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Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address

"The Statue of Tolerance."

by
Howard Rotberg

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February 5, 2011 - 12:00 am
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“We are truly ashamed of the intolerant position of certain Evangelical Christians who have fought against the interests of their own country in this regard, and lost so many young men fighting overseas in the last battles for the Israeli cities.

“For without tolerance, who are we?

[applause]

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“Are we any better than those who would kill?

[applause]

“From the beginning of my first term in office, I accepted that America and Islam “share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. … Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.” I spoke out for American understanding of Islam as I toured from Cairo to Istanbul to the great nation of Indonesia, and made clear that America did not see Islam as an enemy.

[applause and standing ovation]

“And in so doing, I have helped to secure a continued supply of oil for our country.

[Applause and standing ovation]

“And so, today, after all the bloodshed and all the suffering, a new Islamic identity prevails in the Middle East. We must accept that no Christians and no Jews are entitled to participate in that great nation. I am proud of our record in accepting truly notable numbers of refugees.

[applause]

“Today, I announce that just as we opened our borders to countless Jews and Christians, we are doing the same to permit immigration to America for the countless Muslims of the Middle East who are now choosing to escape the sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis that has spread from Iraq throughout the entire Middle East. We accept responsibility for all of that, because, as I have reminded the American people many times, it was the fault of the Bush administration for starting an unwarranted war in Iraq and unleashing the sectarian tensions that more authoritative Muslim governments had tempered.

“Notwithstanding my many overtures to the Muslims of the Middle East, there are still so many who blame America for their problems of extreme poverty and internecine violence. Accordingly, I announce today a major move to convince the Islamic world that we in America truly welcome them, wherever they live. We truly are a tolerant nation, willing to have more Muslims immigrate here — for I have made it clear in many past speeches how Islam has played a positive force in America since the founding of our great nation.

[applause]

“My move today is to recognize that Americans cannot roam the world imposing our particular notions of liberty and democracy on the world. The world is composed of many people who find their liberty depends on a religious supervision of all aspects of their daily lives. Although we in America have traditionally embraced a separation of church and state, it is time to acknowledge that our way is not the only way.

[Applause and standing ovation]

“To prove this to the world, we are modifying one of America’s most lasting symbols, the Statue of Liberty. We recognize that not all people in the world accept our notions of liberty. That is probably the underlying reason that the United States has been expelled from the United Nations. To demonstrate that we have learned that tolerance is the most important world value, and not a narrow definition of liberty, we are changing the name of the great statue just off the shore of New York from the Statue of Liberty to the Statue of Tolerance.

[applause, cheering and standing ovation]

“And to absolutely prove the seriousness of our tolerant new order, I have exercised my jurisdiction to order an alteration of the statue, so that instead of a crown on the statue’s head, there will be a hijab.

[applause]

“The site of the new Statue of Tolerance, with its hijab, will be a fitting symbol for what Time magazine has recently called the “Century of Islam” and our tolerance as a people. This will show the world true American greatness.

[Applause and standing ovation]

“May God, Allah, Jehovah, Waheguru, Yahweh, Akamba bless America.”

[applause and standing ovation]

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The Canadian writer, Howard Rotberg, is the author of TOLERism: The Ideology Revealed and the novel about Israel during the Second Intifada, The Second Catastrophe: A Novel about a Book and its Author. He is also (acting) president of Mantua Books, and a developer of affordable housing in Ontario. See www.mantuabooks.com and www.howardrotberg.ca.

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74 Comments, 39 Threads, 3 Trackbacks

  1. 1. Andy

    Started reading.
    I only made it half-way.
    Truly disturbing.
    And what is even more disturbing…..
    With Obama, it isn’t even that farfetched.

    • David

      I’m right there with you. Can hardly get thru any OBlah-blah speech but this is scary stuff true to form and entirely a realistic scenario with this guy.

    • miker5

      Not “that far-fetched”? What an understatement. I’m guessing Howard Rotberg has a time travel machine and personally traveled into the future to record Barry’s speech.

      • Charmine

        I did wonder if that was the case.

        The sad thing is that I can hear the carefully modulated tones of Obama saying these words.

    • Anonymous

      yo guys are all idiots

      • Andy

        The Oracle Has Spoken….
        Can’t argue with your eloquent and persuasive argument.

  2. Stand aside, Stephen King!

  3. “And let me say to the Iranians: we are sorry that the Israelis launched so many nuclear weapons on your people, in their disproportionate response to your nuclear attack wiping out only one Israeli city. The injustice of that disproportionate response, wherein nearly 20 million Iranian men, women, and children were killed, stands as a light unto the nations as a warning of how we must accept tolerance over vengeance. One can certainly understand the outrage this stirred up in the Muslim world, although we cannot condone the atrocities against the Israeli Jews.”

    Sad part is, I could actually imagine Obama saying something like this. He never, ever, seems to wonder WHY people hate and mistrust the Islamic world so much. He never, ever, looks at the killings, the acts of terrorism, the insults, the outright rage that is constantly being directed against the west, let alone Israel. Of course it must always be our fault, never theirs. I wonder how “outraged” he would be if, say, Chicago went up in a nuclear blast set off by Iranian-backed terrorists. Would he ask for “understanding” why the Iranians set off the bomb? Would we try to see things from their point-of-view before even retaliating (if we did at all)? And would we be looking for other “reasons” why the Iranians hate us so much, as we try to pick up what was left of an American city that was incinerated by some Islamic religious fanatics?

    Yes, I could really see Obama making a speech like this. Because, according to him, America is always the problem in the world, never the solution. How pathetic. Ronald Reagan, we need you now more than ever. We need an adult in charge of the Federal Government, not some man/boy socialist who picked up his world view from Columbia University professors.

    • SHALOM;
      The scenerio given by this ill-informed men is but a foreplay of a reality show that is not a bad joke but facing up to what really has been foretold and to flee the wrath to come[Matthew 3.7,1 Thessalonians 1].The TRUTH prevails and will shake the world as the only ONE,the HOLY ONE of Israel takes again charge visible, taken away Satans center stage in winding down mans attempt to play god[Gen.3] himself and in the process destroy himself left to his own devise.The promises GOD made to his friend ABRAHAM[Gen.12.1-3,15],Psalm 83,Ezekiel 36-39]and to his seed are being coming to pass. YESHUA of Nazareth ,the promised seed to Abraham did appear in the filness of time [Proverbs 30.1-6,Psalm 2,22,118,Isaiah 42,52-53,55.1-9,60-66,Micah 5.2Matthew 1-3,John ,Acts 1-9,Romans,Hebrews Jude etc.].Yes the time of Jacobs trouble[Jermiah 30] is coming down the pipe but he will be saved out of it[Matthew 24.22] .The last week of the 70 weeks of years[Dan.9.24-27] comes into focus ,when Israel signn a agreement [Isaiah 28.15-18],starting the countdown that will see Jerusalem become the center of confrontation as[Daniel 7,12]predicts .Israel has come in part into possession of the land of promise in 1948 [Gen.15], the drive to divide the land[Joel 3] starts here on. The final curtain is drawn[Daniel 9.24-27].Having witnessed the coming of YESHUA as he was received[Zechariah 9.9 Matthew 21.5,John 19]riding into Jerusalem [Luke 19-21]as the world will see the sign of the SON of MAN coming to Bazrah[Isaiah 63,Zechariah 12-13,Revelation 19]destroying the enemies of his people Israel and makes a end of the nations [Jeremiah 30.11]who have done much evil to them [Romans 9-11].
      I used the KING JAMES BIBLE as my source[biblegateway.com].
      John

    • Walter

      People refer to Chicago as Obama’s home town, but he didn’t move there until in his 20′s. He has “adopted” it but will never really be a Chicagoan.

  4. 4. davidinvirginia

    This would be *much* funnier if Obama wasn’t completely capable of producing and giving a speech exactly like this with a straight face.

    • suanm

      DON’T WORRY ABOUT ANY SPEECH OBAMA WILL GIVE, AS HE WILL BE SETTING IN ‘JAIL’, NOW THATS MY HOPE & CHANGE?

  5. 5. RickGreenvilleSC

    Holy Crap!!!!!!! What really scares me is that I can almost see the “o” getting the chance to make that terrible speech. . . . . given the stupidity of most of the sheeple in America. . . . of course by then we “bitter gun and God lovers” would either be dead or in concentration camps, so. . . . I wonder if Texas will still be a state?

    • houstonian

      “I wonder if Texas will still be a state?”

      Damn right we will be, but change that last word to “country.” We did it before and we can do it again, and we’ll welcome anyone of any race, religion, etc. who believes in (1) small government, (2) only tax payers voting, and (3) tight borders. That should about do it.

  6. 6. Zamir

    Mr. Rotberg,

    Your writing style for this article is spectacular. I can envision President Obama stating all of these things along with the applause and such that you inserted. I am shivering now from the impeccable quality of this piece and have a deep sadness in my heart from realizing how close to reality this is.

    Thank you for the excellent writing and for bringing this up but at the same time I must now curse you for making me depressed on a Saturday morning.

    All the same though, thanks!

    Zamir

  7. 7. Calatrava

    This is sarcasm, I know, but very depressing nevertheless.

    • Eric R.

      Mr. Rotberg,

      You forgot the part where Obama shut down all opposition media after they found he won re-election in 2012 only through widespread voter fraud.

      You also forgot the part where he banned the Republican Party, rounding up its leaders for exile in the Aleutian gulag, along with noted conservative talk show hosts and Tea Party activists, all the while garnering praise from his acolytes in the “MSM” for defending democracy against racists.

  8. 8. LeighB

    And where exactly is the naked emperor giving this speech, in a padded cell?

  9. 9. Owen Morgan

    I’m surprised the President felt no need to refer to the New Ottoman Empire, declared on New Year’s Day, 2015, just one week after Turkish peacekeeping forces brought peace to Basra, Damascus and Cairo, all on the same day. Although not involved in the fighting up to that point, Armenia and Azerbaijan were also persuaded to accept Turkish peacekeepers, in the general surge of goodwill sweeping the region.

    • You’re leaving out all the Turkish liberators who entered Tbilisi, Athens, Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest, Tirana, Chisinau, Hlohovec, Podgorica, Pozega, Kamianets-Podilskyi, and Skopje exactly one day before the 2015 SOTU, “inviting” the Viennese to join their “Pan-Islamic Euro-Asian-African Commonwealth” as well, as “tolerated jizya-payers”…

      God forbid.

  10. 10. B.C. Milligan

    This is sort of amusing now. It won’t be so amusing two years from now.

  11. Your article may be more prescient than you realize. But, we know Obama is not going to make it another term. With him giving away our allies’ confidential nuclear weapons information, his political life is as about as viable as Mubarak’s.
    This breach of his Oath of Office is an impeachable offense. This should be a headline, in bold print, on every newspaper, and news blog, the world over. And it may be headlines outside of the U.S.A., but the suckling media in America will ignore it.
    America will regret putting this ignoramus in office for the next 100 years. And it may take as long to rebuild our allies.

  12. 12. Allston

    The truly frightening thing is, this buffoon is perfectly capable of doing precisely what the article suggests.

    Guess it’s time to finish that bunker up in the mountains…

  13. 13. Tracy K

    This was disturbing in that as I read I could not discount this as a possible reality. Nothing like a spotlight on the sad reality that reason is nearly gone and we are living in currently upside down world.

    Something similar actually happened recently when President Calderon bashed us on immigration enforcement and received a standing ovation from our Congress.

  14. 14. Larry in Tel Aviv

    The thing about Obama, is that he is beyond satire. The Left are beyond satire.

  15. 15. trangbang68

    It would be hilarious satire if it wasn’t so possible. God save us from Obama Act 2.

  16. 16. "gunner"

    let us devoutly hope that obama will no longer be in office in 2015 to make such a fatuous and shameful speech. history will judge him in the end, and i doubt the verdict will be kind. his will be a record of disgrace and failure that will take many years to repair. more years than i will live to see, so i wish my children, and their children good luck, they will need it when the world is theirs.

    • David

      He’s got the media and “educators” on his side. They’ll rewrite history and paint this zero as a hero.

  17. 17. Constitutionalist

    You should have saved this for Halloween. It’s scary. Strangely enough, the speech includes nothing about the US troops fighting Mexican insurgents on the Southern border and or the thousands of Americans killed by rocket attacks from the Sinaloa strip.

    All I can say is: May God Forbid. (The One True and Living God whose son is Jesus Christ)

    • urbanleftbehind

      Thats because Mexicans would be a lesser problem because 1/2 or more of the exiled Repubs/Conservatives would be reverse illegal immigrants who finally did the job of ridding that nation of cartels that no Mexican would do. A small potatoes task compared to resisting the caliphate.

  18. 18. proreason

    The only thing missing is the opening salutation: “Comrades and fellow citizens of the world”.

  19. 19. Edward A.

    Is it a foregone conclusion Obama will win in 2012?

    • cornell

      But he’s a usurper. He is not qualified to run. We know that now.

    • PTBW

      ACORN in its latest iteration(s) knows the answer already. We really don’t even need to have an election.

    • arhooley

      Never underestimate the Republicans’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

  20. 20. C Sosa

    I could really hear him uttering some of those words. Leftists are very strange in their defense of tyrants and their condemantion of freedom.

  21. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/31/world/la-fg-us-egypt-20110201

    “January 31, 2011|By Paul Richter and Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times
    Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian government.”

    THIS ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THAT HAS CONNECTIONS WITH HAMAS AND ALQAEDA.

    • Andy

      You sound surprised…….
      Next Hamas and Hezbollah.
      You know they are legitimate opposition groups voted in by the people blah..blah…blah.

  22. 22. Chris

    The newest media meme is about how the muslim brotherhood is really a force for stability and goodwill in the arab world. Forget about the head hacking – they’re Freedom Fighters! Obama supports the jihad and would love to see an all-islamic middle east. And dead Jews aren’t a concern for barack; American Jews are only useful as a vote for obama, otherwise, Hussain would probably thank allah profusely for wiping them off the map. I think B.O. is bored with the presidency and that 12th imam job would be a perfect carreer move. I have never hated a man as much as I do this incompetent, destructive marxist clown. God help us!

  23. Will the American Jews in 2012 vote for the administration that supports the muslim brotherhood ?

    • Christopher

      Probably. Most of them are fairly leftist to start with- they voted for him the first time, even after knowing about Rev. Wright and the Trinity church (can’t see them supporting the jews, but I could be wrong). It is sort of like the white leftists who will continue to support anyone who says all white people are racists.

      I will say that the most interesting comment was the one above talking about the rounding up of non leftist media types- I can see that happening before this speech- with the last election, i think we barely escaped a remade ‘fairness’ doctrine, which was nothing more than the first steps at muzzling the press. I shudder to think what would have happened had someone like Sen. Giffords been shot while the dems held both houses.

      • plausible psychic

        I pray every day for the most famous of the courageous conservative politicians, political action committee leaders, journalists and commentators in the fledgling fight-back media. I remember Radio Free Europe and fear Underground Conservatism becoming a reality.

  24. 24. James May

    We should replace the Statue of Liberty with a giant scarecrow holding the head of Osama Bin Laden by his beard.

  25. 25. Delia

    Ugh. That statue of liberty photo is chilling with the muslim headscarf.

    Sorry, but I’ll run around buck nekkid before I’ll don a damned burka!

    • teacher & mom

      With ya sister.

    • LeighB

      Ditto. Buck nekkid indeed, burqa never. Give up my right to bear arms, never.

      • houstonian

        That gave me a chuckle. You just found something you have in common with Michelle O.

        • LeighB

          Bare arms? Bear arms? Pretty sure Moochelle favors gun control.

          • houstonian

            I thought your double entendre remark was extremely clever (not sure if you thought I meant something else). I think we are both agreeing that a woman has the right both to “bear arms” and “bare arms.”

        • Delia

          houstonian and LeighB, you both are awesome and hilarious! houstonian, the “right to bear arms and bare arms” is t-shirt worthy!

    • STR

      I laugh every time I remember the image of Sec State Hillary on the news in a burka in one of the Arabic countries. I think there was an egg frying on her head under that scarf. I also wonder why in the world our First “Lady” opted out of making that trip with hubbie. Methinks marital loyalty only goes so far.

  26. 26. David W. Lincoln

    Instead of 50 states being part of the Islamic Caliphate, why not change the borders so that there are states that truly exhibit, “oe’r the land of the free, and the home of the brave”.

    In other words, the Panarin scenario.

  27. 27. ricpic

    I am confident that long before such a speech is given either states or sections of states will have, for the second time in our history, seceded from the union. We will be fighting in the hills, our backs to the wall and probably losing, but fighting to retain our God given liberty, and I for one will be in a better place than the one I am in now.

  28. 28. steveb

    I have a different take on the ‘time-frame’. I think Iran and the other islamo-fascists will attack Israel before Nov ’12, so that they don’t have to risk Obama being defeated here. If a strong Repub leader is elected Nov ’12……well, that’s why they have less than 22 months to do it. But then, I don’t think in very ‘nuanced’ ways.

  29. It will not matter to me, Obama will be speaking in Arabic which I do not understand. I will though have a Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other. To all the gays out there, what are you going to do when they start killing you under Sharia law. My one brother is gay but I will protect him no matter the cost.

    • PTBW

      “My one brother is gay but I will protect him no matter the cost.”

      But…but…but…I thought all conservatives were homophobic as well as racist.

      • arhooley

        Not all. Just enough to alienate moderates.

        • PTBW

          Those moderates would be the dumb ones who don’t know that national elections should be settled on 2 issues only: national defense and national economy. All of these other issues to divide us all–abortion, gay rights, healthcare–none of the federal governments biz. Stay out of local issues, Big Bro.

  30. 30. captaingrumpy

    It can all finish now if you Americans really want it.

    • Abdul Kareema Wheat

      My sentiments exactly. And I’m wondering why everyone here seems preordained to roll over and accept it?

      We have a way and a customary one at that for dealing with treason, enemies and defeatism.

    • That`s the problem nobody in our government or military has the ba-ls to use our power!What good is power if not used correctly? It is not PC to use it. Well what you gonna do when they come for bad boy!

  31. 31. Forgotten Man

    A second 4 years of Obama may truly damage the Nation beyond repair.

    I’m hoping the incessant platitude filled, inane speeches that are all hat and no cattle and the constant left, right, left, right, left, right from one teleprompter to the other will give him terminal neck strain and force him to decline to run in 2012.
    I just know if Obama visits Bloomberg and wants a smoke Bloomberg will of course deny him for health reasons. I know too that Michelle will someday look as good as Ru-Paul in her own cloths. And the gun fairy is going to give me a Larue OBR for May Day. Well I can dream can’t I.

  32. 32. Paul of Alexandria

    I was watching MHz WorldView (http://www.mhznetworks.org/home/) last night; they show foreign programming, including news programs, and around 11:00 the Russian news service (“RT”) comes on. They were discussing Obama’s actions WRT Egypt, and the uniform conclusion was: “what the heck did he think he’s doing?”

    When even the Russians think that you’re nuts, something’s really wrong.

  33. 33. Tcobb

    Obama will win reelection. I understand that ACORN has sent out expeditions which have located the lost seven US States, which Obama in all his wisdom knew about, contrary to the rubes who think there are only fifty. Hints as to their locations were deciphered on tablets written in the Austrian language which few people, not even Obama, understand.

    They shall be bearing back 14 new Senators and 500 new House Representatives which represent a block of people who are more than sufficient to outvote the entire rest of the United States in a Presidential Election. But because these lost States are indeed so Progressive, and because they don’t want Neanderthals from flyover country visiting and contaminating them, their locations will remain secret in order to protect their privacy, protected in the same secure vault that contains Obama’s birth certificate and academic records.

    In order to forestall any conspiracy nuts from claiming that these places don’t really exist, accredited journalists from the New York Times and the Communist Worker’s Daily will be allowed to visit the lost seven states to verify their existence.

    • david

      That 57 whatever states by oBlah Blah really bothers me. It’s not because he doesn’t know how many states there are – he’s in the FACE of Americans telling us it doesn’t matter. The United States of America doesn’t matter to him – it’s irrelevant – no respect. And we elected this schmuck to lead us. Insane.

  34. 34. chuck

    “May God, Allah,Jehovah, Waheguru, Yahweh, Akamba bless America.”

    What! Listing all these false gods in the same breath as Allah! and Allah after God?

    This polytheist, This blasphemer!

    Surely a fatwa will rightly be issued against this most intolerant man!!

  35. 35. Jonny Taye

    What makes this truly chilling is that it’s not a humorous satire that light-heartedly pokes fun at the issue but a serious satire that with Obama seems pretty realistic.

  36. 36. Taxpayer

    EWWWWW! That ‘speech’ gave me the creeps!! I think I’ll go watch “The Exorcist” to calm my nerves.

  37. 37. JJJ

    I think I have some bad news for you. In 2015 there won’t be a SOTU Address.

    Instead, in 2025, from the Green House (flanked by a mosque along Barack Hussein Obama Avenue) in the District of Islam (DI) there will be a televised speech where President Cass Sunstein will be addressing the World, and at the back there will be a huge wall picture of the new prophet Barry Soetoro.

    The speech will be broadcast live in all 250,000 mosques throughout the 57 Emirates of the United Socialist Islamic Emirates of the Western Caliphate. The only area which will have the speech blacked out will be the breakaway “State of Occidental China” (formerly, California, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia – the latter once part of a separate country called “Canada”).

  38. Even in the unlikely event that Barry is re-elected, he will almost certainly be facing a Republican congress and they would not applaud these sorts of remarks, much less give him a standing ovation. More likely he’d be pelted with rotten vegetables.

    • Eric R.

      As I stated above, the Republicans in Congress will have been sent to the Aleutians. After massive vote fraud, the Dems will have won 90% of the vote in 2012 and all 435 seats. Those pesky racist Republicans that object to the vote fraud will have been rounded up and either shot or exiled on the grounds of “fighting racism.”

  39. 39. Hell_Is_Like_Newark

    This piece reminds me of a short, science fiction story by Dan Simmons. It depicts a world in chaos and dominated by a new Islamic Caliphate.

    http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm

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