Obama involved in Top Secret Assertiveness Training
Posted on 09/02/2014 9:37:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Wow. That was some summer. The Islamic State that President Obama dismissed as "JV" proved to be a virulent varsity—gobbling up gobs of the Middle East, beheading an American journalist, and threatening the United States. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ferguson burned. Obama shrugged.
"The truth of the matter is that the world has always been messy," the president told Democratic donors between meetings of his national security team and rounds of golf. "In part, we're just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through."
No, that's not it. The truth of the matter is that Americans have always noticed how messy the world can be. Somebody needs to tell Obama there was media before social media.
What's unique about our times is the nature of the threats—suicidal, homicidal, genocidal terrorists, well armed and organized, seeking the destruction of the United States. The other difference: the lack of Western leadership, starting with the president himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
There is no profanity adequate to describe this horror.
ahahaha NO INDEED not!
lolz
OH are you kidding me on this commentary trust me Richard 3 was more manly than this President
I believe that Obama has lost Ron
What a pathetically limited view of the history of civilization is revealed by this almost illiterate statement by a United States President!
Thankfully, the men and women of 1776, without the benefit of "social media" or any of today's trappings of the so-called "intellectuals" among "progressive" elitists, had an in-depth understanding of which far surpasses that of this social-media-savvy Administration and its supporters.
See a brief excerpt from the following essay, reprinted with permission here.
Checks And Balances
The Constitutional Structure For
Limited And Balanced
Government
(Excerpted portion which includes below a quotation from Theophilus Parsons), words which exhibit a far greater understanding of the history of nations that is exhibited in the President's remark:
The United States Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people's liberty against combinations of government power. It structured the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary separate and wholly independent as to function, but coordinated for proper operation, with safeguards to prevent usurpations of power. Only by balancing each against the other two could freedom be preserved, said John Adams.
Another writer of the day summarized clearly the reasons for such checks and balances:
"If the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL powers are united, the MAKER of the law will also INTERPRET it (constitutionality).
Should the EXECUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE powers be united... the EXECUTIVE power would make itself absolute, and the government end in tyranny.
Should the EXECUTIVE and JUDICIAL powers be united, the subject (citizen) would then have no permanent security of his person or property.
"INDEED, the dependence of any of these powers upon either of the others ... has so often been productive of such calamities... that the page of history seems to be one continued tale of human wretchedness." (Theophilus Parsons, ESSEX RESULTS)
The Peter Principal in full glory!! He couldn’t even do that right. You are supposed to leave your job, the one you are unqualified for, and find a new one, before every body finds out you are out of your league.
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