Obama's Speech, Deconstructed

It was a great speech...I am sure Cheney will have to choke on some of his criticism.

He's a great speaker, but that won't help us in Afghanistan nor will it improve things in the rotten corrupt ignorant mess that is Pakistan. 18 months??? He might has well as said 18 minutes. ZERO chance of success.

Dither, Deflect, Deceive: Walking the fence makes for a great politician, but a lousy Commander-in-Chief. Obama makes a great speech...until you really listen. And while we're defining this with "D's" let's add demonize, for the man's seemingly uncontrollable and addictive need to look to the past and blame Bush for anything and everything. It got him elected. It's costing him the middle now.

As always, Obama's speech is inspiring and promising. I hope that his words will turn into actions and get our men back home where they belong. God Bless America!

what was amusing about the speech was afterwards when hannity kept getting told off by all of his guests, until he finally pulled the plug on them and trotted out cheney.
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Different party, same BS. Islamic terrorists are everywhere so if you think the best bet is to kill them all then you may as well start in Detroit as Kabul or Khandahar. Problem is that very few of them wear t-shirts proclaiming their intentions and it's pretty much impossible to tell them apart from the billions of peace loving Muslims on the planet. Certainly no easy answers, but you'd think that someone would maybe try to win their minds and their hearts rather than bury their bones. But then this isn't really about ideologies or cultures or religions, as always it's about money. Obama has to pull the plug on Iraq because that was the Republican's war and must necessarily be portrayed as an evil and futile endeavor while he sends our troops (and the billions in defense contracts) to the exact same efforts in Afghanistan citing the clear and present danger of Taliban and Al Queda operatives planning more 9/11's from the refuge of a slightly different Islamic Republic. Pakistan has the atomic bomb and Iran isn't far behind so by all means let's send 30,000 more troops to hunt down and kill people who are at least 2 generations away from having indoor plumbing. Beam me up Scotty.

In the end he adopted the Bush/Cheney strategy. In the end he adopted the recommendations made from the Bush review completed in November of 2008. A review that he had asked the Bush administration to remain silent on concerning its findings. A review that he adopted as his own policies in March of this year. A review that after nine additional review sessions with his war council--he did not significantly alter.

President Obama, in outlining his Afghanistan strategy on Tuesday night, has adopted President Bush's strategy for winning in Afghanistan.

With one major difference... That stupid deadline.

Now all our enemies must do is blend in for the next 18 months or so.

Look for them to do it.

And brace yourself for what such stupidity will rain down upon us.

Of course Obama gave an inspiring speach. We need it! If those who are so negative on everything that the adminstration is trying to do would just stop and try to uplift our nation, we might just make progress. You find fault with so much but what do you offer? We need to unite. Divided we will fall. Let's stand behind our nation and bring it back to a powerful and respected people.

Suhocan do you really believe supporting a man who berates America at ever opportunity is right? Do you think we should support someone who calls the military criminals by accusing them of torture? Do you think going along with the socialist agenda and backrupting America will uplift it? You must be as dumb as those who voted for this fraud. Blind faith in corrupt leaders is what kills a nation, not what lifts it up.

What you are talking about is an impending backlash of nationalism . When people start realizing (or believing ) that their country is being stolen out from under them and the minority are taking charge there will be a violent reaction .

If Teleprompter Barry wanted to be really responsible he would have said he supported the military in EVERY aspect and would let them end this war, how and when they saw fit!
The Chicago Lawyer could have been a real hero instead of a politician.

economic down fall -
the thing that would fix the economic down fall is not to give billons to companys, but give 2 millon$ to each tax payer, that would cost far less-about 600 millon, and the economic down fall would go up!

there isn't much sense in sending more troops to Afghanistan as the tailiban has moved to pakistan. this is a big cluster I hope he still has his mop handy this is a hell of a mess.

Whenever he says "Let me be perfectly clear" then here comes the BS.