This individual’s rewriting of history knows no bounds. You think he’s trying to make a point when he says this battle points to the “clarity of purpose with which this war was waged.” He goes on immediately. “We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It’s a world of varied religions, and cultures and forms of gov’t. In such a world it’s all too rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity. The Second World War did that.” He then says, referring to the nations that came together, “whatever God we pray to we knew we had to stop the Nazis.”

Should we derive from this that Obama wants us to think the Moslems fought at D-Day, or fought on our side? What other point is he trying to make, this man who is making it the purpose of his presidency to get close with the Moslem world? Is that perhaps why he is giving a history lesson- starting with a litany of facts about the German defenses and naming the beaches like he knows them so well- to European leaders and WWII vets who know it so much better than he does? Maybe American schoolchildren, the ones who don’t like history but who might read an Obama speech, will get the notion that the Moslems fought alongside the Allies against the Nazis (he even calls the Nazis “evil,” wow, that’s pretty far out on a limb.) Only one small problem. Tell this to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Tell it to the Egyptians. Anwar Sadat said in an interview (prior to taking power), and it’s available on film, “”It was very simple. Germany is the enemy of our enemy, England. So the enemy of our enemy is our friend.”

And what does he mean he will “likely” not be the last President to mark the anniversary at D-Day. Is he hedging his bets? This individual should Never Never Never have been made President of this country. There’s something in the American spirit that he is only pretending to have. This event does not move him. John McCain would have stirring speech. Ronald Reagan did make a stirring speech. I can’t think of any American president, and I’ll even include Jimmy Carter, who didn’t strike me as ultimately having something of the American spirit, the desire to be great and do great things, (even if Carter got it all wrong, even if I think he’s a disaster, it’s not for lack of caring but misguidedness, in my opinion). Barack Obama sounds here like he is giving a college lecture, and a boring one at that. He names all the right people, says most of the right things, but he is clearly going through the motions. Someone on here, tell me where is the Barack Obama who was this great speaker during the campaign? I didn’t see it then, I don’t see it now. What was he ever but “no more Bush?”