Prelude to the Speech

I have not yet heard President Obama's speech. I will read it in due course, but I chose not to listen to it because this is the one subject on which he invariably spouts lengthy hypocrisy and nonsense. I prefer to listen to him speak when he is, as is more frequently the case, providing inspiration and leadership.

The following, quoted as if it is profound and important, is a case in point,

"We are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security, nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people."

Well, the second part is so obvious as to not really need saying; he is reassuring the babies among us with that which, admittedly, he needs to do. I am not one of them, which is why I did not need to listen to his speech; not quaking in fear and not in need of Daddy's reassurance.

The first part is sheer idiocy, bordering on Bushism. Our "national security" is not "endangered" by any single person, even if he is walking around with a nuclear bomb in his pocket. The United States of America survived King George twice, (my history's a little shaky there; survived Britain twice), survived Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Mussolini, and Yamamoto, all of them with massive armies, navies and (except King George) air forces. We are going to survive, are not even endangered by, one guy armed with an AK-47.