Posts Tagged ‘oration’
2009
“Obama likes to say two different things in the same speech, usually prefaced by his trade-mark ‘Let me be clear.’
‘And let me be clear,’ he told the Russians in Moscow, even as he presses forward with the Clinton/Bush policy of NATO expansion, ringing Russia with missile bases, ‘NATO seeks collaboration with Russia, not confrontation.’
You think ’saying’ and ‘doing’ are far apart on that one? Try this gem, also delivered in Moscow: ‘Now let me be clear, America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other country, nor would we presume to choose which party or individual should run a country…. America will never impose a security arrangement on another country.’ … Obama has been perfectly clear on so many pledges, on restoring constitutional protections such as habeas corpus, respect for international treaties and covenants on torture and the treatment of prisoners, on eavesdropping and, when you take even a quick glance at what he’s done, he’s been perfectly awful on so many fronts.”
via counterpunch.org