Posted on 07/27/2008 12:38:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What an odd presidential campaign it is when one of the principals, John McCain, managed to capture the other day but a modest inside-page newspaper photograph of himself and a woman named Renee Gould in a supermarket, where McCain, presumably, was jawboning with her about the price of broccoli. The store was in Bethlehem, Pa. It was in the United States, and it was old-fashioned political stumping.
While, in the meantime, Barack Obama was touring Europe and sounding vaguely un-American, which I don't mean in the spiteful or unpatriotic sense. In fact, he was very careful to point out that he loved America. His remarks in Berlin were so broadly encompassing of world change that he sounded like a fellow who might have been from anywhere, from France or Argentina or Turkey. He is not unlike the television news anchors who clamored to accompany him to Europe and help husband him through the travails. He could be from anywhere.
"People of Berlin, people of the world,'' Obama said in remarks at the Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten, "this is our moment, this is our time.''
I'm trying to imagine a German politician giving a speech in Yankee Stadium in which he tells me that it is our time. Our time for what?
Well, as a former president who also appeared in Berlin, and for a more powerful and specific reason, once said, "There he goes again.''
Obama's followers know what Obama means when he promotes change, but I don't. At least when he refers to change as it might develop under his watch in America, I can get an idea of his boilerplate adherence to his party's plank, free health care and another roundhouse punch to the 1 percent of taxpayers who already pay more than 30 percent of America's income taxes. He even threw in a little "to each according to his need'' reference when he said, "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created and share its benefits more equitably.'' That plays well when you throw your arms around the world. I have no earthly idea what that portends or what it is that he imagines he is going to change.
It was all very UNy and One Worldy, especially when he referred to what he called the burden of global citizenship, as that burden might be applicable to saving the planet.
The planet is OK. What should concern the world is how we might survive our attempts to save it. One major volcanic eruption would put us in our place, but until some perfectly natural disaster comes along, we continue to be attracted by the warm glow of politicians whose extraordinary vanity makes it acceptable to believe that humans are bigger than nature and that as a result of us being, well, present and accounted for and driving SUVs, we have apparently ruined the planet.
Which we haven't.
"As we speak,'' Obama said in Berlin, "cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.''
Really? If you believe that, then you will believe anything — that you might head off this disaster, for example, by buying different light bulbs. Or you might have to believe that you had better stop driving in Boston and that the state had better close those factories in China.
Believing in anything, I do believe, explains Obama's grandeur. He preaches a meaningless belief in anything better than anyone, better than Al Gore or Sting or any of the notable reverends we have gotten to know.
It was a fabulous speech in Berlin and then off to Paris and then home.
Meanwhile, McCain's photograph appeared the other day beneath Obama speaking to 200,000, and the sign behind McCain in a restaurant in Ohio said "Schmidts Fudge Haus.''
Almost Germany.
Thanks for posting this Soucheray column. I love Joe’s Garage Logic!
This speech has an otherworldly quality to it...
"People of Berlin, people of the world,'' Obama said, "this is our moment, this is our time.''
"Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!"
Sounds all very Marxy to me, Mr. Soucheray.
Thank you for posting his excellent column.
Or better still, if you were arriving at a level one trauma center by helicopter which doc would you prefer to see standing over you in the ER?
A great column... up until the point he repeated the liberal (US) media lie that there were 200,000 people there. According to German papers the number was more like 20,000.
Indeed. Or an asteroid. There's always the chance of an asteroid strike between now and January, making this whole election thing moot. If Obama is elected, I think I'd prefer to take my chances with the asteroid strike.
Of course, with Obeymao's godly powers, he could probably flick an enormous space rock away like a flea, while doing a 70 pound curl in front of a swooning reporterette, all without sweating a drop. We are truly the luckiest humans in history to have this messiah among us, seeking to protect us from ourselves as he simultaneously heals our ailing solar system. I heard he's going to China to make sure it doesn't rain during the Olympics. His mere presence will provide such a burning light that all precipitation will cease during his stay. He will then leap big oceans in a single bound, back to America in time for the convention, where he will weave his magical web of teleprompted oration. Like a spider snaring the hapless fly that carelessly wanders too close to those enticing silken strings, so the promised one will sink his teeth into the soft, mushy brains of every unsuspecting clueless idiot.
BINGO!
I can't believe that the electorate would even consider voting a person into office about whom so many questions are swirling. I'm sure my heart can stand another four or eight years like the Clintons gave us. Every day it's a different scandal, a different problem.
We've just about reached the point that no one worth having in the office will want to run for it, let alone actually occupy it.
* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audiences - Check
* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise - Check
* Creates his own new symbols of power - Check
* Associates with racists, hatemongers and violent radicals - Check
* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light - Check
* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations - Check (see German campaign poster for example)
* Wants Secret Police force - Check
* Somebody powerful people think they can control - Check
* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents - Check
* Seeks to replace God with the State - Check
* People adopting his name as their own - Check
* Inspires adoration art - Check
* Appropriates symbols of past German glory - Check
* Never plans on giving up power - Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)
* A narcissistic megalomaniac - Check
* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments - Check
* Wants to build “youth” movement through State service - Check
* Acts as if in power before he is - Check
* Some followers believe him to be divine - Check
* Worshiped and aided greatly by the media - Check
Barack “O’Brahma”, anti-American sacred cow, can say he’s been there, “dung” that. The more he leaves the more they step in it. And it’s the greatest thing sinced sliced bread, too. What a load of bullsh*t.
There was nothing vague about it -- the creep declared his loyalty to "the world" over America.
G. K. Chesterton said that when people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don’t begin to believe in nothing, rather they will believe anything.
(...remember, the US was FOUNDED by the disaffected, bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.)
Cheers!
And to think the only bill this arrogant retard has sponsered is to give $800 Billion of US taxpayer to the WORLD!
NOBAMA
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