Obama’s Speech Strategy —– “backslap, shake hands, backslap, smile, bullshit, boast about Amurika, boast, boast some more, lie about statistics, lie, lie more, America is g-r-r-r-eat, … INTRODUCE A GUY WITH HALF HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF … work up the crowd, get patriotism juices flowing … it’s Easy Street from here on out, brutha …”
Three thoughts …
1)- For me, using this broken man as a prop to further Obama’s agenda is perhaps the most despicable moment of his Imperial Reign. If you don’t think that soldier was a prop you’re an idiot, or an Obama voter. (But, I repeat myself.)
2)– Why are the 500 ass-clowns clapping like monkeys in heat? Most will say to honor the victim …err, soldier. Perhaps. But, what it REALLY does is to glorify war. Ohh-ahh, a soldier! Clap clap clap A wounded one, no less! ! Clap clap clap Look! No hands, no leg, a plate in his head! Clap clap clap. Blind in one eye! A fuckin hero, man! Clap clap clap! ……………….then, His Majesty silences the crowd and says the soldier’s goal is to get well enough to “SERVE HIS COUNTRY again” ……………….clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap … FUCK YEAH!! Maybe we can send that sucker to kill some Syrian ragheads …. clap clap clap, … goddamn it’s good to be an Amurikan!! But the President — who never served anything or anyone other than himself — had nothing else to say about Afghanistan or our other wars. What difference does it make?
3)– A somber Moment Of Silence would have been more appropriate. Time to reflect on real questions; why are we there, annihilating countries while being annihilated ourselves ? why did this young man have to be sacrificed? what was gained? and at what cost, both financially and to the soul of the nation? Forget silence. Tears would have been more appropriate.
I want you to watch these two videos in the order presented. Then don’t let your powder get wet. You’ll need it soon enough.
I’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war
And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names
They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
It’s a real fucking shame the politicians so easily and carelessly squander the lives of these young men and women. Obama couldn’t give two shits for this soldier. Political theater at its absolute worst.
Thanks for posting that Stucky. I was feeling the same way, but could not say anything as my wife gave me a stern talking to for being too negative so I just shut my mouth after calling out Obama’s first 10 lies. I guess it just fortifies the fact that he is truly a sociopath. I am sure he did not feel a twinge of guilt performing this dog and pony show. My guess is he felt he was doing the Sgt. a favor.
Bob.
“at what cost, both financially and to the soul of the nation?”
I ask myself that every day, as I tally up the damage, hatred, death, despair and catastrophe that Obama has unleashed on this country, all so white kids could feel good about themselves, and Mexicans and other minorities could get more free shit. The soldiers need to perform a military coup before things become unsalvageable.
Biden and Boehner look like they are ready to both shed crocodile tears on command, fucking actors.
Never in the history of planet Earth has so much evil and deception been gathered together in one location. If there actually were a “god” on par with the account given in the Talmud/Old Testament — fire and brimstone would have rained down from the heavens and flattened this farce.
I am done with all this shit. I hate America.
“I am done with all this shit. I hate America.” ——— SAH
Hi, young lady. Been missing you ’round these parts.
You might like the thread up right now — “F@CKING USA!! by Kim Jong Mentally Ill”
Good post Stucky, the reaction to that calculated episode from the other night, by my friends who are veterans, was pure disgust. While they hold the young soldier in the highest regard they were disgusted by the fact that POTUS used him as tool to end the address on a high note. The other thing that disgusted them was the follow up fawning by the MSM drones about how that moment was the high point of the address and how brilliant Obama was for including this story. Not one word about how he was going to lead the country out of all the current conflict zones so this shit would not happen any more to our young men.
There was an old man that had to walk using a cane. He was somewhat bent over, wore a white beard and mostly shuffled rather than walked. He stood some few feet down from where I was standing and as he stood there looking at the names on the Vietnam Memorial he would slowly turn his head and look in the direction of the Capital. Then he would look back at the wall. He did this several times. I eased over to stand beside him. He looked at me. I asked him what he thought of the memorial. “It’s a goddamn disgrace to this country,” he said. “Fifty-eight thousand young men slaughtered for what? I’ll tell you for what. So a bunch of spineless politicians that walk up and down those steps over there and can pat themselves on the back and say how great America is and all the while fill their pockets with money. It ain’t great to kill people. Especially people that did nothing to you. But these politicians can kill people and get away with it. I always wondered about that.” He looked me in the eye and said, “How many Vietnamese people you think died.” I told him that I didn’t know. “Thousands,” he said. “For what? We didn’t accomplish one damn thing over there and we ran worse than a kicked dog after all the killing. I hope God found a good place for Lyndon Johnson and Tricky Dick. The hell with them.” He seemed to be about ready to say something else but he turned and looked at the Capital and then back at me. Then he just turned and shuffled off and I never saw him again. I was young at the time. I stepped back and looked at the wall differently this time. It was never the same after the old man.
SAH “I am done with all this shit. I hate America.”
How did you, Miss Twat, rate those thumbs up. I hope to see you depart the USA very soon. Of course we have many issues but hating your home country will not solve these problems. I hope your new home is satisfactory.
@Chronic Agitator – I used to hate the America-haters too. Those days are over for me. I don’t want to be associated with America anymore, truly I don’t.
At various points between the 1660s-1970s my ancestors came to America for important reasons – to escape Kings and Dictators; to escape conscription into crazy European skirmishes; to seek out a nation of private property where they could farm land they owned.
At the heart of it all, the reason my ancestors left and came here was to ESCAPE OPPRESSION. Now, I feel the pull to leave America for the same reason. Up until the 2012 election, I had hope. I am fucking done now. WE ARE THE EVIL ONES.
I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be spied on, imprisoned, taxed to death, have my children and property confiscated, be regulated to death, have my opportunities and dreams crushed. Post WWII — I hate American Media, Food, Culture, Politics, Fashion, Music, Corporations, Slang, Trends… I hate all of it. In 2012 I finally just came to accept the fact that WE ARE THE BLIGHT ON THIS PLANET. We are the exact people my ancestors risked their lives and fortunes to escape from and come here to begin with.
If I don’t divorce myself from this evil land which taxes me in order to murder, imprison, and steal in my name — then my ancestors may as well have just taken it easy and stayed surfs and plebs in the homelands they came from. They came here because it was the best place to be – a light shining on a hill for all the world to see.
Now we are THE pit of filth and darkness on earth, a cancer consuming the entire planet. WE ARE THE EVIL ONES. I don’t want to be part of it, AT ALL. I want to be absolved of all association with the decrepit, maniacal, evil nation of liars and murderers.
As far as I am concerned, the tipping point has been reached. The vast majority of Americans are on board with their masters — just as the majority stayed loyal in the shitty countries of origin that my ancestors fled from years ago. I won’t be loyal to this wicked, evil land and its dictators – FUCK THAT. I owe my loyalty to my ancestors who sacrificed everything to get here in the pursuit of LIBERTY and BEING LEFT THE HELL ALONE… and I owe it to my posterity TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS WICKED LAND NOW.
I would rather be in a small, poor land of corruption run by 4th-rate wannabe dictators than in THE FUCKING BELLY OF THE BEAST. America is not “America” anymore – it is the pit of hell, and a land where liberty dare not dwell.
Another unconstitutional war against another Third World Country that never attacked us. I guess at this point, we are all guilty of murder. Do unto others………