Obama owes Bono for "This is our Moment."

"This is our moment.  This is our time."  Perhaps you were moved when you first heard Obama say this.  Perhaps it was the first time you had heard anyone describe so eloquently the feeling that the world is being handed over to our generation, that the present is our responsibility.  It is a burden but to put it is so eloquently makes it sound like an exciting challenge - more hopeful, less scary.  Perhaps you thought those words were another sign that this man was indeed special.  Problem was, those weren't his words.

Yesterday, I heard the Rush Limbaugh program had made an allegation that Obama stole his trademark "This is our moment.  This is our time."  from a 2005 speech Bono gave.  I was shocked until I Googled it myself and found this article @ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20050703/ai_n14683852.

EMOTIONAL Bono yesterday pleaded with the heads of the wealthy G8 nations to bring an end to death by disease in Africa.

The U2 singer, speaking in the opening minutes of Live 8, declared: "Eight of the most powerful men on earth are meeting on a golf course in Scotland. There's a lot at stake.

"We have a message for them. This is your moment to make history by making poverty history."

In front of 205,000 people in London's Hyde Park and an estimated two billion TV audience, Bono said: "So this is our moment. This is our time. This is our chance. To stand up for what's right.

Amazing!  It's a great line and Obama can certainly use it but he should credit Bono and it's unseemly for him to feature the phrase in his acceptance speech for Democratic nomination in Minneapolis and the King of the World speech in Berlin.  But Obama doesn't seem to have a problem with what is unseemly. 

Here are some other examples of Obama things that aren't, well, "cool":

1. Campaigning in Europe as a candidate.  You don't speak in front of hundreds of thousands of foreigners as a representative of America until you've been elected to represent America.  Not cool.
2. Pandering to socialist Europeans but not willing to visit injured American troops.  The military said he could not have cameras but he could visit - he choose not to.  Not cool.
3. Saying, "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city". Why say that?  It's not even true.  Both of Bush's Secretary of State, Colin Powell & Dr. Condi Rice, are African-American, look a lot like Barack and have spoken to German crowds.  But why does it matter what we look like?  Not cool.

There's lot more examples but I gotta go...

Here's another example of Bono using that phrase: