Posted on 10/11/2009 4:43:54 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore
Friends,
Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."
I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?
We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?
Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.
All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.
But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.
So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating -- that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.
Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:
The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.
And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.
So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.
One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.
Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.
My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!
Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"), Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com MichaelMoore.com
It always slays me how white liberals, especially in the SCM and Hollyweird go out of their way to make such stupid statements on race.
Knowing full well they live in a white vacuum, their friends, their neighborhoods, their associates. It is nothing more than projection to cover up their own racist beings.
Barack Buellers Big Day ?
Hehe...
Dig your own damn well! What's with these libtards?
Americas wealth doesn't BELONG to the third world!
Moore has a wife? Good grief!
Every time this jackhole has a movie out, we have to hear from him all the time. Then, he goes dormant again.
She works at Burger King......
Well, it says right here, I wouldn’t want Michael Moore on my back.
Starry eyed delusional idiots
Michael Moore knows he can’t be truthful and win his argument.
Pity his wife.
Jabba is married?! What’s his “wife’s name? Tyrone? Lance?
Hell, two months of Moore's grocery bill would feed the Third World. Put up or shut up.
Here's a better one:
“Moore has a wife?”
I feel sorry for the chupacabra.
>> “... he’s inherited.”
Tacit capitulation.
“Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water”
That would be a stupid move, it would create twice as many starving short on water humans than now exist!
If we were so stupid as to feed them also there would be four times as many usless eaters trying to doe.
Who gives a crap what you think you fat, millionaire, Communist turd!
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Heh...no fair - since I was born in Lexington!
“I will nevah forget it, ya know...”
Michael Moore is utterly deranged. If not for Barny Frank he would be the most repulsive human being on the planet.
My prediction: Moore is right for the first time in his life. Obama will get that second Nobel Peace Prize, three years from now when the committee is worried that Sarah will toss his communist tail out of our White House. Obama will also publish his third memoir at about the same time. Both will happen despite the fact that the socialist will still have no identifiable accomplishments, and we will get another big laugh from his second victory. Next time, though, it will be a cheerful laugh because the nightmare will be ending, rather than the worried laugh of today.
Based on how easy the first one was he should get about 30 more.
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I posted the below comment at his website, but I imagine I could have first translated it into Portuguese and had the same level of recognition and impact.
Greg Lewis in American Thinker presents an uncharitable picture of Obama etal as displaying classic beta male behavior. The alpha male dog approaches directly, while the beta male displays acquiescent gestures signaling uncompromising submission. Lewis sees submissiveness in offering conciliatory gestures to Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in sending John Kerry to meet Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, in bowing to King Abdullah, in airy discussions with Hugo Chavez and David Ortega, and in generally ridiculing U.S. past actions whenever he appears on an international stage.
Of course these actions are constructive within the worldview continually vetted by liberal constituencies and confirmed with the Nobel Peace Prize. Here the best approaches to diplomacy reside within modern game theory for which John Nash and others received Nobel prizes. Supposedly we simply talk to these people and they realize the brilliance of Western conflict resolution.
For Obama to regard this award as a call to action, he must pursue actions, which gave the United States a well-deserved reputation for abandoning allies, ignoring the suffering of others, and failing to respond to significant attacks. During the Cold War a few examples were crises in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Cuba, and Lebanon. More recently our apathetic boredom impacted Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Sudan.
Unfortunately aspiring totalitarians grasp and retain their power through defeating others on playing fields ruled by human cunning allied with animal brutality. For them an internal/external continuum exists where politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. Why abandon such proven strategies, especially when a potential opponent exhibits behaviors they disregarded in their rise to dominion?
Aspiring totalitarians such as Muslims of the Salafi/Wahhabi heresy take great encouragement from our failure to defend the sovereignty of our Iranian embassy, and our subsequent lethargic responses to 15 major terrorist attacks under four presidents. They are well acquainted with our affection for debating elegant foreign policy models until we find meanings for necessity, proportional response, multi-lateralism, and exit strategy, which shelter us from meaningful confrontation with an empty, self-congratulatory righteousness. Obama now has further impetus to walk an all too familiar road, assuring potential allies we will turn a blind eye, agonize over their losses from afar, or cut and run.
Effective diplomacy against emerging opponents will be methodical, covert, multi-faceted, and predictably lethal. Westerners must abandon concepts of war and diplomacy as mutually exclusive. Any resort to war must be managed and not become a bewildering, tragic consequence of shattering attacks induced by failed diplomacy descending into appeasement. Without such a strategy, we can never hope to attract allies interested in human freedom.
yuk, yuk, yuk! And to think he played the Catholic card while trying to promote his socialist mindset was quite sickening.
The WH must of called.
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