‘Exercise in Contraction’: Krauthammer Speech Blasts Obama

"Obama indicted his own country."

Editor's note: A link to the full speech is in the related section below.

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October 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm - Manhattan Institute
Dateline: New York, NY
joey   October 9th, 2009 - 9:25 pm

Charles Krauthammer is BRILLIANT!

http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/

Rick   October 9th, 2009 - 9:32 pm

The World Apology Tour yields dividends.

geoegina   October 9th, 2009 - 9:46 pm

This is a great speech. I hope the text will be posted
on the internet.

eamon   October 9th, 2009 - 9:50 pm

Obama will finish the slide in serfdom started by Bush and before him, Clinton. Frederick Hayek spoke of the unspeakable horrors committed against mankind , ironically, in the name of mankind. We have been asleep to long. WTFU!

rbblum   October 9th, 2009 - 10:14 pm

Most everything that will be said or written about Barack Obama during his tenure as President of the United States of America will have the genesis from Barack Obama’s own words: To fundamentally transform the United States of America . . . and to judge him by the people who surrounds him.

And, as the effort is made to fundamentally transform the United States of America, so too will the effort to further the progression of global goverance . . . preferably, one crisis at a time; on a quickened time schedule; with little discourse or dialogue . . . for the noble cause of the downtrodden.

SubjectoftheUSSA   October 9th, 2009 - 10:25 pm

Very well written lecture. With all the media focused on short attention spans, it’s nice to hear someone take the time to explain things. If any of you liberals take the time to actually watch and listen to him (fat chance right) I’m sure you’ll just make fun of him rather than actually listen to the words. Everything he says is spot on.

Wish we had more like him.

If you follow the link to the full lecture he starts the lecture at 8 minutes in. The intro isn’t bad tho, I didn’t know half that stuff about him.

SubjectoftheUSSA   October 9th, 2009 - 10:31 pm

It’s funny how we can’t have actual debates over things like this. He makes a great point about our defense spending. In the fact that Europe spends NO money on their standing armies. What they do spend is minimal. So they are able to support their welfare states because they don’t spend a lot on defense.

The catch being, they are able to do that, solely because we are such a vast power they depend on us for everything. The US Navy keeps the seas safe for them, our guys storm the beaches wherever it may be, including tsunami relief for example. So they depend on us yet chastise us the same time.

Just some of the things they never talk about, they just want to cut things without realizing what the trade off is.

Listen to the lecture, it’s good

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   October 9th, 2009 - 10:40 pm

America…this is a patriot of old in modern times!

He is not afraid to put his reputation on the line to proclaim the truth…of “what is…is”!

Keep it up Charles…you are an encouragement to “real” Americans everywhere!

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THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY – SILENT NO MORE!

1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED

DON’T TREAD ON US…WE PAY YOUR BILLS IN WASHINGTON AND IN YOUR HOMES WHERE YOU WILL ALL BE GOING STARTING IN 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!

IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!

HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE LEFT, AMERICA?

Larse   October 9th, 2009 - 10:44 pm

Poor little Charlie… The likes of Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, and the rest of the American hating scum are his only friends.

Norm   October 9th, 2009 - 11:12 pm

Poor little L’Arse… The likes of Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, and the rest of the American hating scum are his only friends.

By the way L’Arse, how much money does Axelrod pay you to spray “horse yet” over the internet.

Oh, and another thing. Wacky’s communist friends made sure he got the “Prize” and the 1.5mil that goes with it. Wonder if Wacky shared a couple of bucks of that with his brother George, the guy in the hut.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   October 9th, 2009 - 11:23 pm

TEST

no way   October 9th, 2009 - 11:27 pm

Obama ids NOT Presidential. End of story.

Dear Mr President,

Go lead another country. We need a leader who cares about us. Not someone who only cares about himself.

Signed,
A PROUD American

Say NO to the O   October 10th, 2009 - 1:06 am

Thanks “no way,” I agree. If he hates America so much, he should move to Iran and run against Ahmadinejad. Wait, no, he likes him too much to impair his power. Perhaps he could run in Kenya….wait, no, because his brother would be too big a drag on his reputation. Hmmm……..exactly where could he have been successful?

NOWHERE except in this fawning-media nation of easily-misled uneducated ignoramuses. No wonder they gave him the Nobel prize……it’s for ensuring that the US will never be great again. The world hated us because we weren’t willing to cripple ourselves with petty regulations and nonsensical redistributions. Now we are, thanks to the O, and they’re thanking him for it. Sorta like the kids playing in the mud that get mad because some kid doesn’t want to get down in the mud with them like a moron, and then they cheer for the guy that pushes him in and ruins his clothes.

CqmmqnSense   October 10th, 2009 - 1:51 am

Bless you Mr. Krauthammer. Please never give up the figt for the greatest nation on Earth. We’re one of the youngest and most adaptable and all loving nations ever. Thank you for seeing our ability to always grow and learn.

Nattylite   October 10th, 2009 - 2:52 am

Charles is a very eloquent and educated speaker. Trying to poke holes in what he says would be like punching through 5 inches of steel. We are the doormat of the world, worse now more than ever. Saddest part is we are one of the youngest nations in the world. I say to he11 with the rest of the world and let them fight their own battles for a change.

claspur   October 10th, 2009 - 3:36 am

Search: Wikio.com “krauthammer” ….don’t know if you get the whole speech in one shot? check it out.

Hey Queer boy Larse   October 10th, 2009 - 4:06 am

“the rest of the American hating scum” That WOULD

Sunnyr   October 10th, 2009 - 5:08 am

Dr. Krauthammer always knocks it out of the park. He is so right about the naked Emperor in the White House. We need to dump this fool in 2012, before he can do any more damage to our Republic! It is going to take someone years to set our country back on the path to capitalism and prosperity.

Calvin&Hobbes   October 10th, 2009 - 5:33 am

Charles Krauthammer; a great American.
Thank you Mr. Krauthammer.

claspur   October 10th, 2009 - 5:50 am

sunnyr…

November 2nd, 2010… mid-term elections is when Maobummer gets defanged and impeached.

Steve   October 10th, 2009 - 7:30 am

It’s hammer time!

Gandhi's Fist   October 10th, 2009 - 8:23 am

K-hammer nails it again.

anne can   October 10th, 2009 - 8:50 am

Short sighted. What is the rest of the world going to do when we are unable to rescue them YET AGAIN!!! There are actually three things that are a certainty- death, taxes and there will ALWAYS be a person/party/country that will try to rule the world.

Garry   October 10th, 2009 - 9:35 am

These comments are the most red,white and blue crock of crap since GW was in office…If it were up to most of you,we would all live in a perpetual Reagan Wonderland where reality is replaced by self agrandisement…constantly telling ourselves how great and morally superior we are.Right up to the point where we find we have given up all the rights our constitution gives us through a a great bit of self defeating legislation called (most apropo)the Patriot Act.But,we have allowed worse…look at Reagans’ COG directive where he subverts the chain of command and puts the military in complete charge and leaves who in charge?Cheney and Rumsfeld…and this was in the very early eighties…so who is really trying to destroy this country? Obama is only one more of the same,bought and paid for by the same people.The problem is we the people are too polarized to see it….like one commenter said earlier…WTFU!!

Andy   October 10th, 2009 - 10:00 am

Non THAT is what an American pres. should sound like. Charles the Hammer..
Hey Glen I think I just one of the 56 you are looking for.. Call him.

Barb   October 10th, 2009 - 10:12 am

Krauthammer should be a college professor… He needs to educate the youth of today and blast through the barriers of liberal policy & education! I watch Fox News just to listen to his report on todays activities… brilliant analysis, Mr. Krauthammer!

Chopper   October 10th, 2009 - 10:39 am

Charless Krauthammer has more integrity in his little pinky than BHO has in his entire empty suited frame.

What a brainless fool!   October 10th, 2009 - 11:47 am

“O-o-o-o-b-b-b-b-mmmmmm-a-a-a in-in-in-in-in-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ict-ed-ed-ed-ed t-t-t-t-t-t-t-he ent-t-t-t-tire c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-ount-t-t-t-t-t-t-ry”. Very articulate, Charless (the clueless). Now wheel your tired butt out of here!

Whatwhatwhat   October 10th, 2009 - 12:00 pm

Obama told the TRUTH!

Only the reich-wing conservatives believe in lies, duplicity and arrogance to project a false sense of dominance to the world.

kmichaels   October 10th, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Garry we are great and superior. You are a moronic putz. FU is more like it you pathetic fool.

pepito cojones   October 10th, 2009 - 1:06 pm

Charles Krauthammer is an absolute GENIUS. Barack Obama is an absolute DOOFUS.

poetopoet   October 10th, 2009 - 1:33 pm

Exercise in Contradiction

Mr. Krauthammer is not W. Buckley or G. Vidal, but currently the best around, among the worst around aka The Obama Syndicate; this syndicate of traitors, terrorists, tax cheats, child molesters and outright screwballs; with one thing in and on their agendas. And that is to destroy America through giveaway social programs laced in black reparation programs. If any American thinks this is not true, then they are likely insane, by their failure to recognize right from wrong, with the clear and blatant evidence in place of this syndicates policies, either through Acorn, and any number of czars appointed, by the syndicate etc, etc.

It is truly pathetic when Black Panthers stop a voter and white, white racists supports them, claiming slavery, social injustice and every kind of lame excuse for their actions against America. Sudden and deadly anarchic can only follow their path, and regrettably they do not care. As I regret to state, this is inevitable and unfortunate, for this type of psychopathic and political alliance behavior called civil rights movement, is all but a charade and a farce, for the their victims will be the innocent law abiding citizens of all races.

SubjectoftheUSSA   October 10th, 2009 - 2:00 pm

Hey Garry, how about instead of reading the comments, you take 40 minutes out of your busy life and WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE DAMNED LECTURE

SubjectoftheUSSA   October 10th, 2009 - 2:02 pm

Go to the Manhattan Institute, the lecture on Kill oil with Natural Gas and Electricity and the Q&A that follows are excellent as well.

So many simple common sense things we could be doing to fix this country for the next century, but the green nazi’s can’t admit they are wrong for us to do it.

Jeff Brodhead   October 10th, 2009 - 3:08 pm

Oh, a Liberal Mind is a Reprobate Mind….. (there must be a good tune to go with that.)
Most of you are the Windmills, being battled by Donkey-hoeties.

The fools, who defend the Obamanation of Redistribution, cannot see one year down the road, or ten years back. All they can see, is the fabicated, fraudulant, flatulant dream of the ‘New Age of the Golden Trough’, where everything belongs to everyone equally (as long as they are members of the elite, which every lotto-minded American believes themselves to be…)

People from all over the world fight to come to America. That is part of what had made this Nation great – the land of opportunity. (Even under GWB!) In less than a year (in office), the current administration has created “change”, which is making this Nation repulsive to the world.

Obama seems to be on a course to create his dream, the ‘Great Prostitute’ of Revelation. The world will not mourn, until they see the true meaning of that creation; the enslavement of all peoples.

NewEnglander   October 10th, 2009 - 5:59 pm

Charles Krauthammer is a typical self-serving right wing commentator. Indeed, how is the world going to function without the “superior” moral leadership of America? It will function just fine, through cooperation and collaboration. Mr. Krauthammer presents the front that America is all for good, and seldom for wrong. What nonsense. Ask the Chileans, the Iranian, the people of Guatemala, the many dead civilians of Vietnam, who have suffered from America’s actions, and you will get a much more nuanced view of America in the world.

It is time that America work with the rest of world. Fie on Mr. Krauthammer’s reign of American “dominance”. He is a closet Fascist, a smooth demagogue who spins his false tales in the clock of an established journalist.

Yes, the world can be a dangerous place, and yes, the world needs vigilance and strong means of protection against unprincipled forces, but do not tell me that America is the only force that can lead, and the only force that understands the stakes, and the only force that can “save” the world. Wake up and stop looking for your answers in the mirror. There is a much larger world than the American myopic.

Mick   October 10th, 2009 - 10:03 pm

NewEnglander is one of those John Lennon “Imagine” types. He thinks everyone will “just get along” when conservatives like K-hammer go away. Naive utopian dipshits never learn. The moment they let down their guard so they can hold hands and sing Kumbaya they get their asses handed to them.

Idiots like NE never learn, however. They’ll just blame Bush when their asses are handed to them.

Yes, the liberal mind is truly a reprobate mind!

moon   October 11th, 2009 - 1:18 am

Hey NewEng. The US has let the rest of the world look after itself before. The result was two world wars that we had to win. Remember Neville Chamberlain? That worked quite well didn’t it? If I recall, back in the 1800’s Colt made a great handgun. Called ‘The Peacemaker’. The world’s bullies only respect one thing. Strength. I can not recall the last tyrant to be stopped by words. Anyone, help me out with that.

poetopoet   October 11th, 2009 - 12:27 pm

moon, how about “any last words” imagine offering a cigarette to them that today, cruel and unusual punishment, the lib’s will cry for anybody.

Larse   October 11th, 2009 - 6:00 pm

@NewEnglander
“Charles Krauthammer is a typical self-serving right wing commentator.”

Yes… He just blows out still working mouth what he is paid to make seem like interesting words… He did the very opposite chore for the liberals not to long ago… Just a paid off lip-flapper that flaps his lips to whom ever is paying him the most…

To bad since he is really smart. But he has to play the game of his masters with the paychecks… An enslaved brain with a voice…

@poetopoet

Your super off your meds there. :D Has Orly got you down? :D

father_moray   October 11th, 2009 - 6:48 pm

1. Are you people really going to let this ObamaNation pass all their schemes, raise all your taxes, so for all time you and everyone will lose all your freedoms to tyrants from Chicago, Kenya, Tehran and other such assBorne pieHoles like that?

2. Will you FeatherDancers just sit there and let these scum bags walk all over your Constitution…ignoring it all the while packing the government, media, school systems with more anti-American Redistributionist tyrants? Not that many folks!…certainly not as many as you!!…they just steal elections and win. You play fair…you lose…again…

Now, unless you go to Washington and surround the Congress. Demand an end to this borrow, spend and bankrupt method these rats now use to steal America away from the ones who died for her and those who love her even now. Prevent them from passing anything…do it…now!

3. There’s just a few of ‘em…but their unproductive, addicted to welfare voter base is a problem needing a severe solution. Purge America for America!!! Or be devoured by the Tax Eaters!!!

pepito cojones   October 11th, 2009 - 7:06 pm

Hey Arse, er, huh, I mean Larse, you are in such denial. You are absolutely clueless…

betterred   October 11th, 2009 - 9:44 pm

pepona cojones, you are the clueless one, but then your name translates to cardboard doll balls

Kix   October 14th, 2009 - 5:19 pm

Obama will go down in history as being the worst president this country has every had, thanks to the entitlement dregs of our society that still think this man is going to give them everything they erroneously believe they deserve and the commies in the unions and Hollywood that urged them on. The problem is that they will get what they actually deserve and unfortunately the rest of us will too. All the while, Russia and China along with their army of jihadists in the Middle East will grow stronger.

God, what a mess they’ve made of this country.

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