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The acceptance speech
Oh, how I enjoyed spending an hour listening to President George W. Boilerplate give his acceptance speech, the first 30 minutes consisting of a laundry list of semi-socialist measures to meet the needs of every demographic group in America, the second 30 minutes consisting of a word-by-word repetition of the same uninformative, evasive “stay-the-course” boilerplate on the war we’ve been hearing from him for the last two years. How meaningful. How inspiring. How exciting. The president even repeated his boilerplate about how the terrorists hate us for our “freedom,” and how they seek to kill us because they lack “hope.” No, Mr. President. The truth is that the more hope the jihadists have,—hope of spreading Islam over the whole world—the more they are desirous of waging jihad against us. President Boilerplate, your understanding of Islamism is like a liberal’s understanding of Marxism: that it is created by poverty and hopelessness, whereas in reality it is created by a belief system, an ideology. In the case of Muslims this belief system is at the core of their being. Therefore the more you liberate Muslims via “democratization,” the more you are likely to liberate their jihadism as well. Toward the end, the speech had one good funny line I hadn’t heard before: “Some people look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called “walking.”
And this line was moving: “And in those military families [who have lost a loved one in the war] I have seen the character of a great nation—decent, idealistic, and strong.” Email entry |