Asked by Victor Davis Hanson:
After listening to Ahmadinejad’s U.N. rant and seeing his goons shout at Elie Wiesel, hearing Ortega go on his 50-minute rant, and listening to the antics of the thuggish Chávez and Morales at the Latin American “summit” — and collating all that with Obama’s praise of the “courageous” Saudi royal (replete with bow) and the Turkish government’s demands to derail the new Danish head of NATO (who courageously stood up for free speech) — does anyone really believe that Obama’s glad-handing, push the reset button, “we’re listening now,” “Bush did it,” “I was only (fill in the blank) then” overseas script constitutes morality, wisdom, or the advancement of our national values and interests? Or has the thin ethical veneer almost completely worn away from this narcissistic, Bono-like celebrity tour?
Of course it has – but as we have now found out that Obama’s appearances are highly scripted and designed to maximize the amount of adulation directed at Obama, there is a very strong possibility that Obama, rapidly becoming a laughing stock, believes he’s still the global messiah who has the love and devotion of the whole world behind him. The dimwit might really believe that the nasty people out there wouldn’t dare cross him because he’s so popular that the whole world will drop like a ton of bricks on the dissenter from the Cult of Obama. “I’m not Bush” isn’t a policy – in fact, to use anything like that is a sign of either craven cowardice, or megalomania of a certifiable sort.
Our hope: that the enemies of the United States, knocked about quite severely for 8 years by President Bush, won’t be able to take advantage of Obama’s folly. If we can get Obama out in 2012, we might be able to nip the next round of anti-American carnage in the bud.
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