Monday, May 26, 2008
Barack Obama: Gaffe machine?
This is truly hilarious:
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Anyway, Mr. Hinderaker goes on to rip Obama for the substance of his Memorial Day speech. While I am a bit less irritated that Obama used the audience to push for his long litany of domestic programs, this bit (my emphasis) is certainly true:
He continued with a town hall-style question and answer period that cast veterans in the only role with which the Democrats are comfortable--victims--and sought to politicize the holiday.
Lots of victims are, of course, necessary to sustain statism, because non-victims can deal with their problems without any need for politicians. Still, the quantity of victims seems to increase during election years, particularly when Democrats are trying to take over from Republicans. Presumably the quantum of supposed victims in our society will decline in 2009 almost no matter who wins the White House, only to pick up again in the months before the next election.
CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
2 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Tue May 27, 12:20:00 AM:
I saw the term "ghoulish" used to describe Hillary's reference to the RFK assassination last week, but if Senator Obama is channeling his inner M. Night Shyamalan and "sees dead people" in the audience, now that's ghoulish in the purest sense of the term.
Whoops, unforced error on his part.
These candidates really need to take a break and recharge.
By 
, at
Tue May 27, 12:11:00 PM:
These candidates really need to take a break and recharge.
As far as I'm concerned, Obama can take a long break already. Hey, how about early retirement? Obviously, the man deserves the best we can bestow!
