Posted on 09/08/2009 7:21:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Those days are gone forever that Lieutenant General Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, USMC in 1953 glorified when he said: "The days of eloquent speeches and oratory are outmoded. What the public wants and demands today are sincere statements and facts from men who have the experience and the knowledge of what they are talking of."
Au contraire! Our President and leader speechifies eloquently (according to his worshipers). Yesterday he addressed the Unions in his thrall, today he’ll be heard by public school children across America and tomorrow he stands before the Joint Session of Congress. Obama personifies what Chesty abhorred - the elitism of the disconnected from reality on the ground. Speechifying constitutes the entity we now call our national leader. 27 speeches on his health care agenda, 92 speeches in which it figures prominently are examples enough. When will those days come back again that a simple, fighting Marine championed? Whenever a Chesty like Sarah Palin talks to the ‘other’ half of America that understands implicitly the value of ideas and truths expressed clearly to an audience exercising reason and common sense - the media and elites demonize her as old-fashioned and out-of-touch.
Au contraire! Ours is a country bifurcated, divided, divisive, separated into a pro or con slavery-like debate over a pro or con liberal Washington rule. Chesty realized that traditional Christian values, honest work and personal integrity counted for greatness. Our nation’s youth he contended throughout his life, are "as good as their fathers and grandfathers..." If they have "the proper leadership on high levels, we’ll never have anything to fear..." He asked that we Americans "leave your sons alone and let them grow to be MEN." He believed that actions trump words.
Consistency trumps showmanship. Marching to the tune of one’s personal drummer trumps the cacaphony of consistent contradictions as evidenced by our President Obama. Is America on the path to becoming a sissified Obamaland?
Au contraire!
Impossible.
Puller was talking about an educated America. 50 years later we have the uneducated product of the NEA and unchecked liberalism. An electorate that is clueless about American culture, values, ideals, and virtues is putty for the smooth-talking empty suits that pass for leadership today.
Hmm...I’m as big a Sarah fan as anyone, but in the intrests of honesty I don’t really think chesty is a word that can be used to descibe her.
Courtesy BUMP
I totally agree that people prefer those who speak from the heart to those with purely polished oratory skills. The one thing that seems to really turn people off though is someone who, even though they are speaking what they truly believe, still feels the need to try to sound intellectual.
I’ve seen Sarah Palin fall into that trap a few times and it’s those times that have left her open to withering criticism from both sides (I even cringe when she does it). Then, other times, she just says what’s on her mind and it comes off as natural and sincere as can be.
I hope, if she does seek higher office, she is able to move beyond the overemphatic speaking and facial expressions and is able to just relax and not try so hard. That is when she’s at her best.
So right. Blowbama’s tele-promptering is too reminiscent of the Adolph Hitler speeches. He spent the first half of the year telling everybody every day how great he is, and then The People just blew their stacks. I doubt this newest latest round of speechifying is going to get his ox out of the ditch.
He has been guzzling too much of his own snake oil and I think he poisoned himself.
Clyde Barrow would have made a great infantry squad leader.
Unlike me the timid soldier.
The best way to do that now is to home school your sons through puberty, let them exhibit and work through behavior evilly misdiagnosed as ADHD, and give them the self confidence to turn down the kool-aid served in high school and college...and from the MSM. Other than making sure they competed their schoolwork and grading their tests, I pretty much let them make their own mistakes...and learn the real world way when the consequences were light. About all I really taught them was to watch the other guys hands, not his eyes, and that the truth is usually where the money goes.
Goodnight Chesty, wherever you are.
My first day at Parris Island, my Drill Instructor introduced himself by stating: “I have twelve weeks to undo all the damage your mother did to you in eighteen years”. He did.
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