David Karki

Two big speeches were given today; one by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at an Asian investment conference in Hong Kong, and the other by President Barack Obama at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The substance, the style, and most importantly what they mean for America’s and even the world’s future could not be more starkly different.

Clear line.

Palin elaborated on the theme of Reagan’s 1980 Inaugural Address – Government isn’t the solution to our problems, government is the problem. As the event was closed to the media, a full transcript of her remarks isn’t available, but here are a few of the money quotes:

• “We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place. We’re not interested in government fixes, we’re interested in freedom.”

• “Liberalism holds that there is no human problem that government can’t fix if only the right people are put in charge.”

• “There is no justice in taking from one person and giving to another. History shows it simply does not work.”

Palin also criticized the role of the Federal Reserve in the banking collapse, called for income tax cuts and elimination of the capital gains and estate taxes, and defended her use of the term “death panels” to describe the bureaucracy that would administer Obama’s health care plan.

All in all, a comprehensive list of issues and subjects. And on each, her position is the diametric opposite of that which Obama holds and would foist upon us.

Speaking of Obama, his rambling, self-obsessed diatribe that trashed America and Israel to the delight of a room of dictators and freaks that resemble the cantina scene in Star Wars more than a collection of world leaders was nothing short of revolting.

About the only good thing I can say for it is that at least he didn’t hide how he really feels, unlike the 2008 election when he lied through his teeth about being a consensus-seeking centrist. In truth, he’s a committed Marxist and anti-Semite who wants to fundamentally remake – and thus destroy – America and all but remove it from the world scene as its lone superpower. Which is still a better fate than that which he’d have for Israel – the de facto end of its existence.

On top of that, his open trashing of the Bush Administration, aside from being an unprecedented and breathtaking violation of long-standing presidential protocol, was juvenile and classless in the extreme. If he does win a second term, is he in his eighth year in office still going to be blaming absolutely everything on his predecessor? When will his infantile ducking of responsibility and passing the buck ever end?

Finally, it’s clear that Obama thinks everything is about him and that he possesses no humility at all. Just by the word count, he uses the first person pronoun 36 times while only referencing America 16 times. He apparently thinks our nation began the moment he finished the Inaugural oath.

Beyond that, his repeated insistence that a veritable utopia is at hand if only government (which is to say, he) were all-powerful and could wave a magic wand to instantly cure all that supposedly ails us is more characteristic of a cult leader than a president. The last thing anyone with this kind of out-of-control hubris should be handed is power, in any amount.

And as for the United Nations itself, the fact that they applauded this madly and that Moammar Ghadafi (of all people) followed with praise should tell you all you need to know about that crooked, evil body and where it stands.

The U.N. is such a total joke that it’s no longer possible to satirize it because the truth is so patently silly that one cannot exaggerate it to be any sillier. Moreover, it’s abject hatred of Israel and to a large degree America while indulging every thug tyrant of every third-world podunk rathole morally delegitimize it beyond any ability to recover.

It’s long past time for the United States to withdraw from the U.N. and kick it the hell out of New York. If you hate us so much, all you anti-Semitic dictators in your bogus military uniforms and Muppet Show costumes can go meet somewhere else. Anywhere else.

We are facing a stark choice in the next 2 to 4 years. If we do not turn back from the road we chose to travel in November 2008, we may find that when we finally see the need to turn, there will be none available.

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