As the copious tears of the 2008 Democrat Convention are wiped away and all our sappy libs neighbors return to their houses to harass us with the bumper sticker slogans they learned in Denver, it seems like a time to reflect before we jump into another VP announcement and another litany of speeches.
Did I blink and miss mention of his years spent in Indonesia during the opening film? Obama’s speech was what I expected, right down to the ostentatious fireworks. Free stuff for everyone and more time off from work. That’s the change we need. Same as Kerry. Same as Gore. Same as Clinton. Same as Dukakis. Same as Mondale. Same as Carter. Is it really 27 years since “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem“? Obama’s happy to be your brother’s keeper, just don’t ask him to keep his own.
The most glaring omission from the Democrat Convention was any mention of Homeland Security. I watched as many of the speeches as I could tolerate (the things I do for you), and I saw nothing of securing the homeland. No pros or cons of releasing terrorists Guantanamo Bay. No mention of securing the border. Not a word about infiltrating terrorist cells in the US or preventing them abroad. No beefing up our presence and working with Interpol to stop their plans. Is it really 7 years since terrorists crashed 4 planes into earth and buildings? Obama’s happy to secure an “alternative couple’s” right to visit each other in the hospital, just don’t ask him to secure you against being put in one by a terrorist attack.
The only conclusion I can draw from Obama’s Democrat Convention is that he and his party do not care about Homeland Security. Is it one of the programs he’s going to cut when he goes through the budget line by line? He didn’t say.
He didn’t say one word about preventing terror attacks at home. Nothing in honor of 3,000 dead Americans. He only mentioned the aftermath of the greatest American tragedy of our generation in passing as a battering ram against John McCain.
To Obama the attack is a prop. The soldiers fighting the resulting war are a prop. They are there to use as political examples.
His unbelievable burden of coming out of Harvard with (gasp) student loans got more air time than 3,000 dead Americans.
It was pretty. It was ornate. His celebrity was served well. But the speech, like the candidate who delivered it, was painfully insufficient.
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1Balance of Power on Sep 3, 2008 at 3:49 am:
Typical small-minded conservative thinking.
Funny how you recall Reagan’s “government is the problem” to chide Obama on programs to help the middle class, but have no problem in expanding the government with that waste of tax-payer dollars: The Department of Homeland Security, the most Orwellian government program ever devised until FISA.
Bill Clinton - laugh if you must, you no doubt blame him for 9/11 in the back of your monosyllabic reptillian brain - prevented terrorist attacks (the Millenium Bomb plot as well as one to destroy multiple airliners over oceas) without the use of “Homeland Security.”
Interesting too, when Democrats talk about protecting the environment and fighting/preventing the effects of global warming (whose dangers threaten as many people or more as terrorism), Republicans and the Right Wing blogosphere are the first ones to wag their fingers and claim that they are “fear mongers” - even VP pick Governor Palin has used this turn to deride Joe Biden, and more recently George W. Bush at the RNC this evening.
Yet, Republicans for the last seven years have been the first to exploit the death and destruction of 9/11, always willing to remind people of the dangers of “Islamo-Fascism” - fascism being the keyword, as if to tie it to WWII will give it any legitimacy. All this for their own political gain, even though 9/11 happened on YOUR watch.
Why the American people still buy this absurd notion that Conservatives are better at National Security is beyond me. I guess you can thank your canonized patron of NeoConservatism, Ronald Reagan.
And let me spell it out for you, Clyde, before you try to spin my words. Terrorism and Islamic extremism is a major concern of the 21st century, but it requires MORE than a military solution. Iraq has proven this time and time again.
A military response to the threat of terrorism is a simplistic approach to a complicated problem.
It is pandering of the most loathsome sort to continually evoke September 11th to drum up support for your cause when it was your cause and its leadership’s sheer INCOMPETENCE that allowed it to happen - not in the conspiratorial sense - but in their own arrogance and hubris that they thought they could ignore it.
Just as they have ignored so many other issues.
Perhaps the real reason you fail to see “substance” in Barack Obama is because you wouldn’t know it when you see it. I guess substance for you is the slack-jawed swagger of a fake cowboy.
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