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“Don’t Know much about history…”
By oceanguy | June 5, 2009
I can’t decide if BHO’s misstatements of history are ignorant or malicious… or both. Especially regarding the Middle East his perception is astoundingly inaccurate, seemingly having bought the chimeric Arab narrative completely. Listening to his speech yesterday, through the bits that were well written and well read as well as the rest, I kept thinking… I kept thinking about the song I thought fit as BHO’s Campaign theme… Sam Cooke’s “What a Wonderful World.”
The President, for a man purportedly so brilliant, is remarkably ignorant about a number of major issues. Middle East History and Anthropogenic Global Warming are two.
Topics: History Friday |
June 5th, 2009 at 5:54 am
I don’t believe he’s ignorant as much as he is being disingenuous. He hopes most Americans don’t know there history, and go, geeze whiz – “Muslims are responsible of all of that!” – For example, he mentions the treaty of Tripoli without mentioning the ‘why’ of the treaty is really quite feat of historical manipulation on his part. Then he expects his outrageous pandering to his Muslim audience establish his creds and will give him traction or cache within the Muslim world. Personally, I still feel he was speaking in the wrong place. He needed to go outside the Arab Muslim world -where the battles are currently raging rather than to speak to relative allies. I mean, will this speech make its way into the ears of the Swat Valley or Afghanistan? I think not but a speech in Lahore would have reverted where it needs to be heard.