This morning, my email was pack full of students who read my analysis of President Obama’s Inauguration speech and they all told me that I was just being mean! How terrible, I was to compare that speech with Washington, Lincoln and even Martin Luther King..
One student said:
“Pro. Beaumier can’t you see the symbolism. The speech was not important, just Obama being there was!”
Sadly, I cannot, I was judging the speech, to the ones I had heard in the past. For many years, we had Progressive and liberals explain that the symbolism is far more important than the substance. In this case it is so true that ugly head of symbolism pops out at us do often and when you get down to the brass tax there is always nothing behind it.
A very disturbing moment in the President’s speech came when he said this:
“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”
Suddenly it darn on me that we were having a Rodney King moment in history. If any of you have forgotten who Rodney King was: He was a victim in a case brought to court against four Police officers for Police Brutality. The case lost and rioting erupted in LA. King would later come out and said:
Can’t we all just get along?”
We have seen this kind of Rodney King effect from the past so many times, and as we look at his President Obama is pledging with the very same terrorist asking them to just along with us.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked that very question when getting off a plane after making peace with Hitler and giving half of Europe away to hopefully gain peace..
“Peace in our time” was Chamberlain Rodney King moment and President Obama’s was:
“mutual interest and mutual respect!”
That is a impossible plead and when dealing with Islamic Fascism Obama is going to learm extremely fast, as the world learn with Hitler.
These expectations that the world will rolled over and play good is delusional and dangerous. It is why we are war with Terrorism.
President Obama has a learning curve that even Biden his Vice president recognized, when he told Obama and the debating audience that the Presidency is no place for on the job training.
Well we are now going to see this kind of on the job training and I praying for our new President. Please God help him.
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