The Ego Has Landed
“Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent.”
Tear down that wall …so they can get a better look at me!!! Is there no-one in the White House grown-up enough to say, “Er, Mr. President, that’s really the kind of line you get someone else to say about you”? And maybe somebody could have pointed out that Nov. 9, 1989, isn’t about him but about millions of nobodies whose names are unknown, who lead dreary lives doing unglamorous jobs and going home to drab accommodations, but who, at a critical moment in history, decided they were no longer going to live in a prison state. They’re no big deal, they’re never going to land a photoshoot for Vanity Fair. But it’s their day, not yours. It’s not the narcissism, so much as the crassly parochial nature of it.
Is it the only template in the White House speechwriters’ computer? “Few would have foreseen at the Elamite sack of Ur /Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow/the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand/the passage of the Dubrovnik Airport Parking Lot Expansion Bill that one day I would be standing before you talking about how few would have foreseen that one day I would be standing before you.”
Please read it all. The excerpt does not do Steyn’s point justice. Really, the column points out that the World’s Superbower (I love that Steynism) has arranged the trial of the 9/11 mastermind in New York to “showcase” America’s legal system while at the same time making a mockery of the constitution by promising to convict and fry his sorry ass.
True liberals, as opposed to mindless Obots, should be screaming. The left gets it’s show trial, but Obama has already tried, convicted and arranged execution for KSM.
All Americans should be revolted by the Wizard of O at this point. The narcissism has become pathological.
Appalling, Obamantics | Gaius November 21, 2009
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By feeblemind, November 21, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
Greenwald has a very good piece on the show trial and the arbitrary way Holder is deciding who gets tried where (or not at all), over at Salon.