The Terrifying Line in Obama's Speech That Everyone Missed

[CG6468]

The Terrifying Line in Obama's Speech That Everyone Missed
Posted 09/07/2012 07:03 PM ET
 
His Agenda: President Obama's convention speech got rough reviews, and rightly so. He offered little but tired bromides and recycled promises. But critics overlooked one promise that will guarantee an even bleaker future.
 
There was plenty to dislike in Obama's speech. The language was flat, his delivery languid. The speech was stuffed with standard Obama chestnuts about the smallness of politics, the corrupting influence of money in politics, and how cynicism is our worst enemy.
 
Instead of stirring rhetoric filled with hope and promise, Obama pledged that under his leadership, "our path is harder" and "our road is longer."
 
Seriously? After four years of the worst economic recovery since the Depression, falling incomes, lower-paying jobs, increased hopelessness and exploding debt, all Obama has to offer is that he'll make this nightmare last even longer?
 
He also told the public that they "elected me to tell you the truth" not to "tell you what you wanted to hear," but then proceeded to hide inconvenient truths while filling the public's ears with sweet nothings.
 
For example, he pledged government help for everyone who could possibly want or need it, but managed to avoid any mention of the hard truth that the national debt just topped $16 trillion and entitlements are unsustainable.
 
He said he'd spend money saved from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on roads, bridges and schools. Even the liberal press wasn't buying this one. As the AP pointed out, Obama "laid claim to a peace dividend that doesn't exist."

[formerlurker]

Is there a link to this? 

[CG6468]

Is there a link to this? 

Of course. I apologize the the omission.

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[MrsSmith]

But while everyone was picking apart these and other flaws in Obama's speech, they overlooked the most frightening line of all. That was when Obama promised that he'd pursue "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."

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And so, as FDR's bold experiments increased, business activity decreased and markets froze.

I think Obama has been doing this for the whole FIRST term.   If he isn't deliberately setting out to damage the US, then he is the dumbest president we've had since FDR.  He even makes Carter look smart.   

[Rachel]

Saying that you're going to make things worse is not the best thing to put in an election speech, then again Democrats and good ideas rarely cross paths.

[CG6468]

He's always wanted to damage the United States. He is a traitor and a liar.

[formerlurker]

Thanks - I wanted to know what the line was that everyone missed, and it wasn't in the excerpted part of OP.   

[Freeper]

they overlooked the most frightening line of all. That was when Obama promised that he'd pursue "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."

Does that mean he will expand the Supreme Court by 3 more judges so he can put his stooges in and give him a green light for anything he wants to do?
FDR tried that, but he couldn't pull it off, 0bama however would just sign an EO and make it so.

[thundley4]

He said he'd spend money saved from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on roads, bridges and schools. Even the liberal press wasn't buying this one. As the AP pointed out, Obama "laid claim to a peace dividend that doesn't exist."

Democrats have long complained that the wars were funded through borrowing money from China.  Maybe instead of of continuing to borrow and spend, we just stop doing that?

[obumazombie]

The siren's call of the elusive peace dividend. 

[NHSparky]

Saying that you're going to make things worse is not the best thing to put in an election speech, then again Democrats and good ideas rarely cross paths.

"Let's tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."  -Walter Mondale, 1984

THAT is probably the stupidest thing ever said in a campaign/acceptance speech.

[marv]

Obama promised that he'd pursue "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."

Remember when he said he'd change America during the campaign in '08? Remember when he told the Russian President that in a second term, he'd have more flexibility?

[delilahmused]

Saying that you're going to make things worse is not the best thing to put in an election speech, then again Democrats and good ideas rarely cross paths.

I hope Romney uses that in his commercials.

Cindie