Posted on 07/06/2009 12:50:45 PM PDT by pissant
That brief statement of Barack Obama's last month seems every bit as risible as Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook", after one reads the article on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Obama wrote for the student newspaper his senior year at Columbia. The New York Times rediscovered the student article on Independence Day and seems to want to spin it as a sign of the president's deep nature.
He railed against discussions of "first- versus second-strike capabilities" that "suit the military-industrial interests" with their "billion-dollar erector sets," and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced "the twisted logic of which we are a part today" and praised student efforts to realize "the possibility of a decent world." But his article, "Breaking the War Mentality," which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.
Unfortunately that sorting out process hasn't exactly progressed in 26 years. Obama's plans for a nuclear free world today are just as chock full of high sounding rhetoric and wishful thinking and just as bereft of details as they were when he was a senior at Columbia as to exactly how one is to accomplish such a lofty goal in a world of rogue nations. Conveniently forgotten by The Times is that all the nuclear freeze movement predictions Obama supported about the shape of the future were wrong. Instead of leading to a nuclear Armageddon, the increases in defense spending under Reagan led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern block.
Obama seems determined to continue to pursue the policy goals he held as a student instead of learning from two decades of subsequent real world events. What is even more disturbing is how people like Richard Lugar continue to give Obama high marks for "being a good listener" and a "serious student" as they patronizingly give him a pass on the implementation of workable plans.
Most Americans outgrew their student mode shortly after they had to earn a living for themselves in jobs that had more quantifiable performance criteria than community organizing, Obama naive? Throw in sophistic, jejune and purblind to everything isn't a neat fit into ideological cubby holes that haven't change in two decades and you'll be on the right track. Frank Gaffney sums it up in Commentary:
"If the implications were not so serious, the discrepancy between Mr. Obama's plans and real-world conditions would be hilarious," said Frank J. Gaffney Jr., a Reagan-era Pentagon official who directs the Center for Security Policy, a private group in Washington.
Dammit read it wrong. Thought it said “I am not native”
Then your stupidity is purposefull that makes you twice as bad Barry.....You are fully aware of your Leftist Marxist Failings and intend to continue down that path....
I sell insurance and investments.
When I started, 25 years ago, I learned that you should NEVER say “Trust me” -—
If you have to ask for it, you do not deserve it!
“Obama: ‘I am not naïve’”
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I agree. I have never thought that President Obama is naive.
He has an agenda and he is fulfilling his agenda as quickly as possible.
We, in Indiana, need to get rid of Lugar.
I call serious BS on this, especially evident in Barry and his Administration’s ongoing foreign policy failures (i.e.: NOKO, Iran, Russia, Honduras, etc.).
His stated purpose for the urgency in drawing down our nuclear capabilities are to give us credibility in negotiations with Iran and North Korea. He wants to dismantle our defenses to prove to them that we are serious about being defenseless. They will no doubt be persuaded to stop proliferation attempts. No, he is not naive. He is an idiot.
“he’s a rank marxist fraud”
Not to mention a complete jacka$$
A week or two ago, I heard Zer0 - in a live speech being broadcast on C-SPAN radio - twice exclaim:
“I am the President of the United States of America.”
Not just once. Twice. Within 5 minutes.
Then I turned it off because I thought he might say it again, and it was embarrassing and weird to hear it the first two times.
You did not, of course, hear a whisper or a peep about this bizarro strangeness in the news.
Naive or Criminal, take your pick. I choose both.
Only his Witch Doctor knows for sure.
I don’t believe he is naive, he is a quisling though... with the role of playing a public straight guy while other travelers act, in chorus, in the house with pelousy, senate with reed, media, and acorn thugs each do their own parts to furthur the cause. And, while he plays the public straight guy, talking the good talk as long as he can with a straight face before having to pull off a zelaya, he is all the while playing the thug role half-behind the scenes with iran, NK, his czars, etc (as well as I suspect his satanic role completely behind the scenes which I have no idea of the specifics, but I’m sure is proceeding according to their plans unless we can head them off).
Yeah he is not naive, just a tool.
The rest of us are just clueless PBI that cleans up the mess.
/johnny
Well, if you have to say it........
Hussein is NOT naive. Too many confuse naivete with ignorance and contempt. He is breathtakingly ignorant, frankly on almost every subject, from economics to war to diplomacy. And his utter contempt for the US and the American people is mistaken for a lack of understanding, or bluntness! So Hussein doesn’t “mistakenly” support a thug Honduran dictator wanna-be. He knows who and what the guy is and wants him in power. After all, maybe Zayela will support Hussein when he tries to take over the US. And Hussein hasn’t betrayed Israel because he doesn’t comprehend the complexities of the Middle East, or because he wants an easier playing field with Amadhinejad. Hussein is a Muslim who hates Israel and wants it to disappear from the map. You starting to catch on??!!
Um ... I think he has reached the point where his authority is way above the requirement to be a "good listener" and a "serious student" -- he should have passed this particular long ago and be in the "understands the world situation, including how history has a bearing on what occurs now" position. While there is an awful lot of OJT in this job, I don't see these two as complimentary. Or encouraging, either. God help us.
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