One Thousand and One Articles Later: Why Obama Should be Voted Out of Office Today
How would you feel about such a person and his effect on the world? Recently several readers have written me that they will be voting for Obama because they believe that he has learned his lesson, is a true friend of Israel, and hasn’t done harm because he had no control over events. I can understand how people might say such things, but certainly not after they’ve read what I’ve written about these matters.
And now the day has come to make a choice.
There are many reasons why I’m thoroughly disgusted with all the phony Obama-loves-Israel or Obama-has-done-a-good-job-on-foreign-policy nonsense, and the foolish things many American Jews and many Americans say about him on this topic. But let me reduce all of these points to one central — and indisputable by anyone who is being honest — issue:
Obama has helped put into power in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s leading anti-American, anti-Semitic movement; has backed its coming to power in Syria (though he backed the equally anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Bashar al-Assad dictatorship before the revolt); and has helped maintain in power another Brotherhood branch by pressing Israel to reduce sanctions and opposing Israel’s self-defense against it in the Gaza Strip. This group openly embraces genocide against Israel and Jews generally.
Obama has also backed a Turkish regime that loathes Israel, employs anti-Semitism, supports Hamas and Hizballah, and wants to kick U.S. influence out of the region. The leader of that regime is, according to Obama, his hero. The Obama administration has not lifted a finger to press Turkey toward rebuilding relations with Israel. On the contrary, it has rewarded a Turkish regime that is doing the opposite. Only on the issue of continued aid and intelligence cooperation with Israel has Obama kept up the traditional relationship.
Obama has fought al-Qaeda, but he has helped or at least not actively opposed other revolutionary Islamist movements. As a result of Obama’s policies, even more extremist Salafist movements have been unleashed in several countries. The Muslim Brotherhood is quite tolerant of these terrorist forces and uses them as part of its overall strategy.
How can one lionize an American president who has given major backing to and has been an apologist for such a movement?
One can talk about Iran, the Jerusalem issue, and lots of other things. But whitewashing and helping five regimes or movements that openly and daily call for wiping Israel off the map, slander Jews, and call for their mass murder qualifies as sufficient in my book to laugh at any assertion that such a president is “good” for Israel.
And whitewashing and helping five regimes or movements that call for hating America, murdering its citizens, destroying its interests, and even — albeit more fancifully — destroying the United States qualifies as sufficient in my book to laugh at any assertion that such a president is “good” for America.
Obama’s policies have placed the lives of Americans and Israelis in jeopardy, as well as the citizens of many other countries, and made war more likely. For the first time in many decades, Israel cannot depend on the U.S. government. Neither can a dozen Arabic-speaking states that have relied on U.S. support. Neither can Middle Eastern pro-democracy advocates, moderates, secularists, women, and Christians. Neither can Americans.
Something should be done about that. And today is the day to do it.
I’m voting for Obama because he is the better canidate. Neither is perfect but between the two Obama is 100x better. Romney also wants to get rid of Financial aid (over 90% of american students use financial aid)
Of the 90% who aare getting financial aid, how many are using that money for actual college expenses oe are those funds being used for “college weeks”, cars, and electronic gadgets. Also how many will actually benefit from advanced education. I think anyone having to take a remedial class for any of the basic subjects should be automatically eliminated from applying for a college loan. Obama’s idea that all kids should go to college is hogwash!
So, you’re voting for Obama because he’s 100 times better than Romney. I suppose that’s because he’s happy to toss trinkets out of the back of his Canadian-built campaign buses to people like you.
Here’s a novel thought . . . get a job! That’s how I payed for my college. I ended up with a degree without the crushing debt. No government trough, whimper, whimper.
And you got that information from where? Wherever you read it, it simply isn’t true. But what difference will it make? You’ll graduate it from college in an Obama world and there will be no jobs for you, just like the last four years. If you haven’t voted yet, PLEASE THINK first.
I forwarded your article to a blogger who thinks Obama is good for Israel.
BTW, thanks Prof. Rubin for clarifying just how wretched Obama is for the middle east, the US and the cause for freedom in the world. I only wish every voter would read your essays.
Bob, wretched does not begin to describe just how much of a disaster the Islamist/Pyromaniac-in-Chief has been for the Middle East and beyond.
In fact, to say that he empowered the Islamist barbarians is an understatement.
He has purposefully – and this is key – unleashed a tsunami of Muslim Brotherhood Mafia, Al Qaeda, Shariah-bent forces,and not only in the Middle East. The Brotherhood Mafia are now poised within many U.S. power centers too.
The facts of the matter are eminently clear – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/30/islamic-foxes-deeply-burrowed-in-the-u-s-body-politic-riddingexterminating-them-is-priority-number-one-addendum-to-the-ties-that-bind-the-islamist-in-chief-to-sunni-islam-commentary-by-adina-k/
I am not sure what else it will take, to recognize all the dangerous forces which the anti-American POTUS has unleashed, not only onto Israel, but to the entire western world!
Just what has “financial aid” to students done for higher education in this country?
For starters it has inflated the cost of a university degree. Over the past 25 years the CPI has gone up 160% while the cost of higher education has gone up 500%. The result is most university grads now find themselves deeply in debt many well into six figures.
BTW: Just where and when did Romney purpose “getting rid of financial aid”.
When you tax success while subsidizing indolence you make paupers of everyone.
Just curious, professor: You say you’re not a conservative. How would you characterize your politics, then?
No, he should go because he does not espouse American principles and is blatantly anti-American as seen in his apology tour of Muslim countries at the beginning of his term
G C (@1): I fail to see what your comment has to do with anything Barry Rubin wrote, excepting -perhaps- your obvious and desperate need of an education, one which you apparently expect the rest of us to pay for.
You did not propose, let alone advance, even one argument attempting to refute the Rubin conclusion that BO is, and if reelected likely will continue to be, a foreign policy disaster.
Given that foreign policy directly works to either improve or diminish our national defense posture, that national defense is one of the few real prerogatives of the Federal government, and given that its Executive branch, the President, is particularly entusted with such policies, I find your comment to be among the most inane which I have encountered -ever- among comments at PJmedia.
I fervently hope that Romney/Ryan beat the pants off Ole BO, and that they DO dismantle your apparently overly generous tuition loan benefits, which to date do not seem to have much benefited you. Go work for your education, as I had to about 40 years ago. After that, you’ll value education a lot more, or at least enough to actually become educated. Hint: Done properly, that is awfully hard work and, as they tell you at Commencement, literally merely a start.
Good luck! (Judging by your attitude, you’re going to need a lot of it!)
Electing Obama was quite a foolish indulgence. The nation having lost its stomach for opposing its enemies and supporting its allies wanted to lose itself in the chimera of peace to be achieve by establishing friendship with the Islamists.
Sooner or later the nation would have to wake up to this fallacy, and either confront its responsibilities, or commit suicide. This moment is the dramatic choice of a nation that either will extol or abandon its custody of freedom and personal achievement. Benghazi is the red flag that will no longer be possible to pretend does not exist. Stand or submit!
Did my part, voted for Mittens. Problem being, I believe in one vote per person, unlike those on the Left.
Someone wrote, “Get out the marmelaide… he’s toast.”
Still calling a 300 plus EV day for Romney.
If you haven’t done so… get out there and pull that lever.
And bring a big bunch of like-minded friends with you.
God bless America.
Not sure exactly how to react to this article. I’ll offer that G.W. Bush was never as bad as portrayed by the far left wing. In the same vein, Obama has not been as bad as portrayed by the far right wing. We should know by tomorrow if Obama or Romney will be the next president anyway.
“For the first time in many decades, Israel cannot depend on the US government……” If the US is still giving several billion dollars in military assistance annually to Israel, this statement then is not correct. And we still have treaty obligations.
I wasn’t aware the US is backing anyone in Syria. Makes sense that we aren’t engaging there. As for Turkey trying to eliminate US influence in the Middle East, I doubt that there is much desire to re-instate the Ottoman Empire in any form, on the part of those who were once Turkish subjects.
#8 Professor Guvinoff: “The nation having lost its stomach for opposing its enemies……” Yeah, losing over 3,000 soldiers, and spending almost a trillion dollars, on an unnecessary war in Iraq can cause such a reaction. Just read an interesting article in the Atlantic about the alleged mishandling of the Iraq war by several of our generals.
” . . . .Obama has not been as bad as portrayed by the far right wing.
True . . . . he’s been worse! A dead ambassador, the first one in over 30 years. Real unemployment topping 10%. Double-trillion-dollar-digit deficits. Corruption at DOJ. Billions in stimulus spending and green loans down the drain. Treating our greatest mid-East ally Israel with disdain.
Ever heard the term “passive aggressive” Steve? That’s what O’s policy towards Israel is. The money given to Israel is a result of congressional policy, not executive branch operations. O has done everything possible to mitigate that aid via the actions described by Professor Rubin. Ignoring those facts is the political equivalent of sticking your head in the sand.
Those of us that lived through the nightmare of Carter’s middle east policies have predicted O would do the same or worse and have not been surprised or amused. O’s Egypt policy will eventually be as big a faux pas as Carter’s Iran embarrassment, and Libya is just the gift that keeps on giving. When one throws Syria into the mix, the thought of anyone thinking O’s foreign policy is rational becomes the stuff of surreal farce.
You know Steve, you really need to get out more! If you did you know that Official unemployment has been near or above 8% for his entire term, that’s more than all of the presidents since FDR, combined! That would be nearly 70 years! The actual figure is about 15%. Having an Ambassador murdered on his watch while he sat on his hands, even brain dead Biden would say, “That’s a big Fu**ing deal!” Captured Libyan weapons were being shipped from Benghazi to Turkey with Brit and US assistance, then distributed to the opposition. That has been on the Lame Scream Media, as good news. Three years NO BUDGETS!!! One got no votes In the Democrat controlled Senate! Have you any idea just how hard that is to achieve? Only the most colossal dud can achieve that! He did the impossible he made Jimmy Carter seem competent!
Poppakap: “Ever hear the term “passive-aggressive……” Actually, yes. And your use of the term does not fit the definition contained in the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).
Robert: “You need to get out more…….” Perhaps you should take your own advice. Yes, unemployment has been around 8% for four years. We also went through the largest economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The Great Recession was not an ordinary recession. In addition, there are currently an estimated 3.6 million job vacancies not filled. If even half of those were filled, the jobless rate would drop under 7%.
Obamas policy? Think of it as a jobs program for the AK-47 and ready-to-burn American flag industries.
Obama MUST GO. I am afraid for the USA if he gets another 4 years!!!! He is anti American. He made a “TOKEN” visit to N.J. for a photo shoot and accolades from Gov. Christie. And has NOT been back!!!!!! I give Mayor Bloomberg credit for telling Obama to stay away!!!!!!
HuffyPuffy says, 91% probability the fraud in the WH has it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-jackman/pollster-predictions_b_2081013.html
They surely must know how far their electoral fraud during this election cycle will take them. Expect vote counts out of minority inner city precincts, from Florida to Ohio to Nevada, for BHO to resemble Third World vote counts and USSR Communist Party shares of “popular” votes, (i.e., close to or even above 100%) !
My fellow Americans, welcome to the Third World.
To sum it up in a three points.
Obama should not be re-elected because he postured himslf as a centrist in his 2008 bid for presidency and said he would work across the aisle. After taking office he has catered to the 20% on the far left, gave lip service to the 30% just left of center, and has exhibited hostility to the 50% on the right. He has presided over one of the least bi-partisan administrations ever.
He has shown no ability to course world events. He has stood by when he should have acted (Iran uprising, Benghazi). Has enabled when he should have stood by (Arab Spring). Alienated old allies in an effort to court new friends (which has failed miserably). He has no idea how to lead America in world affairs without appeasing or capitulating to our adversaries.
Is unwilling to re-analyze his economic policies despite mountains of evidence and years of stagnate growth to the contrary. He eschews national economic health to foster class warfare and buys votes through government handouts. Refuses to soften his Marxist economic views to spur job creation and economic recovery.
As the writer says, I could list a 1000 reasons to not re-elect Obama, but I think these are the damning three.
MAKE CALLS FOR ROMNEY FROM HOME TO HELP GET OUT THE VOTE. NO ONE SHOULD JUST BE WAITING AND WATCHING. WE NEED TO TAKE THIS ALL THE WAY TO THE LAST SECOND, TO THE FINISH LINE. HELP GET OUT THE VOTE! THE CAMPAIGN PAYS FOR THE CALLS! JSUT DO IT!!!
“THE WON…IS DONE”
[Thoughts on our pending rejection of Benghazi's Traitor]
1. We See His Departure…So Soon!
He strutted on a worldly stage,
Believing all within his power,
But NOW, he finds himself amazed,
So soon arrives his final hours!
SOON, “all is done…the WON is done”.
2. He is Staggered by His Public Rejection!
His so-called “triumphs” were so slight,
Thank God, his true dreams never lived!
This traitor dare not ask God’s Light:
“Will ANYONE my sins forgive?
“I am now SHUNNED–and my frauds come undone!
3. The Betrayer of Benghazi is Brought Low!
“Will even ‘loved ones’ like my face?
“Will any of my goals endure?
“How hard, I thought, I ran my race!
“Yet I have learned NO LIE IS SURE!
“I have NOT won…and every plan…undone!
4. We, the People, Praise God HE IS LOSING…TODAY!
He could have tried to live a life,
That added to our nation’s grace,
Instead, with tumult; deadly strife,
He sought our freedoms to erase!
BUT WE HAVE WON…AND HE…IS DONE!
We Praise God, “The Won…is Losing TODAY!
ROMNEY & RYAN FOR AMERICA ! TODAY
Then there’s the disgraceful Benghazi incident where, whatever the precise details, the White House stood by as Americans were murdered, and then rationalized the motive of the terrorists by blaming the United States.
Here’s what really went down on Benghazi: When they called Obama and said the Benghazi embassy was under seige, the transmission was garbled and Obama thought it was actor Ben Gazzara asking him to do a cameo appearance in his next movie, ‘Under Seige’. Obama agreed, hung up the phone, went to bed, and had dreams of becoming a Hollywood action star.
The next day, Warner Bros & Steven Seagal got word of this and immediately sent a ‘cease & desist’ message because they own the rights to ‘Under Seige’. Obama replied that he would sign an executive order invaliding WB/Seagal’s ownership, thus rendering the trademarked ‘Under Seige’ up for grabs again.
Then Fox News reported that actor Ben Gazzara had died earlier this year, rendering it impossible that Obama had a conversation with him. Obama denied that at first, but after being shown Gazzara’s obituary, summonsed Susan Rice & Hillary Clinton, who both subsequently appeared on network TV, and blamed the ‘misunderstanding’ on the U.S., due to its poor technology, i.e. the garbled phone conversation.
That would be funny if four good men were not dead and a score or so wounded, and being pissed on by this administration. Some respect for our heros is in order.
You are absolutely correct, sir, and I have nothing but the highest of respect & regard for our military men & women. There is no doubt it is truly sad that 4 Americans lost their lives in a preventable international incident in which our President acted so callously & indifferently. I was merely trying to illustrate the absurdity with which this administration actually did handle Benghazi by using absurdity. I humbly apologize.
Hopefully the pretender and campaigner in chief will announce his true agenda and secret records of everything that he has hidden about himself after he loses. That will happen after he quits blaming Bush for the Pelosi Reid budgets.
Soon we will know just how entitled and fearful is the American voting public. The rest of the world will have to tremble at the verdict. This decision is out of our hands.
if romney win all u motha fuckas will recieve kick doors if i cant go to school no mo i dont give a fuck if u black white mexican its gone go down i put that on my hood (bitch!!)
Après l’annonce de la désastreuse réelection de Obama l’imposteur,je ne trouve pas d’autre consolation que de vous remercier pour la lucidité de vos analyses;ne nous laissez pas tomber!
Epic Fail. This article is already dated. Barack Hussein Obama 2013! I love it.
Obama is re-elected. Funny in a way, as in stupid people doing stupid things funny.
BTW, Prof. you once wrote that Obama does not represent American values. I’m afraid it is us who no longer represent American values, at least current ones. The American electorate is silly, superficial and immature.
I wonder what will happen next?
If Republicans don’t get rid of the evangelical rot from the party by the next election…its sunk; like they sunk Romney.
America did not only choose “reason” in Obama, but it overwhelmingly repudiated neoCONism and 19th century economic doctrines of the extreme right Barry Rubin represents. Rubin is always and will always be wrong.
Rubin isn’t a Neocon, and his economic views are quite sound. He’s also been entirely correct over his views of U.S. foreign policies in regards to the Middle East. Enjoy your gloating.
In Florida where the jewish voters have a weight, Obama won by a hairsplit, therefore soomething is really wrong with the jews misperception of Obama.next tiem it will be crucial to educate the jewish voters well in advance
That’s what Hilter used to say, you need to “educate the jews”.
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