Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama in Berlin, July 2008 - "America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic."
AFP, August 2012 - Switzerland hit back Tuesday at a US presidential election campaign video that portrays the country as a tax haven. [...] Switzerland's Washington embassy reportedly expressed its unhappiness at the clip to the Obama team, ATS said.
(That 2008 Berlin speech is worth revisiting. Read it out loud to your unicorn.)
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"Switzerland hit back Tuesday..."
Or, as Obama would put it, Switzerland punches above its weight.
Drained Brain, I wonder if Canada punches above its weight and is one Obama's strongest allies also?
The narcissist-in-chief is being hammered from all side lately.
IMVDNSHO, the #1 problem facing Swiss foreign policy is figuring out creative ways of saying Fuuuuuuuuuuck Yoooooooooouuuuu...
Drained Brain, I wonder if Canada punches above its weight and is one Obama's strongest allies also?
The narcissist-in-chief is being hammered from all side lately.
Oh, oh, I got some sort of weird script message. Gremlins busy again.
Michelle Obama secretly binges on Swiss fondue.
Cidn't Michelle vacation for 10 to 15 weeks in Switzerland?? Maybe they should be attacking all those nasty "vacation havens" outside the Continental USofA.
Great issue to hammer Republicans. Democrats like tax cheat Timothy Geithner simply don't pay their taxes until they're caught, and even then they must be pressed to pay before they heroically write the cheque and are held up as paragons of virtue. So, Democrats don't need havens.
We have to remember that Obama has no connection to reality; he lives, totally, in a virtual realm made up of words. What he says is where he is, so to speak.
Obama's words are meant to manipulate you into his control. Period. They have no reference to any external reality.
Therefore, Obama says whatever he feels in needed to render you into his control. He'll say one thing to one audience and exactly one hour later say the opposite to a different audience.
It's the audience that is the reference point; not any factual reality. Never forget that.
His current election campaign is using this same approach. Obama is focusing on groups and bribing them.
Hispanics are being bribed, now, with his new policy of work permits for young illegals.
Unemployed are being bribed within his 'no work for welfare', expansion of food stamps, ease of moving from unemployment benefits to disability benefits. And his class warfare where he tells the poor they are poor only because the rich are not paying 'their fair share'.
Blacks are being bribed by reminders of racism and his past.
The basic issues: the economy, jobs, entitlement reform, health care and medicare, tax reform, foreign relations - none of this is debated. Instead, Obama's tactic is to focus on identity groups and bribe them. He is abandoning any who don't fit into these bribable groups. As I've said frequently, if Obama feels he can't control you, then you don't exist for him.
Will it work? Will he be able, with these bribes, entice them to actually vote?
I had never waded through that pile before. SHould have done so earlier.
Confirms that he laregly speaks the language of unicorns, empty high level statements that on hearing you have trouble disagreeing with.
BUT
this last paragraph caught my attention
"People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. Let us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world"
Besides the self aggrandizing that he is speaking to the world notice the shift. The speech is sprinkled with non-offensive references to liberty and freedom and this summary paragraph seems to be in the same direction. But then after drawing the link to common history and common destiny (which he never references other than the cold war and the airlift, never mentioning Truman or Marshall or the leaders of the nascent German Republic) he drops in out of nowehere that this is about
Peace and Justice....not freedom. Justice, a fine word that has been corrupted by the left and sticks out like sore thumb in this speech. I wish I had read it earlier. Obama hides his agenda in plain sight.
And yes I needed to take some alka seltzer and avoid sugar for the rest of the day.
Since when could a politician become President of the USA and become exempt to every law in the USA?!
What's the deal with Obama? Switzerland has a tax treaty with the US and does co-operate with US tax authorities. What's he going to attack next? Running boards and rumble seats on cars?? The guy's an idiot.
I could care less what Euros think of us. They are the first to throw us under the bus and the first to call for help when the shooting starts.
I'm no fan of Barry either but when it comes down to choices I will take my American cousins first, without hesitation.
Euroland has become a group of self-indulgent countries with little to offer N. America. The future is to the west my friends but also to the south. Read BNS's annual reports on their expansion into S. America.
ct, this is Switzerland we're talking about, not the Eurozone. Remember Switzerland? Stands on its own, not beholden to anybody? Has its own currency?
Yah, that one. Barry threw them under the bus in an election year, just as he threw Canada under the bus over a pipeline. He throws ANYBODY under the bus when he thinks he can get away with it, and kowtows to those who do deserve it. Remember Saudi Arabia? Bowing to the king? The one supplying much of the money and guns aimed at US soldiers in Afghanistan? Yes, that flea-scratcher, reeking of camel dung.
You seem to be under some kind of impression that the US means all that much these days. Remember Libya? Seems to me the US was kind of conspicuous by its absence. You don't seem to have noticed that our "American cousins", as you put it, are currently led by "Mendacity in Chief".
Now finish waking up, and drink your coffee.
Hey, don't knock Obama's Berlin speech.
That non-voting foreigner demographic can make a big difference to any election!
Oh wait...
cgh
Because the US doesn’t push democracy anymore. Instead it pushes one world kleptocracy and oligarchy for the big banks.
Of course Romney should show Obamba his personal financial records as he so demands.....
.....as soon as Obamba shows everyone else a real birth certificate and all of his academic records sealed behind a court order.
Lies are better than Ghosts for retribution. They haunt you for life.
As Obama is finding out.
It is said there are tow things in life you can always count on;death and taxes.
I think a third item should be added, communist treachery.
A commie,often called a "socialist" will sell out anyone for his own gain,from his closest ally to his own Mother, no one is safe if it means success for the commie.
Come to think of it, isn't that one of the main personality quirks of a psychopath?
Gee,someone should do a "study".
America yer screwed:
I tell ya we need NIGHTRIDER (ick!), the DUKE BOYS (double ick!) an' DAISY DUKE (woah... wait a minute there...)to fix this mess.