Posted on 09/10/2013 12:15:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tonight at 9 p.m. EST, President Obama will deliver live, televised remarks on Syria from the White House. Daily Intelligencer has secured a copy of this speech, as prepared for address.
Good evening. Tonight I had hoped to speak directly to you, the American people, as your president and commander-in-chief, about the necessity of taking military action against the Assad regime in Syria. I was going to talk all about why bombing Syria was not only a moral obligation, but also squarely in our national interests. That's what I had planned to do when we scheduled this speech last week.
But then, as many of you know, John Kerry sort of accidentally proposed yesterday that President Assad could avoid retribution if he agreed to give up his chemical weapons. To our surprise, Syria is into it, as is its close ally Russia. Suddenly we're in the midst of figuring out a diplomatic solution to this crisis. Just a few hours ago, Syria declared its intention to join the international treaty banning chemical weapons, and I asked the Senate to delay a vote on military strikes. The situation is changing almost by the minute.
So, with all that being said ... I'm not totally sure what I'm supposed to say here anymore. The military strikes I was going to aggressively argue for tonight may no longer be necessary. Then again, they might be, if these diplomatic talks fall apart. We definitely need to do something about Syria, I'm just not sure what. You can see my dilemma.
What people don't know is that once you reserve ten minutes of prime-time television, they don't let you back out, for any reason. It's crazy.
You know what? Joe said something pretty spot-on about Syria the other day. What was it ... oh, right. "Barack, if the American people don't" ... no, wait ... how did it go? Ah, crap. I can't remember. Well, it was good.
Did anyone watch Monday Night Football last night? Those were some okay games. I'm really excited about this season.
Okay, well, that about wraps 'er up. Let me get back to you about Syria, because again, we're really right in the middle of this thing. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
He will just use the time to defend Obombercare and start pumping up amnesty.
Correct. But the Reds announcers aren’t bad, either.
Slowly I turn....step by step.....inch by inch.....
Final words from Jarrett as Obama heads to the podium:
” ... and please, please, absolutely please, do NOT, NOT try to ad lib and be funny and go off script. Please, don’t!.”
Stay the course was Reagan’s slogan, in 1982. And he was right.
Yep.
The ONLY speech that I would be willing to listen to, from this POS, is:
I, Barrack Hussein Obama, do hereby declare, that I have done corrupt and criminal things to and on behalf of the American People and to the standing of America, domestically and internationally.
After careful deliberations and discussions with my entire staff and administration, we have agreed henceforth, to tender all of our resignations and willfully voluntarily turn ourselves into the appropriate authorities for our criminal and corrupt activities.
Since all of those in the current line of succession to replace me, will also be resigning and turning themselves over to the authorities, there will be an immediate election, wherein the American populace will be able to elect among themselves, who will be taking over as President of the United States.
Thank you for your time and I apologize for the damage me and my administration have done, to you and this great country. I have seen the error of my ways and pray that God will Bless America and her people.
___________________________
Hey, if they can dream up the delusions of grandeur and unrealistic scenarios....why can’t I?
Start calling Cantor’s office about this: “So House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is proposing to send two bills to the Senate: One that keeps the government open and spending about as much money as it has been, and another that amends that spending bill to defund Obamacare. Then, Senate Democrats will be able to pass the former and send it to the president’s desk, while defeating the latter.
Under this strategy, House Republicans get to pass an Obamacare defunding bill, Senate Democrats get to pass a bill that includes spending on Obamacare, and the government stays open. Everyone’s happy, except of course for conservative activists who actually want Obamacare defunded.” Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-obamacare-plan-makes-190229694.html
The smarmy little sniveling coward b’tard.
“And then, at the end, the wookie will twerk for us all.”
Some of the best laughs I get are from FR. Never mind comedy shows! Thank you for that belly laugh!
You’re right about that, but I will have to bleach my mind after the mental image it brought on.
His finale: “LONG LIVE MOTHER RUSSIA!”
Both sets of announcers are SOOOOO much better than Hawk Harrelson who does White Sux games. Gawd he’s awful!
The Reds have always been a quality franchise with good media. I grew up listening to Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall on WLW and to Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau on WGN.
When my mother was alive I used to like the Sox announcers, not anymore.
Me, too.
Funny thing happened to me on vacation in Utah. At breakfast, I noticed a man wearing an SOA T-shirt. I went up to him, and asked, "did you know that Season 6 starts on Sept 10th?"
He looked at me as if he couldn't understand a word. The second he opened his mouth, I knew he was German. Unfortunately, I haven't spoken much German in the past 30 years, since my tour in Germany ended.
I was able to find out he had not seen Season 5 yet, and I didn't want to spoil it for him.
I've been watching SOA from the beginning, so I'm stoked.
Is the speech still ‘ON’’? What the hell does he possibly have to say after the last 24 hours’ events?
LOL... perfect.
Ewwww. Tonight marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of “The X-Files”. We’ve been talking about the “Monster of the Week” episodes. Enough said.
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