How President Obama Screwed Up His Own Mid-East Peace Effort

Harvard Law Blog/The Lid ^ | 7/19/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

President Obama's Middle East policy is in ruins. While the US continues to press Israel for a settlement freeze (and now a freeze on Jerusalem) every element of Obama's Middle East plan is falling apart. Syria and Iran aren't looking for engagement. He has turned the Israeli populace against him and strengthened the hand of Prime Minister Netanyahu. At the same time he has eroded his own support among American Jews and other US friends of Israel. The Arab League nations answered no to the Presidents request for a peace gesture and the President of the Palestinian Authority uses Obama's settlement pressure as his "out" from re-entering negotiations.

What the President and his advisers perceived as a minor concession, a settlement freeze, was not perceived by Israel as a minor concession. This was a major error by the administration. Their insistence for a freeze and the constant public berating of the Jewish State has turned the Israeli population against Obama, especially the Israeli left who the President would look to for support.

[jessduntno]

The number of things this Mutt has effed up is too long to post...let’s just say OSNAFU...

[AlexW]

I don’t know if you can blame Obozo. He just needs a new set
of puppet masters. Someone other then Soros and Ayers.

[Michel12]

I agree... Obama himself is a complete idiot, the academic type. e is clueless and rely on his advisers.. who are all mediocre.

[True Republican Patriot]

OBOZO HUSSEIN has become the Laughing GOON of the World in five short months! The Russians refused to shake his hand repeadedly, Chavez openly humiliated OBOZO, IMANUTJOB gave him the middle finger, the Saudi KING FORCED OBOZO to KISS the SOLES of the KING’S shoes and OBOZO threw a Fairy Ball in front of Millions at the ALL STAR GAME!! OH!! ISN’T CHANGE WUNDERBAR!!

[True Republican Patriot]

A<EM!! One couldn’t sell this Idiot’s story as Science Fiction! Would You hire OBOZO to be an afternoon shift Manager at your Own McDonald’s? asking about the mid shift because you would clearly never trust the Idiot to open or close!

[pankot]

This is what happens when inexperienced street rabble-rousers
trick their way into the Presidency. NO HE CAN’T!

[Will88]

Surprise, surprise!

Anyone surprised should have 24 hour supervision for their own well being.

[Steven Tyler]

But...HE IS A TRAINED COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!
Oh..how could this have happened??????

[chiefqc]

The first thing people need to know is that he has no ideas of his own. he gave up that when he sold his soul to become the current phony squatter soiling the Whitehouse. The main reason he uses that TelePrompter is to read what the owners of his soul have told him to say. He is a puppet, nothing more, nothing less.

[SunkenCiv]

While the US continues to press Israel for a settlement freeze (and now a freeze on Jerusalem) every element of Obama's Middle East plan is falling apart. Syria and Iran aren't looking for engagement. He has turned the Israeli populace against him and strengthened the hand of Prime Minister Netanyahu. At the same time he has eroded his own support among American Jews and other US friends of Israel. The Arab League nations answered no to the Presidents request for a peace gesture and the President of the Palestinian Authority uses Obama's settlement pressure as his "out" from re-entering negotiations.

"In other words, it's going according to plan."

[hinckley buzzard]

This is what happens when inexperienced street rabble-rousers trick their way into the Presidency.

Used to bullying underlings and minor leaguers, he had a grandiose expectation of his own personal power. His advisors were stupid amateurs who fed him ignorant miscalculations, and he didn't have the judgment himself to discern the traps.

What chicken-boy failed to factor into his thinking, was that he was dealing with veteran players who had taken the measure of presidents far more skilled than he, and they are plucking him like a dead chicken.

[muawiyah]

Just as Israel sent in Netanyahu we put in Obama.

That's simply not fair./sarc

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

"What chicken-boy failed to factor into his thinking, was that he was dealing with veteran players who had taken the measure of presidents far more skilled than he, and they are plucking him like a dead chicken. "

Can you even imagine Obama and his crew going up against the likes of Leonid Breshnev and Andrei Gromyko? The thought is truly horrifying.

[This_far]

I don’t know if you can blame Obozo.

I can.

No credibility, no history, no accomplishments.

George Washington: (para) I don't want to be a king

[AlexW]

Well, yes...I was being a bit facetious.
Obamie would still be only a south side thug, had it not
have been for his puppet masters.

[This_far]

Well, yes...I was being a bit facetious.

Yeah, I thought you were (just a bit)!

So, do you think that 0 is a poster person for the Peter Principle or has he hit the glass ceiling (oh, what a pitch!... I think he should have dribbled halfway down and gone for three points!)

[AlexW]

“So, do you think that 0 is a poster person for the Peter Principle or has he hit the glass ceiling (oh, what a pitch!... I think he should have dribbled halfway down and gone for three points!)”

Well, I often cite the Peter Principle, interesting book from the 60s.
As for Obozo, he never reached the ceiling, but probably the Peter Principle long ago.

I am convinced that he is just a puppet.

[AlexW]

Let me expound just a bit...

I think all civilizations succumb to The Peter Principle.
I fear that we are at the peak now.

Nothing we do is going to put America, or any of the west,
back to what we think of as the good old days is going to work.
Politicians only exacerbate the problems. None of them can fix it.

Civilizations and societies are like trees.
They spring with vigor. They grow through traumas.
They all die at some time.

[This_far]

Politicians only exacerbate the problems. None of them can fix it.

Agree: Politicians exacerbate problems (self perpetuating job).

Disagree that they can't fix it.