Obama’s tough-minded Nobel Prize speech
It won’t take the hardcore rightwing very long to find things to hate about President Obama’s Nobel Prize “lecture,” otherwise known as the acceptance speech. In certain quarters on the right, it’s so important to disparage Obama that it’s perfectly acceptable to toss out conservative principles to do so. (Can’t wait to hear what Darth, ah, Dick Cheney has to say about it.)
Still, Obama gave a very good speech — tough-minded, mature, realistic but off-set by the appropriate idealism. He never stepped away from the reality of his troop build-up in Afghanistan, his responsibilities as commander-in-chief or even his prerogative to act unilaterally in defense of the U.S. should he deem it necessary to do so.
Obama said:
I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King Jr. said in this same ceremony years ago: “Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.” As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King’s life work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there’s nothing weak — nothing passive — nothing naïve — in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda’s leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
I raise this point, I begin with this point because in many countries there is a deep ambivalence about military action today, no matter what the cause. And at times, this is joined by a reflexive suspicion of America, the world’s sole military superpower.
But the world must remember that it was not simply international institutions — not just treaties and declarations — that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this: The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans. We have borne this burden not because we seek to impose our will. We have done so out of enlightened self-interest — because we seek a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if others’ children and grandchildren can live in freedom and prosperity.
So yes, the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace. And yet this truth must coexist with another — that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy. The soldier’s courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths — that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.
Even some -conservatives gave the speech good reviews. But they probably haven’t received their talking points yet from the Limbaugh/Palin/Beck axis of evil.
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dahreese
December 10th, 2009
11:23 am
If Ghandi had followed the rules of President Obama, President Obama would not have the example of Ghandi to follow.
As it is now with the U.S. presence and future build up in Afghanistan, the American people have once again been lied to – by their own president and this time a Democrat one not a Republican one.
In his recent speech President Obama gave a time line of three years (but in case you didn’t notice, he hedged on that) to do whatever he intends in Afghanistan and then for U.S. troops to leave. And immediately, the next day, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and his Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, stated that we are going to remain in Afghanistan for a long time.
Thus far in its first year of office, the Obama administration and the Democratic party have done nothing but remain in the shade of the former Republican control of Congress and George W. Bush.
And if there is a major difference between the Republicans and the Democratics, the Democratics have yet to show it.
Peadawg
December 10th, 2009
11:28 am
Cynthia, what exactly had Obama done in his 2 weeks in office to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
Can you even answer that question? Or will you dodge my question like you have so many times.
lmno
December 10th, 2009
11:36 am
You’re right, GOP will find something to complain about no matter what he does.
It was a good speech.
Peadawg, Cynthia is not a voter on the Nobel Committee.
Mr. Nobody
December 10th, 2009
11:45 am
CT, I believe that you are a conservative posing as a liberal columnist. Imno, you are correct about the complaining…the same thing the lib-tards did when Bush was in
Peadawg
December 10th, 2009
11:45 am
“You’re right, GOP will find something to complain about no matter what he does.”
The thing we’re complaining about it why the heck did he receive the award in the 1st place. They voted in February I believe…Obama hadn’t even been in office for a month. What did he accomplish to earn this award?
Ivan
December 10th, 2009
11:49 am
Wow. This time CT pulls out the name calling before anyone else has published their opinion. Third grade opeds at its finest here at AJC. Worthy enough of a pulitzer these days…oh…wait…
Tom Middleton
December 10th, 2009
11:51 am
To transition from a world of “wars and rumors of war” to a world at peace will undoubtedly take looking for and finding more and more non-violent means for resolving world conflict.
It would be nice if the United States could disarm and have the whole world follow suit, as some liberals seem to think, but as our president told us, that’s not very realistic.
A much more reasonable approach is building an alliance of like-minded, freedom-loving nations willing to band together to find the alternatives to war for sure, but to go to war whenever necessary as an absolute means of last resort.
Like he told us, sometimes war is unavoidable to save what is good about humanity, but to finally have a president who knows that it’s no bottom-line approach for bringing permanent peace says everything about why he got the Nobel.
And Cynthia, why is it the rest of the world always seems to understand these things before we do, then looks to us for leadership? At last we have a president who can give it, and may we have many, many more!
jconservative
December 10th, 2009
11:55 am
Actually I expect more backlash from the left of the Democratic Party than from the Republican Party.
And Peadawg, the award is not voted on by anyone but a group of rich Europeans. So your being upset at him getting the award is silly.
But having said that, it seems that you and Obama do agree. Here is what he said in his speech – “my accomplishments are slight.” So it seems you two are a pair, at least on this issue.
Think of it this way – a bunch of money is headed from Europe to the US, and that is OK. The money has been going the other way for 60 years.
Scott
December 10th, 2009
11:58 am
Funny….In 2007, Obama, while ramping up his campaign, he made comments that are completely different than what he just professed during his speech. I agree with him for once, but it just shows how everything he did and said during the election were nothing more than words to get votes…much like the rest of his policies and garbage he spewed.
From an article back then when discussing how to deal with Iran……”Obama then reminded the crowd that Clinton called him naive for saying he’d meet with the Iranian president, and defiantly said, “I’m not afraid of negotiating with anybody. I fear no man. Or woman.”
Now, he says that negotiating with Al Qaeda’s leaders won’t work.
” Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda’s leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.”
So..I must wonder…Even though Iran sponsor terrorist action, or Iraq under the direction of Sadaam Hussein also sponsored terrorism, why was he so willing to negotiate with them? Why is he still willing to go around and degrade the US to the rest of the world? How come he has NEVER been consistent with his message? How come the media continues to give him a free pass on all of the lies he told during the election and the lies he continues to tell? I thought he was going to bring HOPE AND CHANGE. Where is it? And don’t give me the BS excuse of taking awhile to undo the mess left by the previous admin. It’s been a year almost now. Leaders MAKE it happen. That is why they are elected. Obama, who never led anything until this year, has DONE nothing. He is not a LEADER…He is a puppet that is going to continue to do more harm than good in this country and this world.
dahreese
December 10th, 2009
12:24 pm
Peadawg, the award wasn’t so much to Obama as to the American people for voting out a Republican administration hell bent on war. As yet, it doesn’t appear that the American people deserve that award.
They are still allowing Congress and Corporate heads to send their sons and daughters to war while Congress and Corporate heads sit safely at home.
Are there terrorists? Of course there are. But the U. S. war on terror is a front for the war against strategically placed oil rich nations. It’s a front for the war against the poor and middle class. It’s an excuse to inact a police state here in the U.S. – nothing more, nothing less.
Peadawg
December 10th, 2009
12:28 pm
“Republican administration hell bent on war”
Like the current administration is doing now, huh? It looks like Obama administration isn’t much different than the previous one.
Common Sense
December 10th, 2009
12:28 pm
Ms. Tucker:
You can have total peace any day you want. All you have to do is move to a country where you have absolutely no rights.
“Peace is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading”.
Anonymous
Joel 3:10
“Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”
Call it like it is.
December 10th, 2009
12:38 pm
You know Cindy, I will meet you 1/2 way. I didnt think the speach was that bad, he pretty let it be known that American has always been there when the world needs us. I think the problem we have is the Nobel prize has become a joke, much like the Pultizer. When awards are given away with no justification or right to have the prize, they become worthless.
Obama would have earned a lot more points if he had turned it down. He has done nothing so far that would put him in the ranks of MLK. Maybe one day he really will earn it, kind of like you really writing something that deserves the Pulitzer.
StJ
December 10th, 2009
12:57 pm
“Limbaugh/Palin/Beck axis of evil”…?
Have Limbaugh, Palin, or Beck committed acts of genocide that I’m not aware of? Oh wait, no, they don’t agree with the Supreme Agenda, so it’s apparently ok to call them ‘evil’.
lmno
December 10th, 2009
12:57 pm
:The thing we’re complaining about it why the heck did he receive the award in the 1st place.”
Fine, then direct that complaint to the Nobel Committee rather than the President.
He did a fine job with the speech and represented America very respectably.
Scott
December 10th, 2009
1:11 pm
Somebody actually said Obama is a “Leader” HA! I guess that is true if you are talking about leading this country down the toilet.
Mr. Nobody
December 10th, 2009
1:13 pm
UGGGGHHHHHHH….only 35 months to go
Sunshine and Thunder
December 10th, 2009
1:15 pm
Cynthia:
If this had been Dubya you would have blabbered about how he was such a cowboy and how wrong he is to act unilaterally…, yada, yada.
BTW, it really is a simple minded act to toss Sarah Palin in with two radio entertainers and call them all “evil”.
Proof in the reading
December 10th, 2009
1:16 pm
I heard someone reading Cynthia Tucker’s column out loud at a Starbucks. The ambient temperature in the Starbucks rose 17 degrees during the time the column was being read.
Global warming is real, and its cause is Cynthia Tucker.
Jess
December 10th, 2009
1:42 pm
No one has ever accused Obama of making bad speechs. It’s the disconnect between what he says and what he does which bothers many of us.
MsLady
December 10th, 2009
1:53 pm
I just watched with pride our President deliver the Nobel Peace lecture (cnn.com/live). How is it that the rest of the world can see what we can not?
The committee leader spoke very clearly as to their rationale for selecting our Presidnet for this great honor. Those who keep asking the question “What has he done to deserve this?” should simply listen for yourself to the words of those who selected him. I believe some would rather remain blind in the fog of thier own ignorance.
I would hope that the dangerous venom and dysfunction spewed by the latest “axis of evil” would subside during this holiday season of celebration as we honor the true “Prince of Peace”. Cheney would do well to revisit what the book of Proverbs has to say about the dangers of one’s tongue.
As a Black female veteran (USAF Officer) and daughter of a US Army soldier who fought and servered this country for 28 years, I say God bless America and God bless my President and his lovely family.
Double Standard
December 10th, 2009
2:05 pm
It won’t take the hardcore LEFT very long to find things to LOVE about President Obama’s Nobel Prize “lecture,” otherwise known as the acceptance speech. In certain quarters on the LEFT, it’s so important to PRAISE Obama that it’s perfectly acceptable to toss out COMMON SENSE principles to do so. (Can’t wait to hear what CT has to say about it.)
dahreese
December 10th, 2009
2:06 pm
““Republican administration hell bent on war” Like the current administration is doing now, huh? It looks like Obama administration isn’t much different than the previous one.”
If you’d learn to read peadawg, that’s exactly what I said.
Mr. Nobody
December 10th, 2009
2:08 pm
MsLady, WTF does you being black have to do with any point you are attempting to make on your post? I kind of figured it out after reading the 1st line.
Kool Aid
December 10th, 2009
2:09 pm
Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”
Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue —- Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray —-
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
dahreese
December 10th, 2009
2:27 pm
Ms. Tucker often has good insight on her topics. However, today’s article is not one of her best.
Below is a statement that most Americans can be in agreement with.
“His statements today, accepting the Nobel “Peace” Prize are chilling. That speech, and the one he gave escalating the war in Afghanistan, were the words of a neocon – a Cheney or Bush – and a big time con man that Obama has revealed himself to be. That he set his AG to work busily asserting almost verbatim every legal position of the Bush Administration proves the point.”
Nor can we excuse the Obama administration for its continuous efforts to protect those responsible for torture Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Wong et. al., from being held accountable and being brought to court to be tried for their crimes.
It isn’t like the rest of the world doesn’t know; it’s Americans who mostly don’t know what’s happening in their own country and in their own government.
El Jefe
December 10th, 2009
3:05 pm
“Ronald Reagan’s efforts on arms control and embrace of perestroika not only improved relations with the Soviet Union, but empowered dissidents throughout Eastern Europe. ”
Reagan never embraced perestroika, he did not try to improve relations with the USSR.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 13, 1986
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, OCT. 12 — The summit meeting between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed tonight after the two leaders had tentatively agreed to sweeping reductions in nuclear arsenals but deadlocked on the crucial issue of restricting the U.S. space-based missile defense program widely known as “Star Wars.”
He told the Russians – NO!
This broke the spirit and backs of the Politburo and sowed the fatal weakness that was the end of the evil empire.
Turd Feguson
December 10th, 2009
3:08 pm
lmno
December 10th, 2009
11:36 am
HERE HERE…more speeches!! Thats what is needed here…another “teleprompter talk”.
Turd Feguson
December 10th, 2009
3:15 pm
MsLady
December 10th, 2009
1:53 pm
LOL…thats nice? More empty words and silly expectations from the Granddaddy of double talk…Prez Obobo.
Perhaps the kenyan has an opening as speechwriter for you also.
ck hall
December 10th, 2009
4:22 pm
Obama should have given this speech at West Point last week. Also I think you should investigate why Tiger Wood’s mistresses are not racially diverse!!!
Scott
December 10th, 2009
4:24 pm
No one has said the man can’t give a good speech. In fact, he’s very eloquent when delivering his message. I saw highlights of the speech this morning, and from what I saw I thought it was a good speech…and I don’t agree with most of his policies. So, do I trust him? NO. Do I think he is misguided by his appointees? YES Do I think he is the genius people like to claim him to be? NO, but he is a good politician. To recap: if I saw his speech and tried to forget about contradictory statements from the past, or tried to block out of mind the rest of the poor decisions he has made in 11 1/2 months, then I would say it was a great speech. There, you have it.
Robert
December 10th, 2009
5:04 pm
I don’t give much credence to the Norwegian nominating committee when looking at some of the winners, so Obama’s award didn’t really shock me at all. They gave the PEACE prize to a terrorist, Yasser Arafat. Yasser stole billions from his own people while his wife lived on one of the most exclusive boulevards in the world (the Champs Elysees in Paris.) As a leader of the PLO, Arafat recruited terrorists and led fedayeen raids into Israeli territory. Among the offshoots of Fatah (part of the PLO umbrella) was the infamous “Black September” who murdered the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He gave a speech at the UN in 1998 denouncing terrorism, and then a few years later won the Peace prize. More examples of his terrorist ways, but don’t want to take up too much space. Then we get the terrorist sympathizer, Jimmy Carter. He recently met with one of the world’s most dangerous terror groups, Hamas and asked Obama to remove them from the terror list. He’s also unabashedly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, when our closest mid eastern ally, Israel is under constant threat from them. He showed weakness during the Iranian hostage crises and was a factor in our economic collapse during his term. Remember those mortgage rates back in the 70’s? Oh, so many other examples. Al Gore won it because he made a movie full of documented lies. Now we have Obama winning it. They nominated him for it while he had only been in office 10 days, had not produced any results and certainly hasn’t won over our biggest enemies, but hey, the Norwegians liked his apology tour and the way he spoke to people about hope and change. Biased, European garbage is all it is.
Frank
December 10th, 2009
5:20 pm
Sounds to me that the Norwegians don’t understand the definition of peace. They must have terrorism mistaken for peace. I always thought it was the opposite of peace, but maybe the Euros are smarter than me. Didn’t Obama also pal around with a terrorist? That theme is common with this prize.
Scott
December 10th, 2009
5:27 pm
According to a CNN News poll, only 19% of Americans believed he deserved it. I guess people realize he has done nothing tangible to deserve it and that things here are actually worse than a year ago.
Scott
December 10th, 2009
5:59 pm
MsLady, I don’t know why you felt the need to include your race or the fact that you are an Air Force Officer. I guess I will include that I am a White Army officer. I can go back to the Revolutionary War with generations upon generations of men in my family that served in the Army. For some strange reason, you seem to think that is important. Based off of my experience and what I have seen, our CinC is weak. The troops do not care for him. Why? Because they see through the BS he exudes. He doesn’t care about the troops. He views them as “photo-ops” and nothing more….probably because they won’t give him many votes.
Now about why he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, below are some of the comments the Nobel Committee Leader made about him. While reading them, I am curious as to how they could appropriately make this assessment based off of under 2 weeks in office. The prize is for ACTUAL accomplishments….NOT for what they think he is going to do. Now, in 10 years, if he accomplished something as monumental at Reagan did, THEN, I would say he is deserving. Hell, Clinton has done more to deserve the prize than Obama. The prize has become a sham and is meaningless now.
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
“Obama has the audacity of hope and the tenacity to make these hopes come true”
President Obama is a political leader who understands that even the mightiest are vulnerable when they stand alone.”
“Challenged to explain the decision to award Mr Obama the most distinguished Nobel prize, even though the deadline for nominations fell 11 days after he took office, Thorbjørn Jagland, the committee chairman, said in October: “Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year. Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?” *** He must have done an awful lot in 11 days. I guess going around the world and telling everybody the US is a rotten place is definitely worthy of the Nobel Prize. I don’t even think he had made that trip yet.
Scott
December 10th, 2009
6:00 pm
Robert and Frank, I am surprised they didn’t give the prize to Bill Ayers for all of his monumental work he performed while working with the Weather Underground.
Joan
December 10th, 2009
8:20 pm
Give the guy credit. If Nobel Prizes came for speeches, he should win. That is what he does. He gives good speeches. Other than that, he is a total loser.
Chris Broe
December 10th, 2009
9:22 pm
The price of freedom is death. Today, Obama acknowledged that fact more eloquently than any president since Lincoln. (That soldiers gave their last full measure of devotion so that Obama-bashers can enjoy the freedom to idly whittle away at our flag, our institutions, and our executive branch, just to hear themselves talk, does not diminish our soldiers’ sacrifice.)
We have a great president. A wise commander-in-chief. A superb statesman. A perfect American.
Obama ‘12 – don’t go changing
Kevin
December 10th, 2009
9:48 pm
Cynthia, you may want to offer the conservatives an apology since Gingrich and Palin praised his speech.
Tom Middleton
December 10th, 2009
10:37 pm
Chris Broe@9:22pm: Obama ‘12 – don’t go changing
Yes, Obama in ‘12! I’m not sure what’s the problem with the far-righters on this blog, unless it’s that we now have a black president much smarter than GWB. But hell, everybody’s smarter than GWB, even the far-righters on this blog. So go figure, man, but Obama in ’12 anyway. At this point, they’re just being silly!
StuartW
December 10th, 2009
10:55 pm
Now THIS is funny. Can you imagine the grief Tucker would have bestowed on Bush or Reagan had they made a “tough-minded” speech to a European audience? They would have been called warmongers. But hey, Let Obama make a tough-minded speech, and Tucker just melts in his hand.
Sunshine and Thunder
December 10th, 2009
11:30 pm
Chris Broe wrote:
“We have a great president. A wise commander-in-chief. A superb statesman. A perfect American.”.
Obviously you voted for this man. Please explain what qualifications he had in his background that you felt made him presidential material. Please tell us what you know that NO ONE ELSE KNOWS. I have asked this question on each and every blog I have been on since he was elected and I have never gotten an answer. Surely there must be some liberal on this blog that can at the very least give me a complete BS answer.
Common Sense
December 11th, 2009
12:01 am
Obama reminds me of an African-American Barney Fife with Biden as Sheriff Taylor.
fitzgerald
December 11th, 2009
12:12 am
Listen up all of you folks. I predict that Mr. Obama will make a great speech when he states that troops will stay in Afghanistan for another 5 years past the 7/2011 time table set forth recently. Hopefully, Ms. Tucker will agree with me.
Tom Middleton
December 11th, 2009
2:16 am
Sunshine and Thunder@11:30pm: I have asked this question on each and every blog I have been on since he was elected and I have never gotten an answer.
Hey Sunshine, now what’s your problem? The conservatives, moderates, and liberals who voted for President Obama get it, and most of us are still with him. If you can’t figure it out for yourself, then maybe you’re not qualified to know.
How sad. There are some on the right who can’t think at all after eight years of supporting GWB – about all that’s left of the one-in-five Republican base these days. And you’re going to win what in 2010? LOL!
But if it gives you a headache, dude, don’t answer if you don’t want, even a complete BS one. Too many trips to the emergency room and they’ll cancel your health insurance!
Turd Feguson
December 11th, 2009
7:27 am
Mr All Flash and No Substance, Obama. Nothing but placating, double-talk and whining from the kenyan.
Joel Edge
December 11th, 2009
7:33 am
I’ve never said the man can’t give a good speech. I especially like this part.
“And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has generated. (Laughter.) In part, this is because I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the world stage. Compared to some of the giants of history who’ve received this prize — Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela — my accomplishments are slight.”
The man has humility. Of course there was the now standard W shot.
“That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America’s commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.”
I especially liked this part.
“And most dangerously, we see it in the way that religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan. These extremists are not the first to kill in the name of God; the cruelties of the Crusades are amply recorded. But they remind us that no Holy War can ever be a just war. For if you truly believe that you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint — no need to spare the pregnant mother, or the medic, or the Red Cross worker, or even a person of one’s own faith. Such a warped view of religion is not just incompatible with the concept of peace, but I believe it’s incompatible with the very purpose of faith — for the one rule that lies at the heart of every major religion is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.”
The speech was a very good one. I honestly hope he can pull it off. It hasn’t gotten a lot of play in the liberal media that I can see. I give you and Jay credit for commenting on it. It seems like Obama is starting to pull away from his liberal roots. Now if he can rein in Pelosi and Reid and get back to the job of the economy. Maybe he’ll start cutting taxes like Kennedy did.
One more thing. You and Jay might want to reread this part of this speech. It’s good advice
“As the world grows smaller, you might think it would be easier for human beings to recognize how similar we are; to understand that we’re all basically seeking the same things; that we all hope for the chance to live out our lives with some measure of happiness and fulfillment for ourselves and our families.”
Scott
December 11th, 2009
7:39 am
Tom, More garbage you are spewing. I think it is hilarious that you don’t realize that your party is going to be losing ALOT of seats in next year’s election. Look at the poll numbers. Even the polls that typically support Obama and the libs are showing that the American public is seeing through the BS. The independents and conservatives that voted for Obama and the Dems last year are not going to make that mistake again. They voted for change….but not to the extent the Dem party is taking this country. Hell, I wanted some changes. I wanted spending to be put in check, I wanted mild healthcare reform. What are we getting??? Even more spending, a massive healthcare overhaul that is being forced down our throats, and a loss of jobs that the current administration cannot stop because of their stupid policies. Americans are not going to continue to put up with it. Mark it down….The Dems are going to lose ALOT of seats next election, especially considering it is not a presidential election and we won’t have all of the morons that came out last year who mistook the election for an American Idol contest. The educated (and I don’t mean school educated. I am talking about people that have a clue on what is going on) voters will ensure this happens. Then, if the Dems don’t end up eating their own, Obama will get thrashed in 2012 because the country will be in further disarray due to his policies. Why do think the Dems are pushing this wild agenda right now? Because they know this will be their only opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, this opportunity will be just long enough to inflict some serious damage to this country.
Joel Edge
December 11th, 2009
8:52 am
I’ve also noticed his speech is confusing a lot of liberal commenters. Going to Oslo and making a statement that evil exists in the world. Wow!!! Basically making a war presidents speech while accepting the peace prize. How can this happen? There’s “hope” for this administration.
Tom Middleton
December 11th, 2009
3:48 pm
Same old Scott, Scott, but is all of that stuff really you thinking? It’s just more Republican talking points that you find on an official web site somewhere for those who don’t understand too much and never will.
And why don’t you learn to use paragraphs, sir? It’s really not that difficult, and it would make reading your junk a whole lot easier, especially for those of us who like seeing the daily talking points (for chuckles) without having to go to one of their web sites. (I’m deeply afraid that some of the one-out-of-five that’s your base might see me there and think I’m a right-winger, too.)
But here’s one to prove you actually have some gray-matter, Scott: Why did you Republicans say nothing at all while good hard-working Americans lost jobs and couldn’t work during GWB”S first three years in office (waiting for his economic turnaround), yet can’t stop chattering during PBO’s first 11 months and we’re already seeing things improve? (Please read the latest retail-sales stats.)
I mean, with Bush you all said nothing, but with Mr. Obama, you’ve got your tongues wagging and fingers pounding like you’ve got your little wee-wees plugged into a light socket.
Just a question, sir, but it deserves an answer. Please go ahead and see if you can find one on line, but take your time. I can wait.
Oh, and a year in politics is an eternity, Scott. I’m sure they’re not telling you this, but by next November, we should be running along pretty good. So why don’t you unplug yourself now and save a whole lot of money? Just thinking of you, sir!