Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:22:10 PM
I know Bush is supposedly an "idiot", but I had forgotten this Obama gem.
Obama's now famous speech was notable for the absence of the
traditional tropes of the antiwar left. . . . "Let me begin by saying
that although this has been billed as an antiwar rally, I stand before
you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances," he told
the crowd. He then went further, defending justifiable wars in almost
glorious terms. "The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and
yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of
multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the
scourge of slavery from our soil. I don't oppose all wars. My
grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed,
fought in Patton's Army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of
Europe; he heard the stories of fellow-troops who first entered
Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom,
part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did
not fight in vain. I don't oppose all wars." It took some nerve to
tweak the crowd in this way.
First of all, it is incredibly stupid, as everyone on the left supports all the past "good" wars, they just hate any current or future ones. So Obama is hardly differentiating himself from any other leftist with unbounded faith in the power of talk.
But what I had forgotten was that Obama apparently had a grandfather serving in the Red Army. Either that or he, um, how shall we put this? "Misspoke"? "Was too nuanced in his understanding"? "Suffered a memory malfunction"?
How about Obama lied, and didn't even bother to create a convincing lie. Just as events in Selma somehow brought together his parents 4 years after he was born, just as he was inspired by nonexistent magazine articles, his grandfather talked to fellow soldiers in the Red Army.
So, tell me again why political commentators are calling Bush an "idiot" and treating this buffoon as the second coming? He has made not only more mistakes, but even more idiotic mistakes than Bush ever did. And worse still most of his mistakes were made in the course of lying about something.
Where has the press been on this? Why has none of this ever been played up? Not only has it not appeared A1 above the fold, as it would had Bush done the same, it doesn't even appear B16 or D23, it is completely dropped. But they continue to tell me the press is in no way biased.
I believe that as much as I do Grandpa Obama's war stories.
POSTSCRIPT
I figured it out. He is a young, charming scamp who got where is because of affirmative action, though everyone around him denies it, with too little experience and given too much responsibility, who can't help but tell lies, even when he knows he will get caught. Obama is the Jayson Blair candidate!
UPDATE
And while I am on the topic of gaffes by the great politician and secular messiah, let's list a few other high points:
- His (not at all out of touch or elitist) complaint about the high price of arugula
- His statement that voters cling to G-d and guns out of bitterness over bad economic times
- When he adopted his own presidential seal
- His recollection of visiting 57 states, with one still to go
- "I could no more denounce" Reverend Wright... well until a week later
- His claim Wright wasn't a spiritual adviser, just a member of the campaign's spiritual advisory board
- His worries that involvement in Iraq was keeping us from having enough translators in (non-Arabic speaking) Afghanistan
- Iran as the tiniest serious threat the US doesn't need to worry about
- His plans to invade Pakistan
And those are just the most memorable. I could
triple the list easily.
And yet
BUSH is the moron?