Another Obama roundup

This is getting creepy...

Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." Obama


"But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee's action as one of "my deeds."

If committed by a Republican, this would be a gaffe of historic proportions. Even a Senator as inattentive to his duties as Obama certainly knows what committees he serves on. For him to fabricate the claim, out of whole cloth, that the Senate Banking Committee is "[his] committee," strikes me as another sign of Obama's megalomania. That, plus more evidence that he is totally at sea without a teleprompter.

He's right. I wonder how it can be 'his' committee if he's not even on it. The guy's going from inept bungling statements to outright obvious lies. I wonder if the media will start to call him on things this obvious?

And what would happen if McCain had called the Banking Committee "his committee"?

If only appearances matter.

And so Obama came to Berlin to build up his image on national security. If only appearances matter, then he did himself some good. The substance of his remarks was different. He credited the 1948 Berlin Airlift to international cooperation. "It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads," he said, as if some global vibe called aircraft from the vasty deep. Actually, it was Harry Truman. As Elizabeth Spalding recounts in The First Cold Warrior, "At first, Truman was almost alone in thinking that an airlift would work as an effective response to the Soviets."

Truman made a tough, risky decision. That's what presidents do. Obama did not acknowledge this point. He didn't even mention Truman's name.

Obama's ignorance and his team's ignorance of history is no longer a surprise, but it's important to keep referencing it. Simply to deaden the idea that Obama is some great mind in forgien policy, history, judgement or anything other than an empty suit that can excellently read from a teleprompter.

Maybe that's why news anchors love Obama. He's just like them




From a National Review reader

"But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. …." - in reference to the Berlin airlift period.

Why did the people of Berlin keep the flame of hope burning? They did because they believed that America would not abandon them despite the hardship and risk associated with the flights, that's why.

This from a man who was desperate to abandon Iraqis at the very moment that they were in their darkest hours. If Iraq is any indication, he would have abandoned Berlin.

He has some chutzpah to even mention the benefits of fortitude in a speech.