Plaintive cry of the morning *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jul 01 2009 at 9:58 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I wrote this in an email to some friends, but feel like broadcasting it more widely:
Oh, for a brain and a heart in the White House. It’s bad enough that the American people, by electing Obama and a monolithic Dem majority, have damned America. It’s the fallout in other nations that’s so awful. Should Israel really have to suffer for our stupidity? Or the people in the streets of Iran? Or the Honduran citizens struggling to maintain their Constitution? America is no longer a bulwark against totalitarianism, but an enabler. (And even during the worst of realpolitik, we were merely dead weight, not enablers.)
UPDATE: At Noisy Room, Terresa has some perfect quotations about the man who is our President.
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… and not just an enabler of totalitarian regimes, but an active supporter.
Although Obama belatedly voiced criticism of the way the way the protesters in Tehran were brutalized, he did so in such a way that actually recognized the Ahmadinejad regime — “Supreme Leader”!!!??
Contrast that with how the Obama administration is threatening sanctions against the Honduran people for preventing Manuel Zelaya from unconstitutionally seizing dictatorial power.
I think we make a mistake if we regard Obama only as a far-left socialist. Obama is actually just a socialist of convenience.
I think what Obama really admires — and wants for himself — is dictatorial power. I think he promotes socialist ideals and programs, not because he truly believes in them, but because he believes that is what he must do in order to achieve power.
I think we are seeing a replay here in America in the 21st century of the same basic strategy used by Lenin and the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia early in the 20th.
… and yes, it is utterly tragic that the people of other nations must pay — along with us — for Obama’s ambitions.
God help us all!
I agree with you, Highlander But, they had no history of liberty in Russia and we do here and there are still quite a few Americans (many of them armed) who remember that. We need to keep speaking out, pointing out, and I believe the Supreme Leader at home will fall. I mean, the US government is now in the banking indistry, the insurance industry, the car industry and the energy industry. People liked Obama because he was the anti-Bush. Soon they will dislike him for himself.
Lulu — You are right that Russians did not have a history of liberty, and that is a big difference. You are right also that we need to keep speaking out. I feel like it’s time for Paul Revere to take another ride.
Bookworm,
Maybe it isn’t the worst thing for Israel to be compelled to make new allies and partnerships with other nations. It has been very comfortable for Israel to have such a strong friend in the US for so long while the rest of the world was hostile. Obama is temporary and a new friendly president will eventually come in his place. If Israel has other strong alliances in place formed by neccessity during the Obama years, so much the better for Israel. There is that old saying, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Israel needs more strategic alliances. Even as the US voted in our Leftist, other countries are moving further Right. Relationships with Israel may change with other countries because of this new dynamic. Netanyahu is smart and he knows what he is dealing with. Who knows, Obama may inadvertantly help Israel to become stronger. Remember, it was the French and not the US that enabled Israel to acquire nuclear weapons which have been essential for its survival. Let’s not despair just yet.
My Plaintive Cry Of This Morning:
“Would someone please get this guy a baby rattle and a pacifier? And a diaper, because he is creating one HELL of a mess on the carpet!”
Mark Sanford’s latest:
In a written message to supporters Monday, Mark Sanford asserted that God’s plan for him includes finishing his term as South Carolina governor.
Sanford is facing calls for his resignation after disappearing to Argentina then returning last week to admit an affair.
“Immediately after all this unfolded last week, I had thought I would resign — as I believe in the military model of leadership, and when trust of any form is broken, one lays down the sword,” Sanford wrote in the message, which he posted on his personal website and Facebook page and broadcast via Twitter.
“A long list of close friends have suggested otherwise — that for God to really work in my life I shouldn’t be getting off so lightly. While it would be personally easier to exit stage left, their point has been that my larger sin was the sin of pride.”
Sanford writes that those friends asserted that “if I walked in with a real spirit of humility then this last legislative term could well be our most productive one — and that outside this term, I would ultimately be a better person and of more service in whatever doors God opened next in life if I stuck around to learn lessons rather than running and hiding down at the farm.”
This is Clintonesque crap of the highest order. I cannot believe the dissembling and the fakery. Even Obama would be proud of the spin.
Get out, you loser! Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out!
I am ashamed that a month ago, this slimy Slick-Willie-wanna-be was thought to be a genuine, stand-up conservative.
If fellow “conservatives”, and boy oh boy do I use the word under duress, on the Hill rally to support him the way they did the execrable “wide-stance” Larry Craig, it won’t be as bad as with Larry Craig, but it will be plenty bad enough.
Allow me the time and place to say it yet again: We need new leadership in Washington D.C.
They are apparently all of them – all of them – a bunch of mealy-mouthed, self-serving, stand-for-nothing opportunists who believe in nothing.
The only reason Mark Sanford is saying any of this, any of the things he is saying now, is because he got caught. It’s because he got caught. And no other reason. There is not a shred of honor or integrity in any of it. He got caught. And now he is throwing flak up, trying to divert everyone’s attention. This latest, his “God Spoke To Me” moment, is really taking things low.
He got caught – or he would still be behaving in exactly the same way he was behaving before he got caught.