Posted on 12/28/2016 1:07:48 PM PST by Kaslin
resident Barack Obama likes to see himself as a moral leader. "The arc of the moral universe is long," Obama likes to say, quoting Martin Luther King Jr, "but it bends toward justice." According to Obama, Obama is a genteel representative of decency and good grace, a man pointing America toward a broader vision, a fellow questing for social justice and contextual consideration.
In reality, he's a narcissistic fool. And like Burgess Meredith's character in "The Twilight Zone," he will be left standing in the ruins, bewailing the fates that abandoned him, leaving no worshipful admirers upon whom to lean.
Obama's legacy is one of failure all around the world. He leaves office with a genocide in Syria on his record -- a genocide he pledged to prevent, then tolerated and finally lamented, mourning the fates while blithely ignoring his own cowardice. Libya, meanwhile, remains a full-scale disaster area, with tens of thousands of refugees from that failed campaign swamping Europe, along with those fleeing Syria, and his leftist European allies paying the political price.
Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, stands on the brink of a nuclear dawn, its pockets filled with billions of dollars, its minions ascendant from Tehran to Aleppo to Beirut. Obama made that happen with nearly a decade of appeasement and a willingness to abandon freedom-minded Iranians to the tender mercies of the mullahs.
Meanwhile, Russia has only expanded its reach and influence, invading the sovereign nation of Ukraine and seizing Crimea to the deafening silence of the Obama administration. Russia has flexed its muscle in Kaliningrad, where it has stocked missiles, and in Syria, where it has assured Syrian President Bashar Assad's continued dominance.
China has grown its sphere of influence across the South China Sea, putting American allies from Taiwan and Japan to the Philippines directly under its thumb. Thanks to Obama's military cuts, China believes that it can bully American allies into embracing Chinese supremacy in international waters -- and it may be right. Simultaneously, Obama continues to drive America into debt, and the Chinese are large buyers of that outstanding debt.
The communist Cubans have been re-enshrined; so have the socialist Venezuelan authorities. The Islamic State group remains an international threat, and western capitals have been struck by Islamic terror time and again, to Obama's teeth-gnashing and general inaction.
But at least Obama is truly putting his focus where it's necessary: on declaring that our only ally in the Middle East, Israel, has no historic claim to its own existence and threatening Jews with sanctions for building bathrooms in East Jerusalem.
Obama came into office amidst grand promises to restore America's place in the world. Unless our place is the outhouse, he's failed. But at least he feels good about his accomplishments, even if thousands have died -- and thousands more will die -- in order to ensure his moral stature in his own mind.
Nice analysis there Ben. Now what do you have to say about the guy we voted for to fix Obama’s mess? Still butthurt over Trump?
Once again , the tiger sharks of Hawaii fail to be in the right place at the right time
A good summation of the “progressive” outlook. It does not matter what actually happens. It matters what we *wanted* to happen.
according to Obama, Those who embrace only heterosexuality are immoral. Now thinking about what Paul wrote in Romans 1 I’d say Obama is screwed.:
God’s Anger at Sin
18But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
21Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
24So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
28Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. 29Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
Obama didn’t “allow” a Russian takeover in Crimea and low - level war in Ukraine. Let’s be clear - he and Clinton caused it
“According to Obama, Obama is.....”
So true.
Obama’s world view is salafist
When life is not as they think it should be, they whine and protest and name call and, basically, throw child-like tantrums.
Perfect explanation for and description of the modern leftist, especially the militant homosexuals. Paul absolutely nails it here.
If Ben Shapiro sticks to criticizing the Left, he might be tolerable. Unfortunately, he won’t do that.
Obama has had one of the most successful presidencies in history. He has accomplished most of his goals.
His goals have been to weaken the U.S. and to embolden our enemies, where most of those enemies have ideologies that more closely match those of Obama, than those of most Americans.
Our losses in Syria and Lybia have been by design. Russia’s intervention in Syria, was in collusion with the Obama administration. Obama might pay lip service to Russian intervention, but, Russia is closer to Obama’s way of thinking than most Americans. Russia’s success would go a long way towards the destruction of the U.S.
Putin and Obama have been very clever in covering their conspiracy and collusion. Can anybody doubt that Russia has been very successful in attaining many of its goals under Obama? Taking over Crimea was part of the plan, and Obama was in on the plan. Obama was in on the plan to get Russia involved in the middle-east, and by Russia gaining dominance in that area, the U.S. would be seen as untrustworthy and weak.
At every turn, it can be seen that the U.S. has had no successes to speak of, other than appearances of success, but when the bottom lines are examined, there really is a 5 steps back and 1 step forward when it comes to the U.S. foreign policy. Abandoning Israel has been the plan all along, and the vote at the UN this week, was proof positive that, destroying Israel has been one of the major goals, if not the biggest goal, of the Obama administration. He surrounded himself with advisers who were anti-Israel and pro-Muslim, all of whom were instrumental in creating the “destroy Israel” foreign policy.
Obama was/is truly the Manchurian Candidate, and Americans were duped into accepting and voting for him. He has been America’s enemy from the beginning, the beginning being his indoctrination by the Muslim religion and his training in communism. He has never been anything but a Muslim and a communist. While he couldn’t get everything he wanted in his 8 years in office, he did try hard, and what we’re witnessing is a long string of successes, and a long string of losses by the U.S.
Undoing all of the damage will take a long time, but hopefully, Trump and republicans can start the investigation into what transpired in the last 8 years. We cannot afford to have anybody like Obama back into any part of the U.S. government again. Methinks that we need to revive the birth certificate issue again, since, what we had as “president” was not a person that loved or cared about the country; we had America’s enemies being represented at the highest office.
I get so annoyed when Obama says “That’s not who we are.” He says that about things that don’t fit his agenda. I hate it when he speaks for me.
Obama never had any “morals” so his universe was empty, dark, and lonely. That is why his communist mentors, friends, and supporters were able to successfully bring completely over to “The Dark Side”.
When he said that he wanted to “completely transform America”, he was talking about undermining our Constitution and free enterprise system, and imposing by stealth, Executive Order, Signing Orders, Regulations, and corrupting existing laws, a Marxist, authoritarian regime of Communists, crooks, cronies and crazies (a program which Hillary also wanted to impose but Slick Willie’s Willie kept coming up and out, as well as her own insanity, so she failed in the end, a washed up Marxist wannabe).
Men can now have free access to the Ladies Room
You said that so much better than I did in another thread.
Lately, some have fallen into the notion that Obama was out of his league and a bumbler.
Not true.
He mostly accomplished what he set out to do.
I seriously doubt he cares that the media is on life support. I doubt he cares that the democrat party is all but destroyed,too.
Except that it ushered in a fighter that is Trump.
Who is a real threat to his plans.
Thats why i think he is sticking around DC..he has to take down Trump.
Who threatens to erase much of what he has done.
What Americans are not paying attention to, is how Obama and Putin and democrats in general, are redirecting the people’s attention to other matters that might not even be important or real issues, such as Russian hacking of the election. While the people’s attention is being directed towards election hacking, Obama and Putin and Muslim dictators in the middle east are laughing their asses off at how gullible Americans are.
Dopes being easily duped, that’s what we are.
Agreed.
His efforts were better expended upon the real enemy all along.
To my great regret, I must agree with you (although I was not in the slightest duped:
Muslim name change with Hussein in the middle? Mentored by Frank Marshall Davis? Had Jack Ryan’s sealed documents illegally released to gain his stepping stone to the presidency, while concealing virtually all of his own records concealed from any scrutiny? Fundamental transformation?
The day after he was first elected, I largely gave up my beloved country for dead.
Donald Trump is the only man who might - might - reverse just some of this; none of the other vaunted 16 would do so if given the reins.
I wasn’t duped either. I used the collective “we” just to be politically correct. But by we, I mean that the majority that elected Obama did “us” in, thus the “we”, since the majority of “us” is what brought on the misery that we had to endure.
Regarding Trump, I have to be very cautious with what might await us. I’m hoping for the best, but, since he was a democrat for a great deal of his life, and worked in one of the most liberals states in the union, I’m afraid that he’s going to try to be the president of “all”, meaning that, he won’t be as conservative as he needs to be or we hope he’ll be. We will, however, get a much better deal from him that from Obama or from what Hillary would have subjected us to.
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