Posted on 09/25/2014 10:00:00 AM PDT by Starman417
In his most recent UN speech Barack Obama went the hopey-changey route instead of traveling down reality road.
Even as the U.S. expanded its most significant military operation since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq a decade ago, Obama watered down his noble-America rhetoric. Instead, he promoted a more benign kind of American optimism likelier to be soothing to the ears of those on the world stage.“I often tell young people in the United States that despite the headlines, this is the best time in human history to be born, for you are more likely than ever before to be literate, to be healthy, to be free to pursue your dreams,” Obama said, casting for positive trends amid a cascade of global crises. “For America, the choice is clear: We choose hope over fear.”
Obama’s effort to find notes of optimism on the global scene struck a contrast with the grim picture painted by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who decried “barrel bombs and beheadings” and bemoaned “a terrible year for the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter.”
He cannot even bring himself to properly label the enemy:
“I called this meeting,” Obama explained, “because we must come together — as nations and an international community — to confront the real and growing threat of foreign terrorist fighters.”
At the Washington Times, Joseph Curl described Obama's speech as "full of naiveté":
President Obama on Wednesday delivered a speech at the United Nations filled with his usual soaring rhetoric of global collectivism and the importance of “international norms.” But the president also displayed a shocking naivete about global affairs, religion, Islam — a Pollyannaish interpretation on the state of the world and America’s role in it.
As he is so oft to do, Obama refused to pin blame on Islam for anything:
To Mr. Obama, there’s no global conflict of ideology, just “pervasive unease in our world.” To him, the strife is merely the “failure of our international system to keep pace with an interconnected world.” And to him, “it is one of the tasks of all great religions to accommodate devout faith with a modern, multicultural world.”
Then Obama goes on to outright lie:
So is this passage of his speech: ” … the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them, there is only us.”But Islam and the holy Koran on which Muslim militant groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State base their actions do call for the extermination of all who do not follow Islam, do demand that followers kill anyone who leaves the religion, do subjugate women. For the record, the Koran contains more than 100 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers.
Mr. Obama said in his speech that “all people of faith have a responsibility to lift up the value at the heart of all great religions: Do unto thy neighbor as you would do — you would have done unto yourself.” But that is not a cornerstone of Islam. Militant Muslims have a very different belief: “Fight in the name of your religion with those who disagree with you.” And that edict comes straight from their holiest book.
Most offensive was his likening of the white cops or Ferguson to the Islamic jihadists of ISIS:
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The longer it takes, the stronger the backlash will be.
He has told us who are his real buddies.
Hey, every country has it’s problems, come on dudes! I’m literally sick from what this idiot of a president has said and done, particularly this latest commentary in front of the whole world. Literally sick.
Let’s see....
A bully strikes at a security element and the security element responds killing the bully...
Barry meant that the Cop represents the International Community’s responsibility and the Brown represents ISIS...
...then again, Barry pretty much says what is on his mind - so I’m sure he just screwed up another issue like all the rest...
Is it time for impeachment yet???
“I often tell young people in the United States that despite the headlines, this is the best time in human history to be born, for you are more likely than ever before to be literate, to be healthy, to be free to pursue your dreams,”
All his other nonsense aside, at least he is mostly right about this, at least when compared to the millennia before the reformation, not necessarily compared to earlier in America.
FUBO, and the religion you rode in on.
It’s best I say nothing.
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