Barack Hussein Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. For those who may be somewhat ‘history challenged’, the Brandenburg Gate was the focal point of the infamous Iron Curtain of Cold War fame, separating East Germany from West Germany. This is the spot where President Ronald Reagan demanded of Gorbachev, “…tear down this wall!”
As columnist Charles Krauthammer points out, “What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final "tear down this wall" liquidation. When President Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.”
Who, besides himself, is Barack Hussein representing? And more important, just what has he done in his pampered and scripted lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What is his claim to fame in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what President George Bush, The Elder called “a Europe whole and free”? (Bush The Elder presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but, even he, modestly declined to go there for a victory lap.)
But Barack Hussein, the presumptuous little whelp, cannot (or refuses to) see the incongruity. It is as if a German politician took a campaign trip to America and demanded Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop for a campaign speech! (The German government is now trying to nudge Hussein Obama into look at other venues.)
Americans are just now beginning to notice Barack Hussein’s inflated ego issues. While there is certainly nothing new about narcissism in politics, there has never been a presidential nominee (even though not yet official) with a wider gap between his elevated opinion of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements.
Barack Hussein Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his credit. As a former Illinois state senator, he voted ‘present’ 130 times. A real profile in courage! As president of the Harvard Law Review, as a law professor and as a legislator, he has never produced a single notable piece of scholarship nor written a single memorable article. His only claim to literary fame is a biography of his favorite subject: himself!
It is a subject of which he is enamored. Upon achieving ‘presumptive nominee’ status, Barack Hussein declared it a great turning point in history – “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” – when, among other resulting wonders, “the rise of oceans began to slow.” As economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone. Modesty is a virtue of which Obama is destitute.
In the words of his own campaign, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Translating the royal ‘we’: “I am the one we’ve been waiting for.”
He lectures us, in customary “do as we say, not as we do” liberal-elitist fashion, that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, "you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish" -- a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how "embarrassing" it is that Europeans are multilingual but "we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, 'merci beaucoup.'" Obama speaks no French.
His wife assures us that Barack Hussein “…will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual . . .”, a not so subtle inference that only he, not ourselves, knows how we should live our lives. Folks, this is a very scary egomaniac!
At the opening of his campaign, the big question on informed minds was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is?
