GERMAN'S "DER SPIEGEL": "SEARCHING IN VAIN FOR THE OBAMA MAGIC"

"Never before has a speech by

President Barack Obama felt as false"

Following are key excerpts from an article today in Der Spiegel, the weekly German magazine, entitled "Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic." The article by Der Spiegel writer, Gabor Steingart, is a scathing commentary of President Obama's Afghanistan speech at West Point on December 1, in which he announced, three months after the request, that additional troops would be sent into battle.

The article does an excellent job of connecting the dots of Obama's deception and contradictions that were spread throughout the speech, in an attempt to calm his peacenik Democrat party, and to somehow appear "deserving" (a joke) of his recent Nobel Peace Prize award (My highlighting):

Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond "enthusiastically" to the speech. But it didn't help: The soldiers' reception was cool.

One didn't have to be a cadet on Tuesday to feel a bit of nausea upon hearing Obama's speech. It was the least truthful address that he has ever held.

Extremists kill in the name of Islam, he said, before adding that it is one of the "world's great religions."

He promised that responsibility for the country's security would soon be transferred to the government of President Hamid Karzai -- a government which he said was "corrupt."

Obama's magic no longer works. The allure of his words has grown weaker.

Political dreams and yearnings for the future belong elsewhere. That was where the political charmer Obama was able to successfully capture the imaginations of millions of voters. It is a place where campaigners -- particularly those with a talent for oration -- are fond of taking refuge. It is also where Obama set up his campaign headquarters, in an enormous tent called "Hope."

It seems to me like a speech of this sort should be 100% about winning the war, as in "Victory," a word that the president expressed discomfort with. Unfortunately, like every other speech Obama has given, it's all about him and furthering his political gain. The loudest rebuke of this abuse was the whisper level of applause given to their Commander-in-Chief.

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