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Is Obama too busy eyeing a plum post-Presidential gig?
National Post ^ | Nov. 16, 2015 | Barbara Kay & Robert Cutler

Posted on 11/16/2015 4:20:10 PM PST by rickmichaels

U.S. President Barack Obama characterized the terrorist acts in Paris last week as "an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share." But the terrorists and those whom they represent clearly do not share those values. As journalist Mark Steyn noted, these acts are "an attack on the West, on the civilization that built the modern world."

Yet Obama continues to obfuscate the specific nature of the attack, and in a manner consistent with his approach to Islamist terror in general. We have a hypothesis as to why.

Obama will still be a young man when he leaves the presidency. His multiple policy failures (which are failures by his own self-imposed yardsticks: Russia, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Syria) will not have diminished the capacious ego that he brought, and which brought him, to the White House.

What post-presidency career would Obama consider worthy of his future attention and efforts? Few jobs of Olympian prestige are available, and his self-admittedly vast self-esteem might diminish the list still further. Ambassador to Kenya? We think not. No, we agree with a number of other observers that Obama has his sights set on the office of United Nations Secretary-General.

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1 posted on 11/16/2015 4:20:10 PM PST by rickmichaels
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I think that too.


2 posted on 11/16/2015 4:21:16 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: rickmichaels

You think he’s insufferable now.


3 posted on 11/16/2015 4:21:41 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rickmichaels

I have no doubt whatever that he’ll become UN Secretary-General, a perch from which he can harass and upstage whomever follows him as President.


4 posted on 11/16/2015 4:21:51 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Security Council members cannot appoint their citizens to that office.


5 posted on 11/16/2015 4:24:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Steely Tom

Security Council members cannot appoint their citizens to that office.


6 posted on 11/16/2015 4:24:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: rickmichaels

Obama is going to follow the Clinton model. Make millions of dollars for speeches to the faithful and play golf.


7 posted on 11/16/2015 4:24:50 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: dfwgator

He will never shut up and we will never be rid of him.


8 posted on 11/16/2015 4:25:14 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: Steely Tom

He can harass President Cruz, but not upstage him.

Nor President Trump.

President Clinton is another story, but if she’s in the White House, it won’t matter, we’ll be toast anyway.


9 posted on 11/16/2015 4:25:44 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: rickmichaels
2018 ad: “Mr. President, may I ask you a question?” “Why yes you may.” “Can I get extra catsup with those fries?”
10 posted on 11/16/2015 4:26:10 PM PST by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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The personal skills of the Secretary-General and their staff are crucial to their function.

That leaves Obama out


11 posted on 11/16/2015 4:26:52 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: rickmichaels

If Obama is really feeling industrious then he will follow the Algore model. Make hundreds of millions of dollars selling the Global Warming scam to the faithful and play golf.


12 posted on 11/16/2015 4:27:06 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: rickmichaels

He’s hoping to be the Caliph...?


13 posted on 11/16/2015 4:27:19 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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President Trump will tell him to pack up and leave the UN building in NY and to get our of our country...


14 posted on 11/16/2015 4:27:49 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: MamaB

He wants to be the next Pope. This way, he can absolve himself of all sin and get a right hand seat to the throne of God.


15 posted on 11/16/2015 4:28:20 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That could change.


16 posted on 11/16/2015 4:29:04 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: rickmichaels

Obama will just sit back and wait to that Big Gig


17 posted on 11/16/2015 4:29:14 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: grey_whiskers

Wouldn’t put that past.him either.


18 posted on 11/16/2015 4:30:00 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: MamaB

I agree .. I got that opinion when he kept going to the UN for answers to everything.

However, since the USA is a member of the Security Council, I do not believe he’s eligible to be head of UN.

Of course, rules do not seem to apply to Obama .. so maybe it’s not a sure thing.


19 posted on 11/16/2015 4:32:19 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Tennessee Nana
President Trump will tell him to pack up and leave the UN building in NY and to get our of our country...

I would like it better if Trump told the UN to pack up and leave NY.

20 posted on 11/16/2015 4:34:13 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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