Posted 8:16 AM by Gene

As we promised, we are going word-by-word through the speech NEWT and SARAH!!!!! and MR. NEOCON called the bee's knees. Already we came across this gem in the third graf:

Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize — Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela — my accomplishments are slight.

With this clunky verbiage Om's 200 ghostwriters vaguely imply He's a giant of history too.

The other is a conflict that America did not seek; one in which we are joined by 43 other countries — including Norway — in an effort to defend ourselves and all nations from further attacks.

Attacks from whom? Ah, but you know the answer: attacks from people we can't mention because they're politically correct.

The Cold War ended with jubilant crowds dismantling a wall.

What wall? Whose wall?

For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.

Combined with His daring use of the T-word this sentence explains why NEWT and SARAH!!!!! and MR. NEOCON went bonkers. He used a word Dubya used. And that word alone justifies praise, never mind the verbal miasma shrouding it.

The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans. We have borne this burden not because we seek to impose our will. We have done so out of enlightened self-interest — because we seek a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom and prosperity.

I'm supposed to be impressed He can deliver a speech to the American Legion?

Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct. And even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, I believe that the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions.

Om really deked out the three stooges here, but that's what won Him the accession -- once upon a time He could be right and left.

[I]n dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to change behavior — for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure — and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

The three stooges seem not to have noticed this word cloud, a platitude to cover for the worrrrrrrruld community's manifold sins of appeasement. Nor did they notice this eloquent turn of phrase:

But it is also incumbent upon all of us to insist that nations like Iran and North Korea do not game the system. Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted. Those who care for their own security cannot ignore the danger of an arms race in the Middle East or East Asia. Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war.

And as OM's 200 ghostwriters know averting the eyes and standing idly by has been the worrrrrrrrrruld community's response lo these last half-dozen years. But He did say "evil"!

The same principle applies to those who violate international law by brutalizing their own people. When there is genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo or repression in Burma — there must be consequences.

Consequences -- of more talk.

Let me also say this: The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy.

So THAT's why Hillary's kept silent!

In light of the Cultural Revolution's horrors, Nixon's meeting with Mao appeared inexcusable — and yet it surely helped set China on a path where millions of its citizens have been lifted from poverty, and connected to open societies.

No, NO, I CAN'T mention a seven-letter formerly hyphenated word that begins with the letter W.

Most dangerously, we see it in the way that religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.

Oh, so He DID mention the I word. Although He might have been more correct to say they attacked our country from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan too.

We can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace. We can do that — for that is the story of human progress; that is the hope of all the world; and at this moment of challenge, that must be our work here on Earth.

Ta-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! Speech over.

And so I have read, or tried to read, all 4,119 WORDS, unlike NEWT and SARAH!!!!! and MR. NEOCON, who watched and heard the majestic burble too comfortably from the CABLE NUISANCE NETWORK or the MESS or whatever luxury suite they inhabited, and by hearing ten words were able to convince themselves that here was a fellow con-SER-va-tive, when all the world witnessed was another gas emission. But gas smells sweet when it makes history.