Who Does Obama Think He Is

[headhuntersix]

Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign-policy credentials.

What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final “tear down this wall” liquidation. When President Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.



Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush 41 — who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap — called “a Europe whole and free”?

Does Obama not see the incongruity? It’s as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.)

Americans are beginning to notice Obama’s elevated opinion of himself. There’s nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work I a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history — “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” — when, among other wonders, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” As economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, “Moses made the waters recede, but he had help.” Obama apparently works alone.

Obama may think he’s King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty

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After all, in the words of his own slogan, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” which, translating the royal “we,” means: “I am the one we’ve been waiting for.” Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his podium, until general ridicule — it was pointed out that he was not yet president — induced him to take it down.

He lectures us that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, “you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish” — a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how “embarrassing” it is that Europeans are multilingual but “we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, ‘merci beaucoup.’ ” Obama speaks no French.

 His fluent English does, however, feature many such admonitions, instructions, and improvements. His wife assures us that President Obama will be a stern taskmaster: “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is?

We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more. As he said on victory night, his rise marks the moment when “our planet began to heal.” As I recall — I’m no expert on this — Jesus practiced his healing just on the sick. Obama operates on a larger canvas.

[headhuntersix]

He lectures us that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, “you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish” — a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how “embarrassing” it is that Europeans are multilingual but “we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, ‘merci beaucoup.’ ” Obama speaks no French.


This guy is such a worthless idiot. Come on Benny...lets debate policy.....lets talk about his nuke irradication plan....or his pull out plan, or his energy plan....or which plan he's floped on. Hope and Change are not a method.

[Nordic Superman]

Having a speech at Brandenburg Gate is a fucking joke.

You Obama supporting Yanks would probably lap it up and think it's wonderful too.

What a joker.

[headhuntersix]

Oh it will be like an orgy...this guy's arrogance is beyond belief.

[Nordic Superman]

Oh it will be like an orgy...this guy's arrogance is beyond belief.

I feel physically ill at the prospect of this prick having a speech there.

[headhuntersix]

I agree...good discription.

[24KT]

Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign-policy credentials.

The very least you could have done HH6 was to give Charles Krauthammer credit for his article.

You post that as if you yourself wrote it. I know you couldn't possibly have,
...some words aren't mispelled, and actually contain more than mono syllabic grunts.

Krauthammer, What a name!!!   

I wonder what it must be like to go through life with a name that makes people automatically think of Nazis.

[Nordic Superman]

Krauthammer, What a name!!!   

I wonder what it must be like to go through life with a name that makes people automatically think of Nazis.

So what you're saying is that you're a racist?

You automatically think of Nazi's when you hear a name from Deutschland?

Does that make it acceptable for people to automatically think of blacks in these instances:

• Someone's been robbed
• Someone's been raped
• Someone's been stabbed
• Someone's in line for their welfare cheque

[24KT]

So what you're saying is that you're a racist?

You automatically think of Nazi's when you hear a name from Deutschland?

First of all 'German' is NOT a race, ...it is a nationality, and/or a language.

Secondly, you idiot, my own surname has it's roots in Deutschland.
There's even a town and a few battleships with the same name.

Thirdly, I don't automatically think of nazis when I hear a German name,
...but I do automatically think of nazis when I hear a name like 'Kraut-hammer' 
It sounds to me like a member of some gestapo goon squad.

[Nordic Superman]

First of all 'German' is NOT a race, ...it is a nationality, and/or a language.

Secondly, you idiot, my own surname has it's roots in Deutschland.
There's even a town and a few battleships with the same name.

Thirdly, I don't automatically think of nazis when I hear a German name,
...but I do automatically think of nazis when I hear a name like 'Kraut-hammer' 
It sounds to me like a member of some gestapo goon squad.

Well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples

Is it racist to insult muslims?

[youandme]

Well he's in Afghanistan now, I hear the Taliban gave him a nice welcome and shared some insight on his foreign policy - they leaped for joy when he said he would disarm America as they are "bitter and cling to their guns" and vowed to never use a nuclear bomb.

[Fury]

Well he's in Afghanistan now, I hear the Taliban gave him a nice welcome and shared some insight on his foreign policy - they leaped for joy when he said he would disarm America as they are "bitter and cling to their guns" and vowed to never use a nuclear bomb.

Yes, it worked wonders with those tribes in northwest Pakistan. Government gave them the authority to govern themselves on the basis that they clamp down on insurgents and terrorists. Has been a success in my opinion. The area is now only the biggest breeding and training ground for extremists in the world. Yes, Muslims seem to always uphold their end of the bargain! 

[youandme]

Yes, it worked wonders with those tribes in northwest Pakistan. Government gave them the authority to govern themselves on the basis that they clamp down on insurgents and terrorists. Has been a success in my opinion. The area is now only the biggest breeding and training ground for extremists in the world. Yes, Muslims seem to always uphold their end of the bargain! 

They intentionally knew that was going to happen as well. Either that or they are the biggest morons on earth.