Posted on 03/28/2011 8:01:19 PM PDT by traumer
The President's address was an exercise in psychodrama, a weird journey through the mind of a narcissist who can't believe all the nasty things people are saying about him.
Obama's id is wrestling with the comparisons between his Libyan intervention and George Bush's action in Iraq. He made a point of criticizing Iraq, which had a vastly larger international coalition behind it than Obama does now, united in the struggle to depose an even more gruesome and sadistic monster than Qaddafi. He warned us that we might be stuck in post-Qaddafi Libya for a while because "40 years of terror left Libya fractured." The left never cut Bush any slack for trying to rebuild a country traumatized by decades of terror from Saddam Hussein.
The President's ego is very sensitive to the criticism that his handling of the Libyan situation was lazy and disengaged. He's constructed a new narrative in his own mind, where he "created the conditions for others to step up," leading the Europeans to declare "a willingness to commit resources." Thus does Obama retroactively become the hero of a military operation France, England, and Hillary Clinton dragged him into, and which he authorized with a few peevish phone calls from a South American junket.
Obama is clearly working through some deep issues about the Clintons. He took a few unexpected, oblique shots at Bill Clinton, noting that "the international community waited more than a year" before intervening in Bosnia, while Obama got ordinance dropped on Tripoli "in 31 days." He also congratulated himself for refusing "to wait for images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action." You might want to put some ice on that, Mr. Clinton.
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I LOVED THAT Movie. My wife makes fun of me.. But it was a very patriotic movie.
I LOVED THAT Movie. My wife makes fun of me.. But it was a very patriotic movie.
President Obama offered no theories for why it had not done so during the previous forty years.
Nor for why we he apparently believes that we are in a stronger economic position than in the previous forty years so as to to be able to take on our third war....
In addition to all of this Shabazz vitriol on BOR last night, I wonder what could happen now that Trump in thumping around about the birth certificate issue. I have seen the transition pics the murf MalcomX into 0bama..and the similarities are striking..0bama does not look a whit like his so called father..
The other thing with this birth cert thing is that the senior 0bama was a British citizen at the time of the Bamsters birth...so how does that work out toward his being a natural born American?Could it be that maybe the Nation knows more about his background than anyone thinks? They would not have to organize the hit you suggest, just pull out the birth cert and let the rest take care of itself....all the way to jail....
He has had ten days to prepare for this speech, yet he can't get it done without using a gazillion inch monitor with his speech displayed in the back of the room.
For the audience, why sit there to hear a narration of what is already written on a big screen? I would have turned my chair around so that I could read it myself.
“He has had ten days to prepare for this speech, yet he can’t get it done without using a gazillion inch monitor with his speech displayed in the back of the room.”
I have never seen any successful, powerful person need a massive telepromter to get through a speech. It is unheard of.
I went to an event recently in which both George Bush and Robert Gates gave extensive speeches. Neither needed this type of crutch.
The whole intent of the teleprompter kid is to try and fool the public into thinking he needs no notes to give a speech. What a rube.
I watched the speech last nite and I realized something- now I know why he doesn’t do speeches from the Oval Office, there’s no audience to applaud him when he’s through!
I don’t believe there is an applause when speaking from the Oval Office...
Who would applaud - the cameraman?
---Muammar is a bad boy, but he's a mosquito compared to Saddam the Vulture.
That was precisely my point as to why he doesn't like to address the nation from the Oval Office. No adoring crowd.
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