I'm glad there are FReepers who are willing to listen and report back on Obama's television appearances because I just can't force myself to listen to his voice or look at his face. My stomach literally balls up in a knot.
He said “We cannot look back and use the same old failed policies of the past”
I think this is one of those underhanded, blame it all on Bush jabs. I don't think he has the capacity to understand the history of America. He doesn't 'get' America. During his formative years he was being raised and educated overseas so he never experienced what growing up to be a United States of America patriot is all about. I really believe he is incapable of understanding what it feels like to have your breath catch in your throat when the flag passes by and the National Anthem is being played. He has never had those feelings about anything so how can he understand freedom and independence?
I usually assign his *blame Bush* mind set. But as you noted, he has no connection to US history....as a second generation child of refugee immigrants or descendant of former slaves or from having spent his formative years in the classrooms and neighborhoods of America.
Even though he has been elected to the most powerful office of the most powerful nation on earth, he behaves like a man without a country.