From Sooper Mexican
It is nearly literally the least I could do for someone that symbolized American greatness so thoroughly, and in so many aspects.
You know what I didn’t think to do? I didn’t think to post a picture of myself to remember Neil Armstrong. Never got into my mind that this was a good way to remember his greatness.
But then, I’m not president mompants:
And it’s not even a creation originated for this sad day-see the rest here
As I have said so many time, what can you expect from trash..Does anyone recall the pictures of Airforce 1 over NYC in the early term of this wipe? AF1 flew into NYC restricted airspace..Anyone recall??? Have any idea of where or what they will appear under..Above photo is a peice of crap..OH! Did opie walk on the moon? Make a bet he did in his speach at the rat convention.
There is a new star in the shy….Neil, rest in peace.
SemperFi
What? Nothing about the subliminal Islamic symbolism of a crescent moon? You’re going to let such an opportunity go by?
You’re slipping, dude.
Dude Greg,
Did catch the crescent moon..answere the second part of my question if you have the knowledge. Now it confirms that hs is a Muslim..
At this point it seems clear the man is ill. Given that he faked his way through school and college using affirmative action…and compliant professors…he knows he is empty inside. He is no one and stands for nothing. His only “accomplishments” handed to him because of his race. He has a very large and very fragile ego. It constantly needs support. Obama and his followers do this by using his image, completely manufactured, again and again, in settings showing him to be Christ-like. They invite their poor followers to invest their hopes and futures onto this fake.
It worked four years ago…question is, can they do it again?
Greg
At some point all this Obama sh*t has to clog even your throat.
No mistaking that silhouette, either.
I think the only problem anyone could possibly have with the photograph and the sentiment expressed has to do with their hatred for Barack Obama. If it were Ronald Reagan’s silhouette in the same photo, and Ronald Reagan’s name following the same words, there would be no criticism at all.
@Greg:
Reagan never would have done such a thing.
When Ronald Reagan was president, the internet didn’t exist. I recall that he gave a short televised speech on the evening of the Challenger disaster, in which he quoted poetry. I guess I’m not really clear on what “such a thing” you’re referring to.
@Greg:
No poetry was quoted. But that is beside the point. Obama does as he always does and injects himself into the story. Hence, the posting about his silhouette looking towards the moon and his statement at the bottom. If it was just this once, or only once in a while, it could be seen as circumstantial and not proof of anything. However, when he does it ALL the time, on every issue or story being discussed, it is a problem, and one can conclude that he is severely narcissistic.
But all of this is itself entirely beside the point, if one is concerned about the important issues facing the country.
It was. I distinctly remember it. Reagan quoted lines from High Flight, by John Gillespie Magee. He was an American pilot who joined up with the Royal Canadian Airforce early in WW2. He died flying a Spitfire.
Obama is a digital age President. “Once in a while” is no longer an option, if you’re wanting to communicate with the first digital age generation of Americans.
@johngalt: He quoted John Magee and yes it was a poem.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless falls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew –
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
@johngalt:
This is indisputable
The passing of the first man to set foot on the moon–an American hero–and we would expect no public comment from a current American president about it?
@Greg: Yes, Greg, but dignified and respectful. Not something making Obama the center of the universe as usual. It disgusts me.
I suppose everyone will have their own response to such an image.
Apropo of nothing, a Public Service Broadcasting video concerning the birth of the Spitfire. (They’re a London music group, so there’s no need to think about cutting their funding.)
An interesting fact about the Spitfire: The exhaust velocity of the 12 cylinder Merlin engine was so high that the exhaust ports were angled back through an external ejector assembly, to provide additional thrust.
GREG
OBAMA GOT IT WRONG, THE MOON IS FULL,
SO IT MEAN THAT HE CHOOSE WHICH MOON HE WANT TO SEE.
ALL DARK WITH A SMALL CRESCENT OF WHITE
@ilovebeeswarzone: Good Bees! Even more disgusting!
If you can..read the “long telegram”.. by George Kennan As a doctorate i read Hannah Arendt’s The Origin of Totalitarianism. The last chapter deals with ideology and terror: a novel form of government. The problem is…we are here. This president and administration is the silhouette of totalitarianism. Not smiling tonight….
I may agree that I’m not annoyed at the image, Greg. I’ve got far more important beefs to worry about. Plus, it was not a product of the WH as an official release and order to run the photo, but put up by his campaign as a supplement to his very brief brief statement. I have no doubt that his campaign lackeys do put Obama in the center of the universe. That does not mean this was a WH release or request. Whether someone finds their choice to add a stock photo to dress up an otherwise uninteresting statement in poor taste is personal and, IMHO, pretty miniscule in import in the scheme of things.
But I will have to say that my ol’ fart memory must be superior to yours. So allow me to correct you on a couple of important points.
First of all, the Internet was well on it’s way to it’s current incarnation during Reagan’s terms. Albeit not as vast and accessible to the masses as it is today. Yet, by 1987, there were nearly 30,000 hosts on the Internet due to the adoption of the TCP/IP standard four years earlier. You can also find the vast history of the Internet and it’s origins back to the 60s Internet Society dot org site.
Secondly, when the Challenger exploded, Reagan gave a heartfelt and inspiring speech… without this being just poetry you claim (he ended with a few key phrases of it only in his final sentence.. out of a 4’30” speech.) In fact, it’s ranked #8 of the top 100 speeches of the 20th Century at American Rhetoric… a list that was compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst.
So perhaps you’d better refresh your memory by reading his words. For the reading challenged, here’s the YouTube of the address.
Additionally, he specifically addressed kids who may have seen the tragedy telecast in front of a horrified nation, hoping that such a tragedy would not deter their future aspirations.
BTW, the speechwriter on that was Peggy Noonan… a relative newbie in that era.
@drjohn, Reagan only used the phrases “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” and “touched the face of God.” But it is a great poem.
Ironic how some can only remember one sentence with nonsequential phrases, out of over four minutes, and pass it off as “quoting poetry”.
@MataHarley, #21:
It would probably never occur to anyone here that I might remember Reagan’s Challenger speech well because I liked it. Or that I might remember the inclusion of the lines from McGee’s poem because I’ve always liked that, too. I was defending a current president, not attacking a former one.
Regarding the internet of the day–well, I was running an Epson QX-10 back then. It had a green phosphor screen, a 4 megahertz processor, and 64K of RAM. There was no hard drive. I’ll concede that there was an internet of sorts. There was also a U.S. population that didn’t know what you were talking about if you mentioned it.
@MataHarley:
I know. I watched it. I merely point out that it was a poem and a great one at that.
MATA
that is a good time to remember and learn the speech of the so special RONALD REAGAN,
he was loved by so many, and for so many reasons to deserve it.
IT’S what is so remarkable in THE UNITED STATES, THE PEOPLE, they know THEIR HERO,
THEY mourn with the family
THEY know their PRESIDENT, they have figured him out, by paying attention, AND admire his qualities as their LEADER
and those well educated have the ability to see his next move with acuity,
and decide on what they perceive the person to be the right one or not,
when the time come,