Today has not been a good day for our president in terms of his coverage overseas. In an analysis piece entitled Why everyone is saying no to Obama, Amir Mizroch at the Jerusalem Post recounts the many ways that foreign leaders — the Saudi royals, Dear Leader Kim, Mahmoud Abbas, the Iranian Mullahs, even friends like Benyamin Netanyahu — are beating our president like a drum. Mizroch concludes…
Everyone has worked it out by now: The great secret is out. America’s economy has made Obama a weak president, and he will likely remain weak throughout his first term. He has about two years to pull the American economy out of its free-fall before he begins his reelection campaign. If he can do it, and that’s a big if, chances are good that he’ll get reelected, and in his second term he can try to pull some geopolitical strings. But for the next three years, expect to see a world that says no to Obama. No meaningful and dramatic diplomatic initiative can come out of the White House in the next three years, as long as Obama remains weak.
If “weak” doesn’t suit your fancy, how about “impotent”? That’s where the left-leaning UK Guardian goes with Steven Hill’s piece, Obama the impotent. Mr. Hill notes that Obama is not accomplishing very much.
A sinking feeling is arising among many that President Obama may not be up to the task, that he may not possess the artful skills needed to accomplish even his own goals.
The Guardian of course worries that Obama will be unable to socialize our health care system, or cripple the U.S. economy with “green” measures, or otherwise bring the U.S. in line with the more enlightened European Left. While we on the right might be pleasantly relieved to find that Obama is incompetent at accomplishing his agenda, the day will come when we wish we did not have an incompetent president. But as is becoming clear to both friends and enemies, foreign and domestic, that’s what we have.
Steve Maley
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Excerpt corrected for RedState
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 9:23PM EST (link)You’re welcome
I disagree
azred (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 1:37AM EST (link)He is already/still in campaign mode. That’s all he knows.
He will be in full swing by March of next year for his next election. That’s what he does.
azred is right -- Obama just launched his first reelection video
ColdWarrior (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 2:04AM EST (link)Hat tip to the good folks over at TheRealRevo.com. Enjoy:
http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=13597
Thank you.
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Maybe he'll get the Chicago O-lympics as a booby prize.
blooch Tuesday, September 22nd at 9:37PM EST (link)They could at least say yes to the Citizen of the World for that. He’ll need something to do in 2013, when he’s back in Chicago. What could be more fitting than a massive, shovel-ready, corruption-riddled public works project to ice down the bruise with?
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Obama would be weak regardless
Ben White (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 9:46PM EST (link)The economy didn’t make Obama a weak president. The American leftists have a “blame America first” worldview that IS weakness. Obama’s worldwide apology tour broadcast that weakness loud and clear. Holder’s CIA investigation reinforced the reality of that weakness to any possible doubters.
There will probably be one or more new wars in 2010 somewhere in the world because no world leader or warlord needs to fear such a weakened United States. Top guesses: Columbia, Panama, Sudan, or sub-Saharan Africa. After that: Thailand, Pakistan, or Burma.
Aggressors need to hurry up and attack while we’re at our weakest. They need to win their war before 2012, when a US military action might be useful to provide a show for the re-election campaign.
Bush had bad poll numbers and lots of folks said no to him, BUT
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:03PM EST (link)he was not a weak president, esp not in foreign affairs because they knew he would act
and lots of folks said yes to Bush
and the rest were killed in Iraq!
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Looks like somebody said 'yes' to Teh Mess-I-Yah today.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:10PM EST (link)UK PM Gordon Brown, says bye-bye to a sub and a load of new-kew-lahr weapons.
Behind curtain number two, it’s Gordon Brown’s turn to become a surrender monkey (even though he’s been on that path for a long time already).
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6845247.ece
Gordon Brown is preparing to surrender one of Britain’s four Trident submarines to help to cut nuclear arsenals around the world.
The number and power of Britain’s 160 warheads could also be reduced.
The Prime Minister will insist that scaling back the Trident fleet when the current programme is replaced has nothing to do with the economy but is instead part of efforts led by President Obama to slash nuclear stockpiles and force countries such as Iran to abandon efforts to build atomic weapons.
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Instead of hanging my head to mope,
I simply ask if this is “the audacity of hope” ?
The answer of course is “Nope”.
It’s only the dhimmitude of a dope.
Well Gordon Brown is the 21st century
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:16PM EST (link)Neville Chamberlain. There is nothing that he wouldn’t do for O adoration.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
At least the excerp was good for a chuckle
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:43PM EST (link)So Bush ruined the economy* to PROTECT the world from an Obama presidency!
Crowe (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:14PM EST (link)Dubya was so prescient, he knew Obama would get elected when he saw that the Republicans had nominated Johnny Mac. So he did what any sensible person would–made it impossible for Obama to have an easy presidency. He ruined the economy to save us, folks.
*Yes, yes, he didn’t do it all by himself. Those great Americans Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and their minions in Fannie/Freddie helped out too.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”I hope you went snarky
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:36PM EST (link)because you lost marbles
I think you might want to read what I think started the recession:
http://wp.me/pzyMi-3j
I really blame congress for all this mess.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Yeah, he's being snarky, but he's also been here awhile, looks like. nt
Xasteius (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:52PM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
Well he might want to use the snark tag next time
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:59PM EST (link)or we might not know.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Crowe is solid, guys. Don't worry about him. nt
janis (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:09AM EST (link)Thanks, Janis... wow.
Crowe (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 8:18AM EST (link)I go away for an evening and look what happens.
I know lots of things happening lately are so beyond parody that sarcasm detectors are a bit askew, but seriously.
I need to post here a little more often. Seems some of the old guys are forgotten! (Where’s Thomas? Augustine? Doverspa? Pejman?)
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”My pleaure, Crowe, and yes you do need to post more often.
janis (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:04AM EST (link)You’ve been missed! Thomas quit us long since, I haven’t seen Augustine’s name in even longer, and Pej is at “The New Ledger” website with blackhedd and others. As to Doverspa, I don’t think I’ve seen that name in a couple of years.
Yeah, the times are pretty tense and folks here are trigger-happy because of it. I include myself in that as well. Your sig line pretty much says it all. A year from now, we’ll be lucky to still be able to do what we’re doing right now………
Augustine is at TNL
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:07AM EST (link)You may also know him as Ben.
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Thanks, Neil. I was reading at RedState when Ben
janis (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:17AM EST (link)was going by that name, but had forgotten as I wasn’t regularly around in those days. That’s back when I used to spend more time in the three dimensional world.
Yeah, I've kept up with them
Crowe (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 10:56AM EST (link)Ben’s been a friend for a while and was the reason I did the Operation Continuing Promise gig last summer for RS.
I’ll be getting more active here and in one or two other places in short order.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Doverspa moved on (nt)
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Yeah but Crowe, I liked your sig line better...
penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:35AM EST (link)without the cross-out. Have missed you. I knew you were being snarky.
About the sig. I took heart from your original line.
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Crowe (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 10:54AM EST (link)I do love that line, but fear the “new” version may be the more true version once Obama is done.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Just a pretty place-holder?
sigmundpudfratz (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:28PM EST (link)We see guys like this in the music business all the time. A guy can’t write, play. or sing, but is oh-so-pretty and the girlies go nuts for him so they sign a record deal, leaving the rest of us to do the heavy lifting required to make him a star. In the meantime he’s narcissistic enough to use everyone around him and destroys everything and everyone he touches. When his self-destruction is complete he is then remembered as the tragic, tortured artist whom none understood.
Obama is the presidential counterpart to that guy. Seeing how clueless he is in matters of policy, foreign or domestic, I can’t help but wonder who’s really giving him his marching orders.
We absolutely must keep te pressure on him and the democrat congress for as much of the remainder of his presidency as possible. If we fail to yank the rug out from under his feet next year I fear we will have seen our last free election.
Conservatives pay the price of freedom, because liberals always skip out on the check.