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July 26, 2008

'Obama has risen to power by using a soothing cloud of meaningless words to conceal displeasing truths and avoid difficult choices'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Stinging, right to the point, words from David Frum that nail Obama and his Berlin speech for what he actually said, who he really is, and the dark truth of what he really stands for - and doesn't: Mixed metaphors and soggy logic...

[...] if you listened to the speech, you heard an ominous and disturbing statement, one that raises the same unsettling question Hillary Clinton raised: Is this man really capable of meeting the responsibilities of commander-in-chief?

[...] The Berlin speech revealed more starkly than ever the most dangerous weaknesses in Obama's thinking about the world.

Here he is talking about the early days of the Cold War: "The Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe ...." Here he is discussing current threats to security: "Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris." Here is his summons to combat terrorism: "If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York."

In all these phrases -- and many more -- there is always something missing: human beings. It was not a "shadow" that spread across Eastern Europe in 1945. It was an army. Nor is it "materials" and "secrets" that build bombs -- it is bomb-makers. It was not "networks" that struck in Madrid and London and the rest. It was terrorists acting in the name of Islam.

[...] Obama's vague language is the product of an unrealistic mind. He denies the reality of conflict -- and flinches from the obligations of self-defense. Obama has risen to power by using a soothing cloud of meaningless words to conceal displeasing truths and avoid difficult choices. His more worldly supporters will quietly whisper that Obama thinks more incisively than his speeches suggest. Let's hope so. Yet the speech in Berlin should cause us all to wonder: Maybe Obama's mind really is as foggy as his language.

Be sure to read the entire piece.

We can only hope and pray that Americans supporting Obama wake up before it's too late and that we don't have to realize through the experience of suffering through a destructive (to America) Obama presidency that the answer to that unsettling question Hillary Clinton raised is that this man is in no way capable of meeting the responsibilities of commander-in-chief. To make the mistake of electing a myth, a David Axelrod invention, and ignoring the fact that Obama is a far left socialist/Marxist of the worst kind, would be something our country may never recover from.

Related must reads:
John R. Bolton - One world? Obama's on a different planet; The senator's Berlin speech was radical and naive.
Kathryn Jean Lopez - Obama's 'Audacity' Is For Dopes
Andrew Ferguson - Sweet Nothings, A close reading of The Speech.

Posted by Abdul at July 26, 2008 8:44 AM

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