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But Enough About Me . . .
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 1, 2009 | William Kristol

Posted on 05/23/2009 5:55:03 AM PDT by Scanian

Barack Obama spoke at the National Archives last Thursday on the war on terror (not that he used that term). After paying tribute to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and before turning to a defense of his policies, the President of the United States said:

I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to our shores in search of the promise that they offered. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land. My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words--"to form a more perfect union." I have studied the Constitution as a student; I have taught it as a teacher; I have been bound by it as a lawyer and legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never--ever--turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.

Who cares? Who cares about Barack Obama's father, his mother, or his "own American journey"? Is his journey so noteworthy that it needs to be intruded into a presidential speech on weighty matters of constitutional law and public policy, of civil liberties and national security? After all, tens of millions of other Americans have ancestors who came to these shores in search of the promise of a better life.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; kristol; mememe; narcissism; obama; obamamessiah
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"Does Obama understand that the office of the presidency is bigger--much bigger--than he is?"
1 posted on 05/23/2009 5:55:06 AM PDT by Scanian
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"Does Obama understand that the office of the presidency is bigger--much bigger--than he is?"

Is that a trick question?;-)

2 posted on 05/23/2009 5:57:00 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Barack Obama happens temporarily to occupy the White House.

ah, yes, but how temporarily in his own mind? After all, the Constitution has been amended before.

3 posted on 05/23/2009 6:01:18 AM PDT by gusopol3
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"Does Obama understand that the office of the presidency is bigger--much bigger--than he is?"

BO undoubtedly wonders whether Americans understand what a giant of a man they now have gracing our Presidency.

It's pretty clear that many of us think we have a midget of a man instead.

4 posted on 05/23/2009 6:02:08 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (I can support a person I don't always agree with. What I can never support is a person I don't trust)
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To: Scanian

You left out the BARF ALERT.


5 posted on 05/23/2009 6:02:17 AM PDT by Rapunzel (Never forget Fallujah..S. Helvenston RIP.....Sarah...Sarah...Sarah loves America)
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To: Scanian

Beware of politicians who “Wrap themselves in the Flag”


6 posted on 05/23/2009 6:03:11 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Scanian
For the past eight years we rested easy knowing there were rough men(and women) ready to do violence on our behalf. Now, not so much.
7 posted on 05/23/2009 6:03:53 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

It’s all about Obama. He essentially ran on this platform, such as it is, because the radical leftists behind him knew that he could never get elected if he ran on their ideas. But he is such a void internally that he makes the perfect tool for them, because he himself has no values, no allegiances to anything other than himself.

He’s a sociopath who has risen to the sociopath’s ultimate dream, a position where he can choose and create the personality he lacks and have everyone forced to affirm it.


8 posted on 05/23/2009 6:05:51 AM PDT by livius
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To: Scanian

He is so full of himself that he just cannot stop talking about himself.


9 posted on 05/23/2009 6:06:02 AM PDT by Piquaboy (Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: Scanian

Courtesy mandates a Mega Barf alert on this post


10 posted on 05/23/2009 6:06:15 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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“Is his journey so noteworthy that it needs to be intruded into a presidential speech on weighty matters of constitutional law and public policy, of civil liberties and national security? “

Um, have you figured out he’s a narcissist yet? I don’t mean in the general “vanity” way, but in the pyschological disorder that is frightening for a person like that to be in the most powerful position in the world?

He wrote TWO AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (ghost writer or not, they were about himself) before he DID ANYTHING.

Nuff said.


11 posted on 05/23/2009 6:06:21 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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He says his mother work him up before dawn...to teach him the Constitution when he was in a foreign land. I wonder just how many days in his lifetime she did this....once? He didn’t learn very well the lst or 2nd ammendment rights, and nothing about guarantee abortion is mentioned in these documents...


12 posted on 05/23/2009 6:06:57 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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*snicker*


13 posted on 05/23/2009 6:07:21 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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My father came to our shores in search of the promise that they offered.

I doubt it. From what I've read of the man, he came here in search of an easy woman.

14 posted on 05/23/2009 6:08:21 AM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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They had to remove the real Constitution so the lighting form BO’s staged appearance would not fade it.
15 posted on 05/23/2009 6:09:26 AM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Scanian

My Struggle


16 posted on 05/23/2009 6:09:36 AM PDT by Spok
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To: rovenstinez

There is no one alive who can affirm any of his childhood stories. It can be whatever he wants it to be.


17 posted on 05/23/2009 6:10:03 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Scanian

Why doesn’t 0bama have his own archives room where we can all come to examine his foundational documents?


18 posted on 05/23/2009 6:10:18 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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“My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words—”to form a more perfect union.”

What a bunch of BO...


19 posted on 05/23/2009 6:14:09 AM PDT by fiodora
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“My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land.”

Awww, isn’t that sweet? She was so caring and nurturing and DIDN’T WANT TO GO TO JAIL.


20 posted on 05/23/2009 6:15:03 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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