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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Guest Post: From Rachel Peepers
[FWP: Miss Peepers is a regular commenter at Pajamas Media. Having been impressed by some of her emissions there, I've invited her to submit a few pieces here for Eternity Road's Gentle Readers to ponder. Let me know if we might have a new Co-Conspirator!]
Omaha Beach, yes. Obama facts, no.
If, on the dawn of June 6, 1944, you were bobbing up and down inside an LST , a hundred or so yards off Omaha Beach, holding your helmet like an air sickness bag, and carrying an M-1 wrapped in plastic, nobody was surprised if your breakfast was shooting projectile-like food bullets almost as fast as the MG-34 German machine guns were spitting out real ones.
In that initial wave of the First Infantry Division, within 30 minutes of hitting the beach, more than half were dead. By day's dusk, the Ranger group, members of the 29th ID and First ID soldiers, all told, suffered 2,400 casualties. If it were an honor to sacrifice one's life on the altar of freedom, the memory of their courage and sacrifice does not dim with time.
Fast forward to January 27, 2010.
If you were in the audience and heard President Obama reciting the first few paragraphs of his State of the Union Address, you heard him say, "when the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach, victory was very much in doubt."
Hold on, President Obama, just a cotton pickn' second, it wasn't the ALLIES who hit the bullet infested piece of real estate called Omaha Beach that long day.
It might be Obama's desire to give the Allies credit in some kind of global kumbaya-we're-all-in-this-together-fact-changing way. But political correctness doesn't live here anymore.
It was American blood that poured out on that sand. When it comes to Omaha Beach, they get the credit. American sons and daughters lost their fathers. I won't let Obama muddy the memory.
Some might say this is but a small mistake. A little quibble. I say hogwash.
To begin with, nothing Obama does during a speech like this happens without much thought. I'm sure most everyone realizes that every word in this speech was poured over with an ocean full of political correctness, and left leaning spin.
If Obama is capable of shading the meaning of something as arguably insignificant as choosing the word, "allies" over Americans, then it's 99% likely that he intended to shade the meanings of, say, ObamaCare. When Barack said ObamaCare would reduce insurance premiums along with the deficit, did he have a clown in his belly? My gut says he did.
Just as damning, I believe that this is all part of pattern Obama: withholding credit and demeaning the United States every chance he gets. Even on foreign soil, President Obama has consistently apologized on behalf of America to tyrants; lowlifes who run countries with the same disdain for human rights that beach front property owners have for oil spills.
When all is said and done, I've given one major example of the disingenuousness of Obama that sent my anger needle off the charts. When Obama style is to talk about the history of Omaha Beach with such a cavalier, PC attitude, I'll figuratively attack him with two truth guns blazing.
As you probably noticed, I haven't talked about the President's more discussed abominations: Trying terrorist killers under American civilian law and on American soil. I haven't asked why the Philadelphia voter intimidating Black Panthers were released without so much as a slap on the wrists. I haven't inquired as to why a President would insult the Supreme Court during a big speech and then speak untruthfully about the reason he did it.
But I could.
And I will.
Because there are still too many Americans out there who think the brown eyed handsome man is that great orator/ statesmen from Chicago.
The Americans on Omaha Beach were many things, including heroes.
The Obama that I've gotten to know, I'm not afraid to say, is just another bum from the neighborhood.
Comments
Beautiful!
Posted by KG on 02/03/2010 at 03:59 PMShe’s good, Flashy. Sign her up!
Posted by Fetiche Nouvelle (Duyen Ky) on 02/03/2010 at 05:29 PMI am deeply impressed by the Chuck Berry reference.
Posted by CGHill on 02/03/2010 at 11:40 PMSome might say this is but a small mistake. A little quibble. I say hogwash.
Hear, hear!
Posted by Russell on 02/04/2010 at 01:03 PMBless Ms Peepers for being on Red alert (pun intended). The parallels between this kind of seemingly innocuous rewriting of history, and similar activity in early 30s Nazi Germany, are striking. Recommended reading: “Defying Hitler”, by Sebastian Haffner.
Posted by on 02/04/2010 at 02:47 PM
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