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The Barack Obama Presidential Library
American Thinker
Ed Lasky
4/26/2013
Excerpt:
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is being dedicated and opened this week. This prompts a thought: what might the future Barack Obama Presidential Library look like?
Libraries dedicated to presidents are a combination of shrines, archives, monuments and sites meant to inspire. Wherever the site, it is never too soon to start the planning.
Here are some thoughts provided as a public service to my nation.
Presidential libraries usually have placards featuring memorable quotes from presidents. John Kennedy has "what can you do for your country" and many other quotes dreamt up by Ted Sorenson. Abraham Lincoln has the entire Gettysburg Address, "charity to all, malice towards none"; Franklin Roosevelt has "a date that will live in infamy"; "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and a slew of other ringing magisterial declarations.
And Barack Obama?
He rode a few cotton-candy words mainlined to Obama addicts in 2008 into the Oval Office: Hope, Change. Those two words will inflict visitors everywhere they stroll-despite the little-known fact that his own speechwriter cynically described these words, after Obama won, as so much fodder fed to the great unwashed.
But since the library will clearly be immense -- as a testament to Obama's greatness -- there will be plenty of space for further quotes. Here are some that can be carved in stone in a way that befits a man we were told was sort of a God.
One could go on in this vein but let's move onto to other sections of the Obama library.
There will be vast areas of empty space that normally would be allocated to showcase accomplishments that led to the presidency. There will be no shelves taken up with such things as college transcripts, the "lost" thesis from Columbia University, records from Obama's time as a state Senator (they also went "missing"; actually Obama has also said they were thrown out -- how convenient ); there will be scant records of legal writing from the man who was celebrated as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and who went on to serve as a constitutional lecturer for years at the University of Chicago.
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View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...l_library.html
American Thinker
Ed Lasky
4/26/2013
Excerpt:
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is being dedicated and opened this week. This prompts a thought: what might the future Barack Obama Presidential Library look like?
Libraries dedicated to presidents are a combination of shrines, archives, monuments and sites meant to inspire. Wherever the site, it is never too soon to start the planning.
Here are some thoughts provided as a public service to my nation.
Presidential libraries usually have placards featuring memorable quotes from presidents. John Kennedy has "what can you do for your country" and many other quotes dreamt up by Ted Sorenson. Abraham Lincoln has the entire Gettysburg Address, "charity to all, malice towards none"; Franklin Roosevelt has "a date that will live in infamy"; "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and a slew of other ringing magisterial declarations.
And Barack Obama?
He rode a few cotton-candy words mainlined to Obama addicts in 2008 into the Oval Office: Hope, Change. Those two words will inflict visitors everywhere they stroll-despite the little-known fact that his own speechwriter cynically described these words, after Obama won, as so much fodder fed to the great unwashed.
But since the library will clearly be immense -- as a testament to Obama's greatness -- there will be plenty of space for further quotes. Here are some that can be carved in stone in a way that befits a man we were told was sort of a God.
- "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
- "I'm not interested in suburbs. Suburbs bore me."
- "...so I know whose ass to kick" (regarding the Gulf oil spill)
- "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that. the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
- Americans have become "a little soft..." a little bit lazy..." "have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do things that built the Golden Gate Bridge" before he became president.
- "Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Stop complaining. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'." (addressing a group of blacks decrying lack of support for their community.)
- The police "acted stupidly" and it is "just a fact'' that African-Americans and Latinos are disproportionately stopped by police (weighing in on the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
- Elections are tight when you have a "funny name" like Barack Obama and don't "look like all those other presidents on dollar bills."
- "Typical white person."
- "They talk about me like a dog." (because, after all, Americans are inspired by self-pitying presidents).
- "I won"
- Republicans are "bomb throwers" and "hostage takers" who sip Slurpees while driving the economy into the ditch; they will "have to sit in the back of the bus". Republicans want to dig moats and fill them with alligators to kill Hispanics slipping across the border; they are "members of the Flat Earth Society."
- "No, no. I have been practicing... I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an offhand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009
- "Fat Cats" "I'm standing between you and the pitchforks."
- "I don't want to quell anger... what I want to do is channel anger."
- "You would think they'd be saying thank you" on Tea Party protesters who received tax cuts.
- "Companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."
- "You are the reason I ran for office." while addressing the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- To Latno voters: 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.
- And my all-time favorite -- so far: "Vote for Revenge
One could go on in this vein but let's move onto to other sections of the Obama library.
There will be vast areas of empty space that normally would be allocated to showcase accomplishments that led to the presidency. There will be no shelves taken up with such things as college transcripts, the "lost" thesis from Columbia University, records from Obama's time as a state Senator (they also went "missing"; actually Obama has also said they were thrown out -- how convenient ); there will be scant records of legal writing from the man who was celebrated as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and who went on to serve as a constitutional lecturer for years at the University of Chicago.
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View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...l_library.html