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POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN BARACK OBAMA (Powerline Blog)
OBAMA LOVES US DESPITE OUR FAULTS
Barack Obama has always regretted, I think, that he doesn’t have a country that is worthy of him. From his earliest days in office, he has eagerly chronicled our faults, real and fabricated, while in the halls of our enemies. This has not endeared him to me, or to many other Americans.
In his final speech to the United Nations, Obama said that he believes America has been a force for good in the world. Michael Ramirez wonders–in a cartoon that is aesthetically gorgeous, by the way–how that can be true, given the various indictments that Obama has leveled against his native land.
One silver lining of the current presidential campaign is that our next president surely will love America, or at least like America, considerably more than Obama does. In Hillary’s case, if only because she has gotten so rich here.
OBAMA LOVES US DESPITE OUR FAULTS
Barack Obama has always regretted, I think, that he doesn’t have a country that is worthy of him. From his earliest days in office, he has eagerly chronicled our faults, real and fabricated, while in the halls of our enemies. This has not endeared him to me, or to many other Americans.
In his final speech to the United Nations, Obama said that he believes America has been a force for good in the world. Michael Ramirez wonders–in a cartoon that is aesthetically gorgeous, by the way–how that can be true, given the various indictments that Obama has leveled against his native land.
One silver lining of the current presidential campaign is that our next president surely will love America, or at least like America, considerably more than Obama does. In Hillary’s case, if only because she has gotten so rich here.
My big problem with President Obama’s U.N. speech
‘He has been a creature of light at a time when the world has been darkening,” says David Ignatius.
Jesus? Try again. Ignatius is talking about President Obama. About his “sterling assets,” his “idealism,” his “moral clarity,” his “calm intellect,” his “personal and polyphonous” address to the United Nations General Assembly, his “valedictory” speech in defense of the “liberal international order at a time when it’s under severe stress around the world.”
For a stress-induced headache you take an aspirin. What’s happening in the world today requires something much stronger. A farcical ceasefire in Syria has Americans blowing up Assad loyalists and Russians blowing up aid convoys. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs horrify. China is more assertive by the day. Iranian terrorist, cyber, missile, and maritime threats are unimpeded.
“Obama will leave behind the right ideas for restoration of an American-led order,” writes Ignatius, “but sadly, also, the inescapable fact of its decline during his presidency.” I have read this sentence many times in amazement. Ignatius notes the decline of the “American-led order” over the last eight years while absolving the commander-in-chief of any responsibility.
I didn’t listen to Obama’s speech in sadness. I listened in dismay. Dismay at the blithe and aloof manner in which the president described the current moment he helped create, disgust at the sanctimony and elitism of a globalization “course correction” that is really just a doubling down on current policy.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440358/barack-obamas-un-speech-was-more-same-empty-words
Jesus? Try again. Ignatius is talking about President Obama. About his “sterling assets,” his “idealism,” his “moral clarity,” his “calm intellect,” his “personal and polyphonous” address to the United Nations General Assembly, his “valedictory” speech in defense of the “liberal international order at a time when it’s under severe stress around the world.”
For a stress-induced headache you take an aspirin. What’s happening in the world today requires something much stronger. A farcical ceasefire in Syria has Americans blowing up Assad loyalists and Russians blowing up aid convoys. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs horrify. China is more assertive by the day. Iranian terrorist, cyber, missile, and maritime threats are unimpeded.
“Obama will leave behind the right ideas for restoration of an American-led order,” writes Ignatius, “but sadly, also, the inescapable fact of its decline during his presidency.” I have read this sentence many times in amazement. Ignatius notes the decline of the “American-led order” over the last eight years while absolving the commander-in-chief of any responsibility.
I didn’t listen to Obama’s speech in sadness. I listened in dismay. Dismay at the blithe and aloof manner in which the president described the current moment he helped create, disgust at the sanctimony and elitism of a globalization “course correction” that is really just a doubling down on current policy.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440358/barack-obamas-un-speech-was-more-same-empty-words
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