Posted on 03/06/2011 6:11:45 AM PST by FredJake
Legend has it Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. True or not, the story serves as a fitting analogy for current events.
The world is on fire. Meanwhile, President Obama dithers and fiddles. From the Middle East to the American Midwest, people are angry and up in arms.
In the Middle East, one country Egypt has already experienced regime change at the hands of street protesters, and another is embroiled in a civil war. Unrest has broken out in almost all of the Arab countries in the region.
In the United States, Democrats, progressives, socialists and other far-left wing agitators joined forces with union protesters in an effort to undermine the duly elected government of Wisconsin. Now, they are working to spread unrest across America.
But where is President Obama?
The world used to look to the President of the United States for strength and leadership. Unfortunately, this President is too busy to deal with minor inconveniences like insurrection and civil war.
Unfortunately, America did not elect a leader in 2008, but an agitator with no executive experience and no idea of what true leadership means.
Consider the situation in Libya, a nation in the midst of a brutal civil war.
It took the President nine days to even speak out on the situation, and when he did, his response was tepid at best.
Hundreds of Americans were stuck in Libya, and despite being President of the most powerful country on earth, Obama did not send one single military aircraft or naval vessel out of fear someone might get the wrong idea.
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The historical records are not extensive enough, or unbiased enough, for us to be able to determine whether and to what extent Nero was responsible for the fire or dragged his feet on attempts to put it out.
He certainly did use the Christians as scapegoats, though.
That’s why I suspect they’ll either trot out Hillary, or she and Bill will trot her out, to run. Heaven forbid.
If Obama’s cousin Raila’s tactics are any indication, the community organizer will likely foment riots if that’s what it takes to “rule” indefinitely. Marxists aren’t choosy about methods (ends, means, and all that). You know.
Obama has her tied to his feet.
Well. Obama’s barking orders to Kadafi to “step down” now that it looks like that’s the way Kadafi’s headed anyway. - You don’t let terrorists go if you have sufficient evidence to bring them to trial.
Just sitting there, OR better yet going on vacation somewhere he does well. I hope he’s gone from that position as quickly as God wills; he has behaved badly. Such a shame for the first black President to have been a Marxist.
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