Deconstructing Obama’s Statist Commencement Address

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Obama’s speeches are always simple, too often trite, and always political.  When he addresses young minds, his teleprompter throws him words which turn the conscious mind into an incredulous lump of mush wondering how such statements can emanate from a Presidential podium.

A recent commencement address at Ohio State University deserves a little exposure of the deconstructing kind, and Peter Schiff, the  CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., provides an unequivocal and effective six minute plucking of Obama’s private universe.  Schiff doesn’t mince words and is in particularly potent form.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjtOYYmaJU[/youtube]

 

Who needs individual ambition, drive and creativity to do big things, to do little things, or to do anything else, when you have your President making  you feel all warm and cozy about the prospects of big government, and the collective effort being there for you – so don’t bother trying.

Yup, what would you be worth if it wasn’t for the government?     . . . .  Is this the new path to inspiring greatness?

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I don’t deny what you have said of President Obama’s speechifying. It is to be expected, mediocre minds lack the ability to convey principles of depth of meaning. Has any President in the last 25 years been able to stir graduates at commencement or fellow citizens at any juncture? Regardless of party, the Republic has suffered two Bushes, a Clinton and now Obama. Not one of them able to stir the hearts or appeal to the souls of America. Future historians will likely not even note the names of the “Mediocre Four” but will skip over them the way they do the Presidents after Polk and before Lincoln.

I never attended college, but MANY years ago I remember hearing some clips of politicians talking to college graduates. Not one of them was a campaign. They all encouraged the students to go out and do the best they could at whatever field they choose.

obama is telling college students not to get their information off of electronic devices, and not to listen to talk of tyranny in our government. Is it making them worry more about our government? It sure is me. obama is the magician who is drawing our attention to one had so we don’t see what the other hand is doing? Has anyone else wondered what his OTHER hand is doing? I keep being reminded of this statement he made while he was running for he nomination to run for president for his party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

James, you wrote a gem here:

Obama’s speeches are always simple, too often trite, and always political. When he addresses young minds, his teleprompter throws him words which turn the conscious mind into an incredulous lump of mush wondering how such statements can emanate from a Presidential podium.

But why limit ourselves to Obama’s commencement speech?
Obama spoke at a Democratic fundraiser in New York on Monday.
His own words:

“And more than anything, what I will be striving for over the next three and a half years is to see if that spirit that I saw in Boston and West, Texas, if we can institutionalize that, if we can create a framework where everybody is working together and moving this country forward.”

Um, no, sir.
The spirit of helping one another, caring about one another and working together CANNOT be ”institutionalized.”
(I think by ”institutionalized” Obama means made law.)
Look at New Orleans after Katrina.
People SAT and expected to be taken care of.
They didn’t lift a finger.
Look at Detroit or Chicago.
People won’t even help the police by pointing out the shooters.
They can’t even keep the wolves (or feral dogs) from their doors.
Look at Obama, himself, in the same speech:

“If we’ve got folks on the other side who are prepared to cooperate, [go along with MY agenda] that is great and we are ready to go.
On the other hand, if there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation, then I want to make sure that there are consequences to that.”[Sounds like WAR, not like the institutionalizing of everybody working together.]

Oh, and the speech was given at a FUNDRAISER for Dems.

@Smorgasbord: #3,

They all encouraged the students to go out and do the best they could at whatever field they choose.

Only a narcissist would be capable of doing otherwise when facing a sea of young minds ready to go out to take on the world.

Scary video, Smorg. He must have been summoning up Che Guevera.

Isn’t it strange that so many of us saw through this hypocrite’s very transparent double talk and lies, but a majority voted for him?

@Nan G: #4,
Thanks Nan.

Look at Obama, himself, in the same speech: . . . . .

. . . . This is the spewing of a little man with a little mind who was ‘found’ and used as a front mouthpiece for people who are actually more worrisome than he is.

Actually, my sense is that this whole hateful bunch which Jarrett and Axelrod have filled the W.H. with are too full of self-loathing not to implode. The re-election lit that fuse.

@James Raider: #5
Even while McCain was campaigning for president, he said obama was a good man, and another time he said he thought obama would make a good president. I actually wondered who McCain was campaigning for.

@Smorgasbord: #7,
I remember that statement, Smorg. There are many like McCain who shortly after arriving in Washington lose all sense of self and play the game of self enrichment. Self-preservation is critical in that process. The evidence is overwhelming.

Some of these fraud artists walk away with sizeable fortunes for having allowed themselves to be dangled willingly from the end of strings, as stooges and puppets of larger interests.

@James Raider: #8

Some of these fraud artists walk away with sizeable fortunes for having allowed themselves to be dangled willingly from the end of strings, as stooges and puppets of larger interests.

They live like billionaires, but the tax payer pays their expenses.