Saturday, December 12, 2009

Your First Clue Should Have Been That He Had Written Two Autobiographies By Age 45

Rich Lowry and Victor Davis Hanson are still pulling apart President Obama's speeches and finding messianic self-references everywhere. Rich:
In Oslo, his Nobel speech contained an admirable vein of realism. But he still dazzled with the obvious - war has been endemic to human history. He awed with the unconsciously egomaniacal - "I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war." (Did he really think that disclaimer necessary?) ...

Obama seems to believe he's the first person to stumble on the concept of the "interconnected world." He often speaks in a professorial manner that treats his listeners as if they are all eager to be lectured in Obama 101, managing to sound thoughtful without any true depth or wisdom.
Victor:
The president said some good things, but unfortunately, his long academic lecture on the nature of war itself had all the characteristics of what we have come to accept from an Obama sermon:

1) Verbosity (4,000 words plus!) and extraneousness (he finally even referenced the world’s farmers); 2) I/me exhaustion (34 times) and the messianic cult of personality; ... 6) reference to his own unique personal story; 7) good-war/bad-war theory of Afghanistan and Iraq; 8) the hopey-changy rhetorical flourish.

Is there a Microsoft program somewhere that writes these things out?
No, there's no software that produces this. Just a guy and his coterie for whom the history of the human race begins on August 4, 1961.

1 comment:

Tots said...

Just get him some water to walk on and let's get it over with eh...

I thought about writing an autobiography and then I remembered "I HAVE DONE NOTHING OF MENTION."

I wish he had gotten the same clue.