Posted on 05/21/2009 9:56:09 PM PDT by LdSentinal
The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary. I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama's address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely two minutes after his adversary had finished.
So who won the fight? (it's hard to use anothing other than a martial or pugilistic metaphor). Well, most people are on either one side or the other of this issue and I doubt today will have prompted many to switch sides.
But the very fact that Obama chose to schedule his speech (Cheney's was announced first) at exactly the same time as the former veep was a sign of some weakness.
The venues for the speeches said something. Obama showily chose the National Archives, repository for many of the founding documents of the US, and spoke in front of a copy of the Constitution - cloaking himself in the flag, as Republicans were often criticised for doing.
To hear Cheney speak, we were crammed into a decidedly unglamourous and cramped conference room at AEI, favourite think tank of conservative hawks.
The former veep's speech was factual and unemotional and certainly devoid of the kind of hokey, self-obsessed, campaign-style stuff like this, from Obama's address today: "I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offer. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land."
In terms of Obama's purported aim for his speech - to present a plan for closing Guantanamo Bay aimed at placating Congress - he failed.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
More specifically, Cheney is a man while obama is a metrosexual boy searching for some masculine identity. Fine for a state senator, as long as it's not my state, but absolutely intolerable for the President of the US. Way to go obama voters.
In just a few short months, the economy is trashed, unemployment is seeking a new record and our domestic security is in danger. It's a matter of time before someone or some group decides to test it. Not some domestic idiots with a grand plan, but more along the lines of 9/11.
All of this and what's to come belongs to obama and his voters. In your heart of hearts, as bad as mccain was/is, you know our country would be better off right now if mccain had won the last election.
Impalement. Classic.
Let's face it, that coupling was strange at best.
The Vice President sure gave a full spectrum speech void of any flaws unlike the one zero presented. Problem as usual is how many who might have listened to both, have the basic background regarding to the long term GWOT issues to distinguish between the wisdom in the first presentation verse the add hoc ill informed tattle of the later.
Go Cheney!
My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land.”
I thought Grandma raised him........
Brazen, arrogant POS
I don’t know why either, but McCain came off like a complete weakling during the election.
Here is a link to Rush’s website that has the audio of Obama from 2001 talking about the flawed document called “The Constitution”. It is located 1/3 of the way down the page and is the you tube link to the right.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102708/content/01125107.guest.html
How pathetic.
LOL!!
Thanks E. That would make a great Flash movie.
Nice!
** Impalement. Classic. **
Proctologists use the same technique as that photo. :)
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