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The Terrifying Line in Obama's Speech That Everyone Missed
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 09/07/2012 | IBD Staff

Posted on 09/09/2012 2:51:11 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer

His Agenda: President Obama's convention speech got rough reviews, and rightly so. He offered little but tired bromides and recycled promises. But critics overlooked one promise that will guarantee an even bleaker future.

There was plenty to dislike in Obama's speech. The language was flat, his delivery languid. The speech was stuffed with standard Obama chestnuts about the smallness of politics, the corrupting influence of money in politics, and how cynicism is our worst enemy. [snip]

But while everyone was picking apart these and other flaws in Obama's speech, they overlooked the most frightening line of all.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: convention; depression; fdr; obama
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To: IBD editorial writer

"I'm waiting..........and boy can I wait.....I ate already so I'll wait......ain't no female strays around so I ain't goin nowhere....zzzzzzzzzzzz...huh?...oh, still waiting"

21 posted on 09/09/2012 3:12:29 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Rennes Templar

I think it served his narcissism to say that he would experiment. But I think he was also using it to conceal the fact that he has no ideas, no plan b, no plan at all. So saying he’d experiment is saying he’d come up with ideas - in the future. That’s how he got elected - by talking about what he WOULD do because he couldn’t talk about what he HAD DONE up to that point (i.e., nothing).
I always thought his speeches were empty. People say he talks in generalities - I think he felt like he was being more specific here - without actually being specific at all. He’s got no idea what to do but promises he’ll experiment. Gee...maybe it takes 4 years to experiment and then the next president would ‘get credit’ for turning the economy around after he left office.


22 posted on 09/09/2012 3:13:06 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: skeeter
When he said he would" "fundamentally transform this country""

Obama

""Give me 12 years, and you won't recognize Germany anymore."

Adolph Hitler

23 posted on 09/09/2012 3:13:55 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
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To: All

Shirkers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your flat-screen TVs.


24 posted on 09/09/2012 3:15:15 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (E pluribus biden)
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To: IBD editorial writer
How did it happen that 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus psycho spoiled brats hijacked the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party in the 1970s? Many rank-and-file Democrats do not understand that they no longer have a Party.

Abe tells us from "the other side":

You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Real Democrats can be SOBs but they were our SOBs.


25 posted on 09/09/2012 3:16:44 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

To me the most frightening line was that bit about “citizenship”. That was right out of the reign of terror for me.


26 posted on 09/09/2012 3:18:06 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Jim Scott

Just saw 2016 and that line describes what the movie had to say perfectly!


27 posted on 09/09/2012 3:18:52 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Damned if I do, Damned if I don't. Damn it, I will!)
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To: eddie willers
Still most believe he saved capitalism and won WWII.
28 posted on 09/09/2012 3:19:10 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Nifster

““the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.””

I grew up durring his tenure in the White House and was taught as a child he was the most dispicable socialist bastard to ever occupy the White House.

Without government intervention the depression would have been over in short order as soon as those living on credit were wiped out!

We have exactly the same problem today!


29 posted on 09/09/2012 3:20:22 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: tumblindice

Thanks. Sounds like Obama and that whole “shared sacrifice,” “paying your fair share” BS


30 posted on 09/09/2012 3:20:33 PM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.patriotcalendars.com/)
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To: Nifster

yeah..boy , these communist just never give up on the dream that is a lie.


31 posted on 09/09/2012 3:20:53 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter"you min)
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To: MtnClimber

“I understand who they are and what they mean.”

Brother, I have understood it for over 40 years, since I was sitting in the barbershop reading Time magazine while my dad and brothers got their hair cuts.

Now we are told, in THIS election where the choice has finally been made clear to the American people that the Alinskyite, the Ayers-ite, the Wright-ite Obama might still win.

That just better not happen, that is all I can say.


32 posted on 09/09/2012 3:22:55 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: IBD editorial writer

I thought it was when he said, “I am your president.”


33 posted on 09/09/2012 3:27:29 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Future Snake Eater

True. And Amity’s book will never make it through the academic gatekeepers.


34 posted on 09/09/2012 3:28:18 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: IBD editorial writer

Blog pimp.


35 posted on 09/09/2012 3:34:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: rabidralph

“experimentation” like FDR?

They had government imposed cartels setting prices and stuff for industry. Horrible things.


36 posted on 09/09/2012 3:40:40 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: PAR35

Shocked to the core that someone associated with a website would scheme & drive traffic to it...


37 posted on 09/09/2012 3:46:31 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: dalereed

You’re post made me smile. Someday, my kids will say the same thing during a discussion about Obama.


38 posted on 09/09/2012 3:55:55 PM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember Alinsky Dedicate RULES for RADICALS to LUCIFER in the 1st edition


39 posted on 09/09/2012 3:56:45 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (AB-Sheen"The truth is the truth if nobody believes it,a lie is still a lie, everybody believes it")
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To: rabidralph

Further translated: “The last four years have only been purgatory: I promise you four new years of living hell while I slice even more pieces from the pie you didn’t earn and the businesses you didn’t build, and leave you destitute.” BO

He’s thumbing his nose at those of us pulling the wagon. Any Americans supporting this guy are more than opponents, they are our enemies.


40 posted on 09/09/2012 4:01:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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