Obama speech revisted

[Libsmasher]

It was one of the most jumbled, incoherent, what's the point blathers I've ever heard.

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.

Most of them to dismantle your previous regime.

Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

BS - you're speaking as candidate for President

I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city.

Yeah - they had normal ears and weighed more than 90 pounds. Why would he bring up looks??

The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father – my grandfather – was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

A domestic servant to ALL the "british"?? The road that led you here is a combination of the dumbest luck, plus a near-psychotic bot army.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.

That is why I’m here. And you are here because you too know that yearning.

They yearn for the freedom of the west? Huh? They're already here!

This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life

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The reason they stand here tonight is because unlike obama, the young american men of the 1940s weren't appeasers.

Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.

Due to a president, Harry Truman, who unlike you never backed down in the face of thugs and tyrants.

The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe.

The same type of retreat you want in Iraq.

And that’s when the airlift began – when the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city.

People of the world – look at Berlin!

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle

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What else would the germans do? They were an occupied country! Bet this produced snickers.

Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to defend our common security.

But now, the reason for it is obsolete, and the members of the "greatest alliance" haven't met their agreed quotas for Afghanistan troops.

Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never forget our common humanity.

What the hell could that jumbled metaphor possibly mean? The soviet troops put the bullet holes there - were they thereby ruining "common humanity"? They were killing nazis!

People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down,

Thanks to Reagan, no thanks to the loud-mouthed appeasers you represent

 

[Pandora]

It was one of the most jumbled, incoherent, what's the point blathers I've ever heard.



Most of them to dismantle your previous regime.



BS - you're speaking as candidate for President



Yeah - they had normal ears and weighed more than 90 pounds. Why would he bring up looks??



A domestic servant to ALL the "british"?? The road that led you here is a combination of the dumbest luck, plus a near-psychotic bot army.



They yearn for the freedom of the west? Huh? They're already here!

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The reason they stand here tonight is because unlike obama, the young american men of the 1940s weren't appeasers.



Due to a president, Harry Truman, who unlike you never backed down in the face of thugs and tyrants.



The same type of retreat you want in Iraq.

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What else would the germans do? They were an occupied country! Bet this produced snickers.



But now, the reason for it is obsolete, and the members of the "greatest alliance" haven't met their agreed quotas for Afghanistan troops.



What the hell could that jumbled metaphor possibly mean? The soviet troops put the bullet holes there - were they thereby ruining "common humanity"? They were killing nazis!



Thanks to Reagan, no thanks to the loud-mouthed appeasers you represent

I thought his speech was pathetic, useless and not at all accurate but so far every one seems to think it was award winning.... Nice to know I was not alone.

 

[GenSeneca]

Alright, I have a couple pennies laying around to throw in here....

People of the world - look at Berlin!

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to defend our common security.

Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never forget our common humanity.

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

What a great speaker! Such Passion for the liberty America brought to Germany after the horrors of National Socialism were defeated... How does he feel about the liberation of Iraq from the horrors and ongoing crimes under Saddam?

We could have done that. [avoided Iraq and focused on Afhganistan]

Instead, we have lost thousands of American lives, spent nearly a trillion dollars, alienated allies and neglected emerging threats - all in the cause of fighting a war for well over five years in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

Our men and women in uniform have accomplished every mission we have given them. What's missing in our debate about Iraq - what has been missing since before the war began - is a discussion of the strategic consequences of Iraq and its dominance of our foreign policy. This war distracts us from every threat that we face and so many opportunities we could seize. This war diminishes our security, our standing in the world, our military, our economy, and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century. By any measure, our single-minded and open-ended focus on Iraq is not a sound strategy for keeping America safe.

OMG! You mean Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11?!?! Brilliant! Genius! Lets just bail on our obligations then... We'll just, take a mulligan... and redo it later.

1 Trillion Dollars! In 5 years? Thats a LOT of money... Wait a second... Where have I heard about 1Trillion dollars over 5 years before???

Oh yeah... I pay attention to our legislators and what they propose in our Congress.... Barack Obama's "Global Poverty Act"

To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
[Struck out->] Bush participated in the International Conference on Finance for Development and endorsed the Monterey Consensus, stating[<-Struck out]
: `We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity. We fight against poverty because faith requires it and conscience demands it. We fight against poverty with a growing conviction that major progress is within our reach.'

Bush was talking about fighting poverty with Capitalism, Obama has spun Bush's words into a bill thats just a huge give away of American wealth. The CBO estimates Obama's Global Poverty Act will cost the American taxpayer 1.4 TRILLION dollars over a 5 year period.

I guess our domestic "War on Poverty" is a total success and we have ended our domestic program... Oh, we didn't? It's been a huge, expensive failure? Ah... Then I guess exporting to other countries makes perfect sense.

And just to highlight more of his Liberal Socialist tendancies:

A global tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels might be the way to begin. Even a very small tax, less than that which is needed to correct humanity's climate-deforming overuse of fossil fuels, would finance a greatly enhanced supply of global public goods.

Oh! Its soooo simple.... TAXES will solve Global Warming! Brilliant! Genius! And after GW is all gone... we get the HONOR of continuing to pay those taxes so that we may supply "Global public goods" creating MORE dependents around the globe. Why teach them to fish, as Bush was suggesting, when we can just feed the world with American fish?

Thats "Change" I "Believe" he can bring but I "Hope" enough people object to the Global Socialist agenda that we vote in the second biggest loser: McCain, "Yes we Can!"

 

[Libsmasher]

Alright, I have a couple pennies laying around to throw in here....



What a great speaker! Such Passion for the liberty America brought to Germany after the horrors of National Socialism were defeated... How does he feel about the liberation of Iraq from the horrors and ongoing crimes under Saddam?



OMG! You mean Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11?!?! Brilliant! Genius! Lets just bail on our obligations then... We'll just, take a mulligan... and redo it later.

1 Trillion Dollars! In 5 years? Thats a LOT of money... Wait a second... Where have I heard about 1Trillion dollars over 5 years before???

Oh yeah... I pay attention to our legislators and what they propose in our Congress.... Barack Obama's "Global Poverty Act"


Bush was talking about fighting poverty with Capitalism, Obama has spun Bush's words into a bill thats just a huge give away of American wealth. The CBO estimates Obama's Global Poverty Act will cost the American taxpayer 1.4 TRILLION dollars over a 5 year period.

I guess our domestic "War on Poverty" is a total success and we have ended our domestic program... Oh, we didn't? It's been a huge, expensive failure? Ah... Then I guess exporting to other countries makes perfect sense.

And just to highlight more of his Liberal Socialist tendancies:



Oh! Its soooo simple.... TAXES will solve Global Warming! Brilliant! Genius! And after GW is all gone... we get the HONOR of continuing to pay those taxes so that we may supply "Global public goods" creating MORE dependents around the globe. Why teach them to fish, as Bush was suggesting, when we can just feed the world with American fish?

Thats "Change" I "Believe" he can bring but I "Hope" enough people object to the Global Socialist agenda that we vote in the second biggest loser: McCain, "Yes we Can!"

HA HA HA!

Is there some kind of "Emperor Has No Clothes" effect with Obama?? When are people in general going to stand up and admit his speeches are stupid, and his programs are just some crap fed to him by advisors who represent the american far leftwing???