Who stole the president and replaced him with Peter Sellers?
JFK had a clear message when he came to Berlin a half century ago – the free world must stand up to Communist tyranny. 24 years later, President Reagan stood in the same spot famously calling on the Soviets to “tear down this wall.” Reagan’s speech was a seminal moment that ushered in the downfall of an evil empire, and gave hope to tens of millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. It was a display of strength and conviction by the leader of the free world, sending an unequivocal message of solidarity with those who were fighting for freedom in the face of a monstrous totalitarian ideology.
So now even the Europeans are finally understanding what a vain, useless man Obama is.
Good.
That was an insult to Peter Sellers. “The Great Mistake” isn’t nearly as entertaining.
Europeans could have saved some time and effort by simply reading SDA in 2008.
I tried to watch some of his speech and as soon as he launched into his now very familiar social ingineering/climate retoric I turned it off in disgust. Nothing inspirational here folks.
One suit, well tailored, empty.
“Angela and I don’t exactly look like previous German and American leaders…”
Narcissist.
Kristol skewers him as well:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/june-17-1953_736780.html
These pacifist lefties strut around acting like they’re so well informed and educated yet they seem – are – completely ignorant of history and the lessons it can teach us.
Obama. Old Indian word for ‘tikinagan full of papoose shit’.
Every time Obama interacts with Europe, I get the feeling the “Manchurian Candidate” theorists may have something.
“Narcissist”
BINGO!!!
He can never resist claiming “I’m the new and improved version of anything you’ve ever seen before,” can he?
Obama = fecal encephalopathy
Obama very much reminds me of a movie I saw in the 1970’s with Peter Sellers. Similar ineptness for sure.
It was called “Being There” Sellers was a simple minded gardener whose name was Chancey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There
In the movie the Presidential elections are coming up and one party is desperate for a candidate. Somehow, I do not recall how, the party becomes aware of him and feels he is the ideal candidate.
He is nominated and during the campaign, he was asked when growth would resume as the US was in recession. As he is a simple minded gardener, he replies, growth will occur in the spring as it always does in gardens. His reply becomes headline news, he is a wild sensation and he is elected.
Seems to me there is a similarity here.
Jim in BC, Being There was one of the most disturbing movies I’ve seen in my life. I’ve seen it only once and think it was in 1979 or 1980 when I first moved to Vancouver and I had never before considered the idea that a complete incompetent could, through a series of random occurrences, become the POTUS. The emotional linkages to this movie may in part be because after my girlfriend and I came back home from watching the movie we got a call from a friend that an acquaintance we’d just partied with the previous weekend had for reasons known only to herself decided to drive her convertible at 100 mph into a brick wall that same night.
Having a POTUS with the qualifications of Chauncey Gardner was a topic of my nightmares for years which ceased when Reagen was president. In comparison to Obozo, Chauncey Gardner would be a harmless eccentric who would be put into a garden to do his thing for 4 years with maybe the occasional horticultural TV message.
The thing that disturbed me greatly in 1979 was the concept that there was a huge chunk of the public that confused what they saw on TV with reality. While I haven’t equalled Dalyrymple’s record of not having a TV in the house for 30 years, I’ve always been far too busy to watch TV. IMHO, TV is one of the greatest time wasters to come along and TV creates a highly distorted virtual reality that is far more destructive than just about any psychoactive drug I can think of.
I can find some solace in the grand historical view that societies are just another high order complex dissipative system that undergo a life cycle analogous to smaller complex dissipative systems; namely birth growth, senesence and death. The former USA, now as the senile USSA is a dying complex dissipative system. Younger, more dynamic societies will soon overtake it and feast upon its remains as they rejoice in the power of their youth. The seemingly infinite promise of the future that I experienced in multiple viewings of Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 was replaced by the descent into mediocrity and socialism that has come about with Chauncey Gardner as the TOTUS. The exploration of the universe will be undertaken by the Chicoms and other forward looking cultures while the senile survivors of the USSA live in their unheated hovels and subsist on “sustainable” crops.
This speech was attended by 4500 invited guests and 8000 policemen.
No wide angle views of the crowd have been published.
Obummers pre-election speech in Berlin was attended by 200,000 cheering Germans, this time there would have been booing.
A truly orchestrated PR trip.
Hal
And the first thing out of his mouth is racial.
Loki;
Always enjoy your views. Interesting and unique.
The greatness derived from the development of a continent cannot be easily dismissed. The USA is still finding it’s way. A empire of only 70 years cannot be pissed away in some alley over night. I have to hope that America will rediscover itself and move forward. It takes leadership which is sadly lacking right now.