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The Irony of Barack Obama’s Speech

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 21st, 2009 at 11:56 AM  | 

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Let’s ignore, for a moment, that he introduced his Defense Secretary as William Gates.

Barack Obama has been out for over a year claiming George Bush was destroying the constitution.

Today, Barack Obama stood in front of the real, physical constitution in the National Archives with bright lights shining on the constitution.

Anyone who has been there knows that they won’t even let you have a camera flash go off near the document because it’ll cause irreparable damage to the document.

So while Bush is accused of figuratively destroying the constitution, Barack Obama actually does destroy it.

UPDATE: Well, there goes my fun. Jake Tapper says it was a copy of the Constitution back there. The National Archives didn’t bring the real one up from the vault. Thanks Jake. Of course, there’s as much fun to be had by the idea of Obama standing in front of a fake constitution.

Consider this an open thread.

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  • http://web.mac.com/mayo99/iWeb/Site/VladBlog/VladBlog.html Vladimir
  • Aaron Gardner
  • psyop_hic

    and quite honestly can not tolerate hearing the man’s voice. I’ll wait for the transcript to be published.

    On the other hand, I did listen to Cheney’s speech. He was masterful in defending the policies and b”*&^ slapped the new adminstration’s dreadful policy decisions. Lets petition to draft him to be our 2012 nominee.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Paul_In_Houston

    is more important than a 200+ year old scrap of paper. :(

    -

  • bk

    the people like the ACLU who helped get him elected are causing his administration a lot of work. Well of course he said it was Bush’s fault, but Obama keeps stretching out the Bush policies that he has criticized for two years and the ACLU and their comrades aren’t letting up.

  • Right_Again

    and other than giving lip service to change he has pretty much followed the same Bush policies.

    Campaign sloganeering is much different than governing. He is still in full campaign mode at his press conferences, but it is telling that most of his actions match those of President Bush when it comes to national security issues.

    He’s finding it hard to continue pandering to the nuts in the ACLU, Code Pink and MoveOn.org while still trying to take national security seriously.

  • azaeroprof

    Now the Constitution can have a shadow of THE NEW MESSIAH that will honor Him for all time!

    Really, I’m with psyop_hic above…no matter how important the speech is, I just can’t stand the man’s voice and REFUSE to watch!! Sorry I missed Cheney’s speech, though.

    BTW, Drudge has a link to this CNN story about Dick Cheney’s favorable ratings being on the rise!

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Return to Revolution

    http://beta.sling.com/video/show/26362/73/Sacred-Parchment

  • Swamp_Yankee

    …. Their poll numbers go up. Good for you Crocodile:

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/21/cnn-poll-favorable-opinion-of-dick-cheney-on-the-rise/

  • bobojake

    obama cheney has creditability in keeping the United State safe, obama you don’t. your talk is just like catching a cup full of cow manure , warm but one stinking mess.
    We will stand firm in our belief to.
    HI HO OBAMA HAS TO GO
    HI HO OBAMA HAS TO GO

  • duke

    “…quite honestly can not tolerate hearing the man?s voice.”

    Does anyone else get driven to distraction by that annoying little whistle everytime the messiah says a word that ends in the letter “s?”

  • johnt

    I don’t think this qualifies as leadership. It doesn’t even qualify as manliness, perhaps a quaint term. Nor adulthood.

  • Justin_Case

    that only three terrorists were actually brought to trial since being jailed in Gitmo.

    What I don’t hear in response is that Military Tribunals, in their past form, were ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. Then legislation had to be drawn up and voted on that was suitable for the SCOTUS.

    All of this takes time and, in my opinion, is the reason why more terrorists have not been tried.

  • Joe_Cor

    that Bush muzzled him for 8 years. It pains me to think how different the world might look today if Bush had just let him talk.

  • Finrod

    Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee are trying to push through a monster 946-page ‘climate’ bill before Memorial Day. Since Republicans have the right to insist that this entire monstrosity be read out loud, Democrats on the committee have hired a speed-reader that can read the whole thing in about 9 hours.

    This is an opportunity for us. Republicans should force the Dems’ hand and make the speed-reader read the whole bloody bill, and someone should record it. That audio would make a *perfect* background track for countless campaign commercials for Republicans everywhere.

  • izoneguy

    If dems push throught Crap & Tax, then they shall reap what they sow.

    Americans – Left, right, up or down will finally wake up when they get electric bills that are 2-3 times as high.

    It will be shock & awe……

    The democrats will have no excuse and no where to run if they cram this crap & tax down out throats.

  • jenest2001

    I can compare it to the sound a snake makes. Makes my skin crawl.

  • red4ever

    The grassroots have been saying that for years. Don’t let the other side label us or control the debate. We speak out with the points we want to make. Not responding to their points, but making our own. People will listen.

  • cookcountyconservative

    Why oh why did they allow themselves to be defined by the left for so long?

    Cheney 2012

  • blooch

    He’s half a boy and half a man”

    Apologies to Nick Lowe…and nobody come after me with the racial stuff about “boy”, please.

  • blooch

    Gates, sometime later:

    The President did not missspeak. Many of my friends and close associates know me, off the record, as Billy Bob Gates, so I can see where some of you might have been confused. Next question?”

  • Joe_Cor

    but if President Bush was the Great Protector many think he is, why didn’t he allow Cheney to speak out when there was still a chance to elect someone who would give Bush’s policies a life beyond his last day in office? Wasn’t allowing Cheney to speak out an essential part of protecting the country? Wasn’t Bush himself speaking out an essential part of protecting the country?

  • fearitself

    [Assuming he didn't block out April's numbers in his mind as one of the Bad Things.]

    Raised CoH Debts
    RNC 5.76 24.38 0.00
    DNC 4.52 9.09 5.42
    NRSC 2.93 2.65 0.00
    DSCC 3.13 2.63 4.58
    NRCC 2.23 3.69 5.00
    DCCC 3.05 4.03 7.33
    Raised CoH Debts
    GOP 10.92 30.72 5
    Dem 10.70 15.75 17.33
  • E Pluribus Unum

    The unfathomable depth of stupidity does though.

  • bs

    because you won’t be around long enough for another.

  • Lammo

    not a single Republican votes for it. If there is any bleed over then “we” have to own part of it and cannot as effectively paint the Demoncrats about the head and neck with the broken bottle that this thing represents.

  • penguin2

    the Constitution, figuratively or literally. Unfortunately.

  • izoneguy

    should wrap their tiny little brains around crap & tax….
    This is not going to be popular (duh) especially to the ones already struggling to pay the electric and gas bills. What is everyone supposed to do? Cut out 2 meals a week so they can pay the democrats for something that does not make any sense?

  • molybdanthan

    Hey, FearfulofSelf

    Have you ever been subject to ?unreasonable search and seizure?? Do you know anyone who has? If so, lawyers at the ACLU are standing by to serve you.

    Notice how President Obama made a point of never wearing the US flag lapel pin, or put hand to heart, until he took power. His anti-Americanism, entirely symbolic, distinguished himself from the rest of the miserable candidates the Left fielded. That endeared him to the fringe. But it was as fake as Ted Danson’s hair.

    Let’s talk about disenfranchisement. Name one. I know all Libs voted at least once, some twice. How else could they now have a filibuster-proof majority. We were robbed, and you dare to call us criminals.

    The Liberal trashcan, source of your racial/radical garbage, has been emptied. It’s contents are headed for the dump, where they belong. Go look for them there.

    Do you have children? I pity them for having you as a role model, but I feel obliged to point out how they, like you, might belong to China.

    And finally, yeah, I’m proud.

  • molybdanthan

    Dems don’t have to pay taxes. Just ask Tom Daschel, or 99% of liberal voters. So the burden’s on us, where it’s always been.

    Has the informative essay ’10 men go to dinner’ made the rounds here? Well, it’s here again.
    http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/howtaxes.asp

  • izoneguy

    Cap & Trade (which I refer to as Crap & Tax) is about the government charging power companies and business’s that emit C02.

    They buy “carbon credits” which is really a “Carbon Tax” which companies will pass on to the consumer. EVERYONE who uses electricity will be affected. The poorest of the poor in this country still use power. Even their bills will rise.

    Any Tax Cut Obama promised the 95% of Americans will be wiped out with Cap & Trade. Everything will cost more. I am not poor (yet)
    but $300 a month will be a burden I don’t want to bare if I see not tangible result. Even if every power plant in the world stopped and even if everyone in the world stopped driving we might reduce the temperture of the planet by 1 degree.

    You cannot stop nature. If the seas rise you move. Al Gore is one of the biggest opportunists of all times. The Global Warming Hoax is put out their so he and his buddies can get rich. (Richer)

  • jayhawker1

    Have you ever taken note of how many times Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth? His speech today was full of contradictory comments. And, I like how he gave a speech in front of a replica of the Constitution in a hall where his voice could boom and echo like that of some kind of god. I’m not impressed at all. I’m one of many Americans who can see through his nonsense.

  • vettepilot

    It’s the fact that he seems likes he’s constantly trying to speak in verse. It’s almost…

    Like he’s…

    trying to convince us…

    of how smart…

    he is.

    Oh how the drive-by media would fall out of their chairs swooning if he were using iambic pentameter (more so than they already do, anyway)……

  • crazymountain

    …….that our phony, narcissistic, sociopathic, unabashed lying president, who will not answer any questions concerning his citizenship, whether it be foreign-born or dual citizenship, both of which violate the beautiful Constitution that founded our great country (albeit on the second try!) while standing in front of the Constitution, says that the policy which kept us safe from Muslim attack for the last seven years besmirches our values, values which he does NOT adhere to, and abets terrorism (a term which has been outlawed in favor of “human caused events”) stands in front of a copy of the real constitution, one placed there by an obviously patriotic caretaker of the real document, so that the lights which will show the “president” actually cares about the document which he has vowed to “protect and defend, will not ruin the original. Obama has not ever protected nor defended this founding document during his 120 or so days as president of the United States. Ironic is a just term for the political games he ran today.

  • http://cannedjam.com cannedjam

    …is the fact that as he flaunts his adherence to the Constitution and respect for the rule of law, he exposes himself as a giant hypocrite to anyone who has the sophistication of thought to pick up on intellectually dishonesty.

    In fact if you take his speech from yesterday and replace the references to terror with that of the economy one might confuse it with a seech rebuking his own domestic policies.

    Actually I went a head and did just that…

  • TNJim

    for 2012. That’s the mode nearly every speech of his has been in so far. But sooner or later he’s going to have to realize he’s not running against Bush. I guess he thinks that’s still popular with the Obamabots and the MSM presstitutes who are still suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome but he can’t go on with that for 3 and 1/2 more years, can he? Will BDS last that long with his base?

    Seems like he’s counting on it.

    Stop campaigning and lead for a change, Mr. President, that is, if you’re capable. I doubt you are.

  • http://cannedjam.com cannedjam

    I was subject to “unreasonable search and seizure” while I was in high school, a search that was in violation of the school’s own policies, the Constitution, and various supreme court rulings. At the time, I was naive enough to think the ACLU actually looked out for individuals (and not their own agenda), so I contacted them. They were of absolutely no help what so ever. I guess they saw no agenda pushing angle in my situation. No one is looking out for you, only yourself (and if you are lucky enough, your family).

  • TNJim

    contrasting Obama’s speech and Cheney’s:

    “Judging forensics and rhetoric, it is clear that while President Obama came to make a speech, Vice President Cheney came to have a debate. The debater succeeded in making his points better than the speechmaker because while the President is justly celebrated for his vaunted eloquence, he phoned in his speech and thought that the use of pretty words alone would allow him to carry the day. Meanwhile, the Vice President–no one’s idea of a charismatic rock star–was forced to make up for his lack of a silver tongue by tightly and carefully constructing reasoned arguments to support his position. It should come as no surprise that the Vice President was quite persuasive and a force to be reckoned with in the debate.”

    Read it all here.

  • Jack_Savage

    I always enjoyed Pej. Thanks for the link.

  • sickofitall

    is down the road to Gomorrah. Shallow, trite, baby killing, gay-hugging, America-hating effeminate Marxist poseur. Dick Cheney masterfully exposes him as the fraud and embarrassment that he truly is. I would gladly rally behind Cheney’s flag in ’12 or sooner if he’s got a plan to put a stop to this unfolding travesty sooner.

  • Karina

    If you listen to him for too long, your brain turns to mush and you get thrills up your leg.

  • molybdanthan

    I’d like to say you’re wrong about people looking out for one another, but you’re mostly right. It seems like a lot of people won’t go out of their way for another.

    Then again, when that car thief tried to steal a woman’s car with her baby in the backseat, those around her were compelled into action, and took the thief out. Desperate times and measures, but I’m glad to see it when it happens.

    Also, I in NO way want to give the impression of endorsed the ACLU. Going to them for help is like going to Hannibal Lecter for cooking tips.