Posted on 09/17/2014 6:26:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The late Lloyd Bentsen is sorely needed when President Barack Obama tries to compare himself to Ronald Reagan. Mr. President, you're no Ronald Reagan.
The New York Times recently captured Obama speaking inside the White House in an off-the-record meeting with liberal journalists. He lamented with an "edge of resentment" that he's seen as weaker than Reagan after an Islamic suicide bomber drove a truck into a Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, killing 241 Americans.
"Mr. Obama noted acidly that President Ronald Reagan sent Marines to Lebanon only to have hundreds of them killed in a terrorist attack because of terrible planning, and then withdrew the remaining ones, leaving behind a civil war that lasted years. But Reagan, he noted, is hailed as a titan striding the earth."
Reagan is a titan to many because he won the Cold War -- ignoring the liberal Democrat and pro-detente Republican elites and their allegedly complex "conventional wisdom" the whole time. Unlike the "wise," he saw the Soviet empire as decrepit and vulnerable. They perceived Reagan throughout his presidency as an amiable dunce.
Obama is judging Reagan 30 years after the events. Journalists didn't hail him as a titan for the Marines bombing. Take NBC anchor Tom Brokaw opening up the 1988 Republican convention coverage five years later with a rhetorical jab: "In this hall tonight, you'll hear nothing of Iran/Contra, or Meese, or Deaver, or Nofziger, or the tragedy in Beirut. You'll hear the triumphs."
Obama looks much more like Jimmy Carter than Ronald Reagan. The Times inadvertently underlined this by bringing in Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who insists Obama is "not a softy. But he's a person who tries to think through these events so you can draw some long-term conclusions."
I'm sure he said the exact same thing about Carter. Whether it's Carter or Obama, they're so brilliant that when America stumbles into decline and incompetence, the media pretend all these unfortunate events just happen to the Deep Thinker, like a car accident.
The Times recounts this presidential whining: "Oh, it's a shame when you have a wan, diffident, professorial president with no foreign policy other than 'don't do stupid things,'" Obama "sarcastically" imitated his critics. "I do not make apologies for being careful in these areas, even if it doesn't make for good theater."
"Careful" or "professorial" are the adjectives Obama uses to describe statements that make no sense whatsoever. "Islamic State" is neither Islamic, nor a state. "War" is not a word to define the current airstrikes or deployment of more than 1,000 military advisers. Even sympathetic White House reporters are asking for an understandable set of definitions, and all they're getting is gobbledygook.
Even Obama's natural allies don't see a titan in the White House. David Rothkopf, the left-leaning editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a former Clinton aide, spread the malaise: "Obama seems steadfast in his resistance both to learning from his past errors and to managing his team so that future errors are prevented. It is hard to think of a recent president who has grown so little in office."
Obama doesn't have a strategy to take down global jihad. He barely acknowledges it exists. The emergence of ISIS, now covering a territory in Iraq and Syria larger than Great Britain, is dragging Obama kicking and screaming back into the reality of persistent radical Islamist war on the West. No mere change in American presidents, no premature Nobel Peace Prize or Islam-pandering speech in Cairo was ever going to degrade or destroy it. Only a fool impressed with his own talents would think so.
“What was the last thing on JFK’s mind?”
“Jackie’s dress.”
comrade obamatollah’s 2008 job resume:
ACORN (the voter fraud group)
- communist street organizer
- racist agitator
CAC
- assisted an unrepentant terrorist (Ayers) in doling out $100 MILLION to radical leftwing communist & Islamic groups
No experience in the real world of private enterprise
No accomplishments
No leadership
Disbarred by State of Illinois
Not even qualified to be a night manager for McDonalds. Literally.
Only an intellectual idiot or fellow communist would vote for this POS.
It’s been alleged that Quayle did that though, or tried anyway.
Allegedly he hit on that slore lobbyist chick that slept with all those Congressmen, Paula Parkinson, but he was too painfully unsmooth to land her, saying something like “I want to make love to you”.
That’s the story anyway, according to HER, could be horseshite lies.
“...he was too painfully unsmooth...”
Like Eph from ‘The Strain’?
:)
I think Marilyn would’ve castrated him with her teeth if he had done that. I always puzzled why she herself never ran for office, she was definitely an alpha female leader.
Not familiar with that show.
It’s on FX and it’s excellent.
Is that so, I admit to knowing next to nothing about the Lady Quayle.
Reportedly she lobbied to save her son’s Congressional seat from the long knives of the “independent” redistricters.
Quasi-realistic take on vampires, presenting vamprism as an ancient disease.
Nice antidote to that “Twilight” garbage, vampires are scary again, and they can’t romance teenage girls, because their members fall off DJ, they fall off and the guys don’t even care because at that point they are inhuman monsters who live only to feed on blood.
Can't you just picture Reagan, Thatcher, and Netanyahu working together?
Could use some of Reagan's optimism..
Yes, yes.
Eh, er... Homey don't play dat.
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