Team Obama Arrogance: Obama "Bows to Nobody in Understanding This World"

Monday, July 21, 2008 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Barack Obama and his team agree: At 46 years old, with no military service or foreign policy experience, having only spent three years as a United States senator, he is master of the universe.

Susan Rice, Obama's senior foreign policy advisor, informed the German news magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published today that her candidate "bows to nobody in understanding this world."

Rice prefaced this conceit by relating his world travels: "Senator Obama has travelled to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia many times before. He lived in Asia."

This evening ABC News Nightline will broadcast an interview with Obama conducted after he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and Gen. Petraeus today in Iraq.

Obama's arrogance shone through as he dismissed Petraeus' concerns about Obama's plans for Iraq:

"My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole and to weigh and balance risks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here, and I completely understand that."

Obama, in his arrogance, failed to recognize that Petraeus, having recently been promoted to head up Centcom, which oversees both Iraq and Afghanistan, would also be looking at Iraq from the same perspective.

Obama also made clear he worked to undermine President Bush's negotiations with the Maliki government on the new status of forces agreement:

"I made very clear to him that we have one president at a time. And it is the job of the Bush administration to work with [the] Iraqi government. I am a United States senator, I can present my views as a candidate and I can present my views as a senator who believes that we can't bind the next president to an agreement that involves us committing troops or budget."

While Obama has not been elected yet, he and his team are acting like it is all over but the swearing in ceremony.

His presidential-style rally being held in Berlin later this week is one more example of the self-crowning of Obama.

Many an arrogant man who 'bowed to nobody in their understanding of this world' have found themselves to be proven disastrously wrong. Unfortunately the world usually pays a horrendous price for their arrogance.

Berlin is a good city for Obama to learn a valuable lesson or two. However, the lessons of Berlin will likely be lost on him.

In the Der Speigel interview, Rice said of Obama: "He sees the world as more complex than simply good versus evil"

For more than half a century, Berlin was the front line in the battle between good and evil in the world--from the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler through the rise and fall of the Berlin wall.

However, a man who has foretold his own coming ("we are the ones we have been waiting for") may be too far gone already.

[mylife]

Obama was a 6-10 year old in Indonesia, He has a solid understanding of Asia. /S

[bethtopaz]

wow. just wow.

[mylife]

Rice said of Obama: "He sees the world as more complex than simply good versus evil"

Asshats gonna get lost in nuance. The debates will be his demise

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

This is along the lines of your comment on another thread regarding Obambi peaking...

[Eagles6]

Well done.

[Army Air Corps]

Asshats gonna get lost in nuance. The debates will be his demise

Exactly why Obambi is trying to avoid debates like the plague.

[Scotswife]

ok...when is McCain going to air these strange narcissistic moments of Obama’s with Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in the background?

John Kerry was labeled “arrogant” and it killed his campaign.

Obama deserves to be labeled as “vain” over and over until it gets through.

[mylife]

Yes he is. It will be a pleasure to watch this guys downfall when they finally turn on the heat.

[dsc]

Only a total ignoramus could imagine that he doesn’t need to bow to anyone — on any subject.

There’s always somebody who understands something you don’t.

For instance, I understand that everything Obama-lama-ding-dong knows is wrong, and he doesn’t.

[BuckyKat]

"My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole and to weigh and balance risks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here, and I completely understand that."

This guy sounds like an ignorant brand spankin' new 2nd lieutenant mouthing off to his sergeant major. Somebody needs to dent that ego a bit.

[basil]

He’s digging his political grave with his mouth. Let him keep on.....as we all laugh ourselves silly.

[mkjessup]

"Say, ah say Mr. Obama? It is clear to be that
you are educated WAY beyond your intelligence!"

- Jerry Clower

[mylife]

"Rebel Without A Clue"

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I am beginning to understand why the Monty Python Flying Circus team had to give up making hilarious parodies of real life.

[Army Air Corps]

"My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole and to weigh and balance risks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here, and I completely understand that."

This from the Chairman of the European Affairs subcommittee who has yet to convene a meeting of said body. What a feckless, clueless tool.

[mylife]

This guy sounds like an ignorant brand spankin' new 2nd lieutenant mouthing off to his sergeant major.

Good analogy. And this is whats going to loose him Ohio.

[mylife]

lose

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

He’s a world class liberal: Ignorant, Naive, and Arrogant.