Obama's speech: all window dressing, very little substance.....

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All of the regime's toadies in America are praising Obama's speech to the skies. He had the arena of sapheads and swooning females in a rapturous glee that looked more like a megachurch crowd of born-again Christians than it did attendees at a political convention. His statements were repeatedly inaccurate, hypocritical, or misleading, but that did not matter. He put on a facade with feel-good platitudes, making white leftists elated. His speech was about feelings, not facts; about emotions, not logic. And in that regard, it was an excellent speech indeed. It manipulated the emotions of a misinformed, misguided public to great effect.

But let's examine some of Obama's assertions:

1) He complimented Hillary's judgment. One wonders how someone could do this with a straight face in light of the debacles in Libya, Syria, and Iraq that Hillary played a role in.

2) He said that Hillary never quits. This is meaningless locker room talk. We are discussing a presidential candidate, not a weight room coach. Moreover, Hillary has shown that she does not quit when she is wrong, which is a bad thing.

3) Obama said that "America's commitments do not come with a price tag" in reference to NATO. In practice this means that Obama is saying the U.S. will pay any amount under the sun to protect NATO countries. This has nothing to do with logic or economic rationale. It is a purely emotional statement meant to romanticize his conception of what "America" is. This is fantasy; not planning.

(We also have a $21 trillion deficit with Obama leaving office, but who cares about price tags?)

4) Obama said that Americans don't "look to be ruled." His definition of "ruled" must omit the role of bureaucrats in Washington, special interests, and unelected judges in America.

5) Obama commented on too much money being involved in politics, as Hillary gets millions from Wall Street.

6) Obama mentioned the constitution. But he has no problem issuing executive orders when he can't get his way. He also has no issue with waging war without consent of Congress.

7) Obama referred to Trump as a "homegrown demagogue." Obama himself is a homegrown demagogue.

8) Obama mentioned a heroic wounded soldier in Afghanistan. This soldier is wounded because Obama insists on fighting that useless war.


Again, all window dressing. No substance. That is Barack Obama's speeches ladies and gentlemen.
 
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I don't think you can blame Obama directly for many of the US interventions overseas to be honest. A lot of that stuff was put in motion before he entered the White House. In some cases he has reined in the neohawks, particularly regarding Syria. I'm always of the thought that the US president isn't just the sole governor of American foreign policy - there are a lot of forces within the US with their own agendas. With regard to foreign policy, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have a lot more to answer for than Obama.
 

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I don't think you can blame Obama directly for many of the US interventions overseas to be honest. A lot of that stuff was put in motion before he entered the White House. In some cases he has reined in the neohawks, particularly regarding Syria. I'm always of the thought that the US president isn't just the sole governor of American foreign policy - there are a lot of forces within the US with their own agendas. With regard to foreign policy, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have a lot more to answer for than Obama.


The point is that Obama defended Hillary's judgment, and she voted for the war in Iraq in addition to advocating the intervention in Libya, which Obama himself considers a mistake. With respect to Afghanistan, Obama has continued the war unnecessarily. Also, and perhaps most significantly, he has been the world leader over the past 8 years in defending Islam and stigmatizing any rational assessment of it. This has facilitated the increase in global terrorism.