Posted on 06/22/2009 6:32:33 AM PDT by La Lydia
...For the Obama administration, (Iran) presents a particular challenge - because the president's preferred rhetorical tic is to stake out the two sides and present himself as a dispassionate, disinterested soul of moderation...That was pretty much his shtick on abortion at the University of Notre Dame...So in his recent speech in Cairo, he applied the same technique. Among his many unique qualities, the 44th president is the first to give the impression that the job is beneath him - that he is too big and too gifted to be confined to the humdrum interests of one nation-state. As my former National Review colleague David Frum put it, the Obama address offered "the amazing spectacle of an American president taking an equidistant position between the country he leads and its detractors and enemies."
What would you make of that "equidistance" if you were back in the palace watching it on CNN International? Maybe you would know that, on domestic policy, Obama uses the veneer of disinterested arbiter as a feint.
Or maybe you'd just figure that no serious world leader can ever be neutral on vital issues...
And so, when the analysts had finished combing the speech, they would have concluded that the metamessage of his "equidistance" was a prostration before "stability" - an acceptance of the region's worst pathologies as a permanent feature of life.
The mullahs stole this election on a grander scale than ever before primarily for reasons of internal security and regional strategy. But Obama's speech told them that, in the "post-American world," they could do so with impunity. Blaming his "agents" for the protests is merely a bonus: Offered the world's biggest carrot, the Ayatollah Khamenei took it and used it as a stick. He won't be the last to read Obama this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Bump and Mark for Later Read.
I thought the Clintons had a patent on "triangulation?"
"We're Coming...
Anybody who’s looking for world leadership better not look to America for the next three years.
[Obama uses the veneer of disinterested arbiter as a feint. ]
Steyn nailed it here. Obama is a one trick pony. Unfortunately, looking cool only works for so long until people catch on to your shtick.
Great turn of phrase...
And the Newsweak reporter fell for it....claiming Obama was above it all like God. Just effing unbelievable.
I don't normally use this kind of language, but what a total, complete, #*$&^@ idiot! And that goes for all the people who slither behind him licking up every word he excretes.
Steyn is right about Obama’s supercilious demeanor and about his ideology. I had the same sick feeling as I watched Obama speak.
The man should have run for President of the World.
Our President is going to cause World War IV before long.
Iranian leaders will always believe Anglo-Saxons are plotting against them.
Today obambi the cowards says WE ARE GOING TO BEAR WITNESS TO THE DEBATE IN IRAN!
How do you say COWARD in other languages?
COBARDE spanish
I think that is a good question....BUT....I think the little runt will keep the answer confused...but I think he is taking over from the Mullahs...
Right now? Humpty Dumpty. And he is in the process of climbing a very high wall on a ladder with some missing rungs. Soon he will be on the top. The top of the wall is quite narrow. And very slippery at best. The camels and men are at the bottom waiting with their green sheet of muslim cloth, just in case.
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