A View of Obama’s UN Speech (Part 1 of 3)
President Obama’s speech to the UN last week has received ample focus. Some will laud the address and others will criticize. This post is just trying to determine what it is Mr Obama intended to accomplish speaking again on the world stage. So, here comes yet another analysis.
In the first paragraph of the transcript one has to wonder what exactly the President means by acting ‘boldly and collectively on behalf of justice and prosperity at home and abroad’? Certainly recent events involving missile defense, North Korea, Iran and other security threats do not inspire confidence nor indicate bold and collective action for justice, prosperity or anything else.
The next paragraph features typical rhetoric common to the Obama Administration. Just as the 2006 midterms featured the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid speaking of a new direction in America the Obama White House has focused on the empty slogan of hope and change. The latest action in evidence of broken campaign promises and the accuracy behind Joe Wilson’s statement ‘you lie’ is inserting the Big Pharma lobbyist Paul Kirk in the US Senate seat from Massachusetts vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. The only purpose for buying the 60th vote in the Senate allows the Democrats to force more government control over American lives in the name of healthcare reform.
The third paragraph returns to a favorite ploy of the liberal majority. From an earlier mention of bold and collective action that has not materialized nor produced any effective governance the temptation to blame the previous administration for unilateral action and anti-American sentiment is a reversal of history. The anti-American sentiment was the cause for unilateral action in the absence of collective action from the UN and other international forums to confront terrorism. The same indifference is present now on issues involving Iran, North Korea and others seeking nuclear weapons. Only this time the current American president is indifferent to the bold and collective action he claims to champion.
In the next paragraph, the fourth, President Obama may as never before express his fondness for the word ‘audacity’. To state he will never apologize for defending the interests of ‘my nation’ or ‘my people’ after his World Apology Tour is only trumped by the audacity to proclaim these interests are shared.
The next two paragraphs circle earlier statements as well as introducing a timid mention of religion. Without the courage to express the religion of peace is now the religion of terrorism Mr Obama betrays his claim of bold and collective action once again. He follows this with promotion of more timid proclamations about global warming and pleas to be humanitarian. And he finishes these thoughts with a reminder of his World Apology Tour telling the rest of the planet he will sacrifice his nation’s interests contrary to any earlier reference to defending them.
This topic will be continued in the next post.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
September 30th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
“Certainly recent events involving missile defense, North Korea, Iran and other security threats do not inspire confidence nor indicate bold and collective action for justice, prosperity or anything else.”
As with your comment about other aspects of The 0!’s UN speech (the fourth paragraph “audacity” observation, for example) one must always remember that The 0! is always about image over substance, about flat out lying where even painful truth would serve him better in the long run. Why? I submit to you it is because he fits the diagnostic criteria set forth by M. Scott Peck in his 90s book, “People of the Lie” for an egocentric personality disorder that Peck describes as… human evil. The book’s worth a read, IMO, as it describes The 0! every time Peck denotes a characteristic of “people of the lie”.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Not that it is much of a consolation but those I know who voted for the Messiah are having buyer’s remorse. One in particular groans daily about the error.
Which causes me to recall a current popular phrase, daily. Elections have consequences.
The only real upside to all this is if we survive the insanity suggests we may return to the common sense and practical value of our nation’s founding and the principles that made it possible. God bless America.