Obama: President of Just Another Country
For the past month President Obama has represented America to the G-20 members in Europe, to Turkey, and to the collected leadership of Latin America. The president went out of his way to portray the U.S. as nothing special; in fact, it was responsible for all manner of world problems and had a lot to apologize for. Through heartfelt apologies, bows, contrition, faulting of policies and conduct of the prior administration, and silently accepting the most in-your-face insults ever leveled at a sitting U.S. president, one could legitimately wonder whether Barack Obama was actually embarrassed to be the leader of such a flawed country.
It is hard to accept that an American president would travel abroad and openly denigrate this country, to not only weaken our standing as a world leader but also to legitimize and reinforce those who have hate for America and pray for her downfall. Whatever else he may be, he is not the traditional American president in the way he represents our country and her interests in a divided and dangerous world. One gets little sense that America is the beloved country he feels honored to lead; nor does he appear humbled by the enormity of his role. There is no obvious sense of pride in America’s achievements and the role it has played in the freedom of, in many cases, the very homeland of its critics. Rather, he was an apologist inviting all manner of rivals to take advantage of his lack of resolve for America. Prior presidents attended these events as the leader of the free world. This month we bowed to a hostile king and assisted Latin American dictators and oppressors in legitimizing themselves at America’s expense.
Certainly America didn’t decline in the past six months and history didn’t change, so the diminished stature of America and the presidency is due to the man himself, who he is and what he believes.
His beliefs are more and more apparent and they reflect a much more negative view of America’s past and present role in the world than most Americans identify with. In this he appears naive and inexperienced, not at all surprising given the thinness of his resume. Barack Obama’s adult professional life has been an insular one lived in a world of words and ideas, not actual experience. His negative views of America’s role in the world appear amplified and reinforced by the people he chose as his primary associations over the past twenty years. Nor has actual experience tempered his negative views of American involvements because he has never had to contend with a hostile and violent world while in a position of real power and responsibility.
His climb to the presidency was not one of successive long and hard fights over substantive matters; rather the presidency came by riding a wave of ordination by media and unseen backers and financers. He rose to his current office having never seriously engaged issues of national importance. Even at the state level, when an issue was contentious he merely voted “present.” To say he arrived in office lacking real-world experience is an understatement of massive proportions. In short, it has been all too easy to accept the rantings of those who seemingly fault America for so many ills in the world because it fits his template of America as an unjust country; the view of America as an arrogant, greedy, and, yes, dismissive country was widely held in his circle of associates, as in Michelle Obama’s first sense of pride in America arriving during the campaign. His idea of a real threat was limited to a prosecutor in Cook County, Illinois, not the naked hatred from nuclear-armed fanatics in North Korea or Iran.
Cut and paste from the article referred to by Mr Pope.
“A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama’s inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to “even fake an interest in foreign policy”.
Wrong. He has a very deep involvement in foreign policy. Anything that will work towards the dissolution of the jewish State has been given a gloss and burnish. Mitchell has visited twice, demanding jewish capitulation. Clinton once, demanding capitulation more stridently, e intimating that should Israel not capitulate and cede its own hinterland to Jihad, the US will allow Iran to run amuck with its nuclear program. Turkey, an Islamic republic now running military excercises with Syria, received encouragement to insert it influence into NATO. Barack Hussein Obama has a deep and abiding interest in foreign policy, to assist his Muslim brethren in pressing the Jews to the wall, or the sea, in this case. Netanyahu has his work cut out for him, big time
As an EU/Australian dual, I have less respect for the United States of Whatever under Obama. He reminds me of Jimmy Carter, for some reason, with more nuts around him.
that’s the single most accurate description I have ever read about The One. He is single minded in promoting himself – not the interests of the taxpayers or his country. That’s what we’ve got in the White House. God help us all..
Americans must not take lightly the new lefts radical narrative of US history and its interaction with the worlds nations over the last 300 years. Obama is redifining that narrative along left wing politically correct lines and doing so with a maliable academia, pusilanimous main stream media and a knee jerk and loyal Democratic congress. With the potential departure of one or other of the supreme court justices during Obamas first term America could be in an unusual situation where there are none of the traditional checks and balances to executive power left in place.
As Goebbels said if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes a fact(or something like that). This has clearly been the case with the Israel Palestine conflict where the narrative has been so distorted over the last 60 years that most apparently educated people in America have no clue as to what is really fact or fiction and so they adopt the popular and politically correct narrative being disseminated through the MSM and campuses around the globe.
americans should take care not to under estimate the power of the narrative, the power of the one.
“What do we make of a leader who puts down his own nation to lift himself up?”
What a bunch of bologna.
Suppose Bush was at the G20:
“You bastards, we are the strongest and bestest country in the World. Everything we do is RIGHT! If you mess with us, we got nucular weapons. Keep giving us your oil and your productos, we’ll pay you somehow. And don’t come asking to shake my hand, you may have the flu. No offense. And remember, we are winning in Iraq. God bless you.”
(someone throws a shoe at him)
Even more. Ego notwithstanding, Obama is just another president.
Ouch. The truth hurts. It just doesn’t hurt the president.
President Obama is the greatest president ever. So what if he hates America. He’s our president, he won, so there. He’s right. America is too rich. People have it too good here and President Obama is just the right guy in the right place doing the right thing: taking America down a dozen notches or two. You see, when we are as poor and as oppressed as the rest of the world, and that troublesome constitution is forgotten, everyone will love us, just like they love President Obama. Remember, if you don’t love President Obama, you are an enemy of the state.
O’s obsessive need to be liked will eventually be his downfall.
Oh, boo-hoo. We finally get a President who doesn’t bumble all over the planet slapping other countries in the face with the Beef-Bat of “American Exceptionalism,” and the flags-and-bunting crowd gets all hissy and depressed.
It’s nice to have a President who faces facts, and understands the fine distinction between a “great” nation and a “blameless” once.
Could not agree with you more. I am just shocked that it has happened so fast, the public still gazes in awe and yet we seen no data showing that his open checkbook spending is helping. A sad era for America is about to unfold.
Well said, Mr. Pope.
At this historical juncture I’m shocked to find America under attack from its leaders and a large proportion of its citizens.
9. Bear:
O’s obsessive need to be liked will eventually be his downfall.
Then why is he so willing to piss off the “great silent majority” of conservatives? I’ll tell you why. He thinks their (your) views are wrong. He thinks they’ve gotten us in this incredible mess we’re in. And more people agree with him than don’t. So, that’s what you’ve got to work with. Good luck.
I think BO is a typical product of contemporary American culture. You see in it in David Letterman,Bill Maher,Jon Stewart(Leibowitz), looking cool, hip, with it at the expense of others. Thus America, allies or anyone that could dim his image is thrown under the bus.
Gary J (#14), you are right on. O is also a product of the “feel good” generation…..everyone must feel good about themselves, to hell with what nastiness they may have done, they are great – not my feelings. This is why, I believe, he is unable to admit to any of his many mistakes.
I don’t care what anyone says claiming Barak Hussien Obama is a savior ,he’s destoying our country,and is everything any true American is against.
It makes me sick.
Pretty much all true: but what will the GOP do about it?
Here’s the likely menu: (a) whine; (b), fortify themselves with memories (“remember when Denny Hastert was speaker and we could be as corrupt as we wanted?”, (c), endorse clueless candidates, selected by clueless comittees that select based upon opposition to gay marriage, good ol’e boy connections and the desire to get on the government dole as soon as possible; (d) ignore and exclude candidates outside the south and the Beltway that might win elections– because they care about the deficit, sprawling government, out of control no knock raids, too much foreign aid, a looming health care crisis for the elderly, ridiculous college tuition, campuses that teach midieval poetry but not US history–and don’t care at all about religion and gay marriage.
This boy is not only incompetent, he’s treasonous; He’s failing to abide by the Oath of Office. This fool will have tomes of history written about his subversion, disloyalty, and failures. What a man!
19.Cybergeezer.
Exactly. I do not believe he ever “TOOK the oath of office” (without mental reservation).
He “SAID the oath” and never has made any personal commitment to the preservation or protection of the United States of America.
I have lived overseas for many years. There was a period when I began to accept some of the negative world opinions concerning America. Part of the reason for this is that I always try to be fair and see things from others’ point-of-view. However, I was shaken out of this stupor with the recognition of the hypocrisy of the rest of the world. In other words, I don’t know many countries that have any room to talk with their problems, inequalities, and sordid histories. Does that mean America is perfect? No. Does that excuse any wrongs that our country has committed? No. But, it does mean that the rest of the world has little earned the right to be the judge over America. Just ask their many former citizens that are now our citizens. A need to answer & apologize to the world? I don’t think so. To God? Yes, and plenty of it.
21. TomF
Very, very well said. And I really like the point of earning the right to throw rocks at America. By that standard there is no country on earth.
In his post # 2, “BPT (Australia)” tells us he is a “(Europeons’ Neo-Soviet)/Australian ‘dual’” … which means, I suppose, he is whatever it is that that country’s and that Neo-Soviet’s essentially (and this is especially true of Canberra’s fourth and fifth and sixth generation “permanent ‘public service’” totalitarians!) fascistic bureaucracies have written on whatever pieces of paper they have given him to back his assertion.
That’s a step up — although not much of one — from his Southern Hemispheric half’s morbidly infantile and-given-to the serial temper tantrums-to-prove-it prime minister, (AKA “Mr Sheen”) his moronic mobbed-up union thug ministers and especially his minister of defense who all seem (and-some-given-to decades long sexual romps with Chinese spies-to-prove-it) to be more Chinese of the totalitarian type than they are Australians of any type.
But step up though it might well be, its insufficient of a step to put “BPT (Australia)” in a position (except perhaps via his own personal and his country’s government’s political identification with its cause) to credibly comment on America’s pressing problem. Which problem descends from the fact the self-and-own-culture-loathing un-and-anti-American moronic mobbed-up murtadd Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified Marxist empty galabia, Mister Michelle Jerimiah Wright Bernadine Bill Ayres Frank Marshall Davisubambi — whose systemically-infantile, recidivist, treasonous, lying, looting, thieving and, yes, fascistic, crime family is presently flapping about and bemauring our beloved fraternal republic’s once most hallowed house — never identifies with, let alone “represents,” the American nation.
Or We, its Sovereign People!
Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles CaliforKRUDDicated
And the Far Abroad
Mr. Pope,
Your assessment of the ‘empty suit’ was spot on. The scary thing is, the people who continue to placate themselves with their own hard-wired set of 0bama rose-colored glasses [that they seem to wear on the daily] have been programmed into such fervent euphoria that no matter how much doom-n-gloom zero is creating, all they see is a rosy glow.
Bush did suck at times and we all saw it for what it was when he did.
-But, when 0bama sucks? *crickets* The ‘MSM’ turns a blind eye.
Sorta-kinda strange huh?
So much criticism of Obama. But what is our alternative?
May I humbly suggest that Sheila Bair, head of FDIC, would make a worthy opponent in 2012. Her views are fact-based, her stage-presence is superior to that of President Obama, her intellectual achievements and personal history are available to public view, she has run for office in the past, her values are mainstream, and she has a grasp of economic issues that is so advanced that she leaves Obama in the dust. She can win, becoming America’s first female American president.
Is there someone on this blog who can press the Republican power to consider her as a realistic option?
Hear the American people speak and they still love President Obama…and the Rushpublican party continues to be the party of No and shrinks.
Zero and his band of appeasers and apologists, not satisfied with having just returned from their recent “America Sucks World Tour”, must continue to find ways to demean and disparage anything that Americans value.
What a charlatan! The sooner we run this illegal-alien poseur and his lot of American-haters out of this country the better off we’ll all be!
Barrack Obama will be as popular as President Jimmy Carter after he finishes his one term. You’ll see.
Obambi is doing all this to buy time. He’s trying to soothe ruffled feathers in other countries in case they give him a problem he can’t cope with.
Obambi is scared that something might land in his lap that demands immediate attention or a sharp response. If he can make everyone think America is weak and worthless, all these other countries and regimes might just hold off landing him with a huge problem.
He has to make it through to 2012 and the prospect of a major problem in that time must be worrying him. Reelection would be an impossibility if he fails to stand up to the bad guys, so best to avoid a confrontation. So the President backs off and gives everyone what they want, and therefore he figures he might just avoid having to do anything bold and decisive.
In those terms, it’s a great plan. He hasn’t done much before in terms of governing and leading, knows very little about issues and dangers. But he can avoid having to know about these things, and in that he is a genius.
Yes, Obama is narcissistic to the point of egomania. That’s not all that is wrong with him. He’s a hurt child with no moral compass who is never at fault. That’s not all that is wrong with him. He is ignorant of geography, history and can’t handle numbers. And that’s not all that is wrong with him ………… This is one screwed up metrosexual.
He should be put on a canny north-country horse and made to ride through aspen groves for a few days. (It hurts the knees).
This story tells it all. I wish more people could have seen Obama this way before he became president. Maybe we would be confronted with a person who seems to dislike this country so much. Oh! Now I get it, he ran for president because he wanted to change this country into the country he thinks it should be, and he will do anything to accomplish that. I am in agreement one hundred percent. I saw alot of this during the election, and I’m glad to see some else saw it too plus more.
I believe this article only highlights some of the more obvious flaws in Obama. I’m concerned about what we don’t know. I never believed in conspiracy theories before but this president raises more questions than answers. He is a bought and sold puppet of G Soros and so many americans bought this package hook, line and sinker. Many black Americans believe he is walking in the footsteps of Martin L King. Obama is a direct opposite in values and conviction of MLK. MLK was the real deal. Obama is a manufactured product of his party. By the way, there is another world leader who wrote memoirs of himself before anyone knew who he was…and that was Hitler.