Posted on 08/31/2010 10:15:18 AM PDT by Nachum
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Nobody tell Bam that MLK was a Republican?
When is the poster of Che Guevara going up?
How do you know that Martin Luther the King was a Republican?
God help us
Yeesh. Looks like someone has been shopping at The Dump.
Another slap in the face to our allies, Great Britain. MLK doesn’t hold a candle to the accomplishments of Winston Churchill.
From everything I have read,that's all speculation.
What happened to the Churchill bust? Did they mail it to Gordon Brown along with a selection of Region 1 DVDs?
President 0bama can’t find room for Winston Churchill, one of the best allies to the United States in world history?
Check out this web address and you will know. Don’t just ask the question, look it up.
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/11/why-martin-luth.html
Hopelessly tacky and pretentious. Those curtains, they do not belong in the White House.
The only positive change PrezZero has made: updating the couch and rugs.
Negative on his new striped wallpaper and tacky coffee table.
Of course not. Why would Obama like rotten old imperialist Churchill? This should surprise no one.
Obama and his leftist ilk despise great men like this. Barry is more of a Castro kind of guy.
it looks kind of warm and home-y to me...but i’m not sure the oval office is supposed to be warm and home-y.
IMHO Churchill’s 1934 speech is one of the greatest speeches ever, when he tried to alert Britain and the world to the threat of Hitler, many of these words strike a chord even today, Obama would be wise to learn from them:
For nearly a thousand years England has not seen the campfires of an invader. The stormy sea and our royal navy have been our sure defense. Not only have we preserved our life and freedom through the centuries, but gradually we have come to be the heart and center of an empire which surrounds the globe.
It is indeed with a pang of stabbing pain that we see all this in mortal danger. A thousand years has served to form a state; an hour may lay it in dust.
What shall we do? Many people think that the best way to escape war is to dwell upon its horrors and to imprint them vividly upon the minds of the younger generation. They flaunt the grisly photograph before their eyes. They fill their ears with tales of carnage. They dilate upon the ineptitude of generals and admirals. They denounce the crime as insensate folly of human strife. Now, all this teaching ought to be very useful in preventing us from attacking or invading any other country, if anyone outside a madhouse wished to do so, but how would it help us if we were attacked or invaded ourselves that is the question we have to ask.
Would the invaders consent to hear Lord Beaverbrook’s exposition, or listen to the impassioned appeals of Mr. Lloyd George? Would they agree to meet that famous South African, General Smuts, and have their inferiority complex removed in friendly, reasonable debate? I doubt it. I have borne responsibility for the safety of this country in grievous times. I gravely doubt it.
But even if they did, I am not so sure we should convince them, and persuade them to go back quietly home. They might say, it seems to me, “you are rich; we are poor. You seem well fed; we are hungry. You have been victorious; we have been defeated. You have valuable colonies; we have none. You have your navy; where is ours? You have had the past; let us have the future.” Above all, I fear they would say, “you are weak and we are strong.”
I don’t like it, but, it was what the people voted for.
Winston Churchill was arguably the greatest leader of the 20th Century. MLK patterned himself after Mohandes Gandhi -- arguably the greatest fool to ever walk the Earth (he once commented that he'd never actually take up arms to defend his country or his people, he'd simply sit Hitler down and reason with him about why violence was unproductive...an early incarnation of Carter...and Obama).
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