The “genius and legendary good judgement of the Obamessiah”?
It rests on very thin ice, as Chill demonstrates. It was all about one speech one of his progressive Jewish megamillionaire Sugarmommas asked him to give to a small crowd of ex-SDS’rs like herself (BetteLu Saltzman nee Kutznik), and her old SDS roomate Marilyn Katz (former staffer for Paul Simon) who also asked Obama to “say something that the old anti-Vietnam crowd could get behind”.
The Black Messiah had no clue on what the intelligence was on Iraq, had never had any involvement with the military or foreign policy in his whole lifetime – but like Jacques Villepin, Red Ken Livingston, Baghdad Bob, Barbara Boxer, Vladimir Putin, Saddam himself, Jane Fonda, Fidel Castro….he knew enough to bark and clap his flippers for his sugarmomma and say the right Lefty stuff.
Chill – Let us not forget that he voted to go to war against Iraq!
As did almost 3/4ths the Illinois Congressional delegation and likely Black Messiah would have as well if his vote actually mattered in 2002, based on how he was backing away from the vote in 2003 and erasing it from his website.
Chill – In contrast, Obama made a prominent speech around the same time, October 2, 2002, in which he said…….. Obama correctly foresaw the consequences of the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history.
It was a small gathering organized by two progressive Jewish sugarmommas to Obama, as forgettable as his “famous” anti-Iraq War State Senator vote. Which another progressive Jewish sugarmomma, Barack mentor and liberal activist Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky asked him to cast for “symbolic value” instead of voting “present”, Obama’s normal preference.
There was nothing “prescient” about Obamessiah’s vote or speech. He voted the same way other Hard Lefties did. His speech was little different than the one Vladimir Putin, a Euroweenie, or Jane Fonda would have given if Saltzman & Katz had found Barack has a tummyache and they had to scrounge up some otherLefty who opposed the war. Opposed it not from understanding the facts, weighing all the intelligence, having deep insight into the military or ME foreign policy – all of which were completely void in Obamessiah’s life and brain before his 2002 speech.
What the speech is, is simply something Team Axelrod found and resurrected that sounds real good in hindsight.
It relies on people remaining largely ignorant that people like Hillary, Tom Harkin, John Kerry cast yes votes because they were accountable for theirpositions and votes in a way Obama never would have been if he had guessed wrong. “I didn’t have all the facts, if I had been in Congress and known more, I might have voted differently…”
It relies on people not knowing that the decisions that made Iraq such a clusterfuck by latefall of 2003 rested on decisions made after Obamessiah (and Putin, and Fonda, etc) made his “Speech of Superior Judgment”.
a. Bush being clueless that no plan for Occupation existed, swallowing the neocon bait hook, line, and sinker.
b. The disastrous Bremer decisions in early summer of 2003 making most Ba’athists jobless and then disbanding the entire Sunni military – to stop by at all the ammo and bomb depots Bush’s force left unsecured on theirway back to their neighborhoods.
c. That AQ would see the vacuum and declare it a Central Front, sending almost 20,000 terrorists in to blow people and stuff up.
d. Iran and Syria – in large part because the idiot Bush and the neocons all but declared they were next for “high tech war and super-special special ops soldiers” coming in for “regime change”, decided it was a great idea to support the insurgents and allow Jihadis in to tie down and kill as many American “supersoldiers” as possible and bleed America enough. So that politically, endless wars of adventure to impose Pax Americana and keep Israel free of any enemy lost their appeal, globally and with the US public.
e. That no one knew how utterly fouled up Iraqi society was until we peeled away the dictatorship and saw the Iraqis in all their self-destructive glory.
Obamessiah knew none of this when he gave his little set speech to 60 aging hippies in Hyde Park that borrowed from the talking points that all the mass Euro anti-war protests of the last summer made.
