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Posted on 07/26/2008 6:06:25 AM PDT by kellynla
Barack Obama at least has one thing right: the author of "The Audacity of Hope" is certainly audacious.
The junior Illinois senator has been telling us for months now: "We are the hope of the future. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." If I believed that about myself, I'd be pretty audacious. Not to mention messianic.
And so the political savior went to Berlin to stand on the shoulders of giants, and didn't even have the courtesy to tip his hat to the president of the United States -- Ronald Reagan -- whose monumentally historic rhetoric he adapted ad nauseam, showing an audacious disregard for creativity and originality.
But the Berlin speech wasn't anything too new -- save the self-reintroduction as a post-national "Citizen of the World." You've heard most of it before. It would be less disturbing if it were merely empty rhetoric signifying everything and nothing, requiring projection on the part of the unformed masses Obama seeks to galvanize, to give it meaning. But his substance is audaciously insulting, on top of the language.
Hillary Clinton, in retrospect, got a bad, perhaps unfair, rap for being presumptuous. Despite being a workhorse in the Senate and on the campaign trail, she was maligned by many, including this columnist, for her imperial arrogance, for thinking of her campaign as merely part of the inevitable return of the Clintons to their rightful White House. It was an august, foregone conclusion to which Team Clinton certainly did subscribe. But at least she was willing to do the work she needed to do to earn the job. Barack Obama, by comparison, makes Hillary look positively meek, and does so without all the elbow grease. In his mind and in the minds of many a callow Obamamaniac, he is the "inevitable" one.
"We are the ones we have been waiting for"? Really? If all of American history has been waiting for me to be able to pull a lever for Barack Obama, I might have to rethink the greatness of this fine country. Fortunately I won't have to. I hate to tell Chris Matthews with his tingling leg and all, but Barack Obama is not the source and summit of U.S. history. Barack Obama represents an obnoxiously elitist attitude that reeks of paternalistic government, the kind that folks like Reagan and the late, great William F. Buckley Jr. devoted much of their lives to pushing back, here and abroad.
Obama's European trip, of course, provided a wide stage for his self-assured pomp and inconsequence. The speech at the Berlin Victory Column furnished the fireworks of the trip, but it -- with its Leni Riefenstahl-like rally posters translated into German -- did not stand alone in audacity. After conducting some would-be freelance diplomacy with the leaders of the Israeli and Palestinian states, Barack Obama presented himself in Europe as president-elect, rather than as a frosh senator who lucked out with a few good choices on either side of the aisle, and who is now clearly in over his head.
And considering the depth and extent of grief George W. Bush gets for being stubborn, you'd think Obama would show some humility for being on the wrong side of the biggest war story of the last year, the troop surge in Iraq. The surge worked, yet he and his fellow Democrats opposed the considered advice and airtight plan of the commander on the ground in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. But what did a seasoned warrior know compared to this young politico from Chicago? Community organizing in the Windy City must have made him a military expert.
Audacity is nothing new to Barack Obama. The book title, "The Audacity of Hope," of course, comes from a speech by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor, from whom Obama decided to distance himself when it became clear that he would forever be a political liability if the senator didn't "throw him under the bus," in the parlance of urban wheeling and dealing.
Audacity can be a beautiful thing. Hope, surely. But when both are rooted in nothing but the well-crafted words (thank you, Obama aide David Axelrod) of a supposed political savior, I, for one, am not signing up, thank you. Say what you will about John McCain, at least we know he's got deep roots in tried and true political virtues: duty, honor, country. Those are more stable principles than the audacity of whatever the Obama team comes up with next.
Semper Fi, Kelly
“The Audacity of a Mope”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
OK, it's really nice on the sun porch here at the institution, but it's time for me to back inside and take my meds now. Thanks for listening.
Workhorse on the campagin trail - yes. Workhorse in the Senate - no. And thank God for that.
Your post #5 would make a good tag line.
yeah, i was thinking about using it for my tag line.
I’ll tell you what, kelly. In all my life, my use of the word ‘audacity’ has NEVER been a good thing. It has always had a negative connotation.
1. Willingness to take risks: adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daring, daringness, venturesomeness, venturousness. See safety/danger.
2. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, courtesy/discourtesy.
“Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.”
Deserves repeating!
An American voting for BEEEEE-OHHHH-bama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
He might start at telling us what gives him the Slightest qualification for being President Of The United States Of America. What has this Nincompoop accomplished in his life ?
When did he put his life in Jeopardy for his country ,Pray tell me for any reason ,by building public housing with the help of a fraud ,by gaining street cred by worshipping with a racist in a Racist Theology?
By Visiting all 60 States ,maybe by Proudly Proclaiming Israel is Iraels best Friend ? Well as a fellow citizen of the world and therefore as qualified as Obombo to be President I cant wait to follow the Prophet to Mecca
Well we can hope the R’s could put on an All American campign....maybe they can make the Drill Now work though.
(paraphrasing kinda sort of) "America is guilty of illegal wars, genocide, oppression and abuse of minorities, exploitation, torture, war crimes, and all manner of heinous crimes and abuses against the world's peoples and environment -- but I love the b*tch and I will reform Her and make Her great. Now is the moment!"
What is with the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party)? Go off to any other country, bash America.
Carter does it, Clinton does it, Gore does it -- even Senator Feinstein is embarrassed to wear our Flag pin overseas (Mexico too? Probably). Our entertainers do it -- what is it about far off lands that brings such vile hatred spewing from the lips of Rats? Here it's just simple hatred.
Thank you for the new email signature and tagline!!
Funny thing about that analogy,.. — it fits!
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