Storm clouds and Obama’s doctrine: Speak loudly and carry a wimpy stick
President Barack Hussein Obama has reversed the slogan of a predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, who in a speech in Obama’s hometown of Chicago in 1903 said:
There is a homely old adage which runs: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.