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Krauthammer on Obama’s speech: “Abstract, vapid, and self-absorbed”
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Krauthammer on Obama’s speech: “Abstract, vapid, and self-absorbed” posted at 8:19 pm on June 4, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly But … that’s so unlike Obama. I need to correct CK before I praise him, though: The One doesn’t blame the United States for colonialist attitudes towards the Middle East at the beginning of the speech . He blames “the West,” which is certainly true if the West includes Great Britain and France (and it surely does). In fact, he explicitly says further on, “Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested ...
The Kraut Tears Into Obama Speech Calling It “Abstract, vapid, and self-absorbed”
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Charles Krauthammer tears into Obama on his speech today calling it “Abstract, vapid, and self-absorbed”
Absolutely perfect!
Moral relativism at its worst… ...
Obama’s Speech
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Charles Krauthammer on just a portion of what was wrong with Obama’s speech.
While many in the MSM are gushing over “Professor” Obama, no one seems to have done any digging into how many of his “facts” Obama got wrong in his speech. He seems to credit, for example, the invention of the magnetic compass to Islam, rather than China, whom most acknowledge as the source. His exact words:
It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of ...
Greg Hengler: Krauthammer on Obama Address: 'Abstract, Vapid, & Self-Absorbed'
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Krauthammer Trashes Obama Speech
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Krauthammer On Obama Speech
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Another fabulous smackdown
Parsing Obama
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So, here comes Barack Obama's long-awaited speech to the Muslim world , to decidedly mixed reaction. I am not going to dwell at the moment on the specifics of his Israel policy (for a very pessimistic assessment see this post by Ron Radosh, though there are many Israel supporters who do not share Ron's endorsement of the settlements). I also agree that the part of the speech dealing with Iran was rather weak, full of lofty sentiment signifying nothing. But some of the scathing criticism directed at Obama strikes me as rather misguided. For instance, Charles Krauthammer found it to be infected by "self-absorption"; but was Obama's talk of ...
Israel Need Not Apply for ‘Hope and Change’
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What would the Jews who escaped Hitler think of Obama's treatment of Israel? [image] I find myself becoming more and more upset and exasperated with the way Israel is being thrown under the bus by President Obama. During his most recent Major Speech TM , this time in Cairo — which seemed to be more popular with the American press than with the Egyptians, and which Charles Krauthammer aptly described ...
Rallying the Party of ‘Not Obama’
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Republicans should embrace that which bonds them: opposition to almost everything the current administration is doing. [image] For weeks after the 2008 election, Republicans argued about what they should believe in, what they do believe in, or what they could agree to believe in for the sake of getting elected again. President Obama has made it easy — conservatives believe in Not Obama. And that encompasses quite a lot. In foreign and national security policy, they believe in not equivocating between a despotic regime and citizens peacefully rallying to protest a rigged election and repudiate a repressive regime. They believe in not lying about the history and ...
