Obama's Remarks on 65th Anniversary of D-Day

From the New York Times, "Obama Hails D-Day Heroes at Normandy."

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The text is here.

Gateway Pundit notes, "In a surprise move, Obama didn't apologize for America."

But he did deal the moral relativism card:

We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It's a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world, it's all too rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity.

The Second World War did that. No man who shed blood or lost a brother would say that war is good. But all know that this war was essential. For what we faced in Nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a competing vision of humanity. Nazi ideology sought to subjugate and humiliate and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior. It was evil.

The nations that joined together to defeat Hitler's Reich were not perfect. They had made their share of mistakes, had not always agreed with one another on every issue. But whatever God we prayed to, whatever our differences, we knew that the evil we faced had to be stopped. Citizens of all faiths and of no faith came to believe that we could not remain as bystanders to the savage perpetration of death and destruction. And so we joined and sent our sons to fight and often die so that men and women they never met might know what it is to be free.

Damn!

America's "not perfect"? The American culture of liberty is just another "competing belief" about what is true in the world? I'm sure Thomas Jefferson might have a quibble with that!

EagleWingz08, a commenter at Gateway Pundit, is underwhelmed:

Given the tenor of the speech, and how Obama claims that it was a miracle it succeeded, one must posit the belief, as with Obama's take on the surge for the past four years, that if he were in the Oval Office when the plans for D-Day were being hashed out, he would have rejected them as too improbable and impossible to succeed. How we would have retaken Europe under a President Obama is a mystery that gets me sick even to consider.

Well, it's one more notch for "Obama's message of weakness" (via Mark Steyn at Memeorandum).