Posted on 04/21/2009 8:09:36 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
The president of the United States has completed another outing abroad in his now standard form: as the un-Bush. At one stop after another -- the latest in Latin America, where Hugo Chávez expressed wishes to be his friend -- Barack Obama fulfilled his campaign vows to show the nations of the world that a new American leadership stood ready to atone for the transgressions of the old.
All went as expected in these travels, not counting certain unforeseen results of that triumphal European tour. The images of that trip, in which Mr. Obama dazzled ecstatic Europeans with citations of the offenses against international goodwill and humanity committed by the nation he leads, are now firmly imprinted on the minds of Americans. That this is so, and that it is not good news for him, is truth of a kind not quite fathomable to this president and his men.
Now, on the heels of those travels, comes his release of the guidelines known as "torture memos" -- a decision designed to emphasize, again, the superior ethical and moral leadership the world can expect from this administration as compared with that of presidencies past. This exercise in comparisons is one of which Mr. Obama may well never tire.
The memos' publication had its consequences, most of them intentional. First, declaring his intention to have a forward-looking administration, the president had, to his credit, announced that there would be no trials of CIA personnel involved in the interrogations of terrorists.
Then came the memos. With his decision to release them, Mr. Obama guaranteed an instant explosion of outrage of a kind that could never have happened otherwise, notwithstanding his claim that most of the contents were already public. The results of the president's decision were predictable.
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If HST met BHO in this day, BHO would probably need a beefsteak for his eye and a supporter below.
Truman was the only democrat president my parents could stand. They thought FDR was a commie and despised him.
I think Bill Clinton was an admirer of HST,
didn’t he have a sign on his desk that read,
“The bucks stop here.”
What happens AFTER Obambi has licked every dictator’s boots around the world, and he is only six months into his “reign”. What does he do for an encore?
No, he had a sign under his desk that said
“The knees go here”.
“What does he do for an encore?”
That’s when he slowly turns back to us, and is finally able to give
his full attention to directing the hose of ruination on the USA. That’s when he meets more and more resistance from
those of us who are going to resist having totalitarianism
stuffed down our throats. And THEN, Obama will have to turn once again to selected parts of the world to conjure up some fabricated crisis where he can look like the hero and make a triumphant return into the good graces of Americans.Maybe Chavez can help him.A balance sheet will be drawn up, and it will be perceived gradually that he has made NOTHING but mistakes, mistakes that have cost us security and well-being. More and more will fall away from him and those Democrat icons, Pelosi, Reid & Co. I almost can’t wait. This is gonna be GOOD.I am PSYCHED!
Bambi is wrong and stupid to boot, oh I forgot inane, but I excuse it because of his gross ignorance and inexperience
“The bucks stop here.”
Harry Truman did. Clinton had a sign that said "Buck? What buck? It never got here!"
Or was it “I collect the bucks here”?
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