On the Senator’s highly praised speech on race that he gave in Philadelphia during the crest of the Jeremiah Wright scandal, the Vanity Fair writer challenged members of the audience to recited a single line.
“You can’t,” he proclaimed, a bit excited that his prophecy had turned true. “It was one of the most boring speeches ever made.”

I’ve been saying this since Obama made that “amazing” DNC Convention speech in 2004. I’ve never heard anyone, ever, QUOTE Barack Obama. All he ever does is spout meaningless platitutes; he never actually SAYS anything.

Liberals just believe Obama is “articulate” because, apparently, they’re all so utterly amazed to hear a liberal black person speak English clearly that they’d never in a million years stop and actually listen carefully enough to tell whether he was doing so cogently.

“Megalomaniac” describes both to perfection.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 12:38 AM

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Probably, but I see Obama as a sort of surrealistic reflection of his associations. He is whatever they want him to be. As we uncover and force him to remove his associations, we discover there is nothing of substance to the man himself. Like an elementary school sticker book collector whose self-esteem is just another sticker that has been awarded to him because he is, rather than because he’s earned it.

He’s wrong more often than he’s right, but that’s actually pretty good for a liberal. Most of them are wrong just about all the time.

The pseudo scholarship of Vox Day hardly merits comment but plenty can be found using a google search.

The power of words.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 1:09 AM

Third, Reagan knew “peace is made by the fact of strength – economic, military, and strategic. Peace is lost when such strength disappears or – just as bad – is seen by an adversary as disappearing.” America’s economy had to be restored, so the Soviets would know the U.S. could compete with them.

This is precisely what Soros and his minions have done. Where our strengths exist, if they could dilute them, they did. Where they couldn’t, they worked tirelessly to destroy our strengths by changing the perception of them, both here at home and internationally.

Working to bring down one’s own country is a pretty sick means to an end.

GREAT? I simply hope it was made with recycled paper, because there was nothing in that book that justified the cutting down of a single tree! It was irrelevant, badly researched, anti-intelectual, piece of bigotry.

Case in point; Hitchens makes the standard atheist point that religion is responsible for most of the violent wars in history, whether it is actively going to war in the name of God/gods, or providing the attitude that allows wholesale murder of those “not like you”.

However, if this were the case, there should be a lot of evidence for this, right!?! There is NONE!

As Vox Day has done in his book, The Irrational Atheist, any survey of the writings of the major war philosophers/ political philosophers/ military tacticians shows there is almost no mention of religion at all. (The most notible mention is in the diary of Nathan Bedford Forrest, where he says that if men were more Christ-like there would BE NO MORE WARS.)

Add to this the fact that, according to the peer-reviewed Encyclopedia of War only 7% of the wars fought since 2480 BCE had any religious conotation at all, and you can say that Hitchens doesn’t know what he’s talking about!

Tom Bryant
BA – Philosophy of Religion, Clemson University C/O 2008

I also agree that Obama’s over-hyped “race” speech was a big bore. But I do remember one line from it. It went something like this: “I could no more disown Reverend Wright than I could disown my own white grandmother.” I only remember that line because of the irony of seeing Obama disowning Reverend Wright a couple of weeks later (after Wright committed the unforgiveable sin of speaking the truth about Obama — when Wright said Obama was just a politician and would say anything to get elected).

All’s well that ends well.

aengus, just a little bit on Broadcasts here – section 2.1

Entelechy on June 11, 2008 at 11:41 PM

You have to read the entire piece. Its in a book calling Blaming The Victims co-edited by Edward Said and Hitchens.

Anything anchored to Edward Said is going to be a didactic, tedious, and ridiculous pseudo-theoretical “poor Muslims” pity party.

Obama is boring

And I thought I was the only one who finds Obama utterly boring. We all know his speeches are full of syrupy cliches. But what hasn’t been pointed out is how boring his voice is.
He talks in a dull drone. I would rather listen to John Kerry speak than Obama.
I’m biased, of course, but I’ve never even been even remotely enthused by any Obama speech.
The MSM are all having multiple orgasms – in their trousers and their skirts – over a man who is, at best, mediocre in every way.
But like I said, I’m biased.

He spits bile at people who don’t support the Iraq war …yippee?

aengus on June 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM

Maybe he thinks that will somehow compensate for never having personally bothered himself to participate in one.

I second Radical Son; one of my favourite books. Incredibly personal look at Horowitz and his flaws, and (frighteningly) illuminating about the left. If you weren’t concerned about the penetration of Marxism/Communism in society, you will be after you read his book.

Entelechy, something you said earlier… is Steyn not a dual citizen? I thought he was (if that’s what you were referring to… saying Hitchens embraced something that Steyn didn’t). If that’s what you’re referring to… if Steyn loses in Canada he’s pretty screwed. I thought he became an American and could hunker down in NH.

aengus – sorry about your mom. =( You as well, Entelechy, I am sorry for your loss. I lost my dad when I was 12, suddenly. Rough road.

When John Kennedy died, Joseph Alsop wrote that Washington was filled with “male widows,” and that he too was one of them. Obama isn’t president (yet), but he has more than his share of male concubines, who are starting to embarrass themselves (and their readers) with a slavish devotion that is only too evident. They are “at that stage in the ad where the announcer warns that, if leg tingles persist for more than six months, see your doctor,” as Steyn advises. Chris Matthews, Newsweek, and now Mr. Halperin, should seek out their doctors, and fast

peski, Thanks!

With Obama’s campaign, I abhor, and I’m furious at the vial and sometimes outright pretentious accusation of being a typical angry, gun toting, religious neocon desperately grasping onto how to deal with life’s problems.

That only happens when I order out.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 2:11 AM

I was being a facetious and somewhat over the top. A clumsy effort to be humorous.

I know Hitchen’s is neither efficacious to Clinton nor Obama.

But I was amused at the comments and being late to the conversation, somewhat over analyzing.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 1:57 AM

Good evening and Aloha!

What troubles me is how nobody seems to listen to the obvious message from Obama. Hitchen’s might have that Mathews thrill, but every Obama supporter is about a dysfunctional as a sports player with his jock strap over his face as a surgical mask. It just doesn’t look or sound right. And asking the question, “what’s that smell?”

No need to start or stop “on religion” with me. It’s also a subject by which I don’t value people. I know many who are good/bad, in either category, the believers, and the nonbelievers. I know where you stand and you’re just fine by me. Good night, and don’t change.

Entelechy & peski

Your comments are feeding my craving for milk and cookies this late in the evening. :)

Kini on June 12, 2008 at 1:52 AM

Ok, Kini, that’s a cute web site.

peski, no, it’s Obama’s disassociation with all the people in the photoshop. Do you recognize them? It’s brilliant. It’s not hate, it’s a depiction of how he throws under the bus his life-long associations if they’re a political impediment to his zeal and power.

Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 1:48 AM

I get it. It’s cute – and clever. Nice poke at the empty suit, who will abandon his backers at the drop of a mike.

But the whole “aura” of Obama has me tired. Get the feel of the text on that site. I’ve been living with the spectre of racism my entire life – as a poor white boy who grew up in a black ghetto. I’m just F-ing sick of the whining, from both sides. Fuck race. Take care of your family. Be nice to your neighbors. Work hard. Make freinds. Love and care for your children. Stop asking for handouts and blaming someone else.

Don’t get me started on religion…..