Posted on 05/28/2011 10:50:17 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
Getting inside the mind of Barack Obama has been a challenge for journalists since the 2008 presidential campaign. But during the last two and a half years, as the public has gotten more familiar with the president, the picture is becoming a bit clearer.
On Thursday’s syndicated “Hugh Hewitt” radio show, columnist and National Review Online contributor Mark Steyn offered some thoughts. After host Hugh Hewitt referenced a Wednesday interview with Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, in which he wondered aloud about what motivated Obama to make grand policy gestures, Steyn suggested that perhaps this was the first time Obama stayed in a job long enough to see his actions effect change.
“I think that is interesting,” Steyn said. “I mean, I think that if you look at Obama, he was wafted upwards basically through Columbia, Harvard Law, the Harvard Law Journal, community organizing, the Illinois legislature, the United States Senate – without ever lingering in those jobs long enough to have to do anything. He basically was someone who was kind of just wafted upwards through the system until he became the beneficiary of the ultimate waft into the Oval Office. And for the first time – for the first time in his life the words he said, and the actions he takes have consequences – for the first time ever. This is a guy who, you know as far as I know, has never had a paper route. This is the first time what he does has consequences and so the senator’s words are interesting.”
Steyn wondered if Obama realized what he was saying last week when he suggested a return to 1967 borders for Israel.
“And the fascinating thing about this 1967 borders stuff is whether he intended it as a conscious shift in U.S. policy that would allow the Israeli government or whether it – with the casual arrogance of his half-wit 12-year-old speechwriter, it just somehow got in there and he finds himself up there saying it,” Steyn said. “That’s what I don’t understand.”
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However with that in mind, Steyn suggested there were historical and psychological reasons behind the president’s attitude toward long-time U.S. allies, specifically the United Kingdom, India and Israel.
“As we were talking last week, you know I think he has a — I think it’s hard to avoid the growing feeling that he is a contempt for long-time American allies,” he said. “I think he has in that sense a contempt for the United Kingdom and India. I hear from Indian politicians all the time and Indian diplomats who are amazed at his off-handedness toward India. And I think Israel falls into that category too. There are deep-seated historical reasons for this. I think there are perhaps some peculiar psychological ones in the back of his mind too. But I think he thought he was getting in a cheap shot at Israel and as usual, as with all this great, you know – the greatest speaker of all time, after he has given his great speech, the great orator then has to go out and give these mopping-up speeches every 48 hours to try to correct the damage he’s done.”
Hugh Hewitt interviewing Mark Steyn is like Sandy Koufax pitching to Willie Mays — a thing of beauty.
Affirmative action overrides the Peter Principle to move him far above his level of incompetence.
Perhaps peculiar, but alas not uncommon. Hussein Obama is just a reflexively anti-American commie SOB, like millions of others. ....hating America's traditional values and allies, and sympathizing with her enemies. But this particular one somehow, some way, astoundingly managed to become POTUS.
Obama’s “peculiar psychology” comes from his mentality which gives him more the attitude toward the US of an envious and resentful Third Worlder than of someone whose roots and traditions are deeply American.
Dinesh D’Sousa and others have written about this, and it doesn’t take the world’s keenest observer to pick up it. His treatment of GB and Israel, and his absurd apology tours in the Third World are major indicators.
In looking at pictures of Obama in England he looks like he is really working hard to keep it together. Im surprised he is running for President again as he gives no sense that he really likes the job
He doesn't have a brain, so you can't get inside his mind.
My observation? With obama it’s, open mouth insert foot. Then get angry & burn for a day or two before going out to clean up his mess. And that usually means we get a talking down to, because he thinks he’s mr. perfect and if there is a problem, it’s ours, not his.
With his nose up in the air all the time it’s a wonder to me that the man doesn’t drown when it rains.
Bottom Line:
Obozo is certifiable insane.
The way Steyn pronounces “Barack Obama” always makes me laugh. I’m not sure why, but it sounds like he’s making fun of him just by saying his name.
He and Michelle like all the vacations.
That is indeed a thing of beauty.
“Au-baah-muh!”
It wasn't a thing of beauty, but did you ever see Joe Nuxhall throwing to Willie Mays?
Nuxhall, a Cincinnati leftie, owned Willie Mays.
At least once a game, the pitch sequence would go like this:
First, a high, hard one -- directly at a point somewhere between Willie's chin and his molars. Willie goes down in a heap.
Willie gets up...with steam coming out of his ears. He gets back in the box, waving the bat threateningly -- like a cat swishing its tail. He digs in even deeper.
Nux throws another one at his chops. Willie repeats his act.
Then, Nux throws three straight fastballs out over the plate, but head high. Willie take a vicious cut at each...and strikes out.
Next up, Willie McCovey, a LH-batter. Nux delivers, McCovey swings...and it's gone, a mile-and-a-half over the RF fence.
I swear I saw this particular act repeated numerous times back in the early-to-mid sixties.
true
There's nothing hard to understand about it, but for some, I can see how it is hard to accept. For the mediots however, they were raised in the same leftist environs. Hence, everything about it seems reasonable, so it should work... but it isn't working... deny, change the subject, blame somebody else... etc. Just keep repeating the same memes and everything will be hunky dory. After all, it pleases the 'You're a peon' left.
O-BAM-a :)
Obama is born from a liberal nutcase, fathered by a muslim, raised by anti-american socialists, mentored and tutored by all sorts of liberal, socialists, anti-americans, sponsored by left wing hate groups and underground anarchists.
Is it any wonder that he sees the world slightly different than we do?
He hates the job!
But he sure likes the perks.
Air Force One and Wagyu Wednesday offset a lot of the "work".
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