Obama Says What?

Here's a bizarre speech giving by Barack Obama after the Virginia Tech massacre:

"It's not necessarily physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on
each other in other ways. Last week, the big news obviously had to do with Imus,
and the verbal violence that was directed at young women who were role models
for all of us, role models for my daughters. . . .
There's the
violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the
rug pulled out from under them because their job has moved to another country,
they've lost their job and they've lost their pension benefits and they've lost
their healthcare, and they're having to compete against their teenage children
for jobs at the local fast-food place paying $7 an hour.
There is the
violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,
who don't have access to a decent education, who are surrounded by drugs and
crime, and a lack of hope.
So there's a lot of different forms of violence
in our society."

This is what bugs me about the thinking of many Democrats. They don't seem to have any perspective on what's really important these days. While they're still singing "Kum Ba Ya" and "We shall overcome", the rest of the world has moved on. They also possess a pre-9/11 mindset in that they are more concerned about placing limitations on our troops and law enforcement, when these defenders of democracy need less restrictions to defeat the mass murderers of Al Qaeda.

About 60 years ago, Democrats stood up to fight the Cold War when most Republicans wanted to return to our Splendid Isolation. Now its the Right who are defending freedom and democracy around the world, while the Left worries about Health Care and the weather.

So, Obama thinks Imus hurting some young girls feelings is the same as a classroom full of dead bodies? Tell that to the victims' families!

Thanks to James Taranto.