To say that Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, doesn't give Obama's address to the United Nations high marks is putting it mildly.
Gerson comments on this quote from Obama's speech:
After years of war, [FDR] sought to sum up the lessons that could be drawn from the terrible suffering, the enormous sacrifice that had taken place. "We have learned," he said, "to be citizens of the world, members of the human community."
Gerson pulls no punches. He doesn't buy Obama's assertion that he's the new FDR. In effect, he states that Obama doesn't have a clue about FDR as an American president.
MICHAEL GERSON: I think there was almost nothing similar about this speech to Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt was one of the most clear, consistent defenders of American interests that I can imagine, knowing that history of rhetoric.
This speech had a number of apologies for American policy. It had, you know, as was said earlier, a series of appeals that seemed likely to be going nowhere. It was a speech that conveyed weakness in every pore, and I was deeply disappointed with the speech.
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GERSON: Franklin Roosevelt spoke against war even as he effectively conducted it. But I think that many Americans are just getting tired of a rhetorical ploy, which is: America is at fault here -- torture, the environmental degradation, unilateralism. The world's at fault here. You do these things we don't like.
'I'm the answer.' It's one of the most narcissistic approaches to American leadership I've ever seen in American political rhetoric.
Gerson nails it.
Obama is an egomaniac.
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