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Mark Steyn: Obama's lazy tribute to Daniel Pearl
oc register ^ | 5/21/10 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 05/21/2010 6:45:12 PM PDT by Nachum

Barack Obama's remarkable powers of oratory are well known: In support of Chicago's Olympic bid, he flew into Copenhagen to give a heartwarming speech about himself, and they gave the games to Rio. He flew into Boston to support Martha Coakley's bid for the U.S. Senate, and Massachusetts voters gave Ted Kennedy's seat to a Republican. In the first year of his presidency, he gave a gazillion speeches on health care "reform" and drove support for his proposals to basement level, leaving Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to ram it down the throats of the American people through sheer parliamentary muscle.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bamamarxist; danielpearl; failedagain; freedomofpress; fubo; islam; ksm; lazy; mark; marksteyn; obama; obamas; pearl; steyn; weaklingprez
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1 posted on 05/21/2010 6:45:12 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Makes my skin crawl just reading about such a cold, calculating anti-American representing our country. The words I would rather use I can’t print here.


2 posted on 05/21/2010 6:56:50 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: Nachum

I started reading expecting Steyn’s usual on target humor. But it was appropriately sobering. Steyn is po’d. So am I.


3 posted on 05/21/2010 7:02:18 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Nachum

Another great column by MS.

The comments to his article article are very good.....


4 posted on 05/21/2010 7:03:12 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Nachum

Great article!


5 posted on 05/21/2010 7:04:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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To: Nachum
"I mentioned last week the attorney general's peculiar insistence that 'radical Islam' was nothing to do with the Times Square bomber, the Pantybomber, the Fort Hood killer. Just a lot of moments 'capturing the world's imagination.' For now, the jihadists seem to have ceased cutting our heads off.

Listening to Obama and Eric Holder, perhaps they've figured out there's nothing much up there anyway."

Steyn BUMP!

6 posted on 05/21/2010 7:04:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: basil

jgc111 wrote:

“If I had to listen to Obama’s speeches, I’d cut my own head off!”


7 posted on 05/21/2010 7:06:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Something we hoped could never happen here, we have literally elected an anti-American administration


8 posted on 05/21/2010 7:07:27 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Nachum

Good article; Steyn is brilliant when describing the character weaknesses of 0bama.


9 posted on 05/21/2010 7:09:06 PM PDT by two23 (Everything about them is a lie)
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To: Nachum

Another ‘Obamaism’.


10 posted on 05/21/2010 7:09:25 PM PDT by griswold3
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"Another ‘Obamaism’"

The things that matter most to Real Americans, is what 0bama fails so miserably with.

11 posted on 05/21/2010 7:11:31 PM PDT by two23 (Everything about them is a lie)
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To: Nachum

I saw some of this speech by 0bama. He was lifeless. His heart wasn’t in it at all. You can easily tell when he could care less about a certain issue. Cap and trade and 0bama-care are what really turn on our Kenyan socialist president


12 posted on 05/21/2010 7:13:54 PM PDT by dennisw (The falser the prophet the more mentally deranged the adherents)
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BO’s “captured our imaginations” was one of the most disgusting remarks I’ve ever heard. BO is am ass!!!


13 posted on 05/21/2010 7:14:24 PM PDT by KosmicKitty
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Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination because it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.”


All I can say is: Huh? Daniel Pearl’s death had everything to do with him being Jewish and almost nothing to do with him being a reporter (except that he took stupid risks as a reporter). But, of course, that doesn’t fit Obama’s narrative that Islam=Peace, so it won’t be said. It almost sounds like Obama is using Pearl as an excuse to bail out all those failing liberal newspapers and ragazines.


14 posted on 05/21/2010 7:14:56 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: two23

I think Jonathan Alter had him pegged. Obama lacks leadership skills. Alter pointed out the Obama failed to convince anyone to follow him.
kinda turns the Biden ‘joke’ about ‘look behind you, President Bush’ right back on Obama where it belongs.


15 posted on 05/21/2010 7:15:22 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: Nachum

Great article post. Steyn devastates the great faux orator.


16 posted on 05/21/2010 7:16:59 PM PDT by lonestar67 ("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
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To: GeronL

Not just Anti American but Pro Islam.

The most dangerous combination in history. Jimmah Carter was just a fool. But this guy is an actual enemy. Big difference.


17 posted on 05/21/2010 7:21:09 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: dennisw
I saw some of this speech by 0bama. He was lifeless. His heart wasn’t in it at all. You can easily tell when he could care less about a certain issue. Cap and trade and 0bama-care are what really turn on our Kenyan socialist president

You can always tell when he cares about something, because he shows actual emotion, as in his infamous "Cambridge police acted stupidly" soundbite. When it comes to flashpoints of race or "social justice," our boy is always on fire. All other times, he's just a bad stage actor going through the motions transparently and obviously.

18 posted on 05/21/2010 7:23:27 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The welfare state turns us all into zoo animals, mouths open, waiting for the next feeding.)
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To: Nachum

Obama got elected President of the United States by using fluffy, meaningless, values-neutral, morally relative phrases. So for him, a man being beheaded with a knife isn’t horrific, infuriating, sickening, disgusting, or any of 1000 other emotions any human being would feel. For him, it’s a one world, one size fits all, opportunity to advance the collective ideology.


19 posted on 05/21/2010 7:26:30 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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This is a must read.

I can’t help but believe that this will change the hearts of even a few of his admirers.


20 posted on 05/21/2010 7:30:47 PM PDT by IncPen (How can a man who won't produce his own documentation lecture the rest of us on immigration?)
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