Posted on 03/21/2011 9:03:43 AM PDT by La Lydia
Look, I’m a sensitive New Age guy — I cook, I do laundry, I choke up at movies (well, Gladiator, anyway). But does anyone think our enemies abroad are as enlightened as we are about feminism?... the specific lesson they’re learning is that nukes are the best insurance against invasion — but a broader one is that our commander-in-chief is an effete vacillator who is pushed around by his female subordinates. Prof. Althouse notes, “A feminist milestone: Our male President has been pulled into war by 3 women,”...
One of the reasons Khrushchev gambled on missiles in Cuba is that he perceived JFK as a weak man when they met..Conversely, one of the reasons Khomeini released the hostages just as Reagan was taking the oath of office was his “Ronnie Ray-guns” reputation (something the air traffic controllers ignored — which itself became another lesson for our enemies). Do you think Putin and A-jad and Chavez and the ChiComs are more afraid of Obama now? It was obvious to most of us that Hillary has more, uh, stones than Obama, but to have it confirmed so publicly for less-attentive foreign goons means they’re that much more likely to try to push us and see how The One responds.
Before you send me any burning bras, the problem is not with women leaders — the enemies of the Virgin Queen and the Iron Lady can attest to that. The problem is not even with the president having strong female subordinates. Rather, Obama’s pusillanimity has been hugely magnified by the contrast with the women directing his foreign policy and the fact that they nagged him to attack Libya until he gave in....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
What? Talk about buyers remorse.
Our enemies absolutely FEAR a 2013 presidential inauguration of a certain,gun toting,grizzly mama who would not be afraid to pull the trigger.
I guess the problem is that it took so long for so many to catch on to this anatomy lesson. I am still slightly taken aback by the ease at which we all discuss this, uh, situation in such terms.
Good ol’ Crusty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/652652/posts
You can’t keep a good pantsuit down, but you can stand it up in a corner.
Now that is funny, right there!
What's this we have now, honey? Tried to buy gas or food lately?
Our enemies absolutely FEAR such a development, as do the mainstream media, the Left and many Republicans. Hmmmm.
There used to be an old, old newspaper comic strip titled “Mr Millquetoast”. Obama fits.
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Agreed, as well they should.
Bubba goaded him into it, not just Hillary. Bubba shamed him into it, or convinced him using a corollary of Bubba’s Law: It’s not actually war if you don’t insert male members of the military into Libya to perform actual physical combat. “If they ask you, look ‘em in the eye and say you did not make war on that man, Colonel Khaddafi.”
So would all of our friends and allies.
Definition of PUSILLANIMITY —
the quality or state of being pusillanimous : cowardliness
But yes, 0bama has adopted the image of the neutered progressive male: caring, sensitive, surrounded by bullish, aggressive and rather unpleasant women who show very little signs of respecting him. He is, as is a constant comedic refrain on FR, a rather effeminate individual with a veneer of machoism constructed around gang signs and the basketball court. In a bar fight one might expect his worst bruise to be caused by the door hitting him on the ass during a hasty retreat. This may be all perception - I don't know the fellow personally and don't care to - but if so it's a nearly universal one.
The problem, though, is that he is a failure as an executive and has built a staff that is better at advancing the ideological objectives of its members than protecting and guiding the boss. In Susan Power we have, at the National Security Council, an individual whose first priority is neither nation nor security, but the subordination of her country into a grander internationalist world order. In Hillary Clinton we have a feckless amateur at the State Department whose expertise and interests are purely domestic, attempting to learn a difficult and demanding job on the fly and perceived still by 0bama's real inner circle as a rival, not a team member. These are not the only ones by far, but the author pointed them out and, I think, rightfully so.
The problem is made worse by the apparent fact that 0bama doesn't really possess any strongly-held doctrines of his own in these arenas, at least insofar as they might diverge from the mind-numbing academic cant that now populates the halls of the highest offices in the land. "Responsibility to Defend"? Sure, Susan, that sounds terrific in the postdoc seminars, let's go bomb somebody on its basis. What is missing here isn't masculinity, it's a dose of common sense.
In fact, what foreign leaders perceive happens to be the embarrassing truth: 0bama is a weak, flighty, poorly-educated mannequin stuck into office on the basis of empty celebrity. He is very much a product of a society besotted with popular culture and superficiality. He is playing President for people who are playing government like an amateur talent show, convinced that the applause is real.
And the real danger in this is that he will be swayed in matters of foreign policy not by any threatened damage to the United States but by a threat to the damage of his image. A foreign leader careful to repeat the politically correct liberal verities of the moment and sufficiently adulatory in public (one can imagine what they say in private) will be able to make this empty puppet dance because he or she has seen others do it. And those others are his staff, and their foremost interests are not those of the nation.
pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs
–adjective
1.
lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
2.
proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit.
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