Look for the US to continue to provide a high percentage of the precision strike sorties and TLAM attacks.
The only silver lining, is that anyone who actually gave 30 minutes of their life to watch the palaverer-in-chief, had to be impressed with the speech’s disjointed content, Obama’s lackluster delivery, and his painfully apparent discomfort.
He doesn’t deserve the honor of being C-in-C.
I’ve seen punditry characterize the speech as “low energy” or “without vigor”.
Hey, he started a war. He didn’t consult congress. He knows there is no national interest served by shooting a hundred cruise missiles at Libya. He got us into a war, knows it is a waste of treasure and blood, and knew full well that he would have to go on TV for a few minutes and talk about it.
He makes a war speech to the nation from a utilitarian podium that would fit right in at the Insurance Underwriters’ convention.
He lies first about consulting Congress; no congressman or senator from either party has declared they were consulted in any way.
He lies second by equating a humanitarian crisis happening within an ongoing four – plus decade long humanitarian crisis as some unique obligation for the United States to act…. just long enough for “NATO” to take over after we’ve blown up everything in the country more advanced than a falafel stand.
Then he insults the honor of every U.S. service member who has ever fallen by cheapening their role in history by implying that past employment of U.S. force has been routinely immoral.
And done.
He’s done with Libya. I expect Hillary to be gone in week or two, maybe a month.
The next round of questions in the White House press briefing will be referred to NATO. Watch.
Fuck. We are in a lot of trouble.
I found it defensive, a litany of responses to complaints. And, as always, there was the I…I…I…I…I…I…I…
Not much light from the lightbringer. Sorry.
The calculation laid out by President Obama goes like this: Libya = honorable war due to altruistic motives.
Iraq = blood for oil = dishonorable war.
It seems to help a lot if your longing for freedoms happens to threaten key NATO members energy supplies.
I listened and I summed it up for my husband when he got home:
I think he was trying to convince himself cuz he sure wasn’t speaking to the American public.
Darleen,
Yeah, the Blunderer in Chief has that whole “Talking down to his subjects” thing down, doesn’t he?
It was a typical campaign speech, full of sugary pablum and cliches without an iota of substance.
I enjoyed his dig at Bush. Simply because what he’s doing is actually doing what people accused Bush of doing. While accusing Bush of doing what’s he doing.
I especially enjoyed his sojourn into necessity of military action without consent of Congress, stating that Libya was somehow a direct threat to the US, then later saying how Libya wasn’t a direct threat to the US.
Orwell would be rolling around in his grave, for tonight, the Pigs have learned to Walk.
What he’s doing pretty much the exact same thing George Bush did with Iraq. In 1991. Aside from the expulsion from Kuwait, I don’t see anything fundamentally different between what 41 did and what Obama is doing. Sure, there’s the fact that Obama is insisting on the NATO window dressing, but the facts on the ground are parallel in most ways.
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I missed it.
PTL.
Thus, I had no need to get drunk last night.
I lurves the twitter thinger… )
Full text of a Good Man’s Presidential Address to the Nation, at the Start of War. ~ http://goo.gl/jDmv7
Good Lord. We’re the Three Amigos.
Whatsisname? WHATSISNAME?
He was called John Russell. No! Wait! That was Paul Newman in Hombre. Ah! Julius Marx. Groucho to his friends and the contestants on You Bet Your Life (say the magic word and win $100; it’s something commonly found around the house).
Obama paraphrased: