Posted on 07/21/2008 9:03:29 PM PDT by kristinn
Barack Obama and his team agree: At 46 years old, with no military service or foreign policy experience, having only spent three years as a United States senator, he is master of the universe.
Susan Rice, Obama's senior foreign policy advisor, informed the German news magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published today that her candidate "bows to nobody in understanding this world."
Rice prefaced this conceit by relating his world travels: "Senator Obama has travelled to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia many times before. He lived in Asia."
This evening ABC News Nightline will broadcast an interview with Obama conducted after he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and Gen. Petraeus today in Iraq.
Obama's arrogance shone through as he dismissed Petraeus' concerns about Obama's plans for Iraq:
"My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole and to weigh and balance risks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here, and I completely understand that."
Obama, in his arrogance, failed to recognize that Petraeus, having recently been promoted to head up Centcom, which oversees both Iraq and Afghanistan, would also be looking at Iraq from the same perspective.
Obama also made clear he worked to undermine President Bush's negotiations with the Maliki government on the new status of forces agreement:
"I made very clear to him that we have one president at a time. And it is the job of the Bush administration to work with [the] Iraqi government. I am a United States senator, I can present my views as a candidate and I can present my views as a senator who believes that we can't bind the next president to an agreement that involves us committing troops or budget."
While Obama has not been elected yet, he and his team are acting like it is all over but the swearing in ceremony.
His presidential-style rally being held in Berlin later this week is one more example of the self-crowning of Obama.
Many an arrogant man who 'bowed to nobody in their understanding of this world' have found themselves to be proven disastrously wrong. Unfortunately the world usually pays a horrendous price for their arrogance.
Berlin is a good city for Obama to learn a valuable lesson or two. However, the lessons of Berlin will likely be lost on him.
In the Der Speigel interview, Rice said of Obama: "He sees the world as more complex than simply good versus evil"
For more than half a century, Berlin was the front line in the battle between good and evil in the world--from the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler through the rise and fall of the Berlin wall.
However, a man who has foretold his own coming ("we are the ones we have been waiting for") may be too far gone already.
Those kind of people = Liberal, who has all the answers as long as they have tax revenue( actual or projected).Then when those revenue streams fade, create more revenue streams.fees, assessments, license, surge charge, ect.....never ending..
Russia’s leadership is either composed of fools or they are silently hoping that Obama loses.
If Obama wins and succeeds in some of his reforms, and he reduces the U.S. economy to barely functional shambles, then Russia will have to deal with an adventurous, desperate China. The trade deficit between the U.S. and China finances China’s energy imports. Take that away, and China’s going to have to get creative with how they keep their people happy, and a good war is always good for morale when you can’t lose. Or even if China loses a war, their population pressure will be reduced by the elimination of a good segment of drafted soldiers by Russia’s defenses.
Russia’s economy is still pretty fragile. It relies in large part on food and energy exports, which clients won’t be able to afford to buy if U.S. foreign aid, subsidies, and trade dry up.
Russia’s leaders need a straw man to point at to rally their people behind them. The U.S. serves as the biggest, baddest straw man in the world right now, and we’re the best non-threat to use as Poe’s fictional pendulum because we won’t ever actually do what our opponents in Russia and the Middle East always claim that we’re going to do. It is always some variation on the claim that the U.S. will find some way to exploit the huddled masses in some distant foreign country, either through invasion of our Army, or through our prodigious and corrupt private sector, multi-national corporations. Since we aren’t as evil as our enemies and opponents claim we are, they can accuse us ad nauseam without fear of retaliation. Of course, if we were as evil as people around the world claim, we’re piss poor sorry excuses for global tyrants since we keep on insisting it is the right of everybody to dissent with us and to call us names. Shame on us for being so evil as to protect free speech and expression.
**Team Obama Arrogance: Obama “Bows to Nobody in Understanding This World”**
Not even to God??
His way or the highway — no consideration for what God wants in Obama’s life????
Lost soul to the sin of pride.
**when is McCain going to air these strange narcissistic moments of Obama’s with Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in the background?**
Ads need to be Obama against Obama.
Show everyone the flip-flopper he really is.
I enjoyed reading it. As scarily true as it is.
the more the merrier!
Obama vs. Obama
Obama the narcissist
Obama the history flunkie
We could make up quite a list.
His arrogance knows no end...
He will, however, expect us to bow to him...
He doesn’t bow? Does gyrating his buittocks skyward five times a day count?
With a Teleprompter at hand, at least. Without one, he's a bloody putz.
Carefully crafted "debates" designed to coddle the Messiah.
As you watch the mania being beamed back from Europe, I ask you to remember one important thing. Not too many months ago the Pew Research Center – and these are people with great expertise in European polling – said that 58% of all Europeans want to see the United States weakened. Now think about that for a minute. Do you want the United States to be weakened? It's not surprising that Europeans might want that. After all, a weaker United States might well mean a stronger Europe in international affairs and economic influence. That might be great for Europe, and we can understand Europeans wanting to bring this about. But when these Europeans start falling all over themselves during the Obama 2008 tour, try to remember what their goals really are. Are they slobbering all over Obama because they think he will be a wonderful and powerful world leader, or because they think that Barack Obama is the means to their desired end ... a weakened America.
Can it be that the future of this country is going to depend on millions of voters snapping out of it – escaping the cult – and actually sitting back for a little session of sober thought on the choices at hand?
day by day more alarms are going off....lets hope more people are listening.
Entering the 12th(#?) Caliphate?
“Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald”
It’s spelled “Buchenwald,” but pronounced as you have written. Right now, it means nothing.
What is this, a real live version of “The Omen”? What is with his advisors and these kinds of statements?
I would vote for Satan himself instead of this arrogant a**clown!
mark
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Growing up we all knew guys who really needed to get their ass kicked, an attitude adjustment so to speak, just to bring them down to earth. I think this guy would have profited from a good slapping around. Too bad for all of us that nobody took care of that piece of business thirty years ago.
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