Obama's Afghanistan Speech, West Point

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I was listening to the speech live while I typed, and I don't guarantee the quotes are precise. Look at the post time and how it coincides with the time his thirty-minute speech wrapped up, consider I was listening and jotting through a couple thirds of the speech.

The people who really don't think -- they are fed up with me. I embarrass them.
The people of genuinely bad character and emotionally disturbed -- they are REALLY fed up with me.
The guys who thought they could outthink me and outdebate me -- they've had to retire from the field, some of them more than once. I'm getting a pretty fair idea of the worth of what I hold dear, and how easy it is to show its advantage over what some have brought up in challenge.

If you do not really fall into any of these categories, you are not all the way fed up with me.

Many of what may for convenience be called "my opposition" try to go adhominem and make me the issue. This means that their cherished ideas can't compete -- and they know it. But I am not the issue, save in the minds of the terminally shallow -- the ones I embarrass.