Barack Obama Can See Into The Future
A VIDEO of Barack Obama talkoing about the 2002 speech he made:
Tim Blair notes:
Edited transcript:
The speech that I delivered in 2002 wasn’t just me getting up and yelling, “I’m against the war.”
It was a very clear, specific outline of what I anticipated would happen if we went into war and why we shouldn’t do it. And it stands up pretty well … [it] was based on sound judgment.
Well, at least until the surge. Obama next veers into how his childhood overseas gave him insight into tribalism, before apparently returning to the matter of his speech:
Some of it was probably also my lawyer’s training.
I watched pretty carefully the presentation made by Colin Powell at the United Nations.
As a lawyer, you’re trained to poke holes in somebody’s case … it didn’t look particularly strong to me.
Strange thing, though; Obama’s speech was delivered in October 2002, four months prior to Powell’s UN appearance.
What’s gonna happen in four months from know, Barack?
Posted: 27th, September 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Politicians, Race For The White House, Terrible TV, Twitterings Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I would not class in the same category as McCain not knowing the difference between Czech and Czechoslovakia, and likewise, the difference between Clinton’s mixup as to what friendly fire was/was not. We can pick all of them apart, and sometimes find things out of context…and even some mistakes…and as in the above, take snippets out of context and draw our own spin. What is so terrible is that there is not one shred of discussion of the issues as a result…only vain irrelevant criticisms….each designed to like or to dislike one or another. It is no wonder both the pollsters and the newspapers question us and write about us without any substance, we are giving them what we want…and the result is going to be tragedy for us because we have lost the concept of responsibliity to what we are as free human beings in a free society. The founding fathers are turning over in their graves.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Psychologists have a name for everything; I only wish they had come up with the ‘dumb insolence disorder’ when I was a child.
Furthermore, they could have explained to my teachers that all they were doing was increasing my ability to seriously piss someone off in total silence, as I learned what didn’t work, what did work, and what worked so well that World War 3 would probably have resulted in fewer casualties…
September 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I’m sure psychologists have a term for this kind of hindsight mix-up…something like “retroactive memorial disconbobulation”. I suppose we’re all guilty of it sometimes.