David

Karki

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July 28, 2008

Obama in Berlin: Ich Bin Ein Beginner

Last Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin to a throng, which hung out to hear him after a rock concert that included free beer. (The mainstream media, which is doing everything to get him elected, didn't tell you the attendance was manipulated in this way, nor that this is far from the first time the Obama campaign has pulled this stunt to manufacture a large audience.)

The speech he gave was galling in its moral equivocation, stunning in its factual and historical wrongness and  insulting in its belittling of America and her people – the victims of 9/11 in particular.

“Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.”

But you are a candidate for president, and you can't possibly give any speech not as one, any more than you could be there not as a black man. (More on that in the next item.) The idea that this was anything but a campaign appearance is laughable. And a citizen of the world? Care to show us your world passport? Or better yet, some hint that you even understand, much less value, the concept of national sovereignty?

“I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city.”

It took a whole five sentences before Obama brought up race. This from the candidate who has promised to transcend it. Shouldn't the fact that you're one of two candidates put to bed for all time the idea that racism is a major problem? Especially when a white person with your non-existent resume and total inexperience would have had absolutely no chance to get this far?

“The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope. But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers – dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean. The terrorists of September 11 plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil. As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.”

Obama actually compared the evil of terrorist mass slaughter to a non-existent enviro-wacko hoax. He honestly thinks there's a parallel or equivalency of some kind. This is not only insane, but morally blind in the extreme. Is he really saying that 19 bastards who planned for years to kill thousands are only passively responsible? (Remember, to far leftists like him, terrorism is a response to our ignorance for which we share culpability.) Or that anyone who drives a car down an open road is the moral equivalent of a monster who flies a plane full of people into a building full of people?

That this line could actually have been written and spoken by an American presidential candidate is frightening. It's staggering in its obtuseness. And it's insulting beyond measure to those who had loved ones so brutally taken from them.

“No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them.”

Glad to see you don't believe in America. We can and do meet many challenges alone – or should I say non-multilaterally – a fact you and your fellow liberals are all too eager to denounce. And we overcome them every time. Our slogan could be, to quote Ronald Reagan: “Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.” How dare you presume us to be so helpless.

And as for denying threats, liberals specialize in that. Saddam Hussein wasn't one, Islamic terror during the 1990s wasn't one, pulling out of Iraq now – near-victory be damned – can't possibly re-create one. So there's another big fat lie.

“People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.”

Uh, Barack, the “world” didn't bring a wall down and it didn't come down on its own as your passive language suggests. Ronald Reagan knocked that wall down! His willingness to do the opposite of you and draw clear moral lines (“evil empire”), and then use the nuclear missiles you naively promise to get rid of (putting Pershing IIs in western Europe to match the USSR's) put the Soviet Union on a course they could not sustain. And in just a few short years, it was all over for them.

And “a world that stands as one”? You're getting your foreign policy from insipid John Lennon songs? Good grief. What's next? The old Coca-Cola jingle “I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing”?

The list of vomit-inducing gems goes on, but I haven't the space or the stomach to list any more here. Suffice it to say, Obama has done what I had heretofore thought impossible – he's actually given me a small measure of enthusiasm for Sen. John McCain.

This man cannot be let anywhere near the White House. Yes, he did us the favor of dispatching Hillary Clinton for the time being. But he has also managed something unfathomable: To be even worse. And much, much worse at that. I shudder to think what will happen to my country should I awake on November 5 to the prospect of four years of this MoveOn.org puppet as the most powerful man on Earth. And you should too.

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