His tactics would be a complete disaster with the NAZIS as would Dr. Martin Luther King’s tactics during the Civl Rights movement.

Obama has already proved he’s an idiot, why does he keep trying to prove it further?

Spiritk9 on October 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM

To prove you are a good judge of character.

dthorny, the truth will set us free. Stick to the facts.

The birther stuff is counter-productive, destructive. There was no reason for Ann Dunham to go to Kenya to give birth or for Obama Sr. to bring his Hawaiian girlfriend home to his Kenyan wife and extended family. It makes no sense and give the Obamacrats an excuse to paint us all as crazies.

modifiedcontent on October 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM

When is asking questions become a crime? Are you Reverend Wright? Bill Ayers? Michelle Obama? Brother George? Need a dollar for next years rent? You’re reasoning is ridiculous.
Who said I believed he was born in Kenya? I’m asking the question on WHY does he not release ALL information on his past, simple as that. Why did CrockObama spend over a million dollars on hiding his records from scrutiny? What has he got to hide?

Might I offer a reasonable answer?

You see, many highly paid professors of Literature spend years of their professional lives studying such things as whether a certain manuscript was actually the work of Shakespeare, or was perhaps a forgery by some second-rate imitator.

Such researchers will pay close attention to what are called “minor encoding habits,” which are verbal habits a writer tends to fall back on. Identifying minor encoding habits is taken by pretty smart people as good evidence that a manuscript is either authentic or a copy.

Why do Literature professors study these things?

Because they want to understand the man, Shakespeare, and his times.

I don’t think the people looking into the authorship of Dreams are off base at all. In any other context, it would be a reasonable exercise. But in the present personality-cult of Obama, it’s apparently a grave offense.

This is disheartening to real intellectuals.

jeff_from_mpls on October 8, 2009 at 10:14 AM

From one Minnesoootan to another, thanks.
I would add when Obama received the credit for “the best manuscript ever written” HE LIED.

After reading that passage, how can anyone claim that King’s movement and the “America of today” had its roots in India? Did Obama ever bother to read King’s book or study him at all?

Ha — you really think Obama has any knowledge of history before 2000?

During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.”

He essentially advised the world to surrender to the most evil regime that the modern world ever saw.

In 1940, when invasion of the British Isles by Nazi Germany looked imminent, Gandhi offered the following advice to the British people (Non-Violence in Peace and War)

“I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions…. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”

Had the British followed his suggestions India would have fallen to the Nazis.

Do you think they would have been as accommodating as the Brits were when he went on his hunger strike or would they just shoot him?

As for his actions in India I believe he caused far more harm than good. The British were eventually going to give the people of India their freedom anyway.

The accelerated process only resulted in the deaths of thousands during 1947 between Pakistan and India and created a schism that still hold the potential of the first nuclear exchange in the world’s history.

He was fortunate that he was fighting an authority that recognized human values. The Brits weren’t going to take him out and shoot him. But had he tried the same tactics in the Soviet Union or anywhere in Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy what do you fancy his life would have been worth?

Plus, Gandhi teaching reflects very clearly he was a Luddite. He opposed both capitalism and progress.

As I said, over rated.

Least you think that I’m opposed to Pacifism that is not true; I encourage it in all my enemies.

Ahhh… history. Gotta love that stuff.

We should call Obama the Cliff’s Notes president. He appears to have scanned the back covers and/or Cliff’s Notes of a wide variety of written work. This, combined with his inability to realize his speeches are saying the exact opposite of what he wants them to say, leaves him making little or no sense most of the time.

A nice summation. Let’s just hope he’s actually reading those war strategy books the WSJ says he is, and not just the jacket blurbs. He’s brilliantly managed to make a bigger mess of Afghanistan “the necessary war” than it already was.

The President and his academic cronies Administration need to quickly realize that the theories they spout in their classrooms have ridiculously little to do with the real world.

Obama called for students to take responsibility and to learn from their failures so that they succeed in the end. “Hi. I’m Lilly. And if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be,” Obama was asked by one of the students.

“Dinner with anyone dead or alive? Well, you know, dead or alive, that’s a pretty big list,” Obama responded amidst laughter. The next moment he was serious. “You know, I think that it might be Gandhi, who is a real hero of mine,”

Obama said. “Now, it would probably be a really small meal because he didn’t eat a lot,” he said amidst laughter. But Mahatma Gandhi is someone who has inspired people across the world for the past several generations, he said.

Stay classy, Obama.

Ghandi was the big dog as far as influence citations were concerned.

Now. Try again.

pabarge on October 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Given what a basket case Ghandi was, that doesn’t reflect well on MLK.

But that distinction is NOT tied to grade or class ranking. It can be bestowed for any distinction (IE… Editor of the Law Review)

Skywise on October 8, 2009 at 10:33 AM

So, wired for Harvard, wired to edit law review (wasn’t he the first black?), wired for magna cum laud.

Imagine having your way greased for you like that. Tsk. Feel sorry for him…NOT.

Remember I Berliner…

Dr Evil on October 8, 2009 at 8:31 AM

“Ich bin ein Berliner”, mit Kaffee.

Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM

“Ich bin ein Berliner”, mit Kaffee.

Sweet….

And regarding the last post (which is the only one I’ve read in the thread), I say Obama needs to keep his speechwriters.

Thank you Ed for ironing out the record a bit from Barry’s wrinkly offering.

Well, I really don’t care what you say Christianity recognizes because clearly you just make it up as you go. Since Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are Jews by any definition accepted by Jews and since the Christion Messiah was a Jew and the apostles were Jews…. and since the base of Christian theology is from the Jews, foolish statements made by someone who does not let facts get in the way of their opinions, really do not matter. Maybe you should try posting on Daily Kos, that seems more your speed

An interesting essay here the roots of Judeo-Christianty: “Judeo-Christian Values vs. Western Values.”

publiuspen on October 8, 2009 at 10:54 AM

Here is the actual address here if you’d rather not click on a link.

http://conservativethoughts.us/2008/01/07/judeo-christian-values-vs-western-values/