Don't ask Presidential hopeful Barack H. Obama. He doesn't know. Or rather, he didn't know yesterday in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
[Translation: He sees dead people.]
But we shouldn't be surprised considering the number of gaffes for which this man is personally responsible. Remember now, he's been to 57 states, with one more to go.
Contrast the whole of Obama's Memorial Day speech with that of President Bush's speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and Obama comes off as a panderer of social victimology. His speech did not honor America's war dead. It honored his campaign and all the ills of government he intended to change, and all the taxes he intended to raise.
Truly shameful. He doesn't know how many states comprise the United States of America, and he doesn't know that Memorial Day is not synonymous with Veteran's Day.
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So far, then, it seems the worst we have on Obama is that many people didn't like 5 sentences his preacher said in a lifetime of sermons and that they don't like something his wife said in a speech and a few gaffes like this?
If that's the worst you can say about a man, then he's doing okay.
Oh yeah, and "don’t talk about my wife" even though she is giving public speeches attacking Republicans.
Hiding behind your wife is not a good trait for a President to have. I think our last Democrat President proved that.
I have never been a big McCain fan, but compared to Obama he looks like a genius.
Looks good on ya.
:-)
Michelle Malkin has:
Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
By Michelle Malkin, May 21, 2008
Obama’s uncle did what?
By see-dubya, May 27, 2008
From the Ace of Spades HQ:
"In one of his more egregious and easily demonstrated lies, made even more so by the day he decided to let it loose on, Obama has rewritten WWII history such that the allies liberated Auschwitz.
"...Obama also spoke about his uncle,
who was part of the American brigade that
helped to liberate Auschwitz..."
"Auschwitz of course is in Poland. It was liberated by the Red Army on Jan 27 1945. Poland, on most maps is usually placed to the east of Germany, although we may need to investigate the geography textbooks the Messiah used as a child...
"The Allies were wrapping up the battle of the bulge in late January of 1945 -- the Rhine crossings were still well into the future when Auschwitz was liberated. The first, the Remagen railway bridge which was discovered intact, was crossed on March 7 1945.
"Of course it goes without saying that the media has thus far failed to call the Messiah on this... obviously outrageous lie. Unless Obama's "uncle" was serving in the Red Army, its a pretty safe bet he was many hundreds of miles from Auschwitz on its day of liberation."
Obama would be a disaster for this country.
Perhaps we'll even begin to regain some of our glory and dignity that has been taken from us and we can stand again behind true US ideals (Truth, justice, liberty and all that wacky stuff).
Wrong. Memorial Day is a day for honoring American men and women who lost their lives in the defense of this nation.... not a day for political posturing which Obama took full advantage of yesterday.
Do you READ the news? As for recent examples of disasters for the country, I mean? :-)
Here Dan goes wrong again. Carter didn't get a second term.
It's insulting to continue to act as Jeremiah Wright's controversial comments were rare deviations from the core of his message. They were not: Obama's own description of the "Audacity of Hope" sermon disprove the claim, as does his deep connections to the radical "black liberation" theology of Cone, as does Trinity UCC's politically radical newsletter, as did Wright's own recent comments in Washington.
For heaven's sake, his congregation's reactions tell us all we need to know about just how rare it is to hear Wright engage in race-baiting slander.
But then, maybe Dan's view of Wright's theology is a wee bit skewed:
"I disagree with BLT/LT in many regards but it is more Christian and more biblical than 90% of mainstream US churches - in my estimation. Feel free to disagree. That is my opinion based on 45 years of life, church and prayerful Bible study."
I'd love to see him justify this claim in detail. It would probably involve a breathtaking amount of assuming the very best about Trinity's social programs and assuming the very worst about those of the 90 percent -- not to mention a gross distortion of what the Bible actually teaches.
Hmmm? Housing markets that are sucking wind now suck because of an EXCESS of business, EL. I dare say that most of the middle class that is suffering now is suffering because of excess consumerism, which is business. The economic slowdown in general -- where it actually is taking place -- is business doing what business does, contracting after irrational expansion. ... So, I don't know what you mean about a contradiction.
If you mean society as a whole "getting worse," you're the one in anguish over that, not me, because I don't see it that way at all.
If you mean, the USA is in worse shape for having a warmonger president, then I agree. Worse off for blowing one war, so far, and fighting an uncalled-for instead, we agree. If you mean that the GOP is is rags, and reasonable people who support the party system really have no other choice than to vote Dem, and appear to be doing so, well, that's your problem, because the Republican Party needs to crumble in order to find its soul again. In the meantime, I plan to be singin' "Happy Days are Here Again" come November.
You may very well be singing that song come Nov. Unfortunately, the joy will turn to sorrow as the efforts of a Dem prez and Congress will begin to manifest themselves. Indeed the GOP is in trouble, but it's a result of Dem-like activity on their part, not a rejection of conservative ideals. If that were true, there would not have been so many conservative Dems elected in the last mid-terms.
As for the stuff about being worse off with a warmonger prez, that's simply crap. It's crap that we have a warmonger prez and it's crap that we're worse off because of him. It's also crap that two wars have been blown, since progress is being made in both theatres.
"Happy Days"? You'll be singing "Cry Me a River" before long if either Dem wins in Nov.
No. The GOP has so abandoned the notion of limited government that MODERATE Democrats appear CONSERVATIVE and are being elected by people who see the GOP ofr what it's become: beholden to the fundamentalist Christian right, and to war as diplomacy.
I said one war is being blown because of the other ill-conceived one.
One man's crap is another man's fertilizer. What is it, do you think, that's making the Democratic Party grow? GOP fertilizer. And we thank ye for your support.
The conservative Dems to which I referred were socially conservative so it was easier for Republicans to hold their noses while voting. The idea was to hold the former reps responsible for acting like spend happy Dems, figuring if spending was to take place, we don't want it to be by our own. As to fundies, the Dems are acting more religious since they saw what a large block the evangelicals are. So who you fertilizin'?