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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Gettysburg Address?
Must we continue to set the bar too low?
Big-time American opinion makers have again been exposed as the sentimentalists that so many of them are. Their coddling of our current president does not even rise to the level of the backhanded compliment by which George Bailey was accused of “playing nursemaid to a bunch of garlic eaters.” Hyperbole from Paula Broadwell about David Petraeus makes more sense than the way that presidential biographer David Maraniss hailed a 1,600-word mixture of sermon, warning, straw man, and prescription from President Obama as a speech on par with the Gettysburg Address. Columnist Georgie Ann Geyer had similarly fulsome praise for the man whose scripted condolences in the aftermath of a mass shooting had unexpectedly transformed him into “a president one could believe in.” Even Geyer’s embarrassing tongue bath of a column was just an appetizer: Time magazine editors declared Barack Obama “person of the year” for 2012.
As far as pundits like these are concerned, our president is not the best-known beneficiary of the “new America.” Instead, he is — by acclamation, if not actual accomplishment — its architect. Their admiration for his labor is such that most of them have already forgotten that the “new America” was here even before Mr. Obama parlayed an Ivy League education and a habit of voting “present” into a seat on Air Force One.
It’s time to correct the record before it hardens into history. Abraham Lincoln had more flaws as a chief executive than our reigning mythology ascribes to him, but what Lincoln said in Gettysburg, PA on November 19, 1863 still resonates in ways that Barack Obama and his speechwriters can only aspire to, because the Gettysburg Address had something long since forgotten by our celebrity-saturated culture: humility.
There is a profound difference between hectoring an audience and empathizing with an audience, and yet it is a difference that can only be recognized by humble people. From President Obama’s big moment, we got rhetorical questions about national failure and a lecture about what we can’t tolerate anymore, as though we were sanguine about massacres until a community organizer known for missing the significance of the annual Right to Life march in Washington, D.C. came along to show us the error of our ways.
From President Lincoln’s big moment, we got recognition of our mortal limits and inspiration to keep striving for freedom and self-government in spite of those limits.
There is a great gulf between “We must change” and “We cannot dedicate — We cannot consecrate — We cannot hallow — this ground.” President Obama often tries for the mountaintop of the transcendent, but the ideology in which he was raised and with which he is comfortable keeps him from rising above the foothills of the circumstantial. Talk show host Mark Levin found bias even in the events to which the president alluded while speaking last week in Connecticut, because President Obama’s count of the mass shootings on his watch ignored the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in November of 2009. Levin is right. Thirteen people were killed that day, but because death at schools seems more tragic than death at army bases, and because everything for progressives is about circumstance, Fort Hood was flushed down the memory hole.
Ironically, machinations like that work ultimately to the disadvantage of our current president: When your career is built on the premise that every playing field needs to be leveled for the sake of “fairness,” the muscles needed for mountain climbing tend to atrophy. Soft socialism is a comfy pillow but a rotten ladder, and no amount of cheerleading obscures the difference between prose and poetry, or the difference between scriptural cadences woven seamlessly into a speech and scripture sprinkled like cheap Parmesan over favorite policies.
Abraham Lincoln asked his audience to take increased devotion to the cause for which the honored dead at Gettysburg had given “the last full measure of devotion.” Barack Obama told the people of Newtown that they were not alone, and worked a subtle plug for early childhood education into his remarks (“…this job of keeping our children safe and teaching them well is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community and the help of a nation”). Three days later and back in Washington, D.C. but hoping to cajole alleged opponents into making stupid mistakes, President Obama cited the massacre in Connecticut as an event that should “give us some perspective” — not on good and evil or mortality and suffering, but on federal tax policy.
There are no words for callous cluelessness of such Olympian proportions, although “George, you’re worth more dead than alive” once came close to capturing that thought. We are too often encouraged to settle for or mislabel mediocrity. Fortunately, the seasons of Advent and Christmas offer blessed relief from despair over such ugliness, and we may like the Magi in the canon of Christian scriptures return to our country by another way.
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Moe Blotz| 12.20.12 @ 6:40AM
Spel chek malfunctioned on you again, Patty. "We can not hallow..." was the line uttered in Gettysburg. Hollow ground is something found on hockey skates.
KennesawJack| 12.20.12 @ 6:45AM
And also the foundation upon which socialist economic theory stands.
Aristocat| 12.20.12 @ 7:25AM
Please explain the reference to George Bailey, and "George, you're worth more dead than alive." I have no idea what this refers to. Somebody please enlighten me...
Moe Blotz| 12.20.12 @ 7:42AM
"It's a Wonderful Life" will be available on your television some time during the next week, I suggest you watch the movie and your question will be answered.
Al Brooks, BleedingHeartlib | 12.20.12 @ 5:52PM
"Big-time American opinion makers have again been exposed as the sentimentalists that so many of them are."
The Big Boys of opinion are not sentimental for the last decade (which btw is not Bush's fault, anyone president during 2001 to '09 would have had it rough). But it's such a relief the 9-11 Decade is over, Obama seems a breath of fresh air-- as Reagan was 1981- '88.
Pecos Pete| 12.20.12 @ 6:48AM
Obama as Stalin or Mao makes more sense than as Lincoln.
Al Brooks, BleedingHeartlib | 12.20.12 @ 5:54PM
Southerners are none too fond of Lincoln-- they may dislike Lincoln more for our biggest war than Obama for Obamacare.
People have long memories.
KennesawJack| 12.20.12 @ 9:40PM
Yes, they do, and it will be a long, long time before we forget this administration you libs have foisted on us. That assumes, of course, we survive this administration.
TLP| 12.20.12 @ 6:56AM
"Must we continue to set the bar too low?"
Really?
We have a former Gay Bathhouse Cruising Street Hustler, who's never had a Paying Job in his life (unless he got paid for "Organizing" for the White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating, Nation of Islam Leader - Louis Farrakhan) sitting in the Oval Office with his feet up on the desk.
We've gone from one of the greatest men who ever lived - George Washington - to a Pathological Lying CON MAN with no affinity for this Country, whatsoever, as he seeks to use his position to get REVENGE against the previous 219 Years of our existence.
He seeks to Reward his Friends, and Punish his Enemies. In fact, that explain his Economic Policies, his Foreign Policy, and his Domestic Policy visavi Jobs/Energy/Right to Work, and anyone with less Melonin than he has.
In 219 Years we've gone from Scholar/Surveyor/Entrepreneur/Military Commander/Father of his Country, to Caligula. A feat that took Rome 800 Years to accomplish.
From Philosopher General, to Choom Gang Coke Snorting Pot Head, in 9 Generations, and this guy wants to know if we can stop "Lowering the Bar"?
Wake up!
It's on the GROUND, already.
SCMike| 12.20.12 @ 7:23AM
Yup, gonna need a backhoe to get under that bar now...
Moe Blotz| 12.20.12 @ 7:44AM
I must disagree, SCMike, Calypso Louie can teach him how to Limbo.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.20.12 @ 8:26AM
I'm going to concur with SCMike on this one, Mr. Blotz. Unless Calypso Louie can teach the current POTUS to liquefy and some how drain beneath it, getting underneath that bar will require a shovel ready project. Cue the next Stimulus Spending bill.
Al Adab| 12.20.12 @ 10:30AM
We are all supposed to react emotionally to every event good or bad. No longer is it proper to think logically or rationally and analyize facts. Feelings are the be all and end all of humanity. A nation of victims and whiners.
Americanpatriot| 12.20.12 @ 9:27PM
The majority of the American people know exactly what your are talking about. What we need to do is find out how his vote fraud worked. Romney was leading, Obama couldn't get crowds and hardly any donations until foreign ones started coming in. We need anyone that lived in a precinct that voted for Romney where they said Romney didn't get a single to come forward. This whole election does not pass the smell test and plenty of people that I know are talking about it.
Appleby| 12.20.12 @ 7:10AM
As soon as I saw Obama prancing in front of a hastily convened parade into Newtown -- sucking up all the police and First Responders' attention that they desperately needed to be focusing on the crime scene and usurping the attention of the same Christian clergy whose beliefs he trashes every other day of his life -- the only thing I could see was the man with the umbrella strutting and dancing at the head of a New Orleans Jazz Funeral on the way home from the cemetery. I did not watch or listen to anything he said, because the very sight of his face makes my skin crawl. But I did think of an old Ashleigh Brilliant postcard that I had back in the 1970s, "I'm supposed to be leading the parade. Which way did it go?"
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:16PM
Uh, the shooter was dead, his mother that got him the guns were dead - what exactly do you think the "crime scene" was going to provide, after all that was already known?
He is our President, whether you like him or not, you should respect the Office of the President of the United States.
Anything less, and you are an un-American, un-patriotic little snipe that deserves no attention.
A Kulak| 12.20.12 @ 8:06AM
Examining Obama's words is depressing. I've been bristling over this one since I heard it: "Keep in mind I'm in that income category. I'd -- I'd love to, y'know, not pay as much, uh, in taxes. But I also think it's the right thing to do for us to make sure that people who have less -- people who are workin', people who are striving, people who... who, you know, are hopin' for their kids -- that they have opportunity. That's what we campaigned about. It's what we talked about. And this is not a situation where I'm unwilling to compromise."
Can someone please explain how taxing the wealthy provides "people who have less" with opportunity? If you stuff money into the government machine and crank the handle, what comes out isn't "opportunity".
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:20PM
Because by giving all the tax breaks, dodges and havens to the rich over the last 3o years the dollars to run the government either comes from the middle class OR you have to cut the spending that helps those in most need.
Is that so hard to understand?
Since none of you here are rich, why are you whining about it?
The programs that would have to be cut are the programs that help you, your family and friends.
Don't you think those that have the most owe the country and its people that provided them with THEIR opportunities to pay back a little to help others succeed too? At least live a little better?
Ya know, Pay it Forward...
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:48PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Americanpatriot| 12.20.12 @ 9:29PM
When you sell your soul to the devil like BarryO and Michelle he'll give you plenty of money. Did not satan offer our Lord the world if he would bow down and worship him.Obamas been bowing down to world leaders for quite awhile.
benny havens| 12.20.12 @ 8:11AM
There he is again, with his feet up on the people’s furniture. Absolutely no class.
SUBVET| 12.20.12 @ 10:38AM
Benny.........ya got to change the C to an A........
mike 3/505| 12.20.12 @ 12:43PM
I beg to differ...He has a lot of class...all of it LOW.
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:21PM
He's your President, so genuflect please.
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:49PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
R Martin| 12.20.12 @ 8:50AM
There is another big difference between Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the words Obama spoke in Connecticut—Lincoln wrote his address; Obama read words written by others. Given that we know now exactly who Barack Obama is, feigned compassion while reading even well-written prose simply makes him look silly.
c. j. acworth| 12.20.12 @ 8:51AM
Obama left out a reference to Fort Hood because that particular atrocity was committed by one of his co-religionists, and for no other reason.
JP| 12.20.12 @ 9:02AM
Not a peep from the Anointed One about Fast and Furious. I suppose the body count of dead Hispanics south of the border doesn't mean much. And guess what? Most of those weapons that were walked are still in circulation.
Funny, how Gun Control advocates never uttered a peep about F&F.
Von Mises Jr| 12.20.12 @ 9:57AM
"Fast and Furious" claimed the lives of 200-300 Mexicans and would have been used just as the Sandy Hook tragedy was used as a prop for socialism and against our Second Amendment Rights. The problem is that Border Agent Brian Terry was killed that triggered whistle blowers.
There was a beauty queen in Mexico killed the other day in a gang shoot out where a "Fast and Furious" fully-automatic weapon was found at the scene.
We know that the MSM and regime only use news and propaganda that is helpful to advancing socialism. But simply examination of “F&F,” Benghazi gate, or the 40 black-on-black murders in Chicago every month illustrates the lies and deceit coming from the National politicians and MSM.
Why are several hundred Mexicans, four Americans in Libya and over 500 black deaths in Chicago of no interest unless we are being propagandized?
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:24PM
You believe the media is against you.
You believe liberals are out to enslave you.
You believe the government is out to make you serfs.
You believe that propaganda is ONLY from the Left.
Must be quite depressing being YOU.
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:50PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Cuffs| 12.20.12 @ 9:15AM
Too bad. The con man has conned everyone.
With apologies to Edmund Burke--people get
the government they deserve.
Barack Hussein Obama and his lovely wife
are nothing more than grifters or as I like
to say ticks.
This is not government it is a tumor.
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:24PM
Nicely said for a racist.
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:49PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Gregory | 12.20.12 @ 9:15AM
“Eleven score and sixteen years ago the white power structure set up an oppressive and brutal system, conceived in bondage and dedicated to racism, that made them all wealthy and powerful.
“Now I am engaged in a cold civil war, testing whether this nation can be fundamentally transformed into a perfectly fair collective. We are met on a great media battlefield of this war, and have come to wring forth great polling numbers that will make us saviors of Liberal Utopia we are entitled to.
“It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. There are no sacred or holy things. The brave Democratic minorities, living and dead, who struggle here have honored it almost as much as my power to add or detract. The world will note, and long remember what I say here, and I will never let it forget what I - and you - did here.
“It is for us the living, to be dedicated here to the redistributive work which we in Washington have thus far so nobly advanced. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under me, shall have a new birth of fairness, entitlements, and social justice—and that government of the needy, by the needy, and for the needy, shall not perish from the earth.”
markenoff| 12.20.12 @ 11:02AM
TLP will be upset. You didn't save your inspiration for his contest.
Gregory | 12.20.12 @ 3:17PM
TLP? Contest?
Gregory | 12.20.12 @ 11:24PM
Got it!
Jim Adcox| 12.20.12 @ 11:38AM
Gregory: Nice work. The "needy" of the last sentence, sadly, is none other than Baracko Mussolini, a man who needs power to feed his hubris and glittering vacuity.
Gregory | 12.20.12 @ 3:17PM
Thank you, Jim. Yes, this is all about the desperation of empty souls who have no authentic core of true self. They're spiritually vacuous, and have a dangerous desire; that they can, and must be, gods themselves. It's the oldest and deadliest trap in the whole story of mankind; Nimrod, Ramses, et al.
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:30PM
Why don't you complain about CEOs that make 1000 times more than you do?
Is there any reason they should? Nowhere will you find such disparity between the workers and their bosses.
And you're worried about Grandma on Social Security, Col White on Veteran's benefits and Joe the Plumber on disability? They are your enemy? Seriously? Are they not entitled? Should they not be treated fairly?
Or should the rich and powerful get all that they want. You think THEY are entitled ?
You need to replace "needy" with "greedy" and you would have it just about right where we, the United States, is right now.
Thank God your side lost and we have taken our country back from the greedy ones...
Question is: why do you still like the Romney's of the world?
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 8:00PM
This, coming from you, who couldn't wait to brag about the millions of dollars you make in your high tech company, the many multi million dollar houses you own, while working for a Fortune 10?
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:49PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Cuffs| 12.20.12 @ 9:20AM
Another thing. This disrepectful toad has
his feet up on the desk all the time.
What the hell is the matter with him?
This is comparable to Ms Huge Arse
boarding Air Force One in shorts.
How common and coarse! They have
no respect for themselves, thus no
respect for anyone or anything else.
South side Chicago trash.
Pecos Pete| 12.20.12 @ 10:30AM
Cuffs: Did you also notice that there is a side chair for a secretary, but otherwise King O's visitors have to stand in front of his desk? That is unless he chooses to honor them by sitting with them on couches. Very royal treatment.
Swamper| 12.20.12 @ 12:18PM
149 years after the Gettysburg Address millions of Americans can still recite it, because millions of us had to remember it for school. By February no one will remember three words this doofus said!
scotchieguy| 12.20.12 @ 12:35PM
The only four words I will ever remember from this doofus are, "let me be clear!"
Then again, it is hard to remember when you are constantly being lectured.
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:50PM
Too bad you don't learn anything.
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:49PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 8:15PM
"common sense gun control"
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.20.12 @ 9:18PM
...the unprecedented use of "unprecedented"...
Petronius| 12.20.12 @ 12:36PM
Again
Read The Great Roob Revolution, by Roger Price. If you are not in on the fix, the fixers will fix you; permanently. But do not bother The Person of the Year. He has to get back to plundering our earnings, taking Our Freedom, and killing babies. Our consolation is that every movement sows the seeds of its own destruction. If the left kills enough babies there will be no fornicators to vote for the despot who would succeed him. And we can't afford any more parasites.
Ronsch| 12.20.12 @ 12:39PM
I was going to say NerObama "recycled" the whole "it takes a village...blah, blah, blah..." but I think regurgitated is more precise.
TeaPartyNow| 12.20.12 @ 12:50PM
Americas' people are too far gone to go back to freedom now.
& allot of why is that the right is no better than the left. The right always only attacks conservatives while running, & protects liberal republicans.
But then you have things like the story above. I honestly believe that Obama has grown since romney lost. & the right is on auto pilot. Attack Obama, attack conservative republicans, & pander to & protect liberal republicans. You could give Obama some credit & encourage him to turn right. He is leaning that way.
But American culture is so shallow, base, disconnected, without morality, purpose, freedom, really I would be shocked if this nation turned around now. People live like communist drones. Obama did not make them that way.
The American culture is such that without some national revelation of freedoms form, there is no future here. & yes, I must be contrary. But I am not liberal. Ask Levin about Libertyinfinite. He has my permission to tell all.
JFGalt| 12.20.12 @ 12:51PM
When your career is built on the premise that every playing field needs to be leveled for the sake of “fairness,” the muscles needed for mountain climbing tend to atrophy. Soft socialism is a comfy pillow but a rotten ladder, and no amount of cheerleading obscures the difference between prose and poetry, or the difference between scriptural cadences woven seamlessly into a speech and scripture sprinkled like cheap Parmesan over favorite policies.
I loved that.
sotto voce| 12.21.12 @ 2:06PM
Me too.
Occam's Tool| 12.20.12 @ 2:56PM
The last speech that this man made that will be significant was his first inaugural---not for anything he said, but because he was Black and Saying it where He Was.
This is a President who will be remembered positively only for his skin color. He is the anti-Jackie Robinson.
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:51PM
LMAO ... how foolish
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:50PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Hardcard| 12.20.12 @ 4:22PM
PRESIDENT CLITON HAD MONICA ON THAT DESK AND SMOKED A SOGGY COHIBA.
1ConservativeUSA| 12.20.12 @ 4:56PM
The lapdogs in the media do coddle and promote Obama so very willfully. Shocking really. We have truly cheapened this era in American history.
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 6:45PM
Obama could audibly fart and the media would orgasm over how it was the most brilliant speech EVAH!
Purp| 12.20.12 @ 7:52PM
Rupert Murdoch's done a good job on your brain. You do have one, don't you? Use it.
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 8:14PM
Obama could cough outloud after a maximinum immersion choom hit and the media would orgasm over how it was the most brilliant speech EVAH!
CJW| 12.20.12 @ 8:50PM
Purp the Village Idiot
Now purpie descends into racism:
"Oh, and YOU'RE a LOSER ... can't even beat the black man... you're so awful... hahahaha (that's for your last line, you wanna dish it out, then take it)"
Can't even beat the "black man?" So you believe blacks are inferior and easy to beat.
Keep posting moron, you provide fresh material every day.
You are truly an idiot and a racist
Stan Redmond| 12.21.12 @ 2:48PM
Don't you have a Fortune 10 company to run?
Stan Redmond| 12.23.12 @ 9:20PM
Obama creases his pants and the media orgasms.
Americanpatriot| 12.20.12 @ 9:23PM
I don't watch anything that Obama is on; He is absolutely the worst president in our nations history. And, arrogant, narcissitic and full of condemnation for anyone that does not go along with his opinions
sdfhlk | 12.20.12 @ 11:00PM
Merry Christmas to you 2012.
sotto voce| 12.21.12 @ 2:03PM
Thank you, Mr. O'Hannigan for so aptly nailing the empty bloviations of our Pretender-in-Chief, a third-rate man with a third-rate mind. I'm constantly amazed that he so consistently manages to miss the point, strike the wrong note, hector and pontificate, yet the MSM heaps him with undeserved laurels. The fervor of their praise is predictably inverse to the shallowness of his rhetoric.
The goddess Nemesis is taking careful note of Obama's fatal hubris, biding her time as she exquisitely plots his inevitable downfall.
mmilesll| 12.22.12 @ 11:16PM
I didn't think that anybody could make the office of the President look like a pond full of scum, but this clown has done it in spades. He has taken an office that used to demand respect and made it into a joke.
Tony G.| 12.23.12 @ 10:58AM
I'm already tired of this President's attitude and LACK OF REAL LEADERSHIP. Every crisis has to have something tied to it that will advance his cause. Just think we have 4 more years of his petty approach to everything he touches. And for the record . . . he still had to rub in our face his $4M trip to Hawaii. Who made him King?