Whatever the Obama rhetoric, the reality is that his policies in Egypt and Libya have led to replacing stable regimes, at peace with Israel and the West, and tolerant of their own Christian minorities, with chaotic regimes in which fanatical anti-Western terrorists have played a large and growing role, with hostility to Israel and murderous attacks on Christians in their own country.
Heck, we have no idea who all the players are and who might be even “the marginally less-bad guys”.
William Flax
The Current Occupant of the White Hut is embarrassed?
How can you tell? His whole life has been an embarrassment, to socialism, to Islam, to community organizing, to any international forum on which he may appear. Incompetence shows at every pore of his being, as he was deliberately miseducated, always gaining placement in schools because of affirmative action, and his recorded grades concealed because of scholastic inadequacies. His very parentage is in question, being really too “white” for the racial minority of African descent that makes up some 13%. He actually falls in that much smaller category of “racially mixed”. He has few if any roots in the indigenous population of descendants of former slaves, a fact reflected upon by Jesse Jackson and others, and lacks the street cred to be “down for the struggle”.
His ties to the history of the United States and its foundation were never very well established, as his early mentors, including his one “parent” (Stanley Ann Dunham was more likely his half-sister, rather than his birth mother) and Frank Davis Marshall, both committed socialists. His youth spent in Indonesia did nothing to instill any love of the ideal that is America in his mind, and he was a lackadaisical scholar by any estimate. Sure, he “came to love” the sound of the call to evening prayer at the mosque in Indonesia, where he was given the religious training as a youth, but he is at best only a sunshine Muslim, if he professes to any religion at all. His credentials as a Christian are even more suspect, and any “conversion” to Christianity was superficial at best.
Accursed post turtle.
It will not. Reason enough to resist it.
Helmuth Von Moltke the elder, who ought to know.
Whatever the Obama rhetoric, the reality is that his policies in Egypt and Libya have led to replacing stable regimes, at peace with Israel and the West, and tolerant of their own Christian minorities, with chaotic regimes in which fanatical anti-Western terrorists have played a large and growing role, with hostility to Israel and murderous attacks on Christians in their own country.
How colossally incompetent would we have to believe 0bama to be to even suspect that it wasn't deliberate? Plenty of my fellow FReepers aren't buying it and I'm not sure I want to try selling it. Either way, this administration makes Carter's look competent, and that's saying something.
The problem is “do the American people learn anything” from how he got elected twice?
If not, then America and the presidency does not deserve ‘surviving’. Harsh, I know, please don't blame me.
Dr. Sowell hits another home run. Why can’t He be a presidents adviser? If I were president, he’d be the first person I would call.
BTTT.
“There is no question that the credibility of the presidency regardless of who holds that office is a major asset of this country.”
I have to respectfully disagree with Dr Sowell. The repudiation of Obama by congress and the american people would not weaken the presidency beyond Obama, any more than a weak Carter weakened Reagan. Iran saw the light rather quickly once Reagan was inaugurated, as did the USSR.
>> but to spare the American presidency from losing all credibility
That happened long ago. And to kill for credibility is simply sick and idiotic.