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Obama in Exile
American Thinker ^ | March 21, 2011 | Geoffrey P. Hunt

Posted on 03/21/2011 2:56:10 PM PDT by sjneuf

For centuries exile has been the most popular strategy for kings and dictators to escape hanging, whether it be Charles II, his brother James II, Idi Amin, Ferdinand Marcos or the Shah of Iran. Exile also has been a preferred choice for those seeking political asylum from persecution such as Albert Einstein and Bertolt Brecht fleeing the Nazis, or Salman Rushdie finding safe haven from the Ayatollah's fatwa death sentence.

No US president has ever been exiled. For high crimes and misdemeanors impeachment is our cure. For lesser sins, a second term denied is punishment enough. Until Barack Obama came along, a president imposing one's own exile would have been unthinkable.

Self-imposed -- or voluntary -- exile is a contradiction of course, a contorted pretzel twisting our sensibilities. Exile historically is an act of banishment and shunning; punishment by forcible removal from one's beloved homeland. I suppose there can be a form of self-imposed exile under duress, the fugitive on the run, like Whitey Bulger -- South Boston's notorious mobster on the lam for some fifteen years, unlikely to return to his old neighborhood except in handcuffs or a funeral procession.

Yet self-imposed exile is a safe, even respectable, haven for those escaping high taxes, disagreeable politics, writer's block and boredom. As long as one doesn't renounce his citizenship, of course.

James Joyce profited well enough by a self-imposed relocation from his dear Dublin to Paris and Zurich. George Santayana abandoned tenure as professor of philosophy at Harvard to take up residence in a convent in Rome to be reunited with his Continental Roman Catholic roots.

Other self-imposed exiles are simple acts of running away from duty. In the military, abandoning one's post or desertion is always met with court martial and sometimes death. In urban legend form, it is the Wall Street investment banker weary of the endless commutes from suburban Connecticut, a nervous wreck from making multi-million dollar bets, losing most but winning only a handful more, retreating into the Grand Central Station tunnels under Park Avenue joining the ranks of the homeless, never to return as a captain of industry.

How to reconcile the optics of president Obama on his latest trip to Brazil? Being feted on the tarmac in Rio De Janeiro and later joining the dignitaries reviewing a Brazilian military parade, all while a new war has been started in Libya, our Asian ally lies in ruins, and federal government insolvency threatens our republic. This juxtaposition can only be seen through the lens of a self-imposed exile.

Obama is being chased by his own incompetence, forced to face it, unable to stare it down. Privately he must admit he is over his head and no one -- not in the legislature, in the labor unions, in the deep pockets of George Soros nor the salons of liberal media apologists and sympathetic academics -- can save his doomed presidency.

Obama is in full retreat. Disengaged and decoupled. A pathetic creature, soon to be deserving of mercy rather than scorn, if only his hubris were in lockstep full retreat. Is he guilty of desertion or mere dereliction? Desertion would be a harsh claim, but dereliction not so far fetched.

A president who voluntary withdraws -- or at least sidesteps -- from the duties of the office, is derelict, period. Even his own party faithful anxiously look for any sign of leadership coming from Obama, only to be turned away empty handed, yet again. Bereft of personal responsibility towards his fellow Americans, Obama has neither resigned nor renounced his citizenship. Yet through his apology tours has made us wonder whether renouncing his affinity for America and the leadership imperatives due the office would only be a public formality.

A president whose complete disregard for substantive political discourse in addressing the nation's fiscal woes is derelict. Whether he is lazy, irresponsible or just overwhelmed, the signs point to a man bringing disrepute to the office for which self-imposed exile is his only way out. A president with enough time and energy to fill out a NCAA Final Four basketball tourney bracket but can't find the time to attend to border security or assemble a meaningful budget incorporating the recommendations of his own deficit commission, is derelict.

A president who refuses to address the nation on the crisis in Libya and the humanitarian catastrophe in Japan, instead giving fourteen rogue Democrat state senators from Wisconsin directions to Morton's Steak House in Chicago, is derelict.

The US Constitution doesn't provide for succession if a president has imposed his own exile while still in office. Article II Sec 1 Clause 6 provides for succession if the president is unable to "discharge the duties and powers of said office", yet the test for effective abdication, short of outright resignation has never been addressed. Temporary incapacity due to illness or surgery has been addressed -- but what to do if the man refuses to get out of bed or simply walks away leaving no forwarding address?

The Presidential Records Act of 1978 requires the White House to be swept clean with all papers and records of the president leaving office be turned over to the National Archives. In an ABC news story upon the departure of Bill Clinton entitled "Law Requires Empty White House: Everything Must Go", Ed Meese counselor and Attorney General under Ronald Reagan is quoted "When I walked in (post Jimmy Carter), there was not a piece of paper in the drawers. I think the only thing I found was a paper clip in one drawer,"

Someone needs to check the drawers in the White House right now to see if Obama has already gone.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: derelict; exile; obama
"Obama is in full retreat. Disengaged and decoupled." Except if the activity involves jetting around on AF1, NCAA bracket, parties, celebrity bashes. You know, all the fun stuff.
1 posted on 03/21/2011 2:56:14 PM PDT by sjneuf
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To: sjneuf

ALL of TV loves him and covers for him. Fox covers for him and was thrill election night when he won. Keep watching TV and supporting the one - keep being a dhimini serf.

He controls TV and the media so what you think doesn’t mean sh*t. He controls the corrupt courts and the military with subservient public of sheep.


2 posted on 03/21/2011 3:01:35 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: sjneuf
This is very true. I read (somewhere), that his style of management is abdicative. A damning and low key description of the truth we all know
3 posted on 03/21/2011 3:06:52 PM PDT by oncebitten (Re: Obama: "I could carve a better man out of a banana." T. Roosevelt)
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To: sjneuf
I just can't write anything anymore without the fear of being banned.
4 posted on 03/21/2011 3:10:24 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: sjneuf

Obama does this consistently...runs and hides. Then they get out the old monitor for him to read his “propoganda” and makinhg himself “very clear”....then he just walks away like everything is absolutely solved...and he was the one who solved “it”...whatever “it” is....


5 posted on 03/21/2011 3:12:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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only the kook randi the drunk rhodes is still carrying a flame for this disaster. carter had the loon wife, an zer0 has the lying drunk. 1 term each thank you very much


6 posted on 03/21/2011 3:13:22 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: reefdiver
Possibility Ping!

Article II Sec 1 Clause 6 provides for succession if the president is unable to "discharge the duties and powers of said office", yet the test for effective abdication, short of outright resignation has never been addressed.

7 posted on 03/21/2011 3:21:35 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The less I say, the more I'm right...)
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8 posted on 03/21/2011 3:26:27 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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9 posted on 03/21/2011 3:34:32 PM PDT by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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To: sjneuf; butterdezillion
Privately he must admit he is over his head and no one -- not in the legislature, in the labor unions, in the deep pockets of George Soros

Butterdezillion's take:

I do believe there are threats. But I don’t believe they began or end with Boehner. Soros has something he is holding over the heads of both the blue-dog democrats who have been falling on their swords in an unprecedented way for the past 2 years AND over the heads of even people who have proven their conservative mettle over the years, which can be seen most clearly by the way they allowed the scorched-earth congress even when there was no political price to be paid for resisting at that point.

The next election is 2 years away, and for most of them even farther than that. It was not politics that got them to give in. There is something more going on.

The more I see, the more I think Soros has this nation hostage under the threat of another run on the bank like the one that he and his Islamist allies orchestrated in September of 2008 to overcome Palin’s effect on the polls and get Obama elected.

As long as Obama is in office nothing serious will be done to get rid of our financial vulnerability. It is our financial vulnerability that keeps the judges and media quiet about Obama’s eligibility and keeps Congress from doing anything to fix the mess.

It’s a vicious circle Soros has us in. He’s shown the leaders that he has the power to break our economy. He says if we don’t let Obama stay in power he will pull the trigger. If we leave Obama in power he will kill America’s infrastructure and make sure that Soros keeps his power to break our economy.

We are in a huge, huge mess. The republicans had the biggest landslide in this country’s history, and for the 2 months of lame-duck Congress after that landslide R’s gave away everything including the kitchen sink. We are not dealing with normal electoral politics. That should be clear to everybody.

35 posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:11:34 AM by butterdezillion

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10 posted on 03/21/2011 3:44:05 PM PDT by txhurl
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“The more I see, the more I think Soros has this nation hostage under the threat of another run on the bank like the one that he and his Islamist allies orchestrated in September of 2008 to overcome Palin’s effect on the polls and get Obama elected.”

Yes.


11 posted on 03/21/2011 3:58:21 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: nolongerademocrat; butterdezillion

That’s butterdezillion’s take.


12 posted on 03/21/2011 4:10:17 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: sjneuf
ELIGIBILITY
13 posted on 03/21/2011 4:26:35 PM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: sjneuf

I was just thinking today about how his poll numbers are going up. This happens every time. He’s around to do something, he does something stupid, his poll numbers suffer, he goes on vacation, and while he’s gone people think better of him.

If he could just stay on vacation forever he might get to positive numbers again. lol.

The guy is a placeholder. He’s tied to a teleprompter (the only way his handlers will let him loose in public except for photo ops and when he’s on vacation) and doesn’t bother to learn any of the subject matter because he’s just a placeholder for the people who are really running the country. Soros’ goons.

When Obama left so Bill Clinton could finish the press conference a while back, it was just a real visible reminder of what’s really going on. Only it’s not Bill Clinton who is calling the shots; it’s Soros and his communist-Islamist buddies. Bill Clinton himself would never have been this bad because he would not have allowed himself to fully align with the Islamists. He had enough of a Baptist background to know better than do that. And Hillary is too much a feminist to do that. That is what sunk them. Both are too American; I actually get a feeling that they are both grieved and disgusted by what is going on; they love politics and realize this is way, way beyond just politics.

Interesting that somebody in the MSM finally suggested that it’s somebody else calling the shots and Obama is just obeying. They said it was Jarrett, Samantha Powers, and somebody else (can’t remember the details). But it’s really Soros who controls all the puppets. He’s been doing the communist “Third Option” (communism lite) for a long time but it’s only recently that he’s actually aligned with the Islamists, and to do that effectively he needed somebody who hates what America really is and would embrace Islamism. Enter Obama. A pretty face who could gather the Islamists and communists under one banner so Soros could give them all their marching orders.

Now they just have to hide their “pretty face” so he doesn’t screw everything up for them. Works good for him because he loves to vacation and the last thing they want is him actually on the job.


14 posted on 03/21/2011 4:54:48 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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