George Rebane

Obama’s speech calling for a unified world starts out with a bald-faced lie and goes down from there.  It follows the well-trod and thinly veiled path toward world unity sought by socialists since the French Revolution.  Given his age and political panache, one can make the case that Senator Obama is the first person in history who might be looking at the American presidency as a stepping stone to higher office.  The excerpts below have my emphases added and comments entwined.  The full transcript is available here.

Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, …

[gjr] Right, let’s have, say, Senator Herb Kohl, (D) Wisconsin, try to schedule a speech there for next Thursday.

History has led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril. When you, the German people, tore down that wall – a wall that divided East and West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope – walls came tumbling down around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed, and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the spread of information and technology reduced barriers to opportunity and prosperity. While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history.

[gjr] This man is historically challenged; the Germans dismantled the masonry at best, they were in no position to do more against the Soviet empire.  And to credit the Germans with the worldwide aftermath of USSR’s fall goes beyond the pale of even his ignorance – or is he just pandering?

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As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

[gjr] The one-world perfect storm propaganda for anthropogenic global warming has been addressed elsewhere on Ruminations and other sites available through the numerous links provided.

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.

In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone.

[gjr]  Since the nations under the aegis of the UN have demonstrated that such a union is less than ineffective, arguably inviting the cited ills, for what stronger ties that bind is the good Senator preparing us?

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This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.

[gjr]  Great start for this paragraph, let’s see if that sentiment sticks when the feds tackle taxes next year.  The thought quickly degenerates into socialist drivel which ends with the unattainable call to the proletariat.

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What has always united us – what has always driven our people; what drew my father to America’s shores – is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.

[gjr]  In 1949 my mom and dad (I was in tow) were drawn by the same set of ideals which in the interval have suffered mightily at the hands of our politicians elected by growing cadres of sound-bite informed voters.  For example, today select carefully the mind you would have speak, or try to restrict admittance to an association of, say, young Christian men.  You know, like the one that was once the YMCA with prominent facilities in every city.