More Madness on High
The president is now portraying himself as a great expert on Judaism, but we know–as I wrote some years ago–that this is false. He has demontsrated considerable misunderstanding of Judaism, including the significance of our holiest day, Yom Kippur.
But that does not stop him from lecturing twenty-odd rabbis on Judaism, nor claiming that no other president before him has understood it as well as he does. So he tells the Jews what they really believe, and therefore what they should do.
In the coverage of his alleged role in personally selecting the targets of Hellfire missiles in the Middle East, it was claimed that he arrived at this remarkable decision after reading Sts. Aquinas and Augustine on “just war.” Do you believe it? Did any journalist think to ask for specifics?
In any event, it is a further case of the president telling Catholics what to believe, and therefore how to act. We all know the other cases, which have led to an open revolt from American Catholic leaders against the president’s theology and his policies.
In his speech in Cairo–the one he addressed to the “Muslim World”–he made numerous false statements about Islam, including Muslim theology and history. He spoke as if he did not realize that the Muslim Middle East is a failed culture (as numerous Muslim scholars have said). Nonetheless, that did not prevent him from telling Muslims what they believed and therefore how they should act.
He probably told the Dalai Lama something similar, dontcha think?
In short, he’s not only commander-in-chief who thinks our soldiers serve him, not the nation and its Constitution, but the prophet-in-chief for all religions.
There are words for this sort of self-image, ranging from extreme narcissism to megalomania. Combined with his insistence on keeping secret the most mundane aspects of his life, it suggests a desire to create a personal myth about himself, a myth that entitles him to speak ex cathedra to all men and women.
If he really were a great religious scholar and a deep philosophical thinker, I might be inclined to celebrate the world’s fortune in having a transcendant, world-historical figure in the White House. But he isn’t. He keeps getting the facts wrong from “Polish death camps” to “all 57 states,” from “Muslims invented printing” to “my Austrian isn’t very good,”, which is not the way of the prophets.
It’s nuts, actually.
When he said “my Austrian isn’t very good,” maybe he meant Hitler.
Obama’s nuts. Actions speak louder than words, and even his words—as you note here—are those of a mad man.
I saw the early 50’s epic, “The Robe”, recently. There was a youngish Peter Ustinov; playing the role of Nero. What a model for Obama!
Yes—Nero, Caligula: whomever.
Isn’t life a hoot?
When younger, we learned our history lessons about con men like Huey Long, and machine bosses like that Tweed turd. And, the “today” implication was that we, in 1960, say, were oh so much more highly evolved.
Ah, but NOW, proving that high self-esteem that is not congruent with the truth about “self” is dangerous to SELF, we’ve already gotten to live through our own con artist “charmer”, Slick Willy, and we are NOW suffering through the death defying lesson of Obama, who’s making Clinton look like a piker.
Obama—Huey Long AND Boss Tweed, rolled up into one!
And, he is STILL favored to be reelected, by Intrade!
As a retired teacher, it pains me to daily catch up on the latest “news”—to wit, the stupid actions and beliefs of most Americans.
Obama is president—just amazing!
As Victor Davis Hanson has been lately emphasizing, and what Niall Ferguson essentially meant by his six reasons that Western civilization is regnant (see “Civilization” on PBS, his 4-hour 2012 take), is that culture is what determines our psycho-physical reality.
So, the existence of a Clinton and Obama as presidents—as CHOSEN by the people—is what tells us all we need to know: our culture is ALREADY rotten, almost unto death.
To recall something another of my heroes, Mark Steyn, noted, with a quote from someone—
Bankruptcy comes slow, OR FAST.
So far, the USA and Europe have been slowly slipping into it, but, a day may be coming, when FAST realization hits us all—I’m picturing myriad bank runs, like that scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life”, but without the happy Hollywood ending, more on the lines of metaphorically using barrels of printed paper: hyperinflation, as the monetary end game.
Stupid IS as stupid does.
Or, as the title of a free book I just found, puts it–
“It’s The Stupidity, Stupid!”
“…we are NOW suffering through the death defying lesson of Obama, who’s making Clinton look like a piker…”
Yes, and that piker Clinton, it has been reported, is now on his way to Wisconsin to try to help those there who want to continue to milk the state government cow to win an election. I sure hope Wisconsin voters will reject the union thugs and the first “occupiers”, who showed those young bums who followed how it should be done.
Don’t compare Clinton to Obama.
Obama got elected because when the thought of democrats they thought of Clinton and not Carter.
And people like me might have thought when Obama was elected, well maybe more a bias against the business side than is healthy , but a bais for the little worker bees might not be the end of the world. fat chance. populism without the part about sympathy for the populace is what we got. with a side order of cash for wall street lunatics.
Great piece Michael,
Putting up with his nonsense is truly aggravating. Thanks for this therapeutic escape
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National Review quotes Obama
[edited] Senator Obama interviewed David Plouffe to be his campaign manager. Obama warned Plouffe, “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it. It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.”
Obama said nearly the same thing when he hired Patrick Gaspard as political director. “I think I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
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Michael, false prophets have been known to pop up onto the scene.
The Iran’s culture and society is a kind of self-devourer, stupid and illusive factory productions, self-destructive, bedevil, demonic, parasite developer, parasite maker (religious clergymen=mullahs), dark side Dominant and Black Reactionary-religious sort which is so much worse than religious fascism. Their cursed brains, they cursed thoughts, they cursed mind never been FREE. They’ve been always in the lock of superstition.
Mullah’s always have said:” the Blood of martyrs irrigates our revolution’s tree”, or, “everything we have is in owing of martyr’s Blood”, or, “martyr’s Blood guaranteed our power and revolution”. Blood, Blood, Blood,… this Blood had and have a significant rule on their satanic power, Blood of those young inexperienced, illiterate, brain washed, naive, and illusive youths who trapped by their satanic religious-black reactionary propaganda and disinformation and misinformation. They heard and obey like a Goat Cattle and went in the mine fields in front of machine-guns frontier, with the shout of, “THE GOD IS GREATEST, THE GOD IS GREATEST”.
This society for thousand years was far from wisdom, philosophic ideas and intellectualization. This society always had been in the devilish hands of evil and despotism. A nation on the hand of one satanic person who whatever he wants treats with the nation-goat. This nation and culture, instead of reading and searching the truth by self-reading and self-cerebration, right-contemplation, self-study, right-intellect, always admitted its Ear and its mind to its rulers. And its ruler always sermons for this nation, to cry and rituals and obey like the goats. It’s so obvious that the result is not more than slaughter the cattle-goat nation.
Tyrants always ruled on this land. Who made these tyrants? Themselves, own nation, their stupidity, their fetishism, their cursed culture. By which idea? The king is an agent of God on earth.
Black Reactionary Blood Drinkers. Backwardness cause the stupidity, ignorance and ignorance cause the reactionary and backwardness.
Before and after Arabian invade, nothing changed, just their appearance changed with more extremism and asinine stupidity.
This is the cause of backwardness and reactionary that loses the thousand valuable times, deny achieving the Renaissance and enlightenment and starting the Industrial revolution, to think terrestrial and secular. Because there is a heaven and eschatological, that after death we go there, there, everything and all problems solved by god, and no need to work and making there good for ourselves by own. There are many angels, suddenly we embrace them and pleasure and intercourse will start until eternity with no End. A simple instance of black reactionary thoughts.
The Iran’s country, Iran’s nation, Iran’s culture, their unity, their integration, their tyrannical iconic language, their illusive poems (exclude some exceptions) that always been a deception and illusion tool for making humans to be their slave by the logic of worshiping their tyrant agents god, their Industries, their deceptive education system which is full of lie and Delusion, Catching doom and is guiding toward doom. What is this doom? What is it? What it means this Doom?
Doom means exactly= Unavoidable Evil. Evil. And evil means harm and misery and Extirpation and extermination and annihilation. They can’t escape of this imminent death. This evil is their essence, spirit, soul and their core; bit by bit their components of their bodies are particles of evil which it made of evil and searching for evil to harm other nations and other persons who do not want to be their slaves. Iranians whether themselves or their damn rulers always wanted to make other nations slavery for their Imperialism, whether those escapees who refuge to Europe or U.S.A and call themselves monarchists, constitutionalist, nationalist, republicans, whatsoever… or these blood suckers who are on the power in Tehran. These creatures are not more than a drove of filthy rats who wherever they go, plague will be their satanic gift to the host countries.
This nation is not pure, these creatures are not the seed of their ancestors, Iran nation is a kind of adulterate race that impure by all the invaders for about thousand years. This nation and culture from the first of founding went toward the stupidity and backwardness. They used the logic of worshiping the god, for cruelty and slaughtering the humans. Sacrificing the human for something called god. Their religious damn culture is deeply theocratic tyranny. God is their credit for massacre the humans for their damned Power.
They’ve lost thousand years of time; they’ve backwarded by themselves by their own cursed mind.
This damn mind in all their history never changed to right terrestrial logic. This cursed culture always lied to them self. And now after thousand years everyone can obviously see this wicked evil culture to where, has arrived. This culture has arrived to destruction and slaughter, weakness, deception and terror. As the same before it reached, this culture and nation always invaded by invaders, because easily they could illuminate their tricks for corrupt power.
How can the world get release of this darkness? How can all the earth nations and countries get rid of this damnation? If this evil black reactionary survived, can’t make a nuclear holocaust?
If other countries accept their survive, couldn’t make a hidden dirty evil delivered to those evil creatures?
Do not consult with those filthy escapee rats who refuge to Europe and U.S.
Do not invite them to your broadcasting political/philosophic/historical debate, analytical programs by B.B.C or Bloomberg or whatsoever channels, Iranians lost their credibility, they’ve lost time. They had thousand years, time and space, to end the illusion and lie to themselves for reform and amendment, but they didn’t and will not do. Lie and deception is their impartible and defragmenter part of their soul and their culture. Iranians of all kinds and all sorts are the same essence, whatever they look like. They always ran away of secularism and work, terrestrial work. They always searched for deception and corruption.
Westerners must decide against this filthy brand, corruption and dangerous phenomenon in the Middle East. Iranians lost their credibility, their hand washed in human blood, they are blood drinkers who are searching for more blood and corruption.
Get decide against them.
One time forever. And terminate this filthy cursed tumor cancer.
Faster with more speed, please.
Thanks for the guffaw Dr. Ledeen. I`ve always believed that our President is not so much evil as he is stupid. Were the President a neighbor of mine I wouldn`t lend him a shovel.
….”I`ve always believed that our President is not so much evil as he is stupid.”
And, because of that, and where he is and the claque supporting him make this Hussein Obama very dangerous for our Nation.
when a person is wrong he always has to debate the embarrassment of changing course. How could Obama now shore up the free market system without looking like he was wrong in the first part of his term?
I don’t know. I am sure many an old politician would tho.