Glenn rips Obama's speech
July 25, 2008 - 12:44 ET




'Glenn: All right. Gang, yesterday I had a guy say, Glenn, all my friends are saying why do you keep saying he's like the Messiah, that he is starting to be, you know, some sort of a Fascist leader, that that's what he's setting himself up for you. I'm going to give you a couple of things that this is the meat of the Obama speech that nobody in the media cares to focus on. They're immediately moving now to Paris and then to London. Won't it be great? Here we go. We just heard in his speech partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the only way, the one way. Okay? Cooperation and partnership among nations is not a choice. Okay. Cut 13, please. Listen carefully.


Obama: True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy, of peace and progress. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other, and most of all, trust each other.

Glenn: Okay. True partnership requires true progress with constant work and sustained sacrifice. Cut 14.

Obama: That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now (Crowd cheering.) Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as the one that binds us across the Atlantic.

Glenn: Stop just a second. Stop there. Stop there. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us or binds us across the Atlantic. Where do these new bridges go? Where do they go? He's talking about building new bridges. He's recognizing that we already have a bridge that is strong, that binds us together, America and Europe. Where do the new bridges go? One that would require us to listen to each other, learn from each other, and trust each other? Do they go to the Middle East? Do they go to Iran? Do they go to Russia? Do they go to China? Where are these bridges? Why is no one asking this question? Pick it up there, please.

Obama: Now is the time to join together through constant cooperation and strong institutions and shared sacrifice and a global commitment to progress to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Glenn: Okay. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Now is the time to join together through constant cooperation, through strong institutions, and shared sacrifice and a global commitment to progress to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Remember, one line, one line is about Islamic extremism, followed immediately by those driving cars in Boston, melting the polar ice caps. Join together through constant cooperation, strong institutions, and shared sacrifice and a global commitment to progress. What are those global institutions, those strong institutions? What does it mean, shared sacrifice? Cut 15, please.

Obama: This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. (Crowd cheering.) The two super powers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love.

Glenn: Stop. The two super powers that faced each other across this wall came too close to often to destroying all that we have built and all that we have loved. The two super powers. By the way, it was in the end the super power and the leader that was strong enough to stand up and say, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these walls. It was one leader that stood up in the face of adversity. Remember, the last time Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Berlin, he had to have 10,000 riot police because what he was saying was we will not back down from freedom. We will not coexist with evil. Some want to enslave and some want to free. We are on the side of freedom and we will not share the sacrifice with everyone. We are willing to sacrifice ourselves in defense of liberty and freedom. It was a man who was the most unpopular on the planet because he had the balls to stand up and say, you know what? They're building nuclear weapons. We're going to build a weapon that will shoot those weapons out of the sky and everyone said he's escalating. He's going to get us all killed, as Barack Obama says the two super powers that faced each other across the wall of the city, came too close too often to destroying all that we built and all that we love. One of those super powers saved everything that you love. Cut 16.

Obama: This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that opened markets have created and

Glenn: Stop, stop. This is not the script. He bungled this line. It's important that you understand the script. The script is this is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open marks have created, not the wealth that opened markets, but we must build on the wealth that open markets have created. Start it again, please.

Obama: This is the moment when we must build on wealth that opens markets have created and share its benefits more equitably.

Glenn: Stop. We just build on the wealth that open markets have created and share its benefits more equitably. You don't need ‑‑ if I'm sitting next to a very creative person, that's like me, I've always wanted to ‑‑ I've always wanted to be able to write music. I can't write music. I can meet with composers and I can say, you know, I want it to feel like this, I want it to do this, but I cannot write music. Should John Williams share his creativity with me? Should he ‑‑ he's got a wealth of strong writing ability. Should I force him to share that song writing ability more equitably? That's his gift. He chooses to use it. I have met people with gifts of music, with gifts of business, with gifts of comedic talent, acting talent, business talent that don't use it. It's their loss. Shared prosperity, sharing the benefits more equitably. It goes against everything that America stood for. What we share is an idea and we want that idea to spread and, that is, man is free, man is free to create, man is free to do as he sees fit. That is the only thing that we should be sharing more equitably. We should be sharing it to every corner of the globe. We should be sharing it with everyone who will listen and if you don't listen, that's fine. You don't want freedom, that's fine. If your people want freedom, we stand with your people. If your people decide they don't want freedom, they're happy living under totalitarianism state, they're happy handing their power back over to a totalitarian guilt of the like they do in Russia, that's fine, but not here and we'll continue to share that wealth of that idea that you can be successful, you can be happy, you can be rich, you can be poor, you can have all of the benefits because there is no end to wealth, there is no end to happiness. It is an infinite idea. It's a never ending idea. It is as vast as the oceans and far beyond. Why should I share the oceans more equitably? There's enough water in there for all of us. Stop diminishing the size. Stop telling me that the ocean is a pond. It's not. Get into the water. It's fine. You might need directions to the beach, but I ain't putting a fence around that beach just for you. I'm not telling people who have been on that beach and use that beach and get into that water and swim and boat and water‑ski and turn it into energy, I'm not telling those people, no, no, no you can't because someday these people may need that water brought to them because they can't go to the beach, they don't believe in the beach, they just want all the benefits of the beach. The only thing we share is an idea and a love of freedom.

Lately I've been listening to Glenn more than Rush.  Glenn had a couple lackluster shows this week, but he was dead on this morning.  

Rush harps on Obama's incompetence, lack of knowledge, lack of experience, & his naivete; all of which gives the impression of a bumbling incompetent President as the worst case scenario.  Many of the things that "Obama" has ostensibly done and said are actually rather sophisticated communist propaganda.  Having heard the man speak candidly, I don't for one second believe that the more sophisticated communist plans and principles originated in Barack's mind -- there are people behind him, pulling his strings like a marionette.  Obama may be an incompetent putz, but it is very important to listen to his proposals and to listen to what he says in his prepared speeches.  Then you recognize that a inept dolt as a President is not the worst case scenario if Obama is elected.  The worst case is that he actually is able to do those things he says he wants to do (regardless of whether he thought up those things himself or whether they've been fed to him).

Here are a few excerpts from his speech.
Eyas is right on target.  World ruler?

As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.

OBAMA SPEECH TRANSCRIPT:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)
"A World that Stands as One" July 24th, 2008 Berlin, Germany http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/2 ... 14771.html

As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

Um, ... no ... they're not.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

We in the United States (which is where I thought Obama was running for President) do not have any of these walls.  Nope, not a one.

The walls exist only in Obama's imagination.  Thus, it should be pretty easy to tear them down -- then he can claim credit for tearing down walls that don't exist while trying to convince everyone that the very solid, very real walls that he will put up aren't really there at all. (like the wall that will prevent anyone from becoming rich, succeeding, or seeing their dreams come to fruition; and, the wall that will keep anyone from feeling the repercussions of their actions, or their failure.)  

Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation,

Let's see, do they join with us, or do we join with them.  Who's to cooperate with whom?

strong institutions,

Like the U.N.?  Hah!

shared sacrifice,

Great.  This is what Obama offers.  The only thing Obama offers.  And it's not even sacrifice for anything (except maybe Obama's dreams of Czar-dom.)

and a global commitment to progress,

Ooooh!  Progress.  I like the sound of that!  I wonder where/what we'll be progressing toward?  Hmmm.  

to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Like Global Warming; but NOT bringing abundant energy to our nation or dealing with Islamic terror.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably

Equitably.  ooooh.  That sounds nice, too.  What a great sounding word - equitably.  It just rolls off the tongue, e-kwi-tah-blee; whee, that was fun.  

Oh, and building free markets AND sharig its benefits at the same time -- that should work, ...... right?

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

The whole planet is in DIRE PERIL.  If we don't do something now, the entire Earth will IMPLODE!! and we'll all be floating around in space with nothing to do.  FLOODS.  FAMINE. PLAGUE. DEATH. STARVATION. PAIN. SUFFERING. WOE. TSUNAMIS. EARTHQUAKES. FIRE. STORMS. HURRICANES. TORNADOES. FLAMING HAIL. BRIMSTONE FROM THE SKY!!! ARMAGEDDON!!  

I know my country has not perfected itself.

Um, ... o.k..  Is there some country somewhwere that has perfected itself -- I mean, besides Stalin's Russia.

At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.

Ah, ... is he talking about slavery? (abolished 1865) Or, Civil Rights? (1964)

Is he running on a platform of ending slavery and passing a Civil Rights Act?  Why is this relevant except to "prove" how evil and hypocritical America and Americans are?

We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Does Mr. Obama care to list these "mistakes"?  That is, besides the Iraq War, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Cold War, World War II, World War I, the Spanish-American War, the Civil War, the Mexican-American War, the War of 1812, and the Revolutionary War.

People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.

O, peoples of the earth; allow me to remake the world (and you) in my divine image!

He doesn't just want to remake Ameica now.  He wants to remake the world.  

Up to this point I have thought Obamessiah was just arrogant.  Now I suspect he suffers from meglomania.  

"...let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again."

The more he talks the scarier he sounds.  He may be grossly incompetent but if his handlers don't lose control of him they will be the ones in charge and running the country.

paleocon wrote:Up to this point I have thought Obamessiah was just arrogant.  Now I suspect he suffers from meglomania.  

I think you're dead on there.  Regardless of any handlers or whether (as I suspect) there are people behind the scenes who 'selected' him as the face of the "progressive" movement -- the man himself must be a megalomaniac in order to consider himself not only worthy of, but practically an inevitable choice as President.

No one, EVER, with so little political experience, absolutely zero qualifications, and with such a lack of general knowledge, has ever even attempted to run for President -- or Senator, for that matter.  

Any normal person, even the most accomplished and self-confident, is aware of his own limitations.  The normal person knows what he doesn't know.

While it does require a great degree of self-confidence and ambition for anyone to run for President (I mean, seriously, would you want that job?); to be utterly incompetent to hold any political office and to nevertheless project oneself as not only a serious candidate, but the superior candidate -- not only the inevitable choice, but a "special", "different", and "new" type of President, superior to all of those truly great men who have come before -- absolutely requires megalomania or some other equally serious form of mental disturbance.

Obama is dangerous on so many levels.

Still, I will not vote for McCain.

God manged to make the world in 6 days.  I wonder how many days it will take Obamessiah to remake it?  And when he is done will he take a beach holiday with Gordon Brown?