Posted on 09/09/2014 5:04:46 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Toward the end of the romantic comedy film The American President, Michael Douglas’s President Shepherd tells the assembled press corps, “Being president of this country is entirely about character.” This 1995 movie was made as a way of rescuing the scurrilous character of Bill Clinton from accusations of womanizing. It’s a pleasant and entertaining film but this line of dialogue, like just about everything else in the picture, is untrue.
Being president of this country is somewhat about character — everything in life is — but it is also, very much, about ideas.
There have been times over this past summer when I have felt I was living in Night of Camp David. Most people probably don’t remember that old thriller but it was by a once-famous bestselling novelist named Fletcher Knebel. It dealt with a senator who began to suspect the commander-in-chief was insane and couldn’t get anyone to believe him. Watching Obama’s narcissistic personality disorder rise to the surface as, one after another, his policies have imploded has given me that Knebellian sense of anxiety.
One of the ugliest summer moments — representative of so many others — was that grinning Martha’s Vineyard golf game the commander-in-chief played after his apparently solemn reaction to the Muslim beheading of American reporter James Foley. After taking some heat for the PR gaffe, the president remarked ruefully, “I should’ve anticipated the optics.” Yes, he probably should’ve at least pretended to give a damn for a couple of more hours.
On the right, the president’s actions are interpreted in various ways. There are those who think Obama is everything from an Islamist mole to merely an Alinksyite Communist and that his intention is to destroy a country he despises, which just happens to be the same one he leads. More plausibly, my friend and colleague Bill Whittle has just released an absolutely brutal video called “President Coward,” and while the title speaks for itself, it’s worth watching all the way through for the evidence Bill expertly presents.
My own feeling is that Obama is a hapless putz who genuinely believed his leftist ideas would make the world a better place and has gone into deep denial at the disaster he’s helped create here and around the globe.
But the larger point is: it doesn’t matter as much as all that. The character of the man the media and the rest of the left greeted as, to use Barbara Walters’ term, “the next messiah,” is of deep human interest of course. But one day in the not too distant future, he will be gone from the world stage. Another president will take his place.
His ideas, however, will remain. The idea that the government should be allowed to seize private property and “spread the wealth” for the good of all; the idea that mass equality is more important than individual liberty; the idea that all cultures deserve the same respect; the idea that white Christianity is to blame for the ills of other nations; the idea that America — America as it was founded — is the problem rather than the last, best hope of earth…
These ideas are all untrue and the policies that arise from them are always disastrous. They destroy economies and lives at home and leave lesser nations and worse cultures to their horrifying fates without the hope and protection of a great and free people. Obama, like the song says, is “only for now.” But those ideas — his legacy and the legacy of his leftist ilk — are the deathless enemies of freedom. They must be engaged and defeated anew in every generation. Obama is pretty much yesterday. The hard work of restoring our country and the world still lies ahead.
That pretty much sums the whole philosophy of President Obama and his Administration.
Seems what goes around, comes around - again.
Further perpetuated by his constant lying. His most recent 4 Pinocchio's from the Walpo come to mind over his saying he was not speaking about ISIS when he said JV.
Of course, with the LSM refusing to brace him on these subjects and his avoidance of any open debate or questioning outside his circle of sycophants, the mindless would vote for him again, and he would win, if he ran again.
Klinton and oshithead are the same. Klinton is worse he hates this country and was born here. That’s the only difference.
‘His ideas, however, will remain. The idea that the government should be allowed to seize private property and “spread the wealth” for the good of all; the idea that mass equality is more important than individual liberty; the idea that all cultures deserve the same respect; the idea that white Christianity is to blame for the ills of other nations; the idea that America — America as it was founded — is the problem rather than the last, best hope of earth…
That pretty much sums the whole philosophy of President Obama and his Administration.’
Add the majority that voted for Obama.
My own feeling is that Obama is a hapless putz
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No, he is an arrogant narcissist who who despises this country.
Bill Clinton was as corrupt and dishonest as any President (maybe LBJ was worse) but at least he can fake sincerity convincingly. Obama doesn’t feel the need to pretend he has any real concern for anyone except himself. Clinton is also capable of praising someone from the other party and sounding like he means it, whereas Obama is constantly denigrating the opposition. But the Clintons showed that hyper-partisanship can work politically and Obama has just taken it a bit further.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QUvqPgYC4U0
Thank you.
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