If I may be allowed to offer a “correction” … make that “Dear Reader,” rather than “Dear Leader.”

Possibly. But, in the same vein, perhaps he meant he had to go “write” another speech.

Europeans still believe in an overweening central government (and are trying to establish a still larger one, in Brussels), still believe in the welfare state, still believe in socialism, and still believe in appeasing avowed enemies. It’s almost as though the twentieth century never happened. For people who pride themselves on their grasp of history, they’ve sure missed the boat.

Why they persist in clinging to views that have long since been discredited, somehow believing that this time they’ll work, is one of life’s great imponderables, much like why Charlie Brown kept trying to kick the football that Lucy always yanked away.

In their lucid moments Europeans realize that America is much more successful in virtually every sphere, but refuse to grasp why: we allow failure (or used to). Instead, they resort to cargo cult policies (e.g., the EU) that ape the form but not the substance of the American experience. It’s almost as if they think that they’ll be fine if they get some NFL franchises over there.

Memo to Europe: winners win, and losers lose. ‘Twas ever thus, from our origins on the savannah. Don’t try to impede that fact — embrace it.

This video sums it up pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nVd6p3NW8

Let’s take BACK the country next week!!!

I’ll pile on…

There is no evidence he’s a man let alone president.

It started off with factual errors, like saying BO grew up in Illinois. (Is there any evidence that he ever grew up?) Then they went through a bunch of clips about his foreign policy, mentioning things like returning the Churchill bust but attributing it to Europe’s dwindling influence and pretending it was some sort of thought-out policy to reposition America in the world. Dany (the Red) Cohn Bendit was especially critical of Europe’s uncoordinated policies. They made it sound as though BO’s China outreach was successful, and they regretted that Europe hadn’t been strong enough at the Copenhagen climate summit. I didn’t see any thing about Iran, but I may have been screaming through some segments. At some part there were pictures of Sarah Palin and the tea parties, which were, of course, described as ultraconservative.

This documentary was followed by a talk round with a French woman who is associated with Stanford and an award-winning French guy who had been a a US correspondent. It was quite obvious that these superior beings got their info from the likes of NYT and peers at NPR. Neither would have sullied himself by reading a conservative blog with comments. They must have missed Obama’s condescension to us or else they considered it normal. After just a few minutes of blather, I decided they were incapable of understanding anything, so I turned them off.

Such is the in-depth journalism consumed by the artsy-crafties of Europe. Is it not understandable why I cling to places like neo-neocon to stay sane–if I have managed to?

He’s way way over his head. To me he seems clueless to just how transparent his bs is becoming to the average American.

He’s bringing about widespread changes in perception of race that just wouldn’t be possible without his election.

A lot of people are feeling guilt and remorse as they realize what they’ve done.

It’s not just that there a millions of people who voted for him in some part because his black as part of some liberal leaning fantasy, and now those people will never vote blindly by race again. More pervasive is that people in their everyday lives often bias their behavior in favor of blacks (e.g. excusing behavior that they would never accept from say a white) in a hundred ways oblivious to what they are doing. That’s already changing and its effects will last long after Obama is out of office.

Once you’re worldview has been revealed as flawed/broken, you can’t go back.

Thank you President Obama for showing so many the error of their ways.

Glory Hallelujah! Let’s erect a statue to the man.