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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This would make another good tagline
"Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone.
And I'll bet even that was ghost-written. The guy is a total empty-suit, being groomed by the Chicago/Kennedy machine.
And Profiles in Courage was ghost-written too. By Theodore Sorenson. So the analogy is complete.
And that's precisely what Obama is - - a punk.
Actually, electing conservatives to congress is just as important, if not more so. We will need conservatives in congress to control the evil twin brothers of both the presidential candidates.
Republicans in congress are not enough because many of them will support their president if McCain is elected, even when he is terribly wrong, as will most of the democrats, because he is terribly wrong.
We need conservatives who will stand up to whoever wins. One senate seat could make a huge difference in defining how bad the next four years will be.
Is it possible that Chris Matthews could have a three way with Obama and Obama’s ego?
Nope, they don’t get the math on this board.
Or, they are so Puritain Proud and Possessive of their Perfect opinions that they can’t see the nightmare of an Obama presidency.
‘Stuck on Stupid’ is what we’ve got from the purists.
Kool-Aid is made with not just sugar and a dash of color, but also with water and there are a lot of thirsty liberals out there and a few fence sitters are feelin' a bit parched too. Some I guess don't care for the water but go straight for the sugar to dull their pain. Others well let's just say I haven't ever met a liberal who is color blind.
So many of these folks have been away from the well too long and forget how healing straight water is. (yes that is an allusion to the true spring :) So there you have it.
Yep! Charles does a fantastic job here too!
lol
I particularly loved the bits about Obama being an “independent operator” when parting the seas and the “larger canvas” parting shot. They were right on the money.
The idiotic faux presidential seal always reminded me of all the junk jewelry Run DMC used to wear. Their “jools” may have been 22K gold, but they were unquestionably tasteless. You can take the kid out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the kid.
Welcome to the “brave new world” of our first affirmative action presidential candidate.
Obama is a handsome young face for the extreme wing of the Democratic party.
Ich bin ein Oreo Cookie.
Who would have ever thought the Democrats would find someone who could trump Jesse in the narcissistic arrogance department? Scary, very scary.
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