[weps4ret]

Has anyone read this in it's entirety? I apologize in advance if I posted this wrong. But it is important.

[CMoran325]

[the invisib1e hand]

fortheluvofgawd he's verbose. can't shut up in front of an audience, it seems.

Anyway, this:

determined to act boldly and collectively on behalf of justice and prosperity at home and abroad

was about all I could stomach. mercifully, it was in the first sentence.

[utahagen]

Thank you for posting this. I just read it carefully. We are in big trouble, folks. Very big trouble.

[LRS]

Old habits, old patterns, old arguments, old divides, old hatreds, etc.

Old Marxist rhetoric, Mao style...

[Diogenesis]

The First Popinjay refers to "America" only 16 times
but refers to himself and says "I" some 36 times.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

All I know is that he kept syaing “my country”, which I don’t think he really believes.

[silverleaf]

“So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause”

[La Enchiladita]

The time has come to realize that the old habits, the old arguments, are irrelevant to the challenges faced by our people.

Out with the old, in with the new. The old = all our founding documents, private enterprise, national sovereignty, patriotism (it's "jingoistic"), strong defense, support for Israel, the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, freedom of choice re healthcare... and so forth.

[kromike]

Has anyone read this in its entirety?

What's the point? I can sum it up thusly:

Blah blah blah...it's all about me...America sucked until I came along...blah blah blah

[Da Coyote]

Had the TOTUS (teleprompter of the US) broken, the speech would have still been as long, but could be expressed by a simple math formula:

a=uh
b=ah
c=ungh - er

For n=1 to 10,000
output a
output b
output c

randomize (a,b,c)

end;

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

He totally punked Israel. “Ongoing settlements”? “1967 borders”?

[alecqss]

Other than - finally - mentioning that Israel's existence must be accepted as of Jewish State, the rest is pretty much usual Obama’s drivel. And I would not put much stock into that concession - he will probably claimed that all he meant that the Jews will live there...

[Cicero]

I can’t stomach reading it. Pure narcissistic drivel. Which all the presstitutes will call “brilliant.”

[tet68]

independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory

How is this even possible without a divided Israel?

98% blather.

[shooter223]

“we continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” ........ “the time has come to re-launch negotiations without preconditions” ......... HUH???

[arkady_renko]

"For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months."

It's all about the 'O'.

He lists all of the faults of the 'Nation' before he had descended from the heavens of Daley's Chicago, then contrasts them with 'his' (my) Nation and what 'we' (The Axelrod Gang) have done. He doesn't look at this as the same nation that he took over in January, it is His Nation now. He's in control.

Funny that he mentions 9 months, the length of time of human gestation. What is going to be born?

Thanks for posting this. When I heard it I was ill.

[kabar]

As an African American,...

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. "

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

"For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic. "

T R Roosevelt

[Raycpa]

because the time has come for the world to move in a new direction.

What direction?

[Gator113]

Here, I summarized it to make it easier to read.

I, I, I, I, I, times 100.

[Uncle Miltie]

"We Surrender!"

Isn't that what he said?