Try as I may, I cannot recall any president prior to Obama implying that criticism of the statements of an ambassador to the UN, acting in his/her official capacity as spokesperson, should be off-limits — and especially the approach Obama took, which was to say that the men who criticized Rice (McCain and Graham) were somehow “besmirching” her reputation (Rice is a vulnerable little woman, not just a gender-neutral official, when it suits Obama’s political purposes) and that such comments are “outrageous” and beyond the pale. Should those on the left who criticized Colin Powell for presenting information about WMDs to the UN, information “based on intelligence that he had received,” have been admonished to shut up because they were “besmirching his reputation” in an “outrageous” manner? Of course not, as they’d be the first to tell you. But Rice is apparently off-limits, because Obama says so.
Has any other president even hinted that his appointed officials are beyond reproach, and that anyone who would question them is a lout? There’s something truly imperial about Obama making such a suggestion, and anyone in the press who fails to call him on it is complicit.
It wasn’t just an isolated statement, either. Obama said something very similar during the second debate:
And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as president, that’s not what I do as Commander in Chief.
I really can’t imagine how anyone could hear statements like his and not think: This is a dangerous man. But I’ve learned that most people do not seem to hear the warning bells that are sounding so loudly. The fact that his is a new and alarming attitude, one that is different from that of presidents on both sides in the past, presidents who understood that it was the job of the press and the opposition to criticize them and their administrations, including UN ambassadors, and certainly including women — seems to have been utterly lost. Perhaps this is due in part to the fact that the press hardly ever does criticize Obama, so it has become unthinkable to him and to his supporters.
I would dearly love for some member of the MSM to ask Obama exactly why such criticism is “offensive” when it’s directed at him or at someone in his administration, and yet it was inoffensive (and even laudable) when it was directed at his predecessor George W. Bush and those in his administration. But no, I’m not foolish enough to expect to ever see that day.
In his mind, he every bit as much of an emperor a anybody who has ever lived, so of course he is outraged that anyone would dare challenge one of his edicts or functionaries.
And yes, I’ve been saying for four years that he is the most dangerous person to have lived in the last 25 or 30 years, and he ranks right up there with the all-time most dangerous people, for the simple reason that the country he is destroying has been the salvation of humanity for the last 100 years.
It’s not because of what he has done, although that is bad enough, it’s because it is so obvious what he wants to do, and because he has no regard for the rule of law or any other restraint on his misguided and evil intentions.
I think Obama is going out of his way to be intimidating because he provides so much fodder that is worthy of not just criticism but scorn. He need not worry so much though as the principles of affirmative action work as a force field around him through which no one really has the courage to penetrate. He has a small ego though & a very petulant nature that borders on belligerence. All that on top of the fact that he knows he’s hiding behind the AA curtain.
∅bama And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do.
Correction: That’s what we do. Day in and day out.
In my opinion this man IS nothing short of a king. An American version of Louis the 14th. The “Sun King.” “Le Roi Soleil.” Placed upon us by the media, who created him, in search of an alternative to the Constitution which they despise. And his motto for the next for years is this, “L’État, c’est moi.” “I am the state”. So anyone who questions me or my subordinates will be subject to ridicule and possibly worse. Long live the King!!!!!
Jerque du Soleil.
That was clever! lol
and let us not forget: “Aprés moi, le déluge! Bon chance, suckers.”
I’m sure that this tactic is focus group tested. I don’t think this is real pique.
“And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as president, that’s not what I do as Commander in Chief.”
I already know what you do as president and commander-in-chief. You order, in flagrant violation of the law, American military forces to attack Libya, not to help Amrica but in order to help Muslim foreigners seize control of the government there.
Then, when some of those same Muslim foreigners attack the United States, and kill Americans…you do absolutely nothing, and our armed forces do nothing.
That’s what you do, and that’s one of the reasons you ought to be kicked the hell out of office.
As for El Jefe’s pal, Susan Rice, she’s cut from the same cloth he is, and is unfit to be an American citizen, much less hold a position in our government.
Obama is a dangerous man. But, how do you stop him? One can only hope that the Republicans in the House and Senate will find ways to stymie him. (Perhaps, the Supreme Court may find ways to stymie him also.) Certainly, foreign leaders will challenge his “leadership”—that vaunted “leadership from behind.”
I am hesitant to compare him to Hitler, Stalin, or Mao—-but each of them were cheered on by adoring followers. Many of those adoring followers also met with disappointment, suffering, or death.
I fear that during, or after, Obama, there will, indeed, be a deluge for us all.
Personality cults are always dangerous, and in direct relation to the power the “personality” wields. It becomes worse as the “personality” begins to believe his press.
We haven’t seen Won like this, in this country, since FDR, and there’s good reason to think he wasn’t all that deluded by the acclaim. This character has nowhere near the strength of character of FDR.
Says to me that he was front-and-center involved in making the decision to divert attention to the video.
In other words, criticizing Rice is criticizing him, and we know how thin-skinned his narcissism is.
I said it repeatedly before the election and I’m going to keep saying it: Obama is simply a psychopath; he views the human race as prey.
Also Sociopathy (he has no real connection nor empathy for other humans), and Malignant Narcissism (the entire apace-time continuum revolves around him).
If Susan Rice cannot handle the Senate heat, then she certainly cannot handle foreign leaders. Let her take her lumps like a man, or go home.
In the future we’ll know we’ve made real progress in race relations when Obama is asked tough questions and expected to answer them. When supporters expect more than excuses, distractions, strawmen, and reading from the ‘prompter. When his party expects him to lead–from the front. OK, none of this is likely to happen in my lifetime and I’d settle for a little karmic justice or some of the treatment Bush received–just imagine what would happen if someone threw shoes at him during a press conference.
To use technical internet terminology, Obama is ‘white knighting’ for a faire maiden on his staff. What a nice guy…