Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones, those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor.
Obama is holding up a different finger in that photo than he did at a few of the debates against both Hillary and McCain.
He's soooo dreamy.
The adulation of Obama is, indeed, similar in tone and in substance (if I may use that word) to the adulation which many Germans lavished on Adolf Hitler. "Er sprecht uns aus *unser* Herzen", one said - "he speaks to us from *our* hearts". Leni Riefenstahl wrote something to the effect that when she first saw and heard Hitler it was as though the heavens had opened.
No good will come of this.
Apologize for the O/T link, but I have work to do and you all need to read this!
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2009/02/enough-tritium-gas-missing-for-credible.html
Relax folks, the media's adulation of Obama is beginning to wane.
Rolling Stone only has 140 pages of pictures of him in it's commemorative issue.
http://coverawards.com/2008/12/19/news_rolling_stone_special_issue_3819/
"And, there’s even a pull-out poster of Barack Obama - just like you used to pull out from your teen magazine and hang up on your wall."
The flowery talk on the hustings surely worked wonders for Obama.
One has to wonder if every time he endorses a document into Law, he will follow up with a flowery speech as he did today.
I hope Harper's concise "to the point" approach will cause Obama to pick up on and recognize he has to cut the bullshi* when dealing with Harper.
Funny they said Shakespearean. You should read Briggs on Lincoln's Shakespeare over at the Claremont Institute website today.
Freaky.
Ummm, does anybody know how to clean vomit out of a keyboard?
Stan
Speaking of "pull-outs" and Obama, how many Liberals and Dippers do you suppose will have hairy palms by the end of the week?
My guess, 100%. Personally, I prefer Bush.
There has never been a successful black led nation in the history of the world. What makes anyone think this will be any different.
Look at present day South Africa, Zimbabwe. Once successful then handed over the homies.
look at Haiti, or any African country ... all vortexes of misery, depravity, poverty, crime.
The late great United States of America may not recover from this Obamanation.
It needs to be said:
Somewhere in Illinois, a village is missing it's idiot!
...or is that Kenya or Indonesia?
Just finished listening to Wolf Blitzer's interview with Harper. What a relief to hear someone speak bluntly and intelligibly with no "ums","ahs",and "ers" and without Obama's embroidery: just the clear-cut facts. I was proud.
Just finished listening to Wolf Blitzer's interview with Harper. What a relief to hear someone speak bluntly and intelligibly with no "ums","ahs",and "ers" and without Obama's embroidery: just the clear-cut facts. I was proud.
violet - sorry I missed it. Anybody know if there's an audio archive?
Upon signing the rape bill yesterday, O proclaimed "this is the beginning of the end". Truth to that I'd say.
" Personally, I prefer Bush."
Me too... Hate the porn these days.
John: I wouldn't go that far. You're comparing apples to cinder blocks here. The fact that he's (somewhat) black is utterly meaningless. It's his politics and policies that I have problems with. But comparing Obama to Haitian dictators is ridiculous.
Upon signing the rape bill yesterday, O proclaimed "this is the beginning of the end". Truth to that I'd say.
Posted by: Sounder at February 18, 2009 4:54 PM
Sounder, that was my exact sentiment as well. In hindsight, I'm guessing the Obamessiah wished he had phrased it differently.
Recently Sarah Palin and G W Bush were pilloried for dropping the "Gs" in speeches. In other words, talking like normal Americans do. Last night on the CBC interview, I confirmed what I had noticed in the campaign. Obama has a very street wise way of talkin, gonna do this etc.
There is nothing wrong with this, its just that he is held to a different standard than say Republican trailer trash from Alaska.
Even with only reading the teaser, a little vomit crept up my throat . . .
It's going to be an awfully long four years.
Here is another analysis of Obama's speaking style
Its always worked well for the Lieberals as they know lefties just have to believe what their told by the likes of Obama, Trudeau or McGuinty whereas conservatives judge you on what you do, your track record. Liberals feel he will be a great man and no matter what he actually does will still blindly support Obama because his heart is in the right place and he wants to do good for us all.
Move along, little sheep, we are all going to a better place...
"There is nothing wrong with this, its just that he is held to a different standard than say Republican trailer trash from Alaska"
Oooooh, Martin! We love it when you talk butch.
Are you and the other obammy-soxers going to throw your panties at him when he visits Ottawa?
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
Thanks for the tip Violet. I caught a brief clip at 6:15 and Wolf said it will be on tomorrow and on Saturday.
john - the reason there haven't been any 'successful' black nations is because the political structure of a nation never emerged in Africa because the environment; that is, the food supply, never enabled a large enough population base to move from tribalism to nationhood.
There were certainly successful tribal political socioeconomic systems, supporting a small to medium size population. But, because Africa has few plants that can be domesticated, and few animals that can be domesticated, then, the 'ecology' or environment couldn't produce the population base for a nation.
I don't think the post-colonial era has been operative for long enough to talk about 'successful black nations'. A key problem is that tribalism is still dominant, in countries that have been artificially formed into nations.
Nothing to do with skin colour or that empty term of 'race'. You have to first consider, always, the environment - plants, animals, water, climate.
Wolf Blitzer of CNN will have the second segment of his interview with Harper tomorrow. Don't have the time but it's late afternoon, have to check TV listings.
I heard that 81% of Canadians have a favourable impression of Obama.
Wow, we really are a nation of idiots.
Wall Street's already soured on his Administration: the averages tell the story. Not that it's hurting his popularity, but the financial circuit was very much part of the adulation at first.
I wonder which groups'll be disappointed next...
"I heard that 81% of Canadians have a favourable impression of Obama.
Wow, we really are a nation of idiots. "
I can't disagree Peter - my parents are in Florida for the winter and they're very pro-Obama. The hated Bush because of the war(s). And up here they vote Conservative...
I have sent them so many articles and Islam and why the war needed to be waged - articles about ACORN and the housing collapse and the Clinton administration's complicity... They refuse to believe any of it. They just sit and watch CNN.
Apparently they aren't very unique.
first peter Pansbridge and now Count Choculate
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/18/ignatieff-obama.html
CBCpravda ALL Lieberal All the time
Thou shall not have false Gods!
In his speech earlier today, I kept hearing a theme I hear over and over again.
Individual responsibility.
Now, I'm totally in favour of individual responsibility, but I'm usure how his collectivist supporters keep disregarding his underlying theme.
john @ 4:34 said, "There has never been a successful black led nation in the history of the world", it's a bit of a stretch John IMO. The ancient civilizations of Maya or Egypt et al were hardly lily white yet managed to function fairly successfully.
Another day .... another bucket of slobber.
Shaken:
Re your OT: My bs detector is vibrating.
You've heard of whistling past the graveyard, Obama takes a 76 piece band with him.
ET said "You have to first consider, always, the environment - plants, animals, water, climate."
Ma'am, I agree with you that race is irrelevant to the issue. But, you must admit the Europeans have been very successful in the African environment. Particularly around South Africa, where the climate is a lot like the Southern USA.
Culture I believe is the deciding ingredient. The same culture Mr. O-i'msofreakin'gorgeous-bama, the DemocRats and their assorted useful idiots are trying so hard to destroy.
May they all get boils.
Phantom,
I agree with you, esp. with respect to South Africa, and Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. Rich agricultural land, abundant natural resources. But unfortunately, under black rule are struggling to survive. Rather than race being the deciding factor, it probably is even more fundamental, i.e. tribalism. However, the sad result is the same.
In today's National Post Jian Ghomeshi writes stuff that makes me wonder if he's been watching what we've been watching:
"Of course, the new honesty is found nowhere more cogently than in a new American president who speaks unscripted, unvarnished and with constant acknowledgment of his own imperfections.
This marks a sharp contrast to years of teleprompted presidential statements and weapons of mass spin that left us trying to delude ourselves into assuming there was competence at the helm."
Huh? Rush is closer to the mark with "But, you see, Obama really can't think well, and we see it constantly when he's off the teleprompter. He is a stuttering, "Uhhh." We put together all the uhs and ahs and ands and you-knows from a 40-minute press conference that he had a couple weeks ago, or three weeks ago, and a full seven-and-a-half to eight minutes is uhs and ahs and you-knows. And what Obama is trying to make people think he's doing during all those pauses is deeply thinking. He's thinking; he's smart; he is trying to arrange his syllables. That's not what he's doing, but that's what he wants people to think. The American people do not want a thinker. The American people want a doer." Rush Limbaugh
Here's a small compilation for your delectation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc&feature=related
or perhaps there's the 57 states he visited?
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GaU-ExYm30&feature=related
Kelly at 8:33: "john @ 4:34 said, "There has never been a successful black led nation in the history of the world", it's a bit of a stretch John IMO. The ancient civilizations of Maya or Egypt et al were hardly lily white yet managed to function fairly successfully."
Does anybody still believe that the ancient Egyptians were black? For political and identity reasons that belief had a lot of currency in the US in the early '90s, but it petered out, mainly because it just isn't correct and can't be supported by hard evidence. Now, if you want to make a point about ancient Nubian society on the other hand ...
It is my sense talking with and reading the opinions of those on the centre-left those who had at least partially bought into BOs "change" meme (and I do think their is a huge desire amoung many to see change happen - whatever that might be - I think it is caused by a growing ignorance and naïveté on their part as more and more people become more and more disengaged with the actual workings of politics. I digress) are moving more towards disappoint with BO by the day. So far they have had nothing to point to to prove that change is indeed happening and that the things that are changing are what they had in mind.
A few more weeks and months of this and BOs fashionability will be as stale as pet rocks.
That picture reminds me of a movie...
The guys were betting on whether some dude was going to pick his nose or not...
Well, the baby has been let out without diapers and has proceeded to soil the entire crib.
And now he has the keys to the car!
Whatever cliff he drives off it won't matter to the slobbering idiots idolizing this completely incompetent baby. Seems he is not used to work either. THAT is for somebody else. He is used to running around talking and making speeches.
Mr. Obama IS the one with the teleprompter.
President Bush NEVER used a teleprompter in press conferences.
Mr. Obama uses a teleprompter ALL the time in all venues. There was utter surprise and disdain that he used one for his first press conference, which, by the way was very controlled. Our little pressies were very good and obedient , failing to ask anything heavy or important and sitting quietly while he droned on for 13 minutes on ONE question. Geez. President Bush would have been pilloried for such an unprofessional performance, but Bambi gets a by. For now. The bloom is already off the rose in some important quarters.
Fertilizer is good for roses but the smell can be a tad unpleasant.
Somebody get the baby a diaper or the crib won't be worth a tinker's damn and you can bet your pacifier he sure won't be cleaning up his own mess.
you have to be able to think in order to critically analyse. feeling just won't cut it.
"The late great United States of America may not recover from this Obamanation."
Calm down. It's not pretty, but, it's not the end of either America or the world.
There are 120,000,000+ Americans who think this guy is full of sh*t, and won't be in lock step anytime soon: more are joining their ranks daily.
They want a better future and will work to get it.
Don't count 'em out.
Still wish Obama good luck with his term because failure would be horrendous for all. As far as unsuccessful civilizations in Africa, what about the thousands of years of Ethiopian kingdoms. Sorghum(millet) was domesticated in Africa (Bantu nations), they herd cattle,goats and camels too. When the world needed to stock the gene bank they went to Ethiopia for hundreds of varieties of wheat.
violet; I was also impressed by your Mr Harper... took the time to find this for you, et al;
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/18/harper-on-cnn-protectionism-could-turn-recession-into-a-depression.aspx
~regards
Don't count 'em out.
Amen, peter o'keefe, don't count us out. The little twit is a learning curve with a lot of pain coming before heads get out of the sand here. I think most conservatives like myself don't need hit over the head twice by a baseball bat to figure out that it's time to take back America. We've been complacent and naive watching this socialism creep up on us and thinking it would never take hold. We've watched the Dems gaming elections with ACORN, no, not all clueless slobs are required to vote in a democracy, and never hit back in the courts and by howling at the top of our lungs. Those days are over as conservatives are getting galvanized.
America isn't lost.
Obama needs to help the writer up off their knees. That was just overly embarrassing.
Makes our Fuhr look like an idiot.