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“Friday was a sad day for Western civilization. The day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advanced the 9/11 “truther” theory in his speech at the UN, President Obama responded, in an interview with BBC Persia, by calling the remarks “offensive” and “hateful.” He also called them “outrageous” and “disgusting.” […] One’s immediate urge is to tell the president to man up, already. We know what Ahmadinejad said was offensive, hateful, and inexcusable. But what does it really mean for Ahmadinejad or Iran that we’re over here, not excusing him for his outrageous and disgusting statements? Nothing, of course. […] In treating most communication as a means of stating how he feels about what someone else has done, Obama is not merely demonstrating his own personality. He is embodying the character and reflexes cultivated today in academia, the traditional media, and in politics. In exactly his present form, he is the ideal of our cultural elite. Sadly, that elite doesn’t know any longer how to speak to Iranians in the tones of liberty, empirical confidence, and moral courage. Its expertise now lies in reducing all questions to matters of hate speech and victimhood.”
— J. E. DYER - 09.26.2010 (commentarymagazine.com)
In the 1959 film comedy, "The Mouse That Roared", Peter Sellers plays multiple roles in satirizing a then-unthinkable situation in which "an impoverished backward nation declares war on the United States of America, hoping to lose", but wins, despite its own best efforts to the contrary! These days we seem to be living a bizarre tragicomedy, in which we have saddled ourselves with a President whose mouth is the only evident part in His otherwise empty suit. We might as well adopt Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 as our national anthem.
And yet, large parts of our citizenry (44% as of 9-26-2010) support The Obama's job approval. It's pathétique.
I, however, can not for the life of me understand what The Obama is hoping to accomplish, nor what His adoring followers see in Him. To me, He appears as a binocular-rivalry phenomenon, in which only His mouth-that-roars survives. Everything else about Him is an optical occlusion.
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