Obama Calls For Unity In Pre-Emptive Political Attack Speech

Flopping Aces ^ | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 10:53 am | Scott

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Honestly, you’ve gotta love the man’s political huevos! He stood right there, right in front of America’s most sacred documents, and lied to the American people.

Now, over the last several weeks, we have seen a return of the politicization of these issues that have characterized the last several years. I understand that these problems arouse passions and concerns. They should. We are confronting some of the most complicated questions that a democracy can face. But I have no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years. I want to solve these problems, and I want to solve them together as Americans.

Gee, so…why’d President Obama hold his speech today, at that hour? Because he knew that Vice President Cheney was going to defend his name, his honor, his legacy, and his innocence, and he wanted to pre-emptively attack those same things. He wanted to divide and distract the nation on a day when awful economic numbers came out (higher unemployment, higher unemployment rate, longer unemployment expected, unemployment expected to rise, new home sales down, existing home sales down, GDP lower than expected, stimulus doing nothing, and….my favorite, number of homeowner families helped by Obama/Dem homeowner rescue package over past 5months:1 per CNN).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

Dueling Transcripts: Obama’s Continuing Campaign vs. Cheney, the Voice of Reason

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

slot for the photo...on this thread.

[Aquinasfan]

The guy has chutzpah. In a speech decrying partisanship, he spends a good part of his speech blaming Bush for all of Obama’s troubles.

[griswold3]

Doublethink newspeak
Obama must think we’re really stupid.

[carcraft]

I wonder if this whole Gitmo thing isn't bigger than we realize. Why would Obama go on the attack like his back is against the wall? Why would he close any option to using Gitmo? Obama may now well be at war with his congress, a bad place to be. Any state that has a federal prison where Obama would send Gitmo detainees is going to raise the devil. Why be so public and adamant about this whole thing. It strikes me as very odd. As Sherlock Holmes would say, “the game is afoot”, but what game?

[Spok]

If only the ‘Bama would calculate his strategery so carefully against the Jihadists as he does the Republicans, we might be spared the bloody martyrdom attacks that are coming. More important to the ‘Bama than preventing them is setting up his political foes to take the blame.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good question...the hard lefties see all of this as useful....see “Unholy Alliances” by David Horozitz...regarding our enemies on the left.

[jessduntno]