Posted on 08/11/2014 5:24:18 AM PDT by Zakeet
Everything that Barack Obama touches seems to turn to dross. Think of it for a minute. He inherited a quiet Iraq (no American combat deaths at all in December 2009). Joe Biden bragged of the calm that it would be the administration’s “greatest achievement.” But by pulling out all U.S. peacekeepers — mostly for a 2012 reelection talking point — Obama ensured an ISIS wasteland. He put his promised eye on Afghanistan at last, and we have lost more soldiers there than during the Bush administration and a Taliban victory seems likely after more than a decade of lost American blood and treasure. The message seems to be that it is better for Obama to have his eye off something than on it.
Remember those threats to Syria? After the U.S. threatened and backed off, the violence only escalated and spilled into Iraq.
Libya was no paradise under Gadhafi, but it is now Mogadishu on the Mediterranean. Not even the president’s supporters believe that he told the truth about Benghazi. Reset with Russia green-lighted Putin, as he sized up Barack Obama as a lamb waiting to be eaten. The Bowe Bergdahl-for-five-terrorists swap (likely illegal) is not headline news only because dozens of scandals since have eclipsed it, and the likely deserter is apparently still kept incommunicado, lest he speak in the fashion of his father at the earlier White House press conference. I don’t think Bergdahl is a model for future negotiations with the Taliban.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The president enjoys a 40% popularity rate and thus has institutionalized a new facet of American political life: redistributionist policies such as Obama’s guarantee that 4 out of 10 Americans will always stay supportive and that abroad most will like what the U.S. is becoming. That is the real Obama legacy: there are no politics any more, just an endless class war between patriotic progressives and counter-revolutionary clingers.
Everything our un-Midas touched turned to stone.
Stone? You are far too generous.
"Dross" is an interesting word; but we all know exactly the word Hanson was thinking of (but was too polite to use) when he wrote this piece.
Stone? You are far too generous.
You're right ... but if I posted unedited version of what I thought about the Moron, I'd get banned from this forum for life!
Sigh.
There's no denying - Kingfish O'Bozo has the magic touch.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Clown Prince nobama is the “Reverse Midas”: Everything he touches turns to sh**.
From the article, this zinger: “ In the Obama war on terror, waterboarding three architects of 9/11 is our “folks” torturing their “folks”; but judge/jury/executioner drone strikes that blow up 2,000-plus suspected (not confessed) terrorists — and anyone in the general vicinity when the missile hits — are far more moral. Out of sight, out of mind.”
Yowza!!! That one’s going to leave a mark!
Obama is King Ex-Lax....
oh my....”Race? We have become so inured to Trayvon Martin as Obama’s might-have been son, the stereotyping police, the “typical white person,” “my people,” “a nation of cowards,” “punish our enemies,” etc., that such polarization from on high is normal. Divide and conquer is the new old politics. After Obama won a decisive victory in 2008 that transcended race, we were suddenly told the world of the old white guy was over — ad nauseam — and race became essential, not incidental, to those who had proclaimed a need to go beyond race. In truth, the race fixation was not about justice, but raw power, the pathway to obtaining it and the mechanism for keeping it.”
Clarity beyond measure right there.
BUMP
Not among the 40% (or more) who could not figure out what it's talking about even if (and it's a big "if") they could read the words on the page.
VDH ping ...
When you melt metal, Dross is the impurities that float
to the surface and is skimmed off to avoid contaminating
the pure metal.
President Dross.
Boy Howdy. Does Hanson ever nail the Poseur!
Un-Midas Touch
Thanks for the ping. Right on!
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