Posted on 07/17/2008 9:30:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final "tear down this wall" liquidation. When President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.
Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder -- who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap -- called "a Europe whole and free"?
Does Obama not see the incongruity? It's as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.)
Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elevated opinion of himself. There's nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?
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Puff the magic negro..........
The Doc is spot on!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Not even close....
The sum of Obama's being, character and accomplishments wouldn't amount to more than a black head on a real President's ass.
I particularly enjoyed this observation: "His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself."
Oh, that was good. BTT.
Outstanding piece by Krauthammer.
BO thinks he’s entitled to everything, I think it’s nothing.
Presumably, after assuming the mountaintop of the Presidency, Oh-—BAMA will reveal his other 11 wives, thus demonstrating that he does have 12 Apostles, Michelle ma belle and the rest of the swell.
For those who are thinking of not voting for McCain:
1 vote for Obama + 0 vote for McCain = 1 vote for Obama
1 vote for Obama + 1 vote for McCain = draw.
Do you get it now?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/another_inconvenient_truth_dow_1.html
Maybe he will elaborate on this campaign promise in Germany.
What a masterful takedown of the empty suited POS.
Could someone explain why I’m seeing so many Obama stickers on cars that belong to people who seem educated/middleclass/etc.? Are there that many shallow people taking a ride on a popularity bandwagon or something?
After he gives Jerusalem to the Palis, he'll force the oceans to cease to rise--what are they gonna do? Defy the Twelfth Imam?!
puff is right... Obama is certainly full of himself... exceedingly full of himself...
I think it is because Bush Derangement Syndrome has gone to dizzying heights. The average vacuum brained TV watching American is currently clueless about reality. Eight years of media pounding on the President has left the shallow minded with the belief that everything is " Bush's fault."
These people have no idea how bad their lives will truly become if Obama and his marxist ilk are elected.
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