Posted on 03/28/2011 7:58:23 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
President Obama’s unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, not-shrinking-from-the-use-of-force speech.
I knew pretty early on during tonight’s speech that President Obama had rejoined—or joined—the historical American foreign policy mainstream. It was when he mentioned Charlotte (the city, not the spider):
At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. Gaddafi declared that he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we had seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now, we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi – a city nearly the size of Charlotte – could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.
When American presidents want to justify foreign interventions, and are worried the American people aren’t quite with them, they often reach for a strained analogy or comparison that will bring the situation abroad home to their fellow Americans watching on the tube. Obama’s awkward interjection explaining that Benghazi is “a city nearly the size of Charlotte” is a classic of the genre
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...As I found the rest of the speech. The president was unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, and didn’t shrink from defending the use of force or from appealing to American values and interests. Furthermore, the president seems to understand we have to win in Libya. I think we will.
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He is just another NWO Globalist. Ugghh! The more I hear Trump the better I like him.
Bill we do not believe Obotulism on anything. He has no credibility.
such a girly-man...
The hunky blackness of Barack Obama is pleasing to Bill Kristol.
This is what sycophants like Kristol do — they grovel.
This cult of disingenuous pundits have long worn out their welcome.
I don’t have any use for this neo-con bedwetter.
Isn’t he the original idiot behind Dan Quayle?
This bootlicker would applaud Obama sending troops to Vietnam.
Obama met with Kristol and a few other columnists at the White House before the speech today.
Bill Kristol can KMA.
(Kinetic military action)
Cool. He may go places if he keeps it up. The most of the Whiglican candidates are no good. Too worried about what they say. Including Palin.
Actually they have. They were spotted just the other day shooting up some Libyan helicopters sitting on the ground defenseless and stationary. Vive la France.
And Palin. And that makes me wonder?????
He’s awfully gullible.
The whole thing was "This is why I am not a hypocrite."
And regime change in Iraq took 8 months, not 8 years, the stinking liar.
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