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2014: Obama’s America
Victor Davis Hanson ^ | July 17, 2014 | Victor Davis Hansen

Posted on 07/19/2014 11:05:58 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

The summer of 2014 will go down in history as the season when America fell apart. Let’s take a tour of the disasters.

Germany in 2008 enthusiastically hosted candidate Barack Obama for his so-called Victory Column speech. Now, Germans suddenly sound as if they are near-enemies of the U.S. Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly was furious that her cell phone was tapped by American intelligence agents. She just kicked the top CIA official out of Germany, further enraged that the U.S. had recruited at least one German official to provide intelligence on the German government. Polls show that Germans find Vladimir Putin’s Russian tyranny to be almost as popular as Barack Obama’s America.

Japan is becoming similarly frustrated with the U.S. It is rearming like crazy to confront an aggressive China. Both Asian powers apparently assume that Obama won’t guarantee the security of the Japanese as America has in the past.

The Middle East is dissolving. Taking U.S. peacekeepers out of Iraq proved a disaster. The radical jihadists of ISIS are overrunning Syria and Iraq, as they extend their destruction even to the mute stones of religious sanctuaries.

War looms between Israel and the Palestinians as they exchange rockets and bombs. Older Americans had an idea of what Afghanistan will look like by 2016 after Obama announced a pullout of all U.S. troops. They remember Saigon of 1975 all too well.

Crimea has become a Russian satellite. The fate of the Ukraine hangs in the balance. In between his conquests, Russia’s Putin openly ridicules the impotence of the U.S. He is often called to the Middle East on the perception that he can address problems that America runs away from.

(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...


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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks; flaglady47; pax_et_bonum; seekthetruth; Maine Mariner; mickie; seenenuf
Re: Obama choosing to stand in front of the historical Victory Column for his Berlin speech, offending educated Germans......

Wouldn't it be fun to see him strung up on one of those fake Greek columns he borrowed from one of Jane Fonda's old movie sets.......phony columns which flanked the outdoor stage when he made his acceptance speech in Chicago's Grant Park, 2008?

I'd pay a fortune to see that!

Leni

21 posted on 07/19/2014 11:52:53 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

Pray for a Pinochet.


22 posted on 07/19/2014 12:15:54 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Instead, we get Pinocchio.


23 posted on 07/19/2014 12:20:45 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MinuteGal

Actually, the fake columns idea came after his homage in Berlin to the altar of Zeus from Pergamos, which is referred to in the Book of Revelation as the throne of Satan. After the NY Post broke the story, the obamunistas started backpedaling really fast, it was just a hybrid of the WH portico and the Congress, blah, blah, blah...


24 posted on 07/19/2014 12:21:08 PM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: Clintonfatigued
Good article. I read it and thought, "Will we make it to January, 2017?"

Pray for America and prepare.


25 posted on 07/19/2014 12:38:11 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Art in Idaho

This can end on November 4, 2014...if only the American people will vote to politically destroy the entire “traitor” Democrat Party during the mid-term elections. It is as simple as that. Get the word out......because now is the time for all good men & women to come the aid of freedom, liberty, equality, opportunity and our great country!!! If only we would herald this message every day on every blog, on every TV station, in every newspaper, etc.!!! Our country needs saving, right now!!! Will you do your part...or will you sit back, rant about your pet gripe, or do something meaningful for our country, now and forever!!! Obama must go politically!!! He is a dedicated, sworn enemy of the United States of America!!!


26 posted on 07/19/2014 1:54:17 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

We don’t need just to destroy the Dems but the RINOs, too.


27 posted on 07/19/2014 2:30:39 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

Yes. It was no coincidence.


28 posted on 07/19/2014 3:05:06 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: DuncanWaring

LOL. You got it.


29 posted on 07/19/2014 3:08:56 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Art in Idaho

Voting would go some way towards correcting that.


30 posted on 07/19/2014 3:27:30 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

VDH nails it again.


31 posted on 07/19/2014 3:38:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: ExCTCitizen

With you 100%....RINOS....just as bad as Dems, if not worse, for they are, but, wolves in sheep’s clothing!!!


32 posted on 07/19/2014 6:15:00 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Amen to what you said!
33 posted on 07/20/2014 12:23:42 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Voting would go some way towards correcting that.

Agree with that. Remember on November 4, 2014 people!! A 'voting revolution' is in the works!!

34 posted on 07/20/2014 12:25:51 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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