Quotes of the Day: Jonah Goldberg on 'Softness,' and Joseph Kraft's 1979 Indictment of … Obama


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The reference is to President Obama's Thursday evening interview with a local NBC affiliate in Orlando, where he claimed that America has “gotten a little soft”:

I mean, there are a lot of things we can do. The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.

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There are many places to go with this stunning statement (given the source). I like Jonah Goldberg's perspectives, particularly his final quip:

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone “soft”? Really?

The parallels to Jimmy Carter's “malaise” are pretty obvious.

The great degree of parallel between Carter and Obama is also self-evident in the immediate reaction of columnist Joseph Kraft to Carter's 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech found here:

80% of what's seen above could be written about Obama today, much of it more emphatically.

Let's talk about someone whose position is “soft” and weak. Part of Carter's 1979 self-resurrection strategy included firing much of his cabinet. Can you imagine the country's reaction about our rudderless condition if Obama attempted a similar gambit?


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