The Right Speech By the Wrong Man

As I heard Obama address the troops at Ft. Campbell today I couldn't help but think this was the right speech by the wrong man. It was a speech that sounded more like political posturing and a campaign speech. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't take him serious. It was a great speech, full of patriotism and passion and had the troops cheering as he said things about never forgetting 9/11 and how we will always back countries faced with terrorism,etc. It sounded like a speech George Bush should give because we knew he meant it. Obama even borrowed lines from Bush's 9/11 speech such as "We will not falter" and "we will never forget". He touted the successes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (wars he opposed by the way) and said how he sent troops to Afghanistan that are keeping the Taliban at bay and will soon turn over the fighting to the Afghanistan troops. I would like to remind Obama that he spent several months dithering and deciding to send troops there and when he finally did it wasn't as many as Gen.McChrystal wanted. Also there were more deaths in Afghanistan of American troops under Obama than under Bush there.


I find it hard to take his speech serious here when here was a guy who went through the middle east apologizing for America and calling us Arrogant and dismissive. I find it hard to take a guy like this serious who has a wife who calls us a "down right mean country." I find it hard to take serious a guy who calls middle Americans "people who cling to their guns and religion." Now we're supposed to accept him as this super pro American patriot? The conqering hero who got Bin Laden even though he opposed the very acts that gave us the info to capture this guy in the first place? Obama spoke out against waterboarding, enhanced interrogations and secret bases and promised to close Gitmo . Now those very same interrogations and waterboarding enforced under the Bush Administration led to ithe capture and killing of Bin Laden and Obama is the conqering hero.

Obama was opposed to the idea of bombing the compound for fear of collateral damage even though there were 18 ft. high walls and said we would never know if we got him or not and he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to approve this plan with the SEALS. He dithered for 16 hours on this plan and it was only until Leon Panetta convinced him to go thru with it that he ok'd it. Now he's taking all the credit for it. Everything as usual with him is "I,I,I, I did this and I did that. I put the team together, I gave the order.." He never mentioned or thanked the Bush administration for all the help they got from their policies. If Obama's policies were in place and we did away with enhanced interrogations, and other means they employed, Bin Laden would still be alive today.

Obama goes to Ground Zero and makes a great photo op and meets with the fire dept. and first responders which was fine and appropriate,but he never went there before. He then follows that with this great speech to the troops and has them cheering. Yes it was a great speech, but by the wrong man.