I’m starting to feel that no one is in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…that things are just happening because low level staffers get the ball rolling and Obama is too busy looking Presidential to pay attention to detail:
…In the real world bestowing the Medal of Freedom on Mary Robinson is only important as a symbol. Take a look at the Medal of Freedom winners. There are many mediocre men and women on the list. But, overall, you will brim with pride, as the clichéd phrase puts it. Robinson had a commendable career as president of Ireland, mostly filled with symbolics, but important symbolics. It has been downhill ever since, a good deal of it in the gutter of anti-semitism.
She was the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights when the commission began to specialize in the practice of supporting governmental repression and calling it freedom–as, frankly, Obama has done with the burqa, also in Cairo. But Robinson’s biggest role on the world stage was as chair of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban. She planned it, she mostly ran it and she is responsible for that Witch’s Sabbath of hate against both Israel and America, actually the west and western values in general and in particular. Since then, she has been doing the time-consuming NGO thing, talking mostly to one another and soliciting grants from American foundations.
Robinson’s base in the world is the G-77 which has watched amiably as many of its member states increasingly preside over atrocities committed against their own inhabitants. Not much to honor here.
The administration will try to put a big smile on its face about the president honoring Mary Robinson. I’d bet, however, that there’s been a lot of shouting around the White House…and a lot of blame. Obama will smile through it all. But inside he’ll be seething. At his staff and at those of us who don’t just shut up…
I don’t know if Obama will be seething – he might not even understand what all the fuss is about. He might not even be fully aware, as he’s awarding the medal, just who is being honored, or why. Obama doesn’t seem to be good with hard facts. Platitudes are his forte’ – and his staff seems to be doing a better job keeping him to that than they used to…or, at least, they’ve prevented any major teleprompter malfunctions lately.
But who nominated this lady? I mean, who really nominated her? Who in the Obama Administration figured that the lady who headed up the Durban hate-fest was worthy not just of a Medal of Freedom, but of one of Obama’s first medals of freedom? Just how deep is anti-Semitism embedded in the Obama staff? For crying out loud, if only one or two non-anti-Semites had seen this coming down the pike, they could have swiftly killed it just by bringing it to the attention of senior White House staff.
What sort of government have we got?
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