A Strange Speech, Some Odd Parallels
Several portions of Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin caught my attention. Here’s the first thing he said that caught my attention:
The odds were stacked against success. In the winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without dropping off the needed supplies. The streets where we stand were filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.
But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and heard the city’s mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom. “There is only one possibility,” he said. “For us to stand together united until this battle is won…The people of Berlin have spoken. We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the world: now do your duty…People of the world, look at Berlin!”
Isn’t it odd to hear Sen. Obama talk about “in the darkest hours”, Berliners “kept the flame of hope burning” just after visiting Iraq, which Sen. Obama voted to abandon in their darkest hour?
The man who talks about hope and change voted to cut off funding for the troops, which would’ve handed Iraq to AQI’s terrorists and Iranian-funded militias. Ironic doesn’t begin to describe it.
Why does Sen. Obama think it appropriate to identify with the Berlin airlift but not with the heroic Iraqi people who were trying to bring hope to their country after being liberated from another madman’s clutches? Does Sen. Obama think that Berlin’s liberty is more worthwhile than the Iraqis’ liberty?
Sen. Obama, you’re a disgusting man. You voted to condemn an entire nation. You voted to let tyrants have their way with people who clearly wanted liberty. I’ve said numerous times that Bush’s failures weren’t a reason to abandon Iraq but rather that it was the Iraqis’ desire for freedom that should drive us to figure out a way to make their dream a reality.
Sen. Obama, you voted to extinguish hope in Baghdad yet you dare speak about hope in Berlin. Both peoples’ liberty is precious. Yet Sen. Obama’s vote said that one country’s hope wasn’t worth it.
Here’s another paragraph that highlights
So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
Sen. Obama speaks of “true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice” but he refused to walk the walk when it came to Iraq.
It take true determination, steadfastness and an iron will to forge historic change. Based on what we’ve seen in his abandoning his primary campaign principles, it’s fair to ask if Barack Obama is missing all three of those qualities. It’d be difficult to prove he has any of those qualities at this point.
Based on what I’ve seen, I don’t have any confidence that Sen. Obama has the requisite steadfastness that Thatcher, Reagan and JFK had. Based on this speech, I see more proof that he’s a wobbly than that he’s steadfast.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 24th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
But I thought we were winning because the surge was working?
July 25th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Ironic is Obamessiah talking about how great it is that there is no longer the wall (Iron Curtain, if you will), a wall built by communists to keep people in (forced captivity) but he is in fact a communist and, had he been in a position of power, would have encouraged that same wall.
And the lemmings of Europe are eating it up, just like the lemmings here. His words fill the hungry, empty souls of vacuous ingrates with “hope”, “change”, all the things that are “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
July 25th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Great article.