Posted on 06/15/2013 3:55:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well apparently a president can’t just make new lows for respect of American moral authority in one single term and then let it go at that.
Nope.
Apparently after getting stiff-armed by our ideological enemies once in the first Obama term- turning his back on American values and getting called out on it- the administration felt the need to demonstrate crumbling American might and values by going back to that well early in the second term too.
During the first term, we suffered the embarrassment of the Chinese Communist who publicly lectured Obama about straying away from capitalism and taking on too much debt.
“China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt,” reported Reuters in 2011, after S&P downgrade U.S. government debt, “took the world's economic superpower to task for allowing its fiscal house to get into such disarray. It also revived its calls for a new stable global reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar, gaining a sympathetic ear in the United Kingdom.
"The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," said China's official Xinhua news agency at the time.
The president of the United States once, not long ago, stood up to Communism when they tried to take over South Korea- in this he was sustained by the whole world.
Historically-speaking it wasn’t too long ago that President Ronald Reagan seized the moral high ground by demanding that the Russians tear down the Berlin Wall. In fact, it was 26 years ago this week, as my friend Katie Pavlich points out.
Today we’re left with the president being lectured to by Chinese Communists regarding reckless spending; and, after being lectured to by Chinese Communists, in return, all Obama can offer the rest of the world is a lecture of his own about the people trusting the government.
“If people can’t trust not only the executive branch, but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process, and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here,” Professor Obama said in his newest lecture standing behind banner promoting and IRS-NSA joint open house and retinal scan event.
One of those calling Obama out for B.S. was Mr. KGB himself.
In a second-term reprise, Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin in return lectured his pal Obama about “privacy.” The lecture comes in the wake of a number of snooping scandals including the IRS targeting of conservatives, the NSA spying scandal and the general Chicago-style thuggery practiced by the Obama mob.
"I can tell you that, at least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone’s phone conversation without a warrant issued by court,” Putin told state press organ, Russia Today’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.
“That’s more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism with modern-day technology. As long as it is exercised within the boundaries of the law that regulates intelligence activities, it’s alright. But if it’s unlawful, then it’s bad.”
Putin questioned how well American intelligence agencies “are controlled by the public.”
But his comments went even further, hitting Obama on policy areas no less relevant if less controversial.
Putin questioned how arming Al Qaida in Syria is helping combat Islamic terrorism worldwide. It’s a question that Americans have asked as well as the Syrian rebellion falls further under the control of Islamic extremists.
“On Wednesday,” reported the Associated Press, “activists said Syrian rebels battled Shiites in a village in the country's east, killing more than 60 people, including civilians. Earlier this week, a 15-year-old boy was executed in public by Islamist rebel fighters in the city of Aleppo for taking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad's name in vain.”
And Obama wants to give those guys weapons?
Wasn’t that the mistake Obama and Hillary made in Libya?
Widespread reports say that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed by an Al Qaida-led terror attack in the northeastern city of Benghazi, was on a mission to recover hand-held, point-and-shoot, surface to air missiles in Libya, capable of taking down U.S. airliners. The administration armed the rebels with such weapons despite warnings by the C.I.A. of the risks involved.
[Note: Jim Geraghty at NRO has an excellent review of the arms snafu in Libya.]
Getting past the idiocy of arming people who we fought in Afghanistan, there is the little matter of not cleaning up the mess they made in Libya.
“What do you have there now?” Putin said about Libya while pointing out that Libya had a relatively high level of affluence under Gaddafi. “There is a war of everybody against everybody among various tribes, there is war for resources, and, I’m afraid, if we go the same way in Syria, there will be same havoc in Syria that we’re now witnessing in Libya.”
Don’t get me wrong.
Putin’s a bloody dictator with a past in the KGB bureaucracy.
But even liberals would agree that this wasn’t the Hope and Change that they believe in.
And it’s a sad state when we have to rely on China and Russia to point it out.
America, under the Undocumented Indonesian, is
FOR SLAVERY, CRUCIFIXION, AL QAEDA,
and GAYRape of CHILDREN and US AMBASSADORS.
I have NEVER been so ashamed of what was once
the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”.
It is a sad state when you have to look to communist regimes for wisdom while bypassing our own White Hut for wisdom.
“If people can’t trust not only the executive branch, but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process, and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here,” Professor Obama
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We have some problems here dipstick-—and you just stated them.
We cannot trust anyone in Government any longer.
When Putin makes more sense than our president we are in the deep $hit.
He gave weapons and we still give billions to Egypt after Morsi and the gang CRUCIFIED the losing opposition group, naked after some “humiliation”. Is Putin saying there is more freedom in Russia? Kind of odd, but interesting.
What more are we to expect from a man whose only qualification is his skin color???
Obama’s enemies are Christian, Law Abiding, WOrking, Heterosexuals, Constitutional, TAX PAYING Americans!! The Left will do ANYTHING to DESTROY US!!
And even that is a mixture of white trash and black drunkard.
The only way "forward" was for the rest of the world to agree that the US too could spend, and to get the new money required the G8/9 bankers print money. In tandem the worlds leaders and bankers began printing money in concert so that no single nation would print too much. Keeping all the money supply between currencies equalized by each printing a similar percentage worked for a few months, but once the politicians saw the potential to spend without economic activity or taxation, they wanted to spend more and more, taking control from the central bankers. Those bankers that did not willing comply were bankrupted overnight.
Today, America is acting like the EU has acted since WWII with spending and now the capital markets cannot keep pace, nor the banks or reserves who print the money. If it were to stop tomorrow, the printing of billions for every currency, it would topple stock markets. Stock market collapse(s) would allow Politicians and bankers a way to reduce the money supply which is not a part of the National Economies in a way that hurts those who did not invest, e.g., the recipients of the welfare budgets in nations and the bulk of voters. This nasty game will end when one large nation pulls the levers of power and makes the first move to stop printing money.
If the US were to stop printing money, even for one month while the EU and other countries continued we would see currency fluctuations and possible diplomatic and markets breakdowns. Japan has tried to stop their own madness by slowing down their printing and economic stimulation, but they are a small player. It is the EU and US that must pull back gently or risk economic destruction. This destruction will be felt worldwide; it will usher in a new order. The socialists will all be rich but the social welfare states ruinous for the population. Folks like the Clinton's and Obama's have risen up from the masses and they will be rich just as J. Paul Getty, Henry Ford or any of the other great industrialists, but these politicians will have taken it from their fellow countrymen and those so called citizens of the world which they purport to support.
It is not a matter of if the printing of currency will stop without economic activity to back it, but rather when the War without shots will begin and economies raided by the Winners of this economic warfare are filled with wheelbarrows of paper for a loaf of bread... And when this does occur, how long before the likes of those who rose to the top as did the Clinton's and Obama's survive? Imagine entire cities full of unemployed destroying themselves along with the other inhabitants, or a free for all where even those groups aligned together turn against themselves
ad the resources necessary for survival become scarcer? Might immigration be something a political would try to hold up against the inevitable forces of history in an attempt to shift blame for a citizenry's plight, and thereby adding this new group to the national mix (as the EU did with Islamic immigrant's), create one group that they could count on for stability. Hence opposing political groups demanding this inclusion of wrongful new citizens who would provide yet another safe harbor.
The pitchforks will be coming and the only question is who they will be used against. I for one will not oppose the tar and feathering of the political class, nor will I shrink from fear or easily give up what little is left as will the rest of us. No winners if one thinks of post war Germany where even those who survived were just weary in Berlin, not caring any longer if they lived or died, just weary and many without the will continue on. A situation such as this calls for more leaders, maybe it will be one generation of new leaders who do not posses the hatred of humanity that the like of the Clinton's or Obama's possess. Maybe they will not destroy their nations from within both morally and financially. In what is sure to be a new order and rebuilding of many nations, it would seem the Godlessness of those who lead us down this path would give way to a new emphasis on Faith for those who did or do not believe, and yet another repeat of history as we can read for those who do not know it.
I admire him more than our man.
It would appear the Russian Reset requires a reset...
Putin understands the importance of a nation having strength. Our current president disagrees with that concept.
It’s equally sad that the Chinese and Russians are often more honest. Never in my life have I been so disgusted with my country or feared so much for its future.
The Fairy King’s only qualification is his skin color.
I’ll second that. With a very heavy heart.
At least with ‘Gahspahdeen” Putin, you know what you have.
In his own right, he has always had “the Rodina”, in his heart. This is something that Obama does not.
Putin has been a tough guy, and still is.
Obama has never had to lay hands on someone, outside of a bathhouse, and even then, it was all “in friendship”, never in the defense of whatever country he thinks is his own, outside of America.
I salute “Gahspahdeen” Putin, for calling out Obama the fool.
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