Has Barack Obama Fallen to Earth?

These last few weeks in the presidency of Barack Obama -- filled with missteps on health care (where nobody in the Congress fears him, and his demands to get something done go unheeded by even those in his own party) and his seeming false bravado when it comes to a nuclear-armed Iran -- has begun to prove out the notion that our current president is most likely temperamentally unsuited to handle the rigors of the presidency.

Proof of such a thesis lies all around us. Jay Cost, writing in today's Real Clear Politics, says that he thinks Obama is having a problem with small 'r' republicanism. In other words, the President doesn't seem to get that the republic which he helps to govern derives its powers from the governed; which means he shouldn't believe himself the be-all, end-all royal personage his demeanor seems to suggest he really thinks he is.

… Polls indicate independents are deserting Mr. Obama in droves, and his uncertain and sometimes-confusing handling of the matter of additional troops for Afghanistan and what to do about an Iranian leadership that seems hell bent on acquiring nuclear weapons -- which they'll certainly use at some point in the future -- point out the truth that Obama's affected brainy exterior is just hiding a man who's great at running for office but hasn't a clue when it comes to what to do with the office once he attains it.

Instead, we're forced to watch a U.S. president stand before the United Nations and tell that … body … that we're done as a force on the world stage and that he, as de facto leader of the free world, would be uncomfortable in continuing to handle the reins of world leadership. The Grand Apology Tour continues unabated, it seems.

One further thing. Author Scott Michaels assumes that Obama is “defacto leader of the free world.” He is out of line, ignorant , or spinning the truth.

After Obama’s UN speech of US contrition for the historical wrongs of Imperial America, so called, made to
a collective of tyrants and tin pot dictators, the next evening Bibi Nethanyahu gave the UN speech that Obama should have.Bibi was “Churchillian”. Obama was whiney, and petulant in his false wisdom of “wave my maglc wand changey, just cause I say so, every one will do as I say.”
Appeasers like Obama cannot keeo the West safe, which is why the current American “President” is no longer occupying the seat of leadership of the Western Free World.

As a direct result Bibi is now the defacto leader of the Western Free World, and there is not one thing that Obama or America can now do about it.

Bibi was masterful, and heroic in his presentation. Reminded me of Ronald Reagan.

If you don’t believe me, compare the two videos yourself:

Obama:

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlhih1uuXRA

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsd_Nh9bvfA&feature=related

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdSaQS80big

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Bibi:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HkjBDQz_k

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIwsB7xDm8&feature=PlayList&p=9E17F8C6BFA83A5D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkjEUjK4as&feature=PlayList&p=9E17F8C6BFA83A5D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEdIWa5H9k

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