re: #4 thatthatisis

It’s the Obama doctrine - GORT. And he’s Klaatu.

This speech repeated the same themes from his Nobel Peach Prize acceptance speech. Essentially, the Obama doctrine says a man wants peace. But if that man is the leader of a country, he also must act to protect his country. But if that man is the leader of the free world, he also has a responsibility to stop future Holocausts. So how does a good man act, in an evil world? The President of the United States cannot turn the other cheek.

Where Obama came down is GORT. Remember the classic from the 50s - The Day the Earth Stood Still ? Klaatu, from another planet, comes to warn the Earth that if they continue wars with the violence of a WWII, then the all-powerful robot GORT will be forced to destroy the earth. That’s pretty much what Obama is saying: I have the power to protect large populations from destruction by a tyrant, so I am duty-bound to use it. I think I buy it. If he’d been around in WWII, I can think of about 6 million people who might still be alive.

The birthers are saying that Obama is from another country, but you’re saying that he’s from a whole other planet?

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