- Scott Miller
Watching… or better yet, trying to watch… the speeches of the 3 libs (yes I said 3 libs) the other night was painful, honestly.
The first lib to go was John McCain, and his venue was quite bizarre. In what looked like a high school gym partially filled with the cast of extras from the movie King Pin, John McCain fumbled through a speech which seemed to go on forever, and as God is my witness, I have no idea what he said. He was so uncomfortable to watch trying to read that teleprompter, that the next campaign staffer that puts him in front another one of those should be summarily executed. That is not his venue boys…
Then Hillary… ahhh who cares what the hell she said, she lost.
Then Barack Herbert-Hover Obama had his turn, and somehow he got to the left of Hugo Chavez in his speech. I’ll break down some of the more… let’s say… incredible portions of the speech.
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: Final Primary Night
It’s not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college – policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain of debt.
Failed to create well-paying jobs? Maybe BO is still smokin’ some of that whacky weed he was so fond of in his younger days… here’s the real Bush Job and wage record (thanks to the tax cuts he passed):
- Since President Bush’s tax cuts in June of 2003, the economy has added 7.6 million jobs (as of Feb 2007). It is over 9 million jobs as of today.
- Average hourly wages for production workers (factory workers) has increased 30% since President Bush has taken office, and this takes into account the Clinton recession Bush inherited and the economic shock of the 9-11 attacks.
I do agree with BO on the “mountain of debt” criticism, as Bush and the Republicans have been a disaster on federal spending.
And it’s not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians – a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq, while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn’t making the American people any safer.
What kind of moron says that the war in Iraq has not made us any safer (aside from all you lib morons)? We are not any safer without Sadam Heusein (no, no relation to BO, I don’t think) in the world? No safer now that many thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq won’t be down for breakfast? Plus, I’d match the accomplishments of the Iraq parliament to the US congress any day of the week.
Change is a foreign policy that doesn’t begin and end with a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged. I won’t stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what’s not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years – especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored.
You mean the war that shouldn’t have been authorized by many of your lib Democrat buddies in the Senate and the House?
“Nearly every other threat to America is being ignored”?… at what point does this guy get called on this crap that he just makes up?! On one hand the lib mantra is that we have an overpowering, bullying, go it alone, go everywhere military, and then on the other hand BO seems to be complaining that we are not at war in enough places? Either way, the comment and claim is asinine, and can not withstand even the slightest scrutiny. We have forces fighting, or operatives providing governments support to fight, the terrorists all across the globe for cryin’ out loud!
We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in – but start leaving we must. It’s time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future.
Ahhh… this is BO speak for “I’m not really going to pull troops out of Iraq immediately”. Now that he has the nomination, he’ll start to back peddle on the pledge to pull all troops out of Iraq if he takes office… mark my words.
Change is realizing that meeting today’s threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy – tough, direct diplomacy where the President of the United States isn’t afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for. We must once again have the courage and conviction to lead the free world. That is the legacy of Roosevelt, and Truman, and Kennedy. That’s what the American people want. That’s what change is.
The legacy of Roosevelt… don’t you just love how the clueless lib cozies-up to Roosevelt. A man who ordered the internment of hundreds of thousand of Japanese Americans during WWII? The legacy of Kennedy… whose military endeavors were the debacle at the Bay of Pigs, and Vietnam. The legacy of Truman, the man that dropped nuclear bombs on civilians in Japan… somehow doesn’t comport with modern-day liberalism, does it?
Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it. It’s understanding that the struggles facing working families can’t be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a tax break, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation. It’s understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was President.
Uhhhh.. BO… by ending the Bush tax cuts, as you have promised, you will be instituting the largest tax increase in American history on the middle class… an average of $1,900 each year for a family of four.
“Transforming how we use energy”… read we’re going to tell you the kind of car you will drive, the size of home you can live in, and the temperature of that home.
By the way, what is “shared prosperity”? Sounds and awful lot like Hugo Chavez, or Fidel Castro to me… read we’re gonna’ decide how much of your money you can keep, and how much we are going to steal from you to give to your neighbor.
Maybe if he went to Pennsylvania and met the man who lost his job but can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he’d understand that we can’t afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators. That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future – an energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. That’s the change we need.
Is that the same Pennsylvania with all those “bitter voters clinging to their guns and religion with antipathy towards those who don’t look like them”… that Pennsylvania?
Now BO, you have no business talking about our dependence in foreign oil. It is your party, and a few RINOs, that have stood in the way of tapping our own supply of oil, coal, and nuclear energy for decades. This energy crisis is US government made, and the blame rests largely at the feet of the Democrat party.
Also, how are you going to “make” a private company do anything with their profits? Private companies are owned by private shareholders, not government. Government has zero business telling private companies how they can spend their profits. Hugo rearing his ugly head again…
And maybe if he spent some time in the schools of South Carolina or St. Paul or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, he’d understand that we can’t afford to leave the money behind for No Child Left Behind; that we owe it to our children to invest in early childhood education; to recruit an army of new teachers and give them better pay and more support; to finally decide that in this global economy, the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but the birthright of every American. That’s the change we need in America. That’s why I’m running for President.
So, now not only will BO give you healthcare, cheap oil, and a high paying job… he’s also going to give you free college education too! Wow whadda’ guy! Ahhh forget how he’s going to pay for all this… details, details. Plus, I guess we’ll still have plenty of money left over to throw even more down the rat-hole that represents many of our public schools…
OK, that’s about enough… I can’t take anymore Marxism in one speech. The Democrat party just nominated a guy that is to the left of McGovern, Carter, Kennedy, and Hugo Chavez… and the Republican party nominated the only guy who could screw up getting elected against this Marxist. Nice going Republicans!
