Posted on 04/20/2009 2:50:07 PM PDT by Michael Eden
Let's reflect on the past few weeks.
First Obama treats the Prime Minister of Britain - America's closest historic ally - like dirt and then has his State Department announce that "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."
But that's okay; he's balancing that despicable treatment by doling out more of the same shoddy treatment to the 2nd greatest ally of the United States, Israel.
Apparently, Obama seeks to appease the countries who despise us by turning his back on the countries who have loved us.
Then he goes on his "Apologize for being an American" tour during the G-20 summit. He didn't get any meaningful commitments from anybody to give us any kind of meaningful help in our "good war" in Afghanistan, and he got absolutely nobody to follow his "let's all keep on recklessly spending" stimulus plan. But he gave up American economic sovereignty by ceding control over to an international body anyway. At least Judas got 20 pieces of silver for his betrayal; Obama got nothing for his.
During that tour, Obama had the gall to apologize to France - to FRANCE! - for American arrogance. That pretty much proves that Obama believes America is the most arrogant country in the history of the world.
And he bowed down before the king of Saudi Arabia before lying about the fact that he had bowed. The first American president to break with the tradition that American presidents do not bow down to kings. The tradition of "sic semper tyrannis" is officially over.
Then - after bowing down before a Muslim king - Obama went to Turkey to renounce American Christianity, and all the founding history that went with it.
With his genuflection to serve as a capstone foreign policy moment for American submission, Obama then journeyed to Mexico to tell them to blame America for all their problems, and repeats the already utterly disproven demagoguery that "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States" to support his thesis. Pretty smart, this: he gets to demonize America for selling guns to Mexican drug cartels and at the same time he gets to undermine the 2nd Amendment.
And then we went to the Americas Conference to appear as the "poor ignoramus" that Hugo Chavez said he was a few weeks earlier:
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.Geez. I never would have believed Hugo Chavez would ever be right about anything. Hugo Chavez should look in a mirror, of course, but he's absolutely spot-on in his assessment of Obama."He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.
The governments of the United States and Venezuela finally agree upon something; and Obama and Chavez subsequently shook on it to confirm the fact: Barack Obama IS a poor ignoramus.
Well, at least he didn't bow down before him, although some have suggested that perhaps if Obama bows down before the Ayatollah of Iran and Kim Jong Il of North Korea perhaps they'd abandon their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Why nuke us if we're already subservient?
And then Chavez took another photo op moment to present Obama with a book that presents the Marxist-socialist thesis that America is the source of evil that is responsible for all of Latin America's problems. Chavez DID say the poor ignoramus needed to read up on his Marxist fabrication of history, after all.
Sad thing is I bet Obama reads every page of the book Chavez gave him. And believes it.
Very recently, Obama continued the disgrace America tour by releasing CIA memos so he could refer to "the dark and painful chapter in our history." Yet another attempt to rub our nose in our morbid and completely illegitimate desire to protect ourselves from the lethal hatred of terrorists. CIA officials are supposed to be thankful that Obama did not reward them for their efforts to protect the country by having them criminally prosecuted. It was apparently vitally important that our terrorist enemies be made to realize that they no longer have absolutely anything whatsoever to fear from being captured by American forces. All they have to do is lawyer up while enjoying three hots and a cot while they destroy our country just like the ACLU does - from within - by using our own institutions against us.
The disgrace America tour goes on and on under Barrack Hussein. Let's not forget the sermons from Obama's spiritual leader for 23 years: this IS "God damn America," after all.
I end by reflecting on the words of Mark Levin from Liberty And Tyranny, page 18:
For the Statist, the international community and international organizations serve as useful sources for importing disaffection with the civil society. The Statist urges Americans to view themselves with through the lenses of those who resent and even hate them. He needs Americans to become less confident, to doubt their institutions, and to accept the status assigned to them by outsiders - as isolationists, invaders, occupiers, oppressors, and exploiters. The Statist wants Americans to see themselves as backward, foolishly holding to their quaint notions of individual liberty, private property, family, and faith, long diminished or jettisoned in other countries. They need to listen to the voices of condemnation from world capitals and self-appointed global watchdogs hostile to America's superior standard of living. America is said to be out of step and regressive, justifying the surrendering of its sovereignty through treaties and other arrangements that benefit the greater "humanity." And it would not hurt if America admitted its past transgressions, made reparations, and accepted its fate as just another aging nation - one among many.
This is a nightmare — we warned you mindless liberals -— and look at what you have done for us.
Bend over America, Obama is driving!
the first groveler abroad.
This is a nightmare — we warned you mindless liberals -— and look at what you have done for us.
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I completely agree with your sentiments, but want to point out that the liberals are LOVING this. And the more prestige and power and wealth America loses, the happier they will be.
It is the “independents” and the conservative to moderate Democrats whom we warned.
Americans will suffer in the future - and the not-too-distant future at that - for their stupid decision to make this ideologue fool their leader.
To me the most disgraceful thing he has done is refuse to visit Normandy! His own grandfather and paternal uncle landed at Normandy as did countless other thousands who willingly gave their lifes to ensure others could enjoy freedom. This marxist has denied the greatness of such heroes. At least the museum at Caen recognizes the greatness by displaying a wax figure fashioned after the only person who was the only one they could envision as having the true physical and facial chracteristic Normans were known for. That person immortalized for all time at the museum in Caen is none other than Charleston Heston, which is a little known fact. Jr is not worthy to even shine the shoes of the American heroes who landed on the beaches of Normandy or to even gaze on the wax figure forever immortalized at the museum at Caen!
We didn’t become the greatest and mightiest nation in the history of the world by pursuing Obama’s agenda. His is the antithesis of what made this country great.
Europe, Russia, the third world, and every dictator and tyrant on the planet, agree on one thing: the US is too powerful. The world is jealous of us because they can never have what we have due to their terribly flawed worldview and value system. They speak of a “uni-polar world,” and want a “MULTI-polar world” where they have as much voice as the US. And American liberals wholeheartedly agree.
They want internationalism and globalism, and want to end American sovereignty - and ESPECIALLY individual sovereignty and liberty which gets in the way of their statist agenda.
They want a godless world where big government takes the place of God. The bigger the government, the better - which is why they want global government.
Me? I will take God, and a government constrained by the values and limitations of its Declaration of Independence, its Constitution, and its Bill of Rights.
I can deal without the slavish Anglophilia (the perfidious Limeys have USED us, especially over the past 90 years), but otherwise this article is spot on.
And don't tell me McCain would have shaken hands with Chavez or apologized for America also. That's BS pure and simple.
I won’t rush to defend Britain or attempt to rebut your thesis that “the Limeys have used us.”
But - when you look back at the previous century - Britain has been our closest and most trusted ally (whether they were using us or we them).
They are certainly a FAR better friend to us than Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.
Yeah hey! Dontcha know. : )
There are two possibilities:
1) America - under the sway of a liberal worldview, a propagandistic media, and a “crisis” to seize advantage of, will go the way of America under FDR. The man was desperately wrong, and his policies were a miserable failure. And yet Americans kept supporting him.
FDR’s OWN Treasury Secretary said after 8 years of failure:
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!” - Henry Morganthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary, May 1939
The other route is as you describe: a total repudiation of liberal policies, such that they are discredited for a generation. I am confident that a SINGLE Islamist terrorist attack would lead to precisely this outcome.
But I am not so certain about the economy plunging into a depression leading to conservative rule.
We NEED to keep the pressure on Obama, and keep pointing out where his policies will lead. We need to point out the obvious disaster that will come from spending so many trillions - going on tens of trillions - of dollars will do to our economy as the interest payments go up to billions of dollars a day. We need to point out that we will implode under liberal socialist spending - and forfeit the American way of life for European-style “rationing.”
Thanks for the ping.
How dare he think he represents the Americans that love this country. Who is this clown that has never done anything worthwhile in his life? His actions are not respectful of those that fought so hard for us to become a free nation.
Katherine Hamm offered this congratulation for Obama:
It is astounding that in less than 100 days Obama has already reached the pinnacle of useful idiocy [for our enemies].
Barack Obama has his own “God damn America!” book club now. Sales of the Marxist propaganda book “Open Veins” went from 52,000 to #2 on Amazon.
Next Obama will start suggesting that we give hour long blocks of time for infomercials from the Ayatollah, Ahmadinejab, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and others.
“Next Obama will start suggesting that we give hour long blocks of time for infomercials from the Ayatollah, Ahmadinejab, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and others.”
***I think they already do that on MSNBC.
Keith Olbermann hosts it - and then he and his guests teabag one another.
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