Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
I’ve been critical of Senator Barack Obama recently. His shilling for Joe Lieberman was not a shining moment of integrity. His response to my letter asking him to support censure of the president was a full-fledged hedge job: sure, he’s no good, but let’s not rock the boat.
I started to think he was becoming exactly what we don’t want: a nice guy with higher ambitions, biting his tongue for political purposes.Â
However, in a speech yesterday, the Chicago Tribune reports, Obama got his hackles up.
Obama mocked the “idea that somehow if you say the words `plan for victory’ and `stay the course’ over and over and over and over again, and you put these subliminal messages behind you that say `victory’ and `victory’ and `victory,’ that somehow people are not going to notice the 2,400 flag-draped coffins that have arrived at the Dover Air Force Base.”
The first-term lawmaker asked the audience: “People, have we flipped? It’s time to say we notice it. It is time to say that we care, and we are not going to settle anymore.”
“I don’t know about you,” he told his audience, referring to Bush’s 2000 campaign comments on possible U.S. military involvement overseas, “but when George Bush said he did not believe in nation building, I did not know he was talking about this nation.”
Obama cited reports that former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, critical of how the GOP was governing in Washington, suggested Democrats could reduce their campaign slogan to two words: “Had enough?”
Sure, it’s safer to be blunt now that the president’s approval ratings are sinking further in the toilet bowl with each flush of public opinion.
But this is the Obama I voted for. How about censure now, Barack?
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May 18th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Obama can’t be rehabilitated nor does he want to be . He has sworn to bring death and destruction to America and western civilization as well . He has been been behind the most heinous and cruel terror attacks in the world , including on his own people . He is the financial , ideological and spiritual leader of the worst terror organization this world has ever seen . He makes Yasir Arafat look like a boy scout and Saddam look like an amateur . Just like you liberal namby-pamby touchy feely types to even entertain the concept of ” rehabilitating ” the worst terrorist this world will ever know . You people are crazy . What ? huh ? wha….? obama ? Oh-Bama ? Barack Obama ? Not Osama ? oh…. well then …… nevermind