It is impossible, absolutely impossible to be surprised by the width, breadth, and depth of the efforts made by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to remove gaffes, unpleasantries and outright lies from his past, recent or otherwise.
This is not a good sign for a future Obama presidency.
World Net Daily’s Bob Unruh wrote July 16, 2008
The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech. [...]
Campaign officials have declined to return any of a series of WND telephone calls over several days requesting a comment on the situation. Nor have they posted a transcript of the speech on their website.
But transcripts posted at both the Wall Street Journal and Denver Post do not have the critical comment that has raised such concern.
Listen to the YouTube of Sen. Obama’s July 2, 2008, speech below. At approximately the 16:50 mark he says:
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Also see RBO’s July 13, 2008, article More change you can xerox: Obama’s “public service” plan and WND editor Joseph Farah’s July 15, 2008, article Obama’s ‘civilian national security force’.
American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson has more.
**The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force …**
Does the liberal internet community know about this? Is this what he has in mind for Blackwater? Is anyone sure this guy taught constitutional law?
This type of omission keeps happening with the media and it is often hard to find. Take the Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain’s recent trip to Iraq where ABC left off the poll of people who supported McCain.
I’ve linked back to your article from Media: cleaning Obama’s speeches … I guess I could of used your trackback interface but that seems so impersonal.
“Stunning” is how Obama’s supporters have chosen to gauge out their eyes and stick a Qtip all the way inside their ears in the name of “hope” when it comes to His statements and flip flops.
From “believing” in the beginning of the campaign in His preachings about hope, now they have turned to believe that He is the “mole”, and these are not communists. I have being reading his supporters’ comments in different sites and found that many of them explain his flip flops as “imperative” in order to “pretend” that he is not so liberal so that he can get to the WH, and THEN he will turn around and surprise the billionaires supporting him. In those believes there is a non stated recognition, an acceptance that what He is saying now is not what He was selling in the beginning. And there in lies the danger, in their willingness to ignore their own perceptions, to change the real political meaning of what they are seeing and hearing from the “leader”.
I don’t know about you people out there, but I have this uneasy feeling that the American citizens, those with a good heart, are finding themselves at such a loss, politically powerless to inflict any decent sense in our politicians, to the point of allowing themselves to be swept away by a charismatic “leader”.
This is all so reminiscent of the mood in the German people that permitted the rise of that lunatic Hitler and all the horror that followed his election.
His Highness is an open book. People are just reading His books, not him. Obama has made it clear that he has nothing in common with African Americans. I have read comments of Blacks saying that this time Blacks will be taken into consideration in Obama’s presidency. What delusion. The few instances in which he refers to AA is to chastise them, as in the Father’s Day speech and in the infamous DNC speech. There, the only time he referred directly to AA was to comment about “the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.” And in his first book, Dreams of My Father, he starts by saying that he has come to terms with the fact that he can “affirm a common destiny [with Blacks] without pretending to speak to, or for, all our various struggles-is part of what this book is about.” He went to work as a community organizer and came out realizing he has nothing in common with the mainland Blacks.
Plus, Obama’s membership to The Hamilton Project speaks volumes about where his alliances are when it comes to the working class. And yet, some union leaders are expecting Him to fill the Labor Department seat with one of them. How can any one expect the interests of the global free traders of the Hamilton Project to coexist peacefully with those of the working class? Obama said it in his speech in the inauguration of The Hamilton Project: “This is not a bloodless process.”
Yeap, I see Obama, if he wins, as the beginning of the fall of the American democracy. Obama is in this for himself, that explains his constant flip flops to accommodate himself to the billionaires that are funding his campaign. Look in his administration for Big Brother and the ruination of the environment, the deep polarization this country in class and race and gender, and a bloody war with Iran.
Americans continue to be confused as to whether he is a liberal or a hardened capitalist. Funny. He is attack from right and left and yet he seems to be the one who will win the elections.
It’s looking grimmer as each flip flop passes.