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Posted on 01/26/2011 5:04:23 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
Tonight’s remarkably dull State of the Union address was dominated by President Obama’s heavily flawed vision for reviving the American economy, with plans that remain overwhelmingly mired in an outdated Big Government mentality, and which spectacularly failed to include a coherent strategy for eliminating America’s massive $14 trillion debt.
But the State of the Union is also traditionally a major opportunity to project US leadership on the world stage, and once again Obama has fallen short.
In 2010 I gave the president an F for the foreign policy section of his lacklustre first State of the Union address. His 2011 address was certainly no better. For the second year running, President Obama has demonstrated that he is no world leader, and frankly has little interest at all in foreign policy.
The war in Afghanistan was barely a blip on the president’s teleprompter. With over 100,000 American troops on the ground fighting the Taliban in defence of the United States and the free world, one would have expected the president to have dedicated more than a miserly 132 words to the war effort and the stakes involved. There was no sense from the president of a plan for victory in Afghanistan, or the wider importance of the conflict within the context of a global war against Islamist terrorism, which he resolutely refuses to even identify.
Similarly, the Iranian nuclear crisis, arguably the biggest foreign policy challenge facing the Obama administration in 2011, was barely mentioned, meriting a single, rather pathetic line in the speech. Nor was there any declaration of support for dissidents in Iran, or a clear signal that the United States stands with those who are being brutally suppressed by the Islamist dictatorship.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
We all give Obama an “F”
... and a lot more if we were allowed.
(SNIPSKY)...In the international arena, however, many are worried about Obama’s position on human rights and the promotion of democracy. His policy is practically one of non-interference, which was clearly seen during a joint press conference following the latest US-China summit. Barack Obama, in response to a question, made a very careful statement: “China has a different political system from ours,” he said, cautiously choosing every word. “China is at a different stage of development than us. We belong to very different cultures, with very different histories...” He finished his soliloquy thus: “Over the past 30 years since the normalization of relations between the United States and China, China’s evolution has taken place, and I expect that after a further 30 years we will see further evolution, and further change.”
With amendments these words could apply to Russia. The State Department has commented specifically on various occasions (the sentencing of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, and the arrests of opposition leaders), but these do not change anything on their merits - they are but lists, not policies...
Vladimir Abarinov in ‘Grani.ru’, January 24th, 2011 16:37
http://www.grani.ru/Politics/World/US/Us_politics/m.185617.phtml
WOW! Go read the entire article. Mr. Gardiner lays a major, mega smackdown on nobama. No punches pulled.
What a shame that we have to travel across the pond to get honest reporting and editorial comment.
Damn! I don't know if I have ever such a scathing Indictment of Obama's feeling for this country, but there it is!
You are SOOOOO bad! :D *snort*
I read articles like this and wonder that there could be ANY division on the Right next year no matter who the Republican nominee is. Whoever it is will be light years better than Obama on foreign policy and a host of other issues, large and small even if he or she is not a so-called real conservative. Yet unless it’s Palin, plenty of fools on the Right will either stay home or vote third party. Sigh.
The bumper sticker on my car:
*** NOBAMA 2012 ***
He is far too dangerous to get a second term.
Anyone running against him will have my vote.
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