The Rainbow Fish President - Barack Obama's Fishy Foreign Policy

Hampton Roads Tea Party ^ | May 24, 2010 | Emile Husson

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The Rainbow Fish President - Barack Obama's Fishy Foreign Policy Monday, 24 May 2010 19:45 by Emile Husson

In the childrens’ story “The Rainbow Fish”, by Swiss author Marcus Pfister, a fish made unique and magnificent by virtue of his colorful scales is reviled and shunned by his peers for his refusal to share them. Of course, the only thing his peers have to offer is their friendship and future silence regarding Rainbow Fish’s selfishness in their eyes. Okay, friendship here is actually the cessation of insult and verbal attack, and with friends like that, who needs sharks cruising the waters?

Spoiler alert! Rainbow Fish feels so lonely and sad that he gives away all of his scales until every fish has one. Rainbow Fish is now presumably “Drab Fish”, his magnificence permanently diminished, and everyone else gets to prance around in a fragment of what made him great. By the end of the fable, which is supposed to be about sharing, there is nothing great any more, just a bunch of hateful posers who’ve been bribed into silence by the destruction of something truly wonderful.

President Obama’s continuing flagellation of the United States for a variety of sins, both in and out of the country, along with his recent calls for a new “international order,” has a certain Rainbow Fishiness to it. Does he believe that if he continually disparages and weakens the nation that has brought down tyrants, freed millions of people, and raised the standard of living of the entire world, the hellholes and thugocracies that revile her will somehow be ennobled? When he isn’t insulting us or apologizing to the world for manufactured grievances, he is actively dismantling our free market, small businesses and basic rights to interact with one another without government interference. President Obama’s efforts to curry favor with the rest of the world by tearing down the United States are just one component of the doctrine of Social Justice that the world seems to demand from no one but us. Over the last 230 years, this country has set new standards that have drawn people from around the world to our shores. These immigrants have helped this country grow and prosper through hard work and a belief in the principles on which it was built.

Now, however, the countries whose poverty, oppression, or simple malaise that they escaped are demanding the we shed the traits that have made us a beacon to the world, and Obama is gladly giving them away one scale at a time in the form of endless rebukes against our prosperity, our values, and even private citizens with whom he has a quarrel. Most recently, he and the majority of our Congress fawned over Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s excoriation of the Arizona immigration law, and President Obama seemed eager to fill in any parts of the attack that his southern counterpart left out.

In any ethical exchange, we are taught not to drag others down in an effort to build ourselves up. It seems then, that the reciprocal should also be true - that we cannot magically improve the lot of others by tearing ourselves down. Yet this is exactly what Obama, in the fulfillment of starry-eyed college freshman fantasies everywhere, seems to be trying to do. In the 17 months he has been in office, every action and word seems to be aimed at peeling off the greatest parts of the U.S. like so many scales.

Obama knows that what makes us great is our people, our laws, and our free market. He is also aware that as he he gives them up, by castigating and undermining them, he is giving up our greatest assets and giving the world the mere illusion of something better for themselves.

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But “rainbow fish” gave away his OWN scales,

he didn’t hold a gun to someone else’s head and demand that the victim share HIS scales.