Barack Obama Babbles Incoherently

The Barack Obama mystique may be starting to unravel. He was far from articulate in this speech trying to connect everything but the kitchen sink to the VT shootings. Take a listen to this audio link. This is one painful audio tape to listen to -- and I am talking just about the audio quality which could be better. It's from his speech on monday in Milwaukee. In it he realizes it's not business as usual on the campaign trail and has to make some adjustments to his usual speech. What does he do? Well he tries tying the Virginia Tech massacre to Iraq, Darfur, Don Imus, you name it. Here is a bit of the transcript --- Hat Tip: michele malkin/jessica:

He said we are a violence obsessed culture. "We glorify it, we encourage it, we ignore it." In what honestly was a very boring, dry, rambling speech, he then listed a litany of examples of how violent we are. He excoriated "verbal violence" and specifically mentioned Imus but, tellingly, not Ludacris. Then, he mentioned violent crime in Milwaukee, and other examples of how violent we all are. In one bizarre example, he said that he was also talking about the "violence" of men and woman who lose their jobs to other countries. HUH?

And then he mentioned IRAQ...He started out by saying that our culture of violence is rooted in our supposed incapacity to understand we are all connected fundamentally as people (kumbayah!). We are still trapped in a belief that we can impose our wills on each other and differentiate ourselves and make ourselves feel better from one another because of the accidents of birth or race or gender, he said. We still think about our role in the world and foreign policy as if the children of Darfur are somehow less than the children here, and so we tolerate violence there. And then he said in that context:

"We base our decisions in terms of sending our young men and women to war not on the necessity of defending ourselves but the belief that somehow with military force we can achieve aims that should be achieved through diplomacy and alliances." -- Hat tip: jessica / MM

I think if he keeps this up he will implode giving Hillary an edge as well as possibly Al Gore once again. Don't count Edwards out either. This is pretty painful. I defy you to try and listen to all of this speech despite the poor audio quality.

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