Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Top US generals planned ways to stop Trump in case of coup, book says" video.
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@John Wilharm
Relax. I didn't mean that he used those exact words, but that is what his rhetoric equaled once he became the Democrats' 2008 nominee. Here is the start of a George Will column in Newsweek, from June of that year:
"Journalists consider themselves crusty, unsentimental creatures who, their battered fedoras shoved back on their heads, have slouched out of Ben Hecht's 1928 play 'The Front Page,' oozing skepticism from every pore. Actually, they are round-heeled romantics, such pushovers for a new swain that they did not laugh until their ribs squeaked when Barack Obama concluded his triumphal St. Paul, Minn., speech by proclaiming: 'I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick …'
It is absolutely certain that generations from now someone will remember that even before that night in St. Paul, care was provided to the sick in America. Obama also asserted that future generations would say that 'this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal …' The man and the moment have met.
Obama's words mesmerize a nation accustomed to leaders who routinely use words with antic indifference to their accuracy. The No Child Left Behind law promises, indeed requires, that by 2014 all children will be "proficient" in reading and math. That will not happen. Obama vows to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. John McCain says 60 percent. Whether either goal should be reached, neither will be."
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