Krauthammer: Obama's Berlin speech 'self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent'

Daily Caller ^ | June 21, 2013 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

The speech was sparsely attended compared to the speech Obama had made at the same venue back in 2008 during his first presidential election campaign. And as part of the “All-Star Panel” Friday “Lightning Round” segment, Krauthammer won the privilege of posing the question to his colleagues on how to define the speech.

“Obama gave a speech in Germany this week,” Krauthammer said. “Was it a) a stirring defense of the United States and the concept of liberty, like Reagan and Kennedy; b) a mediocre mush of platitudes; c) the worst presidential speech on foreign affairs in memory; or d) self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent?”

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[Rufus2007]

Great takedown from the good doctor

[ReformationFan]

“self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent?”

Aren’t those words appropriate descriptions of anything to do with Maobama?

[digger48]

some of us said this about his first speech too.

and pretty much every speech since

[Revolting cat!]

Who’s surprised? Progressives are infantile!

[andyk]

Btpfl

[GOP Poet]

like all the rest of his drivel . . .. At least Hitler knew how to mesmerize and bring on the theater. If one is going to be a totalitarian thug at least they can offer up some darn good brainwashing. Of course the left has that covered by the media and schools, but hey Obama is just all lazy, thug and evil. Hitler— hard working, mesmerizing evil. Both demon spawn.

[Cicero]

The speech was sparsely attended compared to the speech Obama had made at the same venue back in 2008

The huge crowd in Berlin in 2008, like the huge crowd by the river in Oregon, was mainly due to a big rock concert that Obama was sandwiched into.

Yes, the Berliners were very receptive to him then. They had no idea who he was, and they wanted to demonstrate that they were not in the least Nazi racists. But that speech was pretty stupid, too.

[cherry]

words are just words....Krauthammer is good at them but that's about all....he's back stabbed lots of solid conservatives too...

the world does not belong to the the witty, the wordy or even the smartest...it belongs to the strongest...the ones who can get their way....

[equaviator]

If the President of the United States was a fast-food breakfast sandwich he’d have to be...an Egg McNothing.

[Migraine]

With respect to the jousting between brocko and Putin, George Will (who used to be a wordsmith of some note) put it this way: “in a contest between a dilettante and a dictator, bet on the latter.”
That was one of the few coherent statements-of-fact I’ve seen credited to ol’ George in many moons.

[mountn man]

Krauthammer: Obama's Berlin speech 'self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent'

And this is new or different than any other time???

Zero ain't nothing but a petulant child.

[Track9]

The thrill is gone.. but the lawlessness remains.

[wideawake]

It's hilarious how suggestible most people are. This speech was no different in quality or delivery than the original one that every media outlet praised.

[expat1000]

“In a contest between a dilettante and a dictator, bet on the latter.”

Great quote. As you say, one of the few memorable things Will has come up with.

[vaudine]

If the President were a breakfast sandwich, he would be taken off the menu for making people ill.

vaudine

[yorkiemom]

At least Hitler knew how to mesmerize and bring on the theater. If one is going to be a totalitarian thug at least they can offer up some darn good brainwashing. Of course the left has that covered by the media and schools, but hey Obama is just all lazy, thug and evil. Hitler— hard working, mesmerizing evil. Both demon spawn.

I think Obama is someone's puppet. He's not bright enough or industrious enough to have planned the takeover and destruction of the US on his own. Hitler, on the other hand, did all that with Germany. And pulled her out of the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic.

And people are stupid enough to have voted for this arrogant, charmless, elitist puppet....

[equaviator]

“The thrill is gone.. but the lawlessness remains.”

Lawless killers for thrills still can’t get their fill until...they dead.

[Publius]

And pulled her out of the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic.

Incorrect. The rentenmark and reichsmark ended hyperinflation in 1924. Hitler inherited a stable currency, although he also inherited a slumping economy, which he fixed by starting a military buildup.

[abclily]

I think his health is gone also. He looks more and more unwell.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think that's “Harvard Medical School Graduate” for “what a load of steaming cr*p”.