Who Does Obama Think He Is?

Sen. Barack Obama said the following in yesterday's "acceptance speech", and it's beyond ridiculous. In fact, it is perhaps the most pretentious and outlandish statement uttered by a politician I've ever heard. It is certainly one of the most hubris-filled utterances:

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love.

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it and believe in it, then 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 and good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

The moment he's speaking of is his claim to be the Democratic Party nominee for President.

And he thinks that this is the moment from which we'll then be able to stop oceans from rising and healing the planet?

Sorry to break it to Obama and his followers, but the Earth doesn't need healing. It was never sick. The oceans rise and fall because of tidal influences, global climate patterns that stretch into the thousands and tens of thousands of years, and mankind has only a minimal understanding of the factors that go into figuring out the climate and how it works.

As for healing the sick, we've been doing that all along. There's a big difference between providing health care and providing affordable health care. No other place on the earth provides the quality of care found in the US and yet Obama and the Left continues to conflate the two concepts. People can get all the health care they need, and indigent care is mandated. Improving access to health care is a worthy goal, but Obama is simply engaging in demagoguery by suggesting that we haven't been providing for the sick all along.

And let's not leave the part about ending a war. You end wars by winning them, not by abdicating your responsibility or claiming that you must bring the troops home to restore our legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world - many of whom are actively supporting our very enemies. Iraq is a bulwark against Iranian dominance in the region, and is a front in the war on terrorism and the ongoing fight against al Qaeda. Denying al Qaeda a victory there is a crushing defeat for them, and requires an ongoing presence - not a cut and run strategy that all but guarantees that the Islamists war against the US will continue.