At least arguably, at least to some extent, the U.S. government created the ‘terrorist threat’ about which it now wishes us to be, er, terrified. I can’t really back that up, I’m not informed enough about the complex subject to rate an opinion, but it seems fairly logical to me that more-or-less randomly bombing people for year after year might just possibly give those people reason to hate you.
Be that as it may, the fear of a wave of terrorism sweeping the nation does not keep me awake nights and I don’t need President Lightbringer’s assurance that it will all be all right if only I believe.
“Let’s make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional,” Obama said, standing behind a lectern in front of his desk. “Let’s not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear.”
Well, that’s good to know. But coming from you, Mr. President, it’s a laugh line.
Hey, you know what else is more powerful than fear? Superior numbers and firepower. Even certain no-doubt-democrat bureaucrats in my home town of Detroit have figured that out. But Obama will keep beating his gungrabber drum, even though he unaccountably always stops short of doing anything about it with his mighty pen and phone. Could it be he still cares about the anguished cries of democrat party solons? Anti-gun rhetoric is good business, but anti-gun action could cause another voting booth holocaust. Far-gone lefties want him to do it anyway, in the form of banning guns – or at least gun purchases – for people on that ‘terrorism watch list’ we’ve heard so much about lately. He could have raised all sorts of mischief by doing that last night, and I kind of expected him to. But apparently he backed away.
So, basically, President Obama seems to have given a speech about nothing. I didn’t actually hear it so I could be wrong, maybe there were cookie recipes or something. But I doubt it reassured anybody about what-all he’s doing to keep the bad ol’ terrorists at bay.
Ah, Van Dyke and Nine Mile.
I’m not too surprised at the attempt or at the final outcome. Warren is an interesting place.
Looks like Obama is trying for the full court press. He is grasping at any straw to get guns away from the peasants lest they catch on to what is going on in your country and storm the castle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvGnro4Cgw
All hat and no cattle… And here I was getting ready for the BBQ. Oh well, I still have some cans of beans around here somewhere. I can wait a little longer.
“At least arguably, at least to some extent, the U.S. government created the ‘terrorist threat’…”
You are being a little less forthright than you should be, heh.
I suspect Obama is looking back at his legacy of being “The World’s Best Firearms Salesman, Evah” with a special endorsement for “Most Military Weapons Sold”, and wishing he could somehow avoid that title. But why he worries is beyond me. Hitlary will soon eclipse his record.
I too did not watch him. Whenever a politician gets on TV, I always find I have something more important to attend to. Like counting the hairs on my arm.
“Whenever a politician gets on TV, I always find I have something more important to attend to.”
Plus one! For me that certainly included the so-called Presidential debates of both parties, and the recent Obama speech. Even if you care what they have to say; in this information age why would you spend all that time watching the boob tube when you can read the highlights of what they said in just a few minutes?