We aren’t the change we’ve been waiting for?
Bookworm on Apr 06 2009 at 7:56 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
Even my kids have figured out that the best negotiation is one in which you negotiate in good will from a position of strength. Barack Obama probably agrees with this principle, but it’s becoming obvious that he’s misidentified the source of America’s strength in any negotiation. When presidents from prior administrations (excepting Carter, of course) entered into dealings with the Europeans, they understood that the strength that formed the basis for any negotiation was the American economy, American military power, and America’s reputation as world leader.
Our narcissist in chief, however, went to Europe firmly believing and loudly expressing that America’s traditional virtues on the national scene are problems, rather than sources of strength. Within minutes of setting foot on European soil, he apologized for our capitalism, our military, and our attitude, effectively neutralizing all three power points for effective American negotiation.
In place of America’s bases for negotiation strength (wealth, military power and status), he offered only one: himself. He is the change Europe has been waiting for. Thus, he proclaimed that “I would like to think that with my election, we’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world.”
It couldn’t be more plain that, in his own mind, he, BHusseinO, is the personification of what little remains of American strength, and his mere existence is the point from which all negotations start. To this Ivy League educated man (that is, a man who had America handed to him on a silver plated, affirmative action platter), everything else about America is irrelevant or even embarrassing.
Unsurprisingly for anyone not caught up in BHusseinO’s narcissistic delusions of grandeur, the Europeans have spit in Obama’s eye. Even Obama himself may slowly be facing up to a reality from which a lifetime in affirmative action America shielded him, has had to concede that maybe, just maybe, his perfect wonderfulness is not sufficient to change the world: “We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.” (That statement was in response to the fact that the Muslim world has not forgiven American its many sins simply because America elected a former Muslim as president.)
Incidentally, speaking of former Muslim, Charles Johnson shows a picture of Bush apparently bowing to the Saudi King. In fact, he’s not. He’s getting a medal put around his neck. As someone who has watched a billion Olympic medal award ceremonies it’s normal for the recipient, if his head is higher than the bestower (or if he feels that his head is higher) to bow his head so that the medal can easily be slipped on. This is not a bow of subservience, as Obama performed. It is a utilitarian gesture.
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Another sign of just how very dangerous this Obama administration is to freedom and liberty here in America. Can any of you come up with any good reason why the administration would refuse to allow a bank to return TARP bailout money (with interest!)
The article, by Stuart Varney:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html
Stuart Varney nails it clearly:
The White House wants to tell ‘em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.
[...] The bank has also been threatened with “adverse” consequences if its chairman persists.
[...] I’m an Englishman. We invented class warfare, and I know it when I see it.
[...] After 35 years in America, I never thought I would see this. I still can’t quite believe we will sit by as this crisis is used to hand control of our economy over to government. But here we are, on the brink. Clearly, I have been naive.
Neptunus Lex:
“The innate character flaw of the political right, with its thrumming appeals to the logic of blood and soil, is its lamentable tendency to go in search of enemies abroad. The left, on the other hand, with its own appeals to the politics of envy and class warfare, is content to find mortal enemies closer to hand.”
The “progressive” Left, which Obama represents, is far more concerned about increasing its power position vis-a-vis other elements of American society than about protecting the society as a whole. Indeed, the concept of “the society as a whole” is not meaningful to them, since they view it as merely a neo-Hobbesian struggle of group against group.
To this Ivy League educated man …
who, from the video below (Atlas Shrugged), cannot answer a straight forward question. He wondered so far off subject that he wears out a listener with boredom. All that was missing was a soft shoe-allso known in some circles and ‘shuck n’ jive’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVibaMwBdHc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fatlasshrugs2000%2Etypepad%2Ecom%2Fatlas%5Fshrugs%2F2009%2F04%2Fanother%2Dembarrassing%2Dobamoment%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded
Hey…don’t knock it! I’ve used that technique with my husband. He stops listening, and then later I can say “But I _told_ you…don’t you remember????” And then of course, he’d have to admit that he wasn’t listening to a word I said… Gotcha!!!
Transcripts are good. You have to wonder what they’re dancing around – what it is that they _don’t_ want you to hear!
Speaking of which…
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/shocker-obama-to-cut-major-weapons-programs
I had the Charles Johnson LGF ‘song’ totally out of my head and now you brought it back. Fingernails on a blackboard to you.
It seems that almost every event since 9-11 has been designed to separate and sort peoples and philosophies.
I specifically remember three things that happened BEFORE 911: 1. The BS about W stealing the election, 2. Durban one and 3. when china took American airmen hostage after bringing down a USAF plane.