That is a classic line.
New tagline!
On page 261 of the paperback edition of “Audacity of Hope” Obama wrote: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Bingo
My dad who grew up in China (he’s European) has the same resentment of America. It’s an Asian thing. Smoldering resentment that we have topped their obvious superiority.
obama caught it in Indonesia and Hawaii.
Obama has methodically and deliberately transformed Bedford Falls into Pottersville. Americans are so naive.
Is this Obama’s plan, or is he just the figurehead. Not really a question —— just a statement. Who picked him, and who are the planners?
Clearly the president HAS been checked out - he’s been checked out with the driver, he’s been checked out with the putter, he’s been checked out on the tees, he’s been checked out on the greens...
He just hasn’t been checked out on the Oval Office.
He is being effective in furthering his aims. He has not checked out. He is behaving as a Sultan from a couple of centuries ago. His viziers are taking care of business in the capital while he and his retinue play. The vizier has his orders for what is to be done and is carrying them out. The Sultans and Emirs of yore in mature Moslem tyrannies were figureheads for the groups that actually ran things and were encouraged to enjoy their opulence so that the affairs of the State could be carried out in the shadow while the subjects lived vicariously in the luxurious pursuits of the Sultan.
He’s doing what he’s always done; he’s faking it. He’s wearing the suit, and going to the thing, and making the speech, and sitting in the office, and talking about that issue, and doing the other Presidential thing, and doing the photo op, and whatnot, just like all the other Presidents did it.
Obama likes the perks but he's back to his pattern of passive aggressive denial - voting 'present'...That's what he did in the Illinois legislature...When the going got rough - he refused to take a stand.
Yes, the United States has someone with the title of President. And he lives in the White House. That's it - Obama might has well be the chef in the WH kitchen for all it matters.
The question should be how long will he be allowed to continue?
The problem is that OBama was never checked out on training wheels for foreign policy.
What we are seeing is the equivalent of the wild careening of a neophyte on his first bicycle ride.
Well, he doesn’t have those pesky elections anymore.
very good insights