Posted on 08/09/2008 1:29:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Occasionally, Obama has indicated that he has a weak sense of American history. He didn’t seem to know that the Cold War was not a time when the world was standing as one. He didn’t know the history of presidential summits and seems to think that FDR and Truman met with our nation’s enemies. He didn’t know how the Nuremberg Trials worked. And I’m not even talking about his mistake that Americans liberated Auschwitz.
But I think his remark when the little girl asked him why he decided to run for president and he gave this response.
“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”
As you watch the video, it’s clear that he formed his words carefully and was thinking about how to answer the little girl.
I’m wondering when is the time that Obama thinks that we were what we could be. It couldn’t have been when we had slavery. So that takes us to 1865. It couldn’t be when we had states divided by terrible Jim Crow laws that segregated society and disenfranchised an entire race. So that takes us to the mid-1960s. It probably wasn’t when we were divided and torn apart by the Vietnam War and racial violence. So that takes us to the 1970s. I doubt that it was when we were suffering devastating stagflation and seeing our hostages being paraded in front of the cameras. So that takes us to 1980. We’re left with the Reagan-Bush years. Is Obama yearning for Morning in America? Many conservatives remember that period with nostalgia; does Obama share that feeling? No, certainly not the 1980s, that decade of greed.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com ...
Put on the dunce cap, Barry, and go stand in the corner with Michelle!
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Noooooooooooooooooooooo
Dont put them in the same corner...
They’ll whisper and plot...
that was a good one!
i heard it on the radio.
When I heard the pinhead's response to this question, this was exactly the same thing that came to my mind. Obama is a clueless moron. He'll make a great president for the clueless moron's who vote him in.
“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”
Obambi has to be referring to the Bush Admin. Things were so much better under Clinton.
Gee, if that’s so, shouldn’t we be electing Hillary?
Words, just words...
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Anyone who has listened to Obama speak without the aid of a teleprompter knows that he has no talent for it and is far from being the intelligent man that his supporters assert him to be.
Read the full article, she says as much...
LOL!
How in God's name do they and the MSM reconcile this with Michelle claiming she is NOW, finally proud to be an American?
The two claims contradict each other. Or, has the U.S. declined in the last four months?
Ok....I would like to see a youtube video with
kids and adults addressing this MO MO....
Mr. Obama I am sorry you do not speak two languages and sound embarrassed. I am not....then break away to several kids...for instance my daughter who speaks Spanish and French. Then my mother who lives in Texas (legal thank you very much) and has spoken two languages her whole life. Or talk to the kids who stand as interpreters for their parents all over this country.
I think we need to show Mr. Obama that kids in the United States do speak two,three languages....We just speak American because it seems to be international.
Makes me so mad when he continues to put Americans down.
We need to show our children many of them who are wicked Smart!!!!
And both of his parents chose to live on the other side of the world from the US.
OOPS didnt mean “speak American” meant speaks English.
McCain needs to take the Dali Bamas comments and mirror them with Carter’s “grand malaise” speech, with McCain finishing it with what is good about America and just pound the crap out of him with it. The majority of America does not feel it is the bad guy.
There are a few reasons why to suspect Obama has Attention Deificit, the criteria for ADHD symptoms from;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder
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1. Often forgetful in daily activities.
Example: Obama says he doesn’t pay much attention to McCains campaign adds, yet he knows what isn’t in them,
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2. Often has trouble keeping attention on tasks or play activities.
Example: Joe Bidens observations;
Biden wasn’t always defending Obama...
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1204594.aspx
On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.
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3. Often forgetful in daily activities.
Example: Obama says “ahhhhh” all the time when he isn’t scripted
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4. Often avoids, dislikes, or doesn’t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).
Example: Obama stayed less than 1 day in Iraq to study what was happening on the ground
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Another Freeper’s obsevation;
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I wouldn’t be surprised. People with actually ADHD (not just six year olds with a lot of energy), actually diagnosable ADHD, when there brains develop they have certain parts of their brain develop at slower/faster rates. The part of the brain that process speech develops at a quicker rate than the brain. (OBama’s ability to speak well, at least on a TelePrompter anyway could come from that). Also, parts of the brain (the lining of it) that don’t develop is the front part of the brain (frontal lobe, also called the executive function) as quickly (or in the case of adults the fact that the delay is caused has permanent effects) and cause that person to exhibit hasty or seemly thought out speech/actions. Causes alot of Foot in mouth sydrome.
Show the video of the question and answer, then stop the video with BHO's face and attach a voice over follow-up with the history questions posed by this lady.
One follow-up question per Ad.
And run them, one after the other, over and over until the evening of November 4th.
I have heard him say he does not speak another language, too. and yet I heard him say this when he was in Berlin: "My German is not real good. I can speak Bahasi Indonesian but I don't think...there would be a lot of appeal to that." The clip was played on radio, and I found it sourced here also.
I guess he doesn’t see how the Democrats kept his race in slavery and then in segregation afterwards and how the Democrats in the South kept his race segregated and prevented them from voting and all that but yet he wants to represent himself to us as a Democrat .... one wonders .....
It’s still the same choice this November—even if the Clintons somehow manage to dethrone the dope in Denver for incompetence above and beyond.
(Will Denver burn?)
RINO McCain or Democrat whoever = “Purgatory or Perdition?”
Our only hope is a one (or less) term McCain who has a decent Vice President.
Anyone who has listened to Obama speak without the aid of a teleprompter knows that he has no talent for it and is far from being the intelligent man that his supporters assert him to be.
Yeah, he should throw in something like ‘My friends’ every once in a while so he can think of what he’s going to say next.
Ha!
I heard the audio(on talk radio)a couple times this week.He really sounded at a loss for words.His reply was ironic.To believe BO and libs in general,when has this country ever done anything right or good?Anyways-he had such difficulty forming a response to a simple question....Although he represents the antithisis of everything i believe in,i thought he was at least average intelligence(BS/JD).If McCain can get him in a debate that isn’t stage managed by the msm-he’s toast.
Let me figure this out. If we are no longer what we were, and you long for whichever period of time that was...is that the "change" you are telling us about, Obama?
Michelle and BO are giving Harvard a bad name. WHat exactly did he learn there? They both went probably because of affirmative action and were passed probably because they were black. They obviously learned very little. He’s an idiot.
Very good article. It’s obvious most of the media don’t have any better sense of history, because they surely don’t call him on such stupid comments. She sounds like a true teacher who doesn’t teach the revisionist version of history. I’ll bet her students love her.
You just don’t understand! They don’t HAVE to reconcile a thing!
If someone points out any of this to them, they simply hum real loud, shove their fingers in their ears and say:
“I can’t hear you, you’re a hater, you’re a warmonger, war for oil, rush to war...”
“Them” being BDS hypocrats, liberals, drive-bys, hollyweirdos, etc.
All you really need to know is:
HOPE
CHANGE
GLOBAL WARMING
top 1%...
etc. etc. etc.
Liberals could care less that his energy policy consists pretty much of a tire gauge, they could care less about pretty much anything and everything related to this country’s future in fact.
I think that’s the whole point. Liberals really and truly hate this country, God, oil, Bush, Republicans, our troops, the truth...
Speaking of the top 1% of the rich, I wish someone would post a public list of this country’s top 1%...and send a very public challenge to the likes of Tom Cruise, algore, Mark Cuban, George Soros et al to beat Obamanation and fellow congressional hypocrats to the punch and challenge these same idiots to send their money to the federal govt in the form of a check!
Obamanation even said they didn’t even ASK for lower taxes, and they won’t miss it!
So CLEARLY if that’s the case, they should have ALREADY sent their checks to the IRS!
Furthermore, it will save the REST of American taxpayers and the IRS the cost of making it formal by taxing them anyway with all the forms, making laws, postage, etc. etc. etc!
Just make it payable to the tax me more fund and be done with it already!
Put your money where your mouth is!
WHY on earth a Republican with the testicle fortitude of a flea won’t do this, is simply beyond me!
I’m sick to death of hearing about it! And as we all know it’s nothing more than a ruse to tax the rest of us anyway!
CHALLENGE this idiocy once and for all for God’s sakes!
When President Kennedy was awarded an honorary Yale degree he remarked:
“I have the best of both worlds—a Yale degree and a Harvard education.”
My how times have changed!
Obama: the best educated IDIOT I’ve ever seen.
Keep making McCain's campaign commercials for him.
What are YOU talking about?
In the picture,Obama is just supporting his big cojones.
Didn’t want them to roll out and crush the crowd,you know.
He’s sooooo considerate.
Barack O’babbler.
Temporally I agree with you, but our real hope is Jesus.
Just like John Edwards. A brutha from anuthu muthu.
I believe that's the America Obama wants to return to.
Lord,I hope His 2nd arrival isn’t because of us!
That makes one scary scenario from now til then.
I’m sure America is not that lost...at least not yet...nor that soon.
That is the politically incorrect—and factual—history of Thanksgiving.The one spiked by public education.
Once privatization and Capitalism was restored to the Plymouth Colony,food production increased so much the colonists were able to feed the starving Indians.
I don't believe we can or should attempt to hasten or delay His return. We should be doing what we are directed to do and leave the timing to the Lord.
That makes one scary scenario from now til then.
I look forward to the return of the Lord, although I'm not enthusiastic about the trials to come between now and then.
I’m sure America is not that lost...at least not yet...nor that soon.
We may not be so very far from it...but I'm not looking to stir eschatology debates. But look at the extreme levels of apostasy and false Christianity. The lack of love...and, of course one can always toss out the wars and rumors of wars stuff (although it's typically met with the argument that there are always wars...which is true).
Did you hear Michelle talking to a classroom full of 7 year olds?
She asked them if they had any messages for Obama.
The 1st child said “Tell him we need to finish what we started in Iraq.”
There was silence for a moment, and then she repeated the statement back to the child, almost as a question.
Then she said “OK, I will pass that along”.
LOLOL!
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