Reviewing Obama’s Citizen of the World Speech in Berlin

RUSH: You know what I thought we would do, and it would be instructive. Do you remember Obama’s speech in Berlin in July 2008? Given that one of the things we’re talking about today is people’s frustration, people on the left — they’d vote for him again, make no mistake. But the Drive-Bys and a lot of people, they’re really wringing their hands over the fact that Obama gave a lukewarm, passionless, didn’t look like he really cared set of remarks about the beheading of James Foley, and then, 10 minutes later, is on the golf course.

You ought to see the UK Daily Mail story on this. I mean, it is brutal. Let me just read you the subheadlines in this story. The primary headline is this: “Fist bump: Furious reactions to Obama´s joyful 5-hour golf game overshadow his 5-minute ISIS speech as he teed off immediately after condemning American photojournalist James Foley’s executioners.”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what I thought we would do and it
would be instructive. You remember Obama's speech in Berlin in
July two. Given the one of the things we're talking
about today is people's frustration. People on the left, they'd
vote for him again, make no mistake, but the drive

(00:21):
bys and a lot of people they're really wringing their
hands over the fact that Obama gave a lukewarm, passionless,
didn't look like he really cared set of remarks about
the beheading of James Fawley, and then ten minutes later
is on the golf course. You want to see the

(00:42):
US the UK Daily Mail story on this, I mean
it is brutal. Let me just read you the sub
headlines in this story. The primary headline is this fist bump.
Furious reactions to Obama's joyful five hour golf aim overshadow
his five minute Isis speech as he teed off immediately

(01:06):
after condemning American photojournalist James Foley's executioners. You know, I'm
thinking about Obama's Presidential Library for Social Justice and all that.
Maybe they should set it up on a golf course somewhere,
or maybe set it up as a golf course, like,

(01:27):
my official library is going to be the Limball Broadcast Museum,
and you like, we've already created a virtual version of
the Limball Broadcast Museum at Russia limball dot com and
I have urged you to go visit it many times,
and if you haven't, you really should because it's really,
really well done. But I'm thinking for Obama, the official

(01:48):
Library for Social Justice or whatever the hell else needs
to be in a golf course. Viewers, visitors UM could
could walk around or be driven around as if going
from tea to tea. The front nine would be his
first term, the back nine would be the second term.
Every hole would be something Obama screwed up and you

(02:11):
and you lay it out in chronological order. And at
the end of the tour, uh, is this a bar
restaurant where you can go make speeches and pretend to
be Obama caring or whatever. But if you go back
and listen to this world speech that he made in
UM in Berlin and listen to this now in hindsight,

(02:34):
it was speeches like this. I mean, this was Red
Flag City for me, and it really worried I gotta
tell you, it really worried me. That so much of
this was not seen for what it was by so
many people. That's always bothered me, the the ease, the gullibility,

(02:57):
and I know it's there. I just keep praying and
hope it's going to change of the low information crowd.
Have three sun bites from this speech. Here is the
first one. He is declaring himself a citizen of the world.
In this bite, I come to Berlin as so many
of my countrymen have come before, although tonight I speak

(03:20):
to you not as a candidate for president, but as
a citizen, a proud citizen of the United States and
a fellow citizen of the world. I know that I
don't look like the Americans who have previously spoken in
this great Citizen, I mean like Jesse Owens. So she

(03:47):
ran off the bat citizen of the world, proud citizen
of the United States, but even more important, a citizen
of the world. And hey, look at me, I'm black.
I don't look like the Americans. You know. There's a

(04:09):
meaning being conveyed there. In the next bight, he points
out the world's dangers and implies that they were the
fault of Western culture. The fall of the Berlin Wall
brought new hope. But that very closeness has given rise
to new dangers, dangers that cannot be contained within the

(04:31):
borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
Think about it. The terrorists of September eleven plotted in
Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands
from all over the globe on American soil. As we speak,
cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the

(04:52):
ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic,
and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenyan. You
see this fox does it? It does this ringabell? You
remember this meeting, the godlike echo. Now here's just a
couple of things. The vote wall, hope. But you know

(05:12):
what escapes Obama is why the wall was there and
who put it there? Oh yeah, he gladly talk about
the fall of the Berlin Wall, but talking about why
it was there and who put it there he will
never talk about ever. That very closeness, the fall of

(05:38):
the wall, people being united, given rise to new dangers.
See the wall coming down. That was not freedom for no, no, no, no,
that's danger. That is a new set of dangers that
cannot be contained within the borders of the country, or

(05:59):
whether stints of an ocean, so the fall of the
Berlin Wall. He then starts talking about the nine eleven hijackers,
connects that to the fall of the Berlin Wall an
example of how the fall of the Berlin Wall made
it easy, I guess for the nine eleven hijackers to
commit their dirty deed on nine eleven. And when did

(06:21):
you catch this? I missed this the first time. I
must admit, I apologize. There's something really important here that
I missed, and I'll bet you did too. Obama said
the terrorists of September eleven plotted in Hamburg and trained

(06:42):
in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over
the globe on American soil. You note that he didn't
say before killing thousands of Americans. He specifically said, killing

(07:02):
thousands from all over the globe on American soil. I
don't think that's insignificant. I don't think that's that is
purposeful that wording, because you see what's underlying this. Don't
forget Obama's belief and and something he thinks everybody else thinks,

(07:26):
and that is the US is the problem. America is
the problem in the world. America is the reason for
so much of the unrest and the hunger and the
thirst in the world. And so by saying thousands from
all over the globe were killed on American soil. Yeah,

(07:51):
and then as we speak, cars in Boston, factories in
Beijing melting, the ice camps. Yes, global warm me. You know,
I remember that aspect of this. I was just frustrated
as I can be. And by the way, uh you,

(08:12):
let me imagine that some of you might be said, rush, well,
what's the big that was? That was like six years ago?
Why why are you talking about this now? I mean,
it's done, It's over with his president all that stuff.
I know. But never forget, folks. They never ending quest,
the hope that we don't make this mistake again by

(08:35):
electing somebody like this again. And so my never ending
quest folly. Though it may be in some people's minds
to try to educate or inform as many as I can,
we're in the midst of an absolute national, worldwide disaster

(08:56):
because of the election of two in large part, some
much of what this country is going through need not
have happened, and probably would not have happened. It's all
my ongoing effort here to help people understand why things
are the way they are and so that they don't

(09:17):
elect like this. Again, that's why this is not an
exercise and bashing Obama. Don't don't ever do that. It
is bashed to bash. Never ever is that a reason
for doing anything here. And now, remember this is the

(09:37):
summer of two thousand and eight. And remember by this time,
or by that time, Obama and the Democrat Party had
succeeded in convincing the world that America was nothing but
the land of torture. Yeah, it was Zabo grab and

(09:58):
it was Guantanamobe, I'll get. It was water boarding, it
was making prisons were underwear on their heads and then
making them do pyramids. Yeah, you know, like hazing and
sororities and stuff. It was torture. We were torturing people.
That's how evil we were. And so here's Obama apologizing

(10:19):
for it, reminding everybody else, well, we acknowledge that there
is no more powerful example than the one each of
our nation's projects to the world. Well, we reject torture
and stand for the rule of law. Well we well
we well, we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun
discrimination against those who don't look like us or worship

(10:43):
like we do. And keep the promise of the quality
and opportunity for all of our people, people of Berlin,
people of the world. This is our moment, this is
our time right, so you have it. Randy Bell's folks,
does it jog your memory? Can give you any added

(11:08):
insight to explain how we ended up here