Posted on 04/19/2007 12:46:03 PM PDT by rob21
Hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, Barack Obama spoke at a campaign stop in Milwaukee. Obama could have shown compassion unalloyed with politics, what one hopes to find in a leader when disaster strikes. But he didn't. In the grand tradition of leftist orators, Obama repackaged the awful news of the day to "reflect" on his own political themes.
"I hope," the candidate said about the massacre, "that it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept violence in various forms all the time in our society: we glorify it, we encourage it, we ignore it, and it's heartbreaking." In other words, some deranged madman just perpetrated the greatest shooting massacre in the nation's history, and Obama wants us to "reflect" on whatever "violence in various forms" that he can say we're responsible for. While people were crying on each other's shoulders in Blacksburg, tensely waiting by hospital beds and telephones, or gathering in candlelight vigils across the nation, this character was in Milwaukee trying to put the national nose in a corner to think about what we've done. (Any similarity between Obama's reaction and killer Cho Seung Hui's note "You made me do this" revealed later is sickly coincidental.)
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
And this lunatic wants to be our next president?
That is a great column...and it speaks volumes about that man.
Thank you for posting it.
PING
Indeed!
“Also by the same standard, this May 6 will mark the 70th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster. I hope that the memory of it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept gasbags in various forms all the time in our society.”
Hee hee. A Steyn acolyte.
Talk about craven and clueless.... Obama is not only a member, he’s the president of *that* club.
“the Hindenburg disaster. I hope that the memory of it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept gasbags in various forms all the time in our society.”
Beautiful!
Are you fast or what? Beat me by a keystroke.
Bump.
LOL.
To call Obama a nutbag is an insult to a perfectly harmless, tasty, nutritious treat to be consumed at a baseball game.
He is a wildly ambitious, egocentric, power hungry chump.
How dare you call the next president of the u.s. a chump—chimp maybe...
Today is the 14th anniversary of the largest massacre of US citizens by the federal government in memory, carried out because the Koresh standoff at Waco was making Bill Clinton look weak.
“the next president”
LOL, never refer to Obama as our next president again. You might end up giving someone a heart attack.
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