Posted on 06/20/2013 10:30:15 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The question of whether Barack Obamas second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?
Before Berlin, Obama set his steep downward trajectory by squandering the most precious post-election months on gun-control futilities and by a subsequent storm of scandals that have made his unvarying project ever bigger, more expansive, more intrusive and more coercive government more repulsive. Then came Wednesdays pratfall in Berlin.
There he vowed energetic measures against global warming (the global threat of our time). The 16-year pause of this warming was not predicted by, and is not explained by, the climate models for which, in his strange understanding of respect for science, he has forsworn skepticism.
Regarding another threat, he spoke an almost meaningless sentence that is an exquisite example of why his rhetoric cannot withstand close reading: We may strike blows against terrorist networks, but if we ignore the instability and intolerance that fuels extremism, our own freedom will eventually be endangered. So, instability and intolerance are to blame for terrorism? Instability where? Intolerance of what by whom fuels terrorists? Terrorism is a tactic of destabilization. Intolerance is, for terrorists, a virtue.
It is axiomatic: Arms control is impossible until it is unimportant. This is because arms control is an arena of competition in which nations negotiate only those limits that advance their interests. Nevertheless, Obama trotted out another golden oldie in Berlin when he vowed to resuscitate the cadaver of nuclear arms control with Russia. As though Russias arsenal is a pressing problem. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It’s as if we have a substitute teacher as the head of this country. No one has any respect for Obama because he’s done nothing to earn it. He began his Presidency by telling the loyal opposition, “I won” meaning you do not matter. You cannot lead anyone whom you regard as insignificant.
“The past is prologue.”
George Will doesn't get this - Obama's not talking about radical muslims - he's talking about 'extremists' as in Conservative Americans... he and the IRS only know ONE enemy...
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