On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:09 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hmmm... listen to the president make lame excuses, or watch non-celebs >> dance like crap. >> >> Maybe I could go bowling instead. > > I have to say I never understand this attitude. This is exactly why we have > broadcast television in this country.
The older I get, the more tired I get of politicians and speeches. As it turned out, I did watch this speech, and as indicated earlier, I found it to be a waste of 30 minutes. This president went out of his way not to offend anyone, and that offends me, because there are people out there who need to be called out for their crap. I've watched the news recently and seen people like John McCain criticize this decision. But Obama doesn't call him out. Instead of telling the Republicans that unlike his predecesor, Obama actually found a bad guy who has harmed US citizens and committed direct acts of aggression against the United States, he played it safe. He didn't bother to point out that when his predecesor sent troops where they didn't belong, those who opposed the decision were labeled as traitors by the RNC. So maybe the RNC's members need to shut the hell up or resign since they are clearly not supporting America. He played up the NATO angle, as if turning things over to NATO frees us of anything -- we are NATO and NATO is us. See the following link for the fact check on the speech by the AP: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110329/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_libya_fact_check I used to believe -- like PGage -- that Presidential speeches mattered. They don't. I watched tonight's speech and felt dirty, because it wasn't presidential in the slightest. He wasn't addressing the nation as its leader; he was embarking on a marketing campaign. As I've stated previously, I'm glad we're in Libya. I only wish our military wasn't tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan so we could commit more resources there (which is another phrase I would have loved to have heard from President Obama). Qadafi murdered American citizens, and for that he was appointed as the head of the UN Security Council. The US government repeatedly cited Qadafi as an ally in the war on terror. Both the UN and the US owe the Libyan people fighting for their freedom (as well as the families of the US citizens he blew up) an apology for aiding this bastard (again, I would have loved to have heard an apology from Obama this evening, but no such luck). Instead of giving a speech filled with passion and truth, President Obama delivered a speech about utter nonsense. The US foreign policy has nothing to do with humanitarian aid, and it never has. I know the WWII veterans are described as "the greatest generation" and I won't argue the point, but folks seem to overlook that the US government postponed entering that war as long as possible -- until after we were actually attacked ourselves. There are lots of countries with facist dictators murdering their citizens all over the world, yet our foreign policy doesn't seem to dictate we intervene in those cases. It would have been nice to have heard the president explain why not. Here we have the president FINALLY making a decision that is right, just, and honorable, but either he doesn't want to tell it like it is, or he has made the decision for the wrong reasons. Either way, the speech was just pathetic. We'd have been better off if the networks had just played 30 minutes of LOLcat videos off of YouTube. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
