Obama an appeaser? How dare you

Orange County Register ^ | May 17, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[Nony]

"That's enough. That – that's a show of disrespect to me."

That was Barack Obama, a couple of weeks back, explaining why he was casting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into outer darkness. It's one thing to wallow in "adolescent grandiosity" (as Scott Johnson of the Powerline Web site called it) when it's a family dispute between you and your pastor of 20 years. It's quite another to do so when it's the 60th anniversary celebrations of one of America's closest allies.

President Bush was in Israel the other day and gave a speech to the Knesset. Its perspective was summed up by his closing anecdote – a departing British officer in May 1948 handing the iron bar to the Zion Gate to a trembling rabbi and telling him it was the first time in 18 centuries that a key to the gates of the Jerusalem was in the hands of a Jew. In other words, it was a big-picture speech, referencing the Holocaust, the pogroms, Masada – and the challenges that lie ahead. Sen. Obama was not mentioned in the text. No Democrat was mentioned, save for President Truman, in the context of his recognition of the new state of Israel when it was a mere 11 minutes old.

Nonetheless, Barack Obama decided that the president's speech was really about him, and he didn't care for it. He didn't put it quite as bluntly as he did with the Rev. Wright, but the message was the same: "That's enough. That's a show of disrespect to me." And, taking their cue from the soon-to-be nominee's weirdly petty narcissism, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Co. piled on to deplore Bush's outrageous, unacceptable, unpresidential, outrageously unacceptable and unacceptably unpresidential behavior.

[BuffaloJack]

> Bush must have hit a left nerve. LOL
Ya think?
Churchill said: “An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.”

[Caleb1411]

Now why can't the majority of our policitians grasp this?

Increasingly, the Western world has attitudes rather than policies. It's one thing to talk as a means to an end. But these days, for most midlevel powers, talks are the end, talks without end. Because that's what civilized nations like doing – chit-chatting, shooting the breeze, having tea and crumpets, talking talking talking. Uncivilized nations like torturing dissidents, killing civilians, bombing villages, doing doing doing. It's easier to get the doers to pass themselves off as talkers then to get the talkers to rouse themselves to do anything.

[BenLurkin]

That – that's a show of disrespect to me."

BHO, you must earn respect first.

[Disambiguator]

That’s an interesting passage. Where is it from? To me, it validates the Teddy Roosevelt approach to foreign policy, “speak softly and carry a big stick.”

[GreyFriar]

Steyn Ping & checkout the photo in post # 15

[igoramus08]

He already talks and is rumoured to have worked for a terrorist, Ayers, so talking to states that sponsor terrorism is not a big issue for him.

[Caleb1411]

That’s an interesting passage. Where is it from? To me, it validates the Teddy Roosevelt approach to foreign policy, “speak softly and carry a big stick.”

It's part of Steyn's column. I hope the entire Republican leadership reads and heeds it.

[Fresh Wind]

Obama is simply the worst major candidate for president in modern history.

No wonder Kerry supports him. Baraq Hussein Mohammed makes him look good.

[Interesting Times]

Thanks for the ping.

In fifty years, Mark Steyn will either be regarded as the premier observer of our times, or possessing copies of his writings will be illegal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More on Obama and that word....

appeasement

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It’s difficult to imagine they are so blatantly antiAmerican!

See this :

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

And a review:

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By	Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Obama started his campaign for public office in Illinois at Ayers House.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[topfile]

Every time I hear any criticism of Obama I think of
that little animated GIF. You know the one: THATS RACIST!

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. What President Bush said is true, and that’s why the RATS reacted against it.

[Grampa Dave]

Obama: "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems, ....I will not weaponize space... I will slow development of future combat systems... I will institute a 'Defense Priorities Board' to ensure the quadrennial defense review is not used ..."

Then, there will be peace in our time without the evil republicans causing war!

My change is good for Muslims, Islamofascists, Black Racists, and Chrislims. $crew the Christians and real Jews!

[BIGLOOK]

Obama can't handle heat, even imaginary heat. GWB put up with worse and never complained, never lashed out.

Obama's a wimp.

[Dr.Deth]

Black Whiteguilt Oblack

LOL, reminds me of that episode where House referred to Foreman as "Blackpolean Blackaparte"