CBS: Obama’s ‘Elegant Words’ May Prevent ‘Another D-Day’

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On Sunday, White House correspondent Chip Reid gave a glowing review of President Obama’s overseas trip: "A trip laden with symbolism and elegant words, asking the world to look beyond old hatreds and wounds. In doing so, he hopes to create a world where there never has to be another D-Day." [audio available here]

During CBS Sunday Morning, Reid reported on Obama’s trip to the Middle East and Europe, highlighting the President’s speech in Cairo last week and marking of the 65 th anniversary of D-Day in France on Saturday. On the subject of Obama addressing the Islamic world, Reid cited left-wing New York Times columnist and Obama sycophant, Roger Cohen, who declared: "He went out there, he spoke movingly...He spoke in a way that convinced Muslims that he is sensitive to their view of their suffering, to their culture, to their religion. And that's a new message from an American president."

In March of 2008, Cohen jumped aboard the Obama campaign, using his column to praise then candidate Obama’s speech on race: "It takes bravery, and perhaps an unusual black-white vantage point, to navigate these places where hurt is profound, incomprehension the rule, just as it takes courage to say, as Obama did, that black ‘anger is real; it is powerful’...Can an inquiring mind actually explore the half-shades of truth? Yes. It. Can...The clamoring now in the United States for a presidency that uplifts rather than demeans is a reflection of the intellectual desert of the Bush years."

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Here is the full transcript of the report:

9:22AM SEGMENT:

ANTHONY MASON: President Obama spoke of Europe's past and the Middle East's future during his overseas trip this past week. Chief White House correspondent Chip Reid has this ‘Sunday Journal.’

Chip Reid, CBS CHIP REID: President Obama arrived at Omaha Beach with a clear sense of how the actions of the brave men that day 65 years ago changed the course of history.

BARACK OBAMA: Long after our time on this earth has passed, one word will still bring forth the pride and awe of men and women who will never meet the heroes who sit before us, D-Day.

REID: While he honored the sacrifices made by the American people, he said that what made D-Day so memorable was the clarity of its purpose.

OBAMA: It's all too rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity. The second World War did that. For what we faced was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a competing vision of humanity.

REID: President Obama has a personal connection. In fact, two personal connections, to D-Day. Both his grandfather and his great uncle arrived here in France down there on Omaha Beach. His great uncle Charles Payne was there when American troops liberated the Buckenwald concentration camp in Germany. On Friday, the President toured the camp with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buckenwald survivor Elie Weisel.

ELIE WEISEL: Had the world learned there would have been no Cambodia, and no Rwanda, and no Darfur, and no Bosnia. Will the world ever learn?

REID: Remembering the Holocaust and refuting those who say it never happened was one of the themes the President struck in Cairo the day before.

OBAMA: Six million Jews were killed, more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful.

REID: But in that speech he also sought to open a new dialogue with the Muslim world.

OBAMA: Assalam Alaikum.

ROGER COHEN: He went out there, he spoke movingly.

REID: New York Times columnist Roger Cohen.

COHEN: He spoke in a way that convinced Muslims that he is sensitive to their view of their suffering, to their culture, to their religion. And that's a new message from an American president.

REID: A trip laden with symbolism and elegant words, asking the world to look beyond old hatreds and wounds. In doing so, he hopes to create a world where there never has to be another D-Day.

—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Hey, MSM

If you don't stop, you're going to

a) deplete the world's Vaseline supply, and

b) go blind

REID: President Obama has a

REID: President Obama has a personal connection. In fact, two personal connections, to D-Day. Both his grandfather and his great uncle arrived here in France down there on Omaha Beach. His great uncle Charles Payne was there when American troops liberated the Buckenwald concentration camp in Germany. On Friday, the President toured the camp with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buckenwald survivor Elie Weisel

It amazes me that the press believe everything and anything that the messiah you wont see me cry ever pantywaist prez spurts, when the story has been exposed as a lie, I don't have the link but the uncle said he never talked to obzo about the war, and he didn't get to the beach until the bloody D day was over, and when challanged on this, obambi changed it to my grandfather said, sheeeeeeesh my rellies would not talk about the war either, and our family is close, time after time the so called prez is busted for wrong historical facts, total made up stories, and just total BS on freaking everything,

Buchenwald

Obama's account is just about as truthful as the outing of the Soviet version of Buchenwald, told here.  Blackfive, as usual, is spot on.

I can't wait until Obama's lies finally catch up to him, like Hillary and her Bosnian snipper (sp on purpose) fire bs.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Extraordinary

I just find it extraordinary that in the space of a few days, Obama could:

  • Visit a death camp and declare that "must never happen again"
  • Visit the beaches where men fought and died to stop what was happening in the death camps
  • Think you can sweet-talk people who deny the death camps, and swear to destroy Israel, using apologies about our "arrogant" diplomacy.

Can't he see the connection between Normandy & Buchenwald? To demand that Buchenwald never happen again, you have to be willing to storm other beaches where the death merchants prepare their killing.

Diplomacy and apologies didn't stop Buchenwald, but Normandy (and other battlefields) did.

Normandy wasn't about a mutual failure to come to peace. It was about recognizing evil where you see it, and standing up to it. Normandy wasn't a tragedy where "we were both wrong." It was a proud moment because we believed in freedom, and we were willing to die for it. No apologies necessary.

In Answer to Your Question

I think he does see the connection, he understands very well that his verbal fellatio of the muslim world will not end their ambition to destroy Israel (and the U.S.).  That is why he is doing it, this is his fig leaf to say,"I tried" while he deliberately sells out our allies and our ideals.  I'm sure when he looks at the Mrs. all he can think about are those virgins he'll get in paradise for being the true believer who destroyed Israel and the Great Satan.

Visit a death camp and

Visit a death camp and declare that "must never happen again"

But, but, but.....his words, KC....they are so elegant!!  Yeah, I know, everyone says "Never again" but no one before ever said it so...well...elegantly. (is elegance the new eloquence?)

he hopes to create a world  where there will never have to be another D-Day.

How?  By asking people to let bygones be bygones.

Come on, you gotta admit, the guy's amazing! No one ever thought of doing that before!!

And well, if the world doesn't listen to him,  the world just isn't worth saving!

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Lil Chipper is correct

With Obama as CIC, if we or one of our allies get attacked, he'll just roll over and play dead. But first, he'll deliver an elegant speech.

 

  Obama will lead us to

  Obama will lead us to war, he needs it to feed his ego.

sad but true, but what will

sad but very likely, but what will come first, civil or world war or both at the same time

Familiar

REID: A trip laden with symbolism and elegant words, asking the world
to look beyond old hatreds and wounds. In doing so, he hopes to create
a world where there never has to be another D-Day.

He could've just said "Chamberlain lives."

Is there a difference?

....between Chamerlain caving in Munich and flashing his "Peace in our Time" piece of paper and Obama just caving on letting Iran go nuclear because he knows they won't build a bomb? 

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

?

That would be my point.

And your point.....

...was a good one.  I was agreeing with you and just took it a step further in pointing out how letting Iran get nuclear power is similar to Chamberlains appeasment at Munich. 

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

Yeah, Sefton, in Neville

Yeah, Sefton, in Neville Chamberlain's words:

"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for two countries and for Europe.

"We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.

"We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

Isn't Obama saying the same thing? And whistling past the same graveyard? Do a few word substitutions in Chamberlain's statements, and you have Obama -- exactly. Scary.

___________________________________ 

Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying

TnT

Can't say I'm surprised though.

The scarier part is that a fair share of the American electorate voted for him specifically because of this "we want the world to like us" policy.  Between the media endorsing and carrying Obama's message of weakness and the public that agrees with it, we are only seeing the beginning of the "scary" part.

Obama Chaimberlain said

Obama Chaimberlain said "Peace in our time"; Amen.

Exactly

It was people like Obama 70- 80 years ago that flung platitudes around like a spray gun that enabled the likes of Hitler and Mussolini to launch World War II.

By the unintended consequences of his accommodating and pandering remarks Obama is more likely to encourage war than to discourage it.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

D-Day

Yep.

We can either refuse to engage in another D-Day style invasion OR we can stop future genocides.

Of course there's not much to debate there.  We have already made our decision with Africa and Burma.  Given the choice between invasion and witnessing genocide, we will witness genocide every time (and by "witness" I mean "pay no attention to".  Probably the only reason anyone in America knows about Burmese genocides is because Stallone did a Rambo movie about it.)

 

Oh...

Actually, after reading the full text of Obama's speech, he never actually said that the crimes of the Nazis must "never again" be allowed to be repeated.  He barely mentioned them at all.

I guess that would be too close to taking a hard stance against the evil of the world -- too close to requiring a new invasion to stop the next attrocity.

So he pays homage to the soldiers but passes over the crimes they were fighting to stop, and why we wanted to stop them.  It took us years to bother putting an end to the genocides around Serbia and we never did anything about Burma at all.

So in the end, we haven't really learned anything.  The people who died on D-Day saved us from a terrible fate but we didn't learn a thing from it.

 

D-Day

D-Day has already arrived for the USA. It came when Obama was elected president!

just a little side note,

just a little side note, hillary said to china, put human rights on the back burner just buy our debt,  bloody hell priorities, this lot is about money, power, and a do what ever and say what ever to get it, not about humans having a life

Reply to TheCynic

The decision to invade Normandy was not so the Allies could stop genocide.  The United States assisted the U.K. and Free France in WWII because we believed that was in our best long term interests.  We didn't stop the genocide, although we may have inadvertantly prevented more genocide from continuing at the hands of the Nazis.  (It was also important to prevent the Russians from overrunning Western Europe.) 

We didn't stop the gulags and the mass killings and retributions that the Russians visited apon the part of Europe that they counqured.  A lot of the concentration camps in their sphere were just converted to house the new round of prisoners after May of 1945.

It would be nice if the U.S. could somehow stop all genocide from taking place all over the world, but that's impractical.  We can try through diplomatic means, but we do not have the resources nor are we willing to suffer the casualties that would result if we tried to police all the genocide taking place all over the globe.

 

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

Was it his dim/liberal crystal ball...

...that allowed him this ability to delve into the minds of those present at the Cairo speech...so much so he can foresee that the BHO "...spoke in a way that convinced Muslims..."?

If so, he should use that powerful insight to predict the weather and what, if anything, AGW means to the plight of man for generations to come...

Really?!? What a buffoon!

He could have gotten bigger applause

I can't help but believe that Obama would have gotten his biggest applause line in Cairo if he had called for the obliteration of Israel. 

"I've sentenced boys younger then you to the gas chamber.  Didn't want to do it, but I felt I owed it to them."  Judge Smails 

Kingfish

Along with our media telling us all that we're taking that particular line "out of context".  ;-)

FDR was full of wonderful

FDR was full of wonderful words but somehow they didn't stop the Axis and the communists from trying to conquer the world.

The quotes from that nattering nabob of nobamanism are pathetic. It is unfortunate but I believe before Obama's term is up obamaputzes like this prevaricating pontificator will have to eat their words. What will they say if Israel or another ally is nuked? Oh, George Bush so poisoned the well that not even 'teh gawd' Obamessiah could undo those vile deeds of BushitlerhaliburtonCheney. Anyway, the palis can get their own state now so we will be loved by arabs and muslims, and we don't have to worry about those pesky jews/israelis anymore. Win Win for liberals.

no more D-Days

D-Day was the day ordinary people with extraordinary character stared into the face of suffering and death, stepped forward into the hellish maelstrom, and took a stand for freedom and human rights.

Obama may achieve the "never again a D-Day", but only by guaranteeing that such a bold stand against evil and oppression will never be taken again.  He thinks we'll achieve lasting peace by curtailing the rights of those who would dare to defend liberty.

Obama WILL prevent another D-Day!

He will prevent another D-Day because he doesn't have the guts to fight our enemies!  His foreign policy is the "maybe if we're nice they'll go away" approach so loved by liberals.  Shame it doesn't work and only leads to bigger problems down the road!

Angry White Dude

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Prevent Defense?

Obama’s ‘Elegant Words’ May Prevent ‘Another D-Day’?

 

Like Neville Chamberlain's "Elegant Words" prevented Germany from attacking Great Britain?

Translation

In other words, Obama would've sought a way to co-exist with Nazism. Much in the same way he now seeks a way to co-exist with Islamo-facism.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Mere words do not prevent war, only postpone it

-Dave

Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain

But will He prevent another

But will He prevent another Holocaust?

The only good war to these guys are the ones against right wing extremists and militaristic nationalists.  Those carried out by Communists or non-whites sporting AK-47s should never be interfered with nor fought against by the U.S.  Doesn't matter what outrages they commit.

Conservatives don't like any extremists.  Communists, Nazis, military juntas-they are all oppressors of Humanity and enemies of democracy and free enterprise.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Old Russian saying...You can

Old Russian saying...You can tell same lie 1000 time but not change truth!

Difference between USSR Communist media and USA "mainstream media"

In Russia government make media say what they want - even if lie.  
In USA "mainstream media"  try make government what they want - even if lie..
.....eventually they become same thing?!  

It very hard to have credibility to reform health care when one can not perform such a simple medical task as producing his own birth certificate.

Therefore, I Igor produce Obama Birth Certificate at <a href="http://www.igormarxo.org/">www.igormaro.org</a>

Compare Obama Care vs Igor Care at <a href="http://igormarxo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=72">Obama vs Igor Care</a>

Obama can talk

and talk.................and talk..................and talk......impressive? think not..boring more like it!