Posted on 07/24/2008 8:19:10 PM PDT by drill_ANWR
I noticed this listening to his speech and did the research:
Obama, all his advisers, and the fawning MSM are clueless.
As mistakes go, I would say this is the ultimate. A prepared speech (not an off-the-teleprompter gaffe), announced days in advance to the world. How is a mistake this huge possible? There is no chance he misread (misspoke), otherwise, there would be no mention of Belfast in that portion of the speech.
Not only does Obama not realize that there are more "peace walls" then ever in Belfast, but his entire speech writing and campaign consulting team did not catch this error -- not to mention the adoring world press - who had access to his speech text prior to the Berlin speech today. This would not have gotten my attention while listening to his speech, but I just happened to stumble on an article a few weeks back (not the USA Today article below) and the Belfast walls were fresh in my mind.
I sent this to Campaign Spot earlier this evening — unfortunately, he did not give me a shout-out or hat tip. I thought that was a bit weak since I appear to be the first one in the world to uncover Obama’s mistake.
Boy howdy! Too bad we have a selected maverick as the alternative to Baraq. A JFK would be a Reagan in today's sorry excuse for a presidential race.
Bob Dole went with limp... er Erectile Disfunction once he hit the wall... hmmmm... wonder what prospects John McCain's considering...
These things work in cycles. What I mean is that left or right wing ideology will never be permanent.
The sheeple will vote for leftists like Carter until they realize it doesn’t work. At which point they will vote for Reagan.
When they are still poor despite the opportunities they will vote for Carter again.
Of course, maybe the sheeple will one day wake up and realize it doesn’t matter. The POTUS can’t solve all of their problems, they can only make it worse.
They will get off their ass and be the rugged individualists that made America great.
Thats not right!
Looks like it is starting to get picked up
Despite peace, Belfast walls are growing in size and number
Nice catch. While Obama is claiming that peace walls are coming down around the world, they are actually going up in South Africa, Rio De Janeiro, Belfast, Israel, etc...
I’m surprised he didn’t have them play ‘The Internationale’ as he came to, and left, the stage.
Ping.
I just looked on Google Earth and they are all over Belfast.
Good catch. I knew nothing of walls in Belfast and haven’t heard the messiah’s speech, yet. Learn something new everyday around here.
Thanks for the input troll and for acknowledging that Al-Qaeda was in Iraq.
OK, coming up to speed on this. Making sense now. I guess all that can be said is you’ll probably only read about it here. Ignored by the MSM or it might get a 10-minute spin cycle.
“Years and years of history books have taught us that America was shaped by the great deeds of great men and women. It was not. America was shaped by the great deeds of ordinary men and women. America always has been better than its government, that its people have always been more decent than their presidents, and that the strength and greatness of this nation lies in them, the men and women who are not great and who never will be.”
— Roger Simon
Really? Well I am not going to buy their paper again then.
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