June 22, 2011 - 5:16 pm
I was mostly (albeit ambivalently) with him until this line:
“We must focus on nation building here at home.”
Huh? The preceding lines had been about “investing” in infrastructure and so forth, which is obvious code for spending even more.
Sorry, Mr. President, but I’m inclined to take the check book out of your hands at the first opportunity. You have shown that you can’t be trusted to handle the nation’s finances responsibly. Call it “nation building” if you want, though I consider that an insult to the generations who have built the nation and bequeathed it to us. Call it anything, but it adds up to more irresponsible spending. So, no.
If by nation building here at home, it means taking the present administration out of office and replacing them with one that believes in democracy…I’m all for it.
I believe that the nation building quip (I didn’t listen to the speech by the way) was nothing but an insult to the American people.
What needs building? Oh wait, now I understand, either he means that we need to repair the damage that his administration has done or he hasn’t quite built the US of A into the socialist/fascist utopia (that keeps failing to and never will materialize no matter how hard the leftists try).
I’m not surprised that The One believes we need “nation-building” here in the States. I’m just surprised that he was foolish enough to say it in public.
He has gone from pretending to be FDR (whose “New Deal” was Wilsonian nation-building domestically) to pretending to be JFK (while not actually practicing any of his generally moderate-conservative policies at home or abroad). And now, he wants to be LBJ, declaring a new “Great Society”, and no doubt demanding more government spending, and more government control of the American people’s lives, to accomplish it.
This man not only does not learn from history, he doesn’t even learn from his own experience. He just bulls ahead, utterly and totally convinced of his righteousness, greatness, brilliance, and general overall wonderfulness.
In fact, he’s merely self-righteous, and only perceives himself to be great, brilliant, and wonderful. To any impartial observer, he increasingly looks like a parody rather than a President.
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