Why is that President Obama must make it appear that the world began anew with his inauguration not quite ten months ago? In his videotaped speech to the audience assembled to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, he mentioned his own accomplishments more than those of his predecessor most responsible for the collapse of that barrier — and of the Communist system it protected.
In his speech to the United Nations, he didn’t reference the accomplishments of any of his predecessors, even his partisan predecessors, quoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt only to note that Democrat’s vision for such an organization. Indeed, he used that speech to highlight his own record: “For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.”
His inauguration redeemed America and, in his view at least, helped him make it “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal“. At his speech yesterday in Tokyo, he sounded a familiar note (for him) about his own greatness, “Already, the United States has taken more steps to combat climate change in 10 months than we have in our recent history . . . .”
Why can’t this guy just point out the specifics of what he has done without putting his record into a world-historical context? Let others be the judge of how much more (or less) he has done than his predecessors.
And let us wonder why he is so reluctant to honor their accomplishments.
When you’ve done nothing previously, and are doing nothing but damage now, you need The Big Lie to hide your lack of character and accomplishment.
There is the world BO and AO: Before Obama and After Obama. As the Messiah, there is the carnage and wreckage of BO and New Beginning of AO. The Obamessiah has use of the BO years only as a reference point to remind the world of the long period of darkness. Sure stuff happened that was momentarily good, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, but that good was all but squandered by the inept hands at the helm in the BO years. BUT WAIT!! It’s Mighty Obamamousemessiah who has arrived to save the planet and set history on the correct course and to start the AO reckoning of time.
Small are the minds of people who do not know when they are blessed to be in the shadow of greatness.
I assume these are rhetorical questions….
From the Greek, the word is “Evrika”… in English we exclaim “Eureka”….. in my kitchen I opt for, “son of a bitch”. I find it laughable when I hear people saying, “this is not what I voted for.” Candidate Obama said, “We are 5 days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America. What more did he have to say to let us know he’s a megalomaniac filled with contemptuous thoughts for the past which label it irrelevant?
Sometimes the electorate needs a good bitch slap to jump start them in to action. I’m confident the American people are feeling that now, but I doubt there’s any hope for the les Miserables-like throng that helped elect him. They are hopelessly lost in the mystique of Obamaism.
Why can’t this guy just point out the specifics of what he has done without putting his record into a world-historical context?
Because it’s ALWAYS about him and only him. Doubt it? Just count how many times he uses the words “me” “my”, and “I” in any speech. He rarely uses the words “our administration”. And let’s not forget the famous “I won”…not “we won”. He’s a dangerous narcisscist who will get us into a great deal of trouble before it’s all done.
‘Let others be the judge of how much more (or less) he has done than his predecessors.”
You obviously are in complete denial as to the damage wrought to the American reputation by his predecessor. This is a very real phenomenon – and a central issue that must be dealt with as we engage other countries. It is very much in the interests of America that foreign leaders and societies be told, directly and upfront, that we have a new approach, a new attitude – and that therefore they should reconsider their negative views of us. It really is a new beginning in our relaitonships.
Because you are in such denial, you flounder around looking for other reasons why the contrast need be made between this administration and the previous one. Of course, coming up with an explanation that is based on an insult of Obama – that it is all his ego or some such nonsense – is par for the course around here. And of course it gives your peanut gallery another opportunity to riff on your insults and throw in some of their own. Why do you people waste your lives so?
Frankly, Tano, if America’s “reputation” was “damaged” as you describe it by putting thugs and two-bit dictators on notice, then it was all so much the better, in my book.
I always find it amusing when people make the assertion that the last administration “damaged” America’s reputation abroad. Yes, the socialists in Norway who vote for the Nobel Peace Prize weren’t happy, but even those European countries (namely France and Germany) that split with the last administration over the Iraq war came around to much more pro-American positions before the Bush administration ended. The current leaders of those two countries currently appear to have a rather dim view of our new president. The leaders of eastern Europe mostly agreed with and respected Bush, and they now feel like they’ve been betrayed by Obama. The leaders of many African countries greatly appreciated the work the Bush administration did for AIDS relief in Africa. I could go on.
So the Nobel committee didn’t like Bush and neither did Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales or the Castro brothers. Big deal.
#6: “This is a very real phenomenon – and a central issue that must be dealt with as we engage other countries. It is very much in the interests of America that foreign leaders and societies be told, directly and upfront, that we have a new approach, a new attitude – and that therefore they should reconsider their negative views of us. It really is a new beginning in our relaitonships.”
Tano, we are well aware of your ability to repeat Obama talking points about America’s horrible standing “in the world community” because of the Bush Presidency and that only Obama can fix it. Well done. Good boy. But the reason nobody takes you (or any other leftist) seriously on this issue is because you’re incapable of putting down the DNC-approved script and answering a simple question: WHY? Why does the US have to tell foreign leaders that we have “a new attitude” and that they “should reconsider their negative views of us”? WHY? To what end? What tangible US interest would be served by other nations having an improved opinion of us? Foreign leaders like Chavez and Quadaffi were unrestrained in their praise of Obama before the UN last month, even comparing him to JFK. So? Has Iran shown anything but contempt for discussions about halting its nuclear program? Russia has already made it clear that they won’t sign on to supporting new sanctions against Iran. North Korea is still going full speed ahead on developing nukes. Chavez has now thrown his hat into nuke development ring, openly forging a partnership with Iran to pursue Venezuela’s nuclear ambitions. So, again, Tano, WHY? Why must these other foreign nations “like us” if it does nothing to improve our national security? Can you answer this question? Or, do you need to talk to Dan again about how you’re being bullied?
Oh, dear, narcissistic little Tano.
Just because you and your Barack Obama hate George Bush and the United States doesn’t mean that everyone else does. But since you and your Barack Obama are not capable of thinking or holding a perspective other than your own, you assume they think exactly the same way as you do. Worse, you assume that every hatred, every smear, every attack against the United States is justified — hence your party’s insistence that the people killed in the WTC were “little Eichmanns”, your screaming “God damn America” at your community events, and your support of 9/11 Trutherism.
Someone needs to quit stealing their material from All About Eve…
Sean,
You seem to be under some misapprehension about my comments to Dan. I certainly was not complaining about anyone calling me names – lord knows thats a constant around here. I was referring to the blatantly racist and totally lunatic rantings that were found in that thread – most directed toward Obama, but it doesnt even matter who. It struck me that the tone here has, if this is possible, gotten even worse in the last few weeks. The comment section here makes the Kos comment section look like the Oxford Debating society.
Look for instance at cooment #9 in this thread – just totally lunatic ranting with no relationship to reality. What is up with that?
You are a prime guilty party in all this yourself. Really…what is this complusion? What on earth do you think ANYONE thinks of you guys when you preface every comment with childish insults – in fact there seems to be a competition to see who can be the most ridiculous, the most over the top.
Why are you people unable to carry on nomal human conversations?
I suppose one should give him at least a “C” for the marvelously self-important attempt to claim the moral high ground by feigning exasperation at us troglodytes. Problem is, he isn’t very good at it, is he?
Hard to smell like a rose when you’ve just spent 8 years wallowing in whatever sewage your party leaders told you to dive into.
Notice how Tano, instead of answering the question Sean A posed, again starts whining and screaming about how he’s being bullied and how all of us are racists for daring to criticize Obama.
No facts, no honesty. Just spin and diversion. Just like how Barack Obama broke privacy laws by ordering his campaign workers to rummage through files on Joe the Plumber and Jack Ryan before him so that they could smear and attack people. Just like Barack Obama spread the lie that Sarah Palin had faked her pregnancy. Just like Barack Obama’s media used faked pictures of Sarah Palin yesterday to smear her.
Why do you think all of those are normal, Tano? Why do you support and endorse that behavior? Do you support your Barack Obama’s belief that crimes and using faked photos are perfectly acceptable to smear your political opponents? Do you share your Barack Obama’s racist views?
In Japan, Dear Reader declared himself “America’s First Pacific President,” which would come as a surprised to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both of whom came from California, which last I checked, was a hell of a lot closer to the Pacific than Chicago.
Well, I was going to ask how you “repair” America’s image when you run around wailing about how much America fcking sucks, hand out crappy gifts, hang out with dictators, bow to Saudis and engage in trade wars. Then I read the comment above and realized you’re just nucking futz and completely detatched from reality.
How can you stand the smell of your lower intestine?
“Does Obama Think the World Began Anew on his Inauguration Day?”
No, but it was all just a preparation for his arrival.
(In case gillie is reading this, Obama’s predecessor was G.W. Bush.)
Yep, Tano, that would be me. I AM totally ignorant of the damage wrought to the American reputation by G. W. Bush. Kindly, inform me of such.
Just a few cases will suffice. No, just ONE case will suffice. And, if at all possible, be specific. I am a bit dense, you know.
I’m sure Tano feels that President Bush’s support of democracy had damanged our standing.
If only President Bush had discarded human rights, supported fradulent elections of terrorist regimes, abandoned democratic allies and opposed the legal government of a soverign nation, then we’d have been so respected.
There Tano, I’ve listed the accomplishments of the Obama administration, care to take heliotrope up on his challenge? Or Dan’s?
I know it’s going to be hard for you since you can’t just repeat DNC talking points, but please, try.
You mean like cutting off Saddam’s kickbacks to Putin, Kofi Anan etc.? Sounds like a good idea to me. Our “allies” were enriching themselves while Iraqis starved to death. That’s just the sort of thing liberals pretend to give a damn about. Guess it only matters if those starving are white.
Well, how does one carry on “normal human conversations” with someone who’s so moonbatshitcrazy he cheerleads for putting America and the CIA on trial? Not to mention so moonbatshitcrazy he calls anyone who doesn’t agree a traitor, pisses himself and runs crying to Dan when people get tired of the bullshit?
#11: Tano, three things:
1. Your new name is now TALKING POINTS TANO because you have proven once again that you are incapable of doing anything more than popping up here and typing Rahm Emanuel’s daily propaganda points. Then, when you are routinely and unceremoniously called on the carpet for attempting to pass off categorically false bullsh*t as truth and asked legitimate questions concerning the very issue that you sought to sweep under the rug with your lies, you return for the sole purpose of posting comments that simultaneously claim victimization but also condescend toward the people who purportedly victimized you. TPT, you are not looking for “normal human conversation” because you can’t “converse.” You parrot. You can state Obama’s position on any given issue, but you can’t discuss it, “converse” about it, answer questions about it, or defend it. Consequently, the commenters that ridicule you with “childish insults” AND pose legitimate questions based on facts contribute more to the debate than you do (or can). You contribute nothing to the debate because we already know Obama’s idiotic positions.
2. “I was referring to the blatantly racist and totally lunatic rantings that were found in that thread – most directed toward Obama, but it doesnt even matter who.”
Talking Points Tano, we covered this weeks ago. You tried to claim that you were a crusader against bigotry and discrimination, but it turned out that the high horse you barely rode in on side-saddle had to be sent to the glue factory because you’re actually an admitted racist who fully supports discrimination provided that you get to choose the identity of the victims. So, stop boring the fu*k out of all of us by throwing around feigned outrage about “blatant racism” on this blog. YOU are the racist, TPT. You can sugarcoat it all you want if it helps you get to sleep at night, but we know the truth and you’re not going to get away with it for one second on this blog.
3. Since you’re Talking Points Tano, I certainly have given up on ever getting a response to my questions in #8, but it occurred to me that there is another situation that makes my questions legitimate ones.
As you know, Obama is over in Asia this week, rebuilding all of those smoldering bridges that George W. Bush burned through during his Presidency. I’m sure that just by calling himself the “Pacific President” China’s President is already head over heels in love with Obama AND our recently misguided, prodigal nation. So, since our country and China are like total BFFs, naturally we can count on their support and participation in the global cap and trade program Obama is trying to engineer, right? Well, unfortunately, it turns out they don’t like us enough to destroy their own economy as they recently pledged defiant opposition to participating in any such program that might hurt their economy (duh).
So, once again, I ask…why is it sooooooooo important that these people like us if every time we seek their cooperation in ANYTHING they tell us to go fu*k ourselves?
Um, Tano, why must you always bring this back to Bush? Why are you in such denial about your obsession with the Republican?
The point of the post is Obama’s constant comparisons and constant attempts to elevate himself? As I asked in the post and Mary quoted above, Why can’t this guy just point out the specifics of what he has done without putting his record into a world-historical context?
Address that question first before attacking Bush and us.
Re: “the first Pacific President”
Ronald Reagan was from California, which, last time I checked, is on the Pacific Ocean. Indeed, the United States itself is part of the Pacific Rim.
Someone should inform the *sshat in the White House.
Re Tano:
Bush did more to improve relations with Asian nations than probably any president since Nixon. (Assuming of course that the Clinton’s illegal foreign campaign contributions from China dont count.)
Tano,
I will be on the road until late this evening. Please do try to work on your essay and post it. I would like to read it before I go to sleep.
Tano…you are like the salsa on good Mexican food…it doesnt fill you up but it makes the food taste better. Keep writing your “indignant diatribes” so that they can be answered intelligently by the other bloggers. Back to the point. Historically, a number of the nations that you believe dont like us (boo hoo) had their national ass saved by our armed forces. France, China, etc. had their nations pulled out of harm’s way by America. Keep on chanting “Hope & Change” and maybe the Messiah will answer your deepests emotional needs.
Does anyone know why our young inexperienced naive President is over in Asia while we have record unemployment? And just a week after an islamofacist terror attack in our homeland? And banks keep failing?
And we don’t have free health care yet?
Tano,
I made record time driving up to Virginia from Florida and I am sitting here sipping a Manhattan on the rocks waiting for your tour de force essay. Please don’t stand me up.
Scroll down to see which esteemed world leader is the moron and boob….hehe
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/11/president-obama-vs-rest-of-world.html
As a straight male, I must ask you Gene,
Please stop insulting the beauty of the female breast by comparing it to the current President.