Silly Americans. Listen to your president.
Russia invading Ukraine? Barbarity arising in the Levant? More slaughter in South Sudan? Iran on the verge of possessing the ultimate deterrent to making fun of the prophet? Our southern border a sieve? Boko Haram? Civil War in the Congo? China threatening war with its neighbors?
Things are not as bad as all that, says our semi-retired president.
The Hill reports:
President Obama on Friday said social media and the nightly news are partly to blame for the sense that “the world is falling apart.”
“I can see why a lot of folks are troubled,” Obama told a group of donors gathered at a Democratic National Committee barbecue in Purchase, N.Y.
But the president said that current foreign policy crises across the world are not comparable to the challenges the U.S. faced during the Cold War.
Acknowledging “the barbarity” of Islamist militants and Russia “reasserting the notion that might means right,” Obama, though, dismissed the notion that he was facing unprecedented challenges.
“The world’s always been messy … we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” he said, according to a White House pool report.
Hear that, you twitterers? You’ve already ruined our president’s vacation. Now you want to go and scare people half to death by reporting on events around the world? Shame on you!
If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart,” said Obama.
The president acknowledged that conflicts in the Middle East posed difficulties, “but it’s been challenging for quite a while,” he said.
“We will get through these challenging times just like we have in the past,” Obama added.
The president, looking to strike a reassuring tone, argued that American military superiority has never been greater and that the U.S. still held advantages over potential international rivals like China.
Obama appears to be channeling another Pollyanna — Kevin Bacon from Animal House …
Yes, he’s that detached from reality. Kind of makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, eh? When you realize the leader of the free world is so out of touch with what’s going on in the world that he thinks things are being blown out of proportion by those simply reporting on what’s happening, you fear for the future in a way that Americans haven’t done since World War II ended.
The biggest danger is that this blundering fool will blunder us into another war: Ukraine, Iraq, Syria — take your pick. Certainly Obama isn’t the first president to have events controlling him, rather than the other way around. But at least those presidents – Lincoln comes to mind — realized their predicament.
Obama does not. And that’s scary.
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