What is it with Barack Obama and these off-the-wall analogies? Last time, it was a ludicrous comparison of the Virginia Tech shooter and Don Imus. Now it's fascism, communism, and putting gasoline in your car.
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country that faced down the tyranny of fascism and communism is now called to challenge the tyranny of oil."
"The tyranny of oil"? And no, he isn't referring to the fact the Islamo-fascists gain some benefit from the sale of Middle Eastern oil, which is a legitimate concern, as is the need to diversify our energy sources.
We don't believe Mr. Obama really misunderstands real evil to the extent his words suggest. He just seems to care more about having good speech lines than about making thoughtful arguments.
Read the next paragraph is his speech:
We know what the dangers are here. We know that our oil addiction is jeopardizing our national security – that we fuel our energy needs by sending $800 million a day to countries that include some of the most despotic, volatile regimes in the world. We know that oil money funds everything from the madrassas that plant the seeds of terror in young minds to the Sunni insurgents that attack our troops in Iraq. It corrupts budding democracies, and gives dictators from Venezuela to Iran the power to freely defy and threaten the international community. It even presents a target for Osama bin Laden, who has told al Qaeda to, “focus your operations on oil, especially in Iraq and the Gulf area, since this will cause [the Americans] to die off on their own.”
http://barackobama.intellicontact.com/obamaforamerica/obama_lays_out_steps_the_transportation_industry_must_take_to_reduce_our_dependence_on_foreign_.html
Comment by jb1125 — May 7, 2007 @ 2:13 pm May 7, 2007