Posted on 05/23/2009 2:56:58 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Barack Obama spoke at the National Archives last Thursday on the war on terror (not that he used that term). After paying tribute to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and before turning to a defense of his policies, the President of the United States said:
I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to our shores in search of the promise that they offered. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land. My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words--"to form a more perfect union." I have studied the Constitution as a student; I have taught it as a teacher; I have been bound by it as a lawyer and legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never--ever--turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.
Who cares? Who cares about Barack Obama's father, his mother, or his "own American journey"? Is his journey so noteworthy that it needs to be intruded into a presidential speech on weighty matters of constitutional law and public policy, of civil liberties and national security? After all, tens of millions of other Americans have ancestors who came to these shores in search of the promise of a better life. Tens of millions of other Americans have lived in a foreign land--and some of them were presumably awakened early by their mothers.
And so what? Are those Americans who didn't live abroad as youths any less attached to the principles of the Declaration?
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Holy Crap, Kristol almost sounded conservative. What a change Obama has wrought!
Big Zero is a narcissist, like most Democrat politicians. Of course everything is about him.
HIs effn father was a marxist opportunist who came to the US, fathered a child, went back to is other wife and tried FU another country.
“My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land.”
Does anyone believe this?
Anyone?
If not that makes the narcissist a bigger liar than.... Bubba.
That’s Obama: self-referential and self-reverential.
Only the Office of the President bigger than he?
The loon’s mind is so small that it could fit within the quantum cracks of space itself.
“The One” hath spoken.
Only the Office of the President bigger than he?Hubris is not stupidity. Fail to make that distinction at your peril.The loon’s mind is so small that it could fit within the quantum cracks of space itself.
I can't say this enough. Obama may be many things, but stupid is not one of them. He's eviscerating the republican party. Obama is executing a textbook divide and conquer. He's propping up Cheney and Limbaugh and letting them chase out the Spector's and Mccain's of the party. Then he's waiting for the RINO patrol with open arms.
Think about it this way. Obama has been in power for 4 months and he's already wiped the Bush legacy off the map. He's also laid the groundwork to completely redefine American society. Think about it. Obama could make Lenin, Stalin and Mao look positively cautious in comparison. Craziest of all, nobody cares. Or the people that do care think he's stupid.
Obama is *anything* but stupid.
Only the Office of the President bigger than he?Hubris is not stupidity. Fail to make that distinction at your peril.The loon’s mind is so small that it could fit within the quantum cracks of space itself.
I can't say this enough. Obama may be many things, but stupid is not one of them. He's eviscerating the republican party. Obama is executing a textbook divide and conquer. He's propping up Cheney and Limbaugh and letting them chase out the Spector's and Mccain's of the party. Then he's waiting for the RINO patrol with open arms.
Think about it this way. Obama has been in power for 4 months and he's already wiped the Bush legacy off the map. He's also laid the groundwork to completely redefine American society. Think about it. Obama could make Lenin, Stalin and Mao look positively cautious in comparison. Craziest of all, nobody cares. Or the people that do care think he's stupid.
Obama is *anything* but stupid.
Actually , he stands here today as someone whose own life as President was made possible by ignoring the Constitution.
Obama: “I loves me some me!”
He is too politically saavy to be as naive as he seems, which means that he is instead dangerous.
HIs folks had the only log house in Hawaii, and I heard he threw a Susan B. Anthony across the Potomac.
Two brains actually - one the size of a mustard seed; the other, a really small one.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, indeed.
“My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land.”
Does anyone believe this?
No. More likely she gave him the Communist Manifesto and Qran to study.
I have never seen a president look as out of place and out of his league as zero — not matter what setting he’s in.
The Magic Negro
I, myself (not my ancestors), came to these country in search of a better life and I'm more of an American citizen than Zero is! At least I can prove it!
The office of the President did not exist until he discovered it.
Other guys were called presidents.
he rose before dawn because his stepfather was a muslim, living in Indonesia with a population of 250 million muslims. And 4.30 am is the time of the first muslim prayer.
What a telling quote to pick out of the Constitution. Being that Obama and his fellow travelers view America as flawed and the Constitution as a “living” document that means whatever they say.
The Utopians continue to march us all to their “more perfect union”. Each one of them, being a god unto themselves, and we their minions or steppingstones.
What a perversion of the vision of the Founders.
Why don't you ask the "rich" teachers and police officers in Indiana what they think about your great and generous "admin".
Yea...keep looking in that mirror and keep your eye off the commie crooks in Congress...that will work, for a pretty indoctrinated puppet.
In addition to his own narcissism, the fact that his speeches are written by a twenty-something with not much life experience may explain his self-absorbed, juvenile statements!
“In addition to his own narcissism, the fact that his speeches are written by a twenty-something with not much life experience may explain his self-absorbed, juvenile statements!”
His speechwriter is shacked up with some chic.
Obama has a huge Democrat majority in Congress, and a VERY compliant media. He also has no moral principles to hobble him.
Given that, GWB would have reformed Social Security, increased illegal immigration, and who knows what else.
If ALL the GOP in the House and Senate unite against Obama, they cannot do SQUAT.
That doesn’t make Obama smart. In fact, he seems to have a very mediocre mind. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be so far left.
As for this: “He’s propping up Cheney and Limbaugh and letting them chase out the Spector’s and Mccain’s of the party. Then he’s waiting for the RINO patrol with open arms.” - McCain often opposes Obama (strictly from habit of opposing EVERYONE sometimes), while Specter has ALWAYS been a democrat in GOP clothing. The GOP can’t stand FOR anything until it prunes those who confuse and dilute the message.
That's Favreau on the left in the above photo (the fellow in the Obama staff T-shirt pouring beer in the pretend politician's mouth is unidentified). The photo was first published on the Washington Post's 44 blog.
Big Zero is an 'affirmative action' president. His wife an 'affirmative action' first lady. Both of them have maxed out 'affirmative action' to the extreme. Neither of them qualified for the Ivy League education they received, particularly 'O' ho won't reveal his transcripts ... in large measure because he registered as a 'foreign' student.
0 is a “product” being advertised by Axelrod / teleprompter.
I hate some ads, don’t you?
This man is like someone who, somehow, got financing for a very expensive car he could never afford, and is out on the joyride of his life.
Hey, my nom for post of the day.
“Exactly.”
I would also venture to guess most of us have a mother and father who weren’t marxists.
Stanley Anne was teaching him about the constitution before dawn?
Anyone really believe that one?
“defend the Constitution”
of which country? His own? Which is....?
I forgot to add that...
HE who shall not be named returned the Churchill bust to replace it with one of MLK, not add to the collection.
HWSNBN is replacing WH art collections with ‘more modern’ art pieces, often to reflect the diversity of the country with ‘loaned’ artworks. Rumors yet to be confirmed even suggest that portrait replacement extends to former Presidents.
HWSNBN keeps the WH at 78 degrees for some reason.
there is now cigarette smoke in the WH in various places
ACORN has a WH office
This is year 1, Khmer-style. America is being remade with IKEA furniture, Target drapes and Wagyu—on Communist Chinese credit cards.
History is resigned to the peasants and patriarchs of anachronistic industries.
So, do the carpets now face Mecca along with the Flight 93 Memorial design?
Obama is *anything* but stupid.
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I think he’s dumb as a rock. He follows orders well.
he rose before dawn because his stepfather was a muslim, living in Indonesia with a population of 250 million muslims. And 4.30 am is the time of the first muslim prayer.
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I see you were all over that too. He’s a Muzzie through and through.
I’m thinking Constitution of the United Nations.
On January 24. 2007, the Obama campaign released the following statement, “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.
On March 14th, in a statement to The Times, the Obama campaign corrected that statement with this:
“Obama has never been a practicing Muslim. The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.”
In two months the Obama Campaign has gone from describing the U.S. presidential hopeful as never having been a Muslim and never having been raised as a Muslim to now having never having been a practicing Muslim.
But Muslims do not see practice as key. Islam is patrilineal. For Muslims, that fact that Obama was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a Muslim. Further, all children born with an Arabic name based on the H-S-N trilateral root (Hussein, Hassan, and others) can be assumed to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim.
Obama’s father was a Muslim. Obama’s grandfather was a Muslim. Obama’s stepfather was a Muslim. Sarah, who Obama calls grandmother is a Muslim. Obama’s half-brothers and sisters are Muslims. To Muslims, Obama IS a Muslim, no matter what he says.
Obama’s sister Maya was quoted by the New York Times as saying, “My whole family was Muslim.” I assume she considers Obama a member of her family. After all, she refers to him as “my brother.”
For a time, Obama clearly lived and was educated as a Muslim. Only Obama knows what he is today.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm
Let’s not make him out to be some kind of Super Man either. Obama has been in power 4 months and already generated more controversy than any other president. (I am just guessing, but it feels right.) He walked himself into a Gitmo mess and had Madam Speaker join him in the torture fiasco. This speech, hastily scheduled to be ahead of Cheney’s, was a sign of weakness.
Reminds me of Ambrose Breice, What I Saw at Shiloh
One thing, however, I hope I may without offense affirm of these swamp-dwellers - they were pious. To what deity their veneration was given - whether, like the Egyptians, they worshiped the crocodile, or, like other Americans, adored themselves, I do not presume to guess.
Didn’t Obama use one of his recent commencement addresses (maybe it was at Notre Dame) to plug his own book?
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