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Quote of the Day

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

From the Weekly Standard:

When Obama delivered his famous (and effective) “just words” rejoinder to Hillary Clinton’s barbs, the speech inadvertently revealed the emptiness of Obama’s rhetoric. “All men are created equal” was indeed more than just words. It was more than “just words” because the men who signed the document that made that claim risked their lives to prove it. They backed their words up with war. In short, their accompanying actions are what made the phrase immortal. If the phrase had emanated from some effete intellectuals in a Boston drawing room who went back to being effete intellectuals after delivering their proclamation, guys like Barack Obama wouldn’t be quoting them today.

The rest speaks to his penchant for inaction.  The bit on the “Obama Doctrine” of “dignity promotion” as an alternative to “hollow sloganeering” is priceless.

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