Barry O at the VFW
If you search You Tube for “Obama VFW” you get 29 results, and of those that actually are Obama at the VFW, most of the clips are under two minutes, like this sloppy wet kiss delivered by the AP! (I had to search long and hard to find the whole thing!)
Watch the whole speech, if you have the stomach, then go back and click on the AP valentine!
Hard to say where to start with this video…I have two pages of pull quotes that are either lies, outrageous nonsense or terminal naiveté!
How about his introduction? He begins by speaking of the “incredible victory” of the VFW about thirty seconds in. Over fascism? Nazism? The Cold War? Personal adversity? No! The incredible victory over airline baggage fees! Way to trivialize the service of every man there!
Or a bit of disingenuous language next? 11:14 into the video, Obama chides McCain for not heeding “my call to take out bin Laden ‘across the Afghan border’ “, making it sound like crossing the border into Afghanistan, instead of crossing the Afghan border into the sovereign nation of Pakistan. (Or “Pockistan” as the Messiah is wont to pronounce it!)
How about some self serving deception? 4:14
“Six years ago, I stood up at a time when it was “politically difficult to oppose going to war in Iraq”
Oh, really, Senator O’blurry? In the anti-war, William Ayers, Move-On-dot-org Puffington Host circles you run it, it was “politically difficult to oppose going to war in Iraq”? Man! The tomatoes you could fertilize with THAT load of manure!
When he’s not re-writing history or telling fairy tales about “the calamity left behind by the last eight years”, he manages at least one flip flop inside the speech! That’s right! In less than 9 minutes, he manages to take a different position than…himself!
At 5:19, he chides the Iraqis and McCain, by extension, for not funding their own rebuilding, and by 13:40 he and his friend Joe Biden are proudly calling for $1 Billion (that’s Billion, with a “B”) in American tax dollars to rebuild Georgia. Hello? The Russians invade Georgia and the US taxpayer should foot the bill? Where’s the consistency in THAT?
Or the self contradiction in chiding McCain for supporting the war in Iraq, when “Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat to the American people”, yet claiming we “cannot secure America as long as there’s a terrorist haven in north west Pakistan”?
Then there’s the matter of his terminal naiveté in lamenting how the US leadership wasn’t “engaged” enough in world affairs to prevent the Russian/ Georgian conflict:
“We failed to head off this conflict and lost leverage to contain it…American leadership means getting engaged earlier to shape events so that we’re not merely responding to them…”
So, you’re advocating a preemptive move against Russia, in anticipation of their troop movement into Georgia? Which crystal ball would you be using to conduct foreign affairs? I would think invading Russia preemptively would make Iraq look like a walk in the park!
Lots of fodder for the talking head crowd in this snoozefest! I’ve only scratched the surface!
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
