The power of the hashtag

President Obama addressed graduating cadets at West Point. Manhattan Infidel was there to record his actual words:

when I’m not on the golf course I use my soaring rhetoric to shame the Russians and Chinese.

The question we face, the question each of you will face, is not whether America will lead but how far behind can we lead.

I believe we have a real stake — abiding self-interest — in making sure our children and our grandchildren grow up in a world where schoolgirls are not kidnapped; female genitally mutilated yes, because that is a noble tradition in my home of Kenya. I mean Hawaii. A world where individuals aren’t slaughtered because of tribe or faith or political belief. Unless they are conservatives. Or Catholics opposing the contraception mandate in the Affordable Healthcare Act.

I believe that a world of greater freedom and tolerance is a moral imperative; We are all free to believe as the government tells us to.

U.S. military action cannot be the only — or even primary — component of our leadership. I believe in the power of the hashtag.

First, let me repeat a principle I put forward at the outset of my presidency: The United States will use military force, unilaterally if necessary, when our core interests demand it — when our people are threatened; when our livelihoods are at stake; when the security of our allies is in danger. Just like I did in Syria. I mean Benghazi. I mean, um. Next point.

International opinion matters, but America should never ask permission to protect our people, our homeland or our way of life. And by not asking permission I mean getting permission from the United Nations.

On the other hand, when issues of global concern do not pose a direct threat to the United States, when such issues are at stake, when crises arise that stir our conscience or push the world in a more dangerous direction but do not directly threaten us, then I will intervene if I think it’ll help me in the polls.

This leads to my second point. For the foreseeable future, the most direct threat to America, at home and abroad, remains terrorism. And by terrorism I mean the Tea Party and the second amendment.

Let me make one final point about our efforts against the tea party. The partnerships I’ve described do not eliminate the need to take direct action when necessary to protect ourselves. And that is why I have authorized the IRS to audit tea party members.

When we have actionable intelligence, we act through drone strikes, like those we’ve carried out in Kansas and Texas. I mean Yemen and Somalia.

Despite frequent warnings from the United States and Israel and others, the Iranian nuclear program steadily advanced for years. Thank god Islam is the religion of peace or I’d be really worried.

Next week I will go to Normandy to apologize for the Americans who stormed the beaches there. We acted unilaterally and without German support.

We have faced trials that were not foreseen and we’ve seen divisions about how to move forward. But after the Tea Party is eliminated we won’t have divisions.

May God bless you. May God bless our men and women in uniform. And may God bless Kenya. I mean the United States.

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