Posted on 05/19/2010 1:30:56 PM PDT by AJKauf
Joe Biden’s May 6 speech to the European Parliament appears to have been largely ignored by the American media, both old and new. The full performance can be viewed below.
The video comes complete with images (at 0:18 of the clip) of Biden puffing out his chest as Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the unofficial EU anthem, is played.
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Then please move the UN to Brussels.
“...Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the unofficial EU anthem...”
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The composer meant it to be his religious expression. The EU likes the tune because it is pleasing to the ear. Beethoven is turning over in his grave.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The translated lyrics go:
To Joy
“Joy, thou beauteous godly lighting,
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire drunken we are ent’ring
Heavenly, thy holy home!
Thy enchantments bind together,
What did custom’s sword divide,
Beggars are a prince’s brother,
Where thy gentle wings abide...”
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/931_Schiller_Ode.html
Certainly hinting at the ancient religions of Europe.
Incredible. But then, nothing’s really incredible anymore.
**facepalm**
Brussels is capital of the EU and the EU is not part of the “free world” any longer.
The sad part is that Biden could say this anywhere else in the world, from Pyongyang to Harare, with the same obliviousness. But he would never say such a thing about America.
Brussels, Capital of the Free World!’: Joe Biden at the European Parliament
Once again, Old Joe proves it is “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”.
But then again, who can argue that,today, America is free?
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