The Audacity of Hype

by William Safire - August 31st, 2008 - The New York Times

In a speech aptly titled “The American Promise,” Obama promised to “end this war in Iraq responsibly,” even as it is already ending responsibly. He promised in a militant phrase not merely to end but to “finish the fight” (meaning to win) in Afghanistan. In one catchall sentence, Obama promised to defeat “terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease.” Because the charge that he would raise taxes obviously nettles him, he promised to “eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses” run by obedient high-tech executives, and to “cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families.”

In promising to “end our dependence on oil from the Middle East,” he stopped pandering for a moment to oppose the majority of Americans urging we increase supply by drilling for oil here: “Understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution.”

He is no longer promising to end global warming just by being nominated. Maybe Obama is convinced that it is already happening since the global warming alarmists are so concerned that we may be entering a period of global cooling that they have switched their rhetoric to "climate change" to hedge their bets. Watch for Obama to take credit for that change soon.

This is an excellent article by William Safire and it delineates a number of additional flaws in this self righteous speech by what more and more are calling "the empty suit."

The part of the speech that caused me to turn it off was when Obama adopted his look of anger and vitriol and proceeded to denounce John McCain in language that was purely outrageous. Find a picture of that anger and you will see the real Obama. Obama is like the angry and outraged anti-war extremists who hate war so much they are perfectly willing to KILL you if you dare disagree with them.

I am not sure that if I wrote this article I would not have called it the Audacity of Hate. He hides it well but Barack Obama is one bitter man who, to paraphrase his famous speech, clings to socialism and abortion.