Anti-Obama, Pro-America

Weekly Standard ^ | 11/23/2009, | William Kristol

[nuconvert]

President Obama chose not to travel to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Instead, he graced the occasion with a video address. He didn't have time in his two-and-a-half minutes to mention Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher or Pope John Paul II. But somehow he did find time to mention .  . Barack Obama:

Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.

Obama tried (unconvincingly) to disguise his remarkable self-absorption, by adding Angela Merkel to himself as a culmination of the world-historical events of the last 20 years. But what do the victories of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel have to do with the character of human destiny anyway? If the recent German and American elections had gone the other way, and a united Germany were now led by a man from North-Rhine Westphalia, and their American ally by a man of Scots-Irish descent, wouldn't human destiny still be what human beings make of it?

[Rembrandt]

FoxNews could push The Messiah into making a decision on Afghanistan and save the lives of our youngsters fighting over there by including a counter in one corner of their screens showing the number of deaths suffered since Obama received Gen. McChrystal’s request for more troops and materiel. It’s already been more than three months and deaths are continuing when we could have countered and brought the enemy to bay!

[Brytani]

Obama is waiting for the death toll to reach a level when American’s scream for our troops to be removed. He counts on the ignorance of the people who will believe the war is impossible to win, instead of realizing Obama refuses to give our military the troops and supplies they need to finish this mission.

To him each American death is a feather in his political cap.