A Small President on the World Stage.(The World Laments Obama Unfit Even As Ruler of Lilliput)

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 26, 2013 | Peggy Noonan

[Caipirabob]

Talk of having never seen an American president treated as if he were so insignificant was rife among diplomats.

The problem is that he IS insignificant. So now he will rely on the brute force of the government to implement his agenda regardless of what the majority wants.

[abclily]

As it turns out, the job is also above Valerie Jarrett’s pay grade. Valerie has wrung every last bit of value out of her sock puppet. Time for her to resign and hang him out to dry.

[livius]

Yes,the Egypt air suicide terrorism crash was certainly one of the great moments in denial, wasn’t it?

I’ve actually read all sorts of people trying to say that the Westgate horror had nothing to do with Islam. Well, the terrorists themselves said it did, repeatedly, and in just about every form they could think of. So why not grant that the perpetrators would certainly be the best ones to know their motives.

[originalbuckeye]

Noonan’s buyer’s remorse does not fly. Toooooo late, Peggy. You helped convince many wobbly moderates to support him. You helped America buy him, you take some responsibility for this disaster.

[lbryce]

Yes. 'Egypt Air' was the government owned airline that was the largest air operator in the Middle East at the time lost the entire franchise of travelers worldwide in the aftermath of what was undoubtedly caused by the troubled co-pilot with reports of serious money problems and more. The competing reports resulting in contrarian causes were as a result of one trying to protect the airline along with the Egyptian government with fanciful, unlikely scenarios, while the more sobering report with details of a troubled pilot, of the captain on duty entering the cabin desperately trying to wrest the controls out of the co-pilot's hands was driven by the need to reveal the truth to the survivors and to speak to the safety of future passengers of Egypt Air.

During the first few days after the tragedy, talk of pilot suicide instrumental in the killing of over 200 passengers and crew, the mantra by the Egyptian government and other Islamic leaders was that of Islam forbidding the act of suicide as a grave sin, ergo the there could be no other cause for the plane crashing into the sea other than mechanical failure.

Whatever attempt was made by Egypt Air management to mollify any talk of pilot suicide as the cause, namely the Islamic prohibition against suicide, it nevertheless all fell on the public's deaf ears as no one was anywhere near falling for any such preposterous scenario.

Egypt Air within weeks of flying totally empty aircraft eventually succumbed to the inevitable in going out of business as no one in their sane minds would risk flying on Air Egypt ever again.

[RipSawyer]

A veritable crippled midget pissant presented as the biggest bull elephant on the planet and with the wisdom of Solomon and the intellect of DaVinci.

[lbryce]

Eloquently expressed,insightful.

[lbryce]

Please see post #45

[Secret Agent Man]

he could rule the mirrored land of Narcissia.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Oblamer perfectly personifies the Peter Principle.

I call it the "septic tank principle" as anyone who has ever raised the lid knows; "The really big chunks rise to the top".

Regards,
GtG

[okie01]

Oblamer perfectly personifies the Peter Principle.

Obama goes well beyond the Peter Principle.

The Peter Principle states that every executive rises to his particular level of incompetence.

Obama has risen well beyond the bounds of his own incompetence. There is no evidence that he was ever an effective executive at any level -- even that he was a passable "community organizer".

Instead, Obama's ascent is the greatest triumph of Affirmative Action -- an individually irrelevant minority thrust all the way to the very top of the pyramid by virtue of being (half) black.

"Competence" was never an issue, so far as his handlers were concerned. He only needed be electable, not capable. They would handle the rest themselves...

[EveningStar]

He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.

Damn. I lost my dinner. :(