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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Barack Obama as John Lennon


I just read the full text of President Obama's Cairo speech.

He really sounds genuine. I think he honestly, truthfully wants to make the world a better place.

But to call him naïve would disrespectful to naïveté.
The leader of the free world, in front of billions of viewers, metaphorically sat down, lit up a joint and started singing "Imagine" by John Lennon.
The real kicker was his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Marei d'chulei alma! The man sounds like an 18-year-old at a university "Ban The Bomb" protest!

I feel an icy chill when I consider that for the next 4 years at least, we have a guy with the maturity and subtlety of a teenager leading the greatest world power at a time of international crisis.

To put it mildly, the next 4 years are going to be Interesting Times...