The Incredible Lightness of Being Barack Obama

85Barack Obama’s address to the U.N. General Assembly was so insubstantial, so full of airy platitudes, and so adulterated with the gaseous clichés of bankrupt internationalism and progressive bromides that I thought at any minute he might just float away.

First was the obligatory call “to renew the purpose of the U.N.’s founding,” which apparently is “to observe and enforce international norms,” the most important being “to ensure that no nation can subjugate its neighbors and claim their territory” and to promote “the path of diplomacy and peace and the ideals this institution is designed to uphold.” Such phrases are so common and uncritically received that we forget “international norms” do not exist. Different peoples have different “norms” about, for example, the use of violence to achieve their aims. Nations will sign treaties that seemingly express our norms, but that doesn’t mean they believe in them. More often, such treaties are mere mechanisms for one nation to get what it wants from another. The sorry history of U.S. arms-control treaties with the Soviet Union and then Russia, treaties the Russians violated for decades to improve their nuclear arsenal at our expense, is just one example.

As for seizing territory by force, the U.N. did nothing to prevent Turkey from seizing northern Cyprus, or China from seizing Tibet, and more recently Russia from seizing Crimea. The Serbs’ attempts in the ’90s to “claim territory” were stopped not by the U.N., but by American bombs. So too was Saddam Hussein’s aggression against Kuwait. Nor should we be surprised at the serial failure of the U.N. to enforce its lofty founding principles. Nations belong to the U.N. because they think they can use it to advance their interests, not “to enforce international norms,” especially when their own “norms” see nothing wrong with using duplicity and force to achieve their aims. Indeed, the continuing violence justified by other “norms” since the U.N.’s founding has claimed some 41 million lives. The U.N. serves the conflicting, zero-sum interests of the member states, not the “path of diplomacy and peace.”

From that preposterous beginning, the speech went downhill. “Islam teaches peace,” the President intoned. No, Islam teaches submission. There is no peace for those who refuse to submit, even for Muslims considered heretics by other Muslims, but especially for “polytheists” or “infidels.” In their case, Islam teaches jihad against them if they refuse to accept the “call” to convert. Far from being extremists “who have perverted one of the world’s great religions,” as Obama scolded, the proliferating jihadist outfits that are kidnapping, torturing, raping, beheading, and enslaving people around the globe are acting on the doctrines and past practices of Islam’s founding fathers.

So Obama might think that their “nightmarish vision . . . would divide the world into adherents and infidels,” but it is traditional, orthodox Islam that divides the world into the dar al harb, the “house of war” against which the faithful must wage jihad, and the dar al islam, the “house of Islam,” the ummah of faithful Muslims. Obama may really believe that “No God condones such terror” like the beheadings perpetrated by Islamic State, but it is the Koran, the literal words of Allah, that says at 8.12: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”

Such “willful blindness,” as Andrew McCarthy has called it, to the traditional motivations of today’s jihadists depends on clichéd lies like those Obama trades in. Perhaps that blindness explains his astonishing praise in his U.N. speech for Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, whose group has endorsed Hamas, who supported a 2004 fatwa calling on the faithful to murder U.S. soldiers in Iraq and another forbidding any “normalization” of Israel, and was associated with an organization whose founder called for “the death of Jews and Americans.”

Then there is the last refuge of the morally addled, moral equivalency. In his remarks on the Arab war against Israel, Obama can’t resist this cowardly cop out. Speaking of the endless and fruitless “peace process,” Obama intones, “We cannot afford to turn away from this effort––not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza.” Of course, it is not Israelis “taking” these children, it is the Hamas jihadists who use them as human shields, sacrificing their own children in order to gin up international condemnations in order to isolate Israel. Worse yet, such a sentence completely ignores the most important dimension of this violence: the decades of wars and terrorist attacks instigated by Arabs whose doctrinal hatred of Jews has compelled them since 1947 — when they violated a U.N. resolution with impunity–– to serially refuse a state for the Palestinian Arabs or agree to “two states living side by side, in peace and security,” yet another stale cliché useful for pretending to say something when one has nothing important to say. In reality, the Palestinian Arabs have made it clear that what they want is to destroy Israel.

Yet nothing matches the surreal moral idiocy of Obama’s next indulgence of moral equivalency:

I realize that America’s critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our own borders. This is true. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri––where a young man was killed, and a community was divided.

Here is one of the staple dogmas of the Progressive mind: the sins and crimes of America that require apologies and reparations, even as the millions of dead, tortured, and imprisoned in other nations are shrugged off. Obama began his presidency with the “apology tour” in which he donned the hair shirt of American guilt for its imperialist depredations, its racist sins, and its global exploitation of others. Then as now, Obama ignores important distinctions. To equate the atrocities of Islamic State or Hamas, or the shooting down of a passenger jet in Ukraine that cost nearly 300 lives, with what probably will turn out to be the justified shooting of a lawbreaker assaulting a police officer, bespeaks either delusion or the sophistic pandering to an audience comprising the representatives of nations most of which are some of the planet’s most brutal and murderous regimes.

This speech proves once again that Obama is not a serious man. His badly trained mind is a warehouse of the sort of leftist and progressive received wisdom and dull clichés that pollute our universities, media, and popular culture. He represents the moral idiocy and fashionable self-loathing that signals to our enemies and rivals that the United States can be had.

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  • MrUniteUs1

    President Obama gave a very good inspiring speech. Now’s the time for Americans to unite against ISIL, ISIL is united agaioanst us. President should be congratulated for saving the Kurds, builiding a Coalition with key Sunni governments, ridding Syria of chemical weapons, and preventing a war between Russian, and Urkaine, with losing a single
    American soldier.

    • Ray Burke

      This pack of mindless lies is the product of a hopelessly diseased liberal mindset !!!

      • PvtCharlieSlate

        Don’t get too upset, MrU just forgot to end with the “/sarc” tag.

        • Ray Burke

          That helps, Thanks.

        • Libslayer

          I read some of MUU’s other posts.
          He IS serious.
          Liberalism is a mental illness.

          • PvtCharlieSlate

            In that case, maybe I’ve twisted his knickers a bit.

    • iluvisrael

      If obama took a dump in your bed, you’d think it was great – get lost.

    • Libslayer

      Obama stopped the seas from rising and healed the planet too.
      He’s magic, and flies on a rainbow colored unicorn.

    • Virgil Hilts

      That’s Satire….right?

    • Bandido

      Thank you, Abdul Hussein Hasan.

  • BMS

    Our Muslim American President can not bring himself to condemn the source of all the problems arising throughout the world…ISLAM. Stop telling the world what a peaceful religion ISLAM is. It’s not! Until he faces the truth ISIS and all the other Islamic terrorist organizations everywhere will continue to grow and thrive and the world will continue to become be a very unsafe place.

    • Ray Burke

      An undeniable truth beautifully stated !!! Thank you, BMS.

    • davepinoy

      wHere does it say, in the koran, hadith or sunnah that islam advocates peace? and how does its self proclaimed principle of ABROGATION play in their beliefs? DOES NOT THE RHETORICS OF VIOLENCE, RAPE AND SEXUAL PERVERSION A LATER PART OF MUHAM-MAD’S CONVENIENT REVELATION?

      • kasandra

        According to Abba Eban, who was well versed in the Koran, the word “peace” does not appear in it.

        • davepinoy

          TY

    • C.Zabar

      I keep saying Obama are THE biggest racists in American History. Turns out I was right as usual!

      1.The Commander in Chief is not a member of the military nor is Commander
      in Chief a military rank. 4 star general and Fleet Admiral would be the
      highest rank in the military (I could be wrong, I was army, not really
      familiar with naval rank).

      Yes, the President, whoever it is, should respect the because the military
      has to salute them, those salutes should be acknowledged with respect.
      This doesn’t always happen, with any president, and it not happening is
      not some great conspiracy that shows that president “hates” the
      military. It proves how much of a racist you scumbags are..Was your
      outrage and disgust the same when previous president’s held their dogs
      in the same manner? hahahaha…I keep forgetting, it’s because Bush was
      White, so it’s okay.

      2. He did not bash Israel or the Jews….In
      fact he hardly mentioned them……This was a case for getting more
      Muslims country to go against ISIS…If we can get more Muslims
      countries to serve America against Terrorist groups, and really have
      them have a serious deep moral and soul searching look into themselves,
      then doesn’t that serve the big picture anyways?

      3.
      And still more Zombie Lies. Memes are created by them, debunked not
      only by partisans, but by independent organizations, and yet the throngs
      of mindless idiots continue to operate as if they are simply uttering
      an accepted truth. There is, was no ‘apology tour’,

      There is
      plenty to criticize and plenty that can be improved, but crap like
      ‘apology tours’, or ‘Obama hates America’, or ‘he has no affinity to
      freedom’ or Alinksy, socialism, creeping sharia, it’s all never ending
      sewage, that despite debunking, continues to spill out leaving an
      endless mess for reasonable people to clean up…and nothing gets done.
      All created as buzz words and covering that fact they can’t stand having
      a Black Man run the world.

      American issue, mybutt. This is nothing but a Right-wing racist issue to attack the Black man in office!

      Is Barack Obama an evil man?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Failure?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Dictator?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Muslim?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Traitor?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Disgrace to America?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Marxist?-No
      Does Barack Obama hate America?-No
      Is Barack Obama destroying America?-Only the economic sector, otherwise not at all
      he has 2 kids and is married. But not a true homosexaul!

      All
      these lies, created by racists, bigots, black-hating extremists who
      hate having a Black man in office! if Obama is a Marxist then this must
      be a Marxist country b/c he won two elections quite handily, didn’t he?

      Respect for the office of the presidency is an obligation of all
      American citizens. I have never seen such disrespect for the office of
      the presidency by any group of people. And the idea that the left trea t
      ed bush worse is laughable.

      I never heard half the conspiracy theories and disrespect out of the left during the bush years.

      And
      this says nothing about his personal conduct or his family. How many
      times did you hear the left talk about bushes vacations. Practically
      zero but it’s a topic brought up almost daily in conservative media. How
      often did you hear liberals talking badly about Mrs bush, basically
      never. But how many conservatives do I hear talk about how much Michelle
      Obama looks like a man or calling her moochelle or any number of other
      disrespectful things. All the time.

      Some seem to have an irrational hatred of the man who is their very own President! Mostly because he’s black!

      Calling the POTUS a POS, a thug and a fraud IS THE usual calling call for you right-wing racists and bigots like you!

      • Bandido

        You should NEVER have gone off the Zoloft. Please see the doctor asap and renew the script. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

        • Crassus

          Or in his case a mind is a terrible thing to lose.

          • nomoretraitors

            Mind? What mind?

      • Gislef

        ” How many times did you hear the left talk about bushes vacations.”

        Plenty of times. Try a Google search.

      • davepinoy

        TOTAlly unbelievable..nobody could be this stupid…

      • objectivefactsmatter

        Spam

      • http://www.thestoodio.com/ Kenny Mirage

        C Zabar: The longer-winded the post, the more lies can be packed it. It’s a waste of time to even try to rebuke this lengthy tome by a spastic puke like you.

      • nomoretraitors

        Go check your EBT balance, you puke maggot liberal. It’s probably getting low

    • disqus_Imoi7LGhwf

      Islam is a religion of peace. Islamism is an ideology of evil, hatred, and destruction. Do you get the difference?

      • http://www.thestoodio.com/ Kenny Mirage

        You’re making a distinction without a difference. No where in the Koran is there any mention of peace.

      • Ace

        What parts of the Koran underpin “Islamism”?

  • Deagin

    I found it interesting that he said that we are going to destroy ISIL and then goes on to say that the future does not belong to those who destroy but to those who build. Build what? The caliphate? His speechs are filled not only with inanities but with strange contradictions and lies.

  • Adhemarde

    I don’t know which is worse, obama’s lies about islam or his lies about America. Impeachment is not, as some thing, a juridical solution. That is why it refers to vague “high crimes and misdemeanors”. It is a political solution, to be used when people wake up to the fact that there is an empty, lying, America-hating traitorous suit in the White House. If two thirds of the Senate had functional brains and were true patriots, we would not have to suffer through any more of this ignominy.

    • Ray Burke

      Another beautifully stated truth !!! Why do we allow this vacuous creature to continue destroying our once great Nation ?

      • Ace

        He special.

    • C.Zabar

      I keep saying Obama are THE biggest racists in American History. Turns out I was right as usual!

      1.The Commander in Chief is not a member of the military nor is Commander
      in Chief a military rank. 4 star general and Fleet Admiral would be the
      highest rank in the military (I could be wrong, I was army, not really
      familiar with naval rank).

      Yes, the President, whoever it is, should respect the because the military
      has to salute them, those salutes should be acknowledged with respect.
      This doesn’t always happen, with any president, and it not happening is
      not some great conspiracy that shows that president “hates” the
      military. It proves how much of a racist you scumbags are..Was your
      outrage and disgust the same when previous president’s held their dogs
      in the same manner? hahahaha…I keep forgetting, it’s because Bush was
      White, so it’s okay.

      2. He did not bash Israel or the Jews….In
      fact he hardly mentioned them……This was a case for getting more
      Muslims country to go against ISIS…If we can get more Muslims
      countries to serve America against Terrorist groups, and really have
      them have a serious deep moral and soul searching look into themselves,
      then doesn’t that serve the big picture anyways?

      3.
      And still more Zombie Lies. Memes are created by them, debunked not
      only by partisans, but by independent organizations, and yet the throngs
      of mindless idiots continue to operate as if they are simply uttering
      an accepted truth. There is, was no ‘apology tour’,

      There is
      plenty to criticize and plenty that can be improved, but crap like
      ‘apology tours’, or ‘Obama hates America’, or ‘he has no affinity to
      freedom’ or Alinksy, socialism, creeping sharia, it’s all never ending
      sewage, that despite debunking, continues to spill out leaving an
      endless mess for reasonable people to clean up…and nothing gets done.
      All created as buzz words and covering that fact they can’t stand having
      a Black Man run the world.

      American issue, mybutt. This is nothing but a Right-wing racist issue to attack the Black man in office!

      Is Barack Obama an evil man?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Failure?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Dictator?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Muslim?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Traitor?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Disgrace to America?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Marxist?-No
      Does Barack Obama hate America?-No
      Is Barack Obama destroying America?-Only the economic sector, otherwise not at all
      he has 2 kids and is married. But not a true homosexaul!

      All
      these lies, created by racists, bigots, black-hating extremists who
      hate having a Black man in office! if Obama is a Marxist then this must
      be a Marxist country b/c he won two elections quite handily, didn’t he?

      Respect for the office of the presidency is an obligation of all
      American citizens. I have never seen such disrespect for the office of
      the presidency by any group of people. And the idea that the left trea t
      ed bush worse is laughable.

      I never heard half the conspiracy theories and disrespect out of the left during the bush years.

      And
      this says nothing about his personal conduct or his family. How many
      times did you hear the left talk about bushes vacations. Practically
      zero but it’s a topic brought up almost daily in conservative media. How
      often did you hear liberals talking badly about Mrs bush, basically
      never. But how many conservatives do I hear talk about how much Michelle
      Obama looks like a man or calling her moochelle or any number of other
      disrespectful things. All the time.

      Some seem to have an irrational hatred of the man who is their very own President! Mostly because he’s black!

      Calling the POTUS a POS, a thug and a fraud IS THE usual calling call for you right-wing racists and bigots like you!!

  • Bamaguje

    “Islam teaches peace” – Obama.

    Right… peace of the graveyard full of non-Muslim corpses.

    “The Serbs’ attempts in the ’90s to “claim territory” were stopped… by American bombs” – Bruce Thornton.

    Whose territory did Serbs claim? If anything Serbs were forced by NATO to give up their ancestral land to Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims.
    Mr Thornton, you mess up your otherwise nice write-up, when you indiscriminately lump Serb nationalism to preserve their ancestral homeland, with unconscionable land grabbers like China and Turkey.
    Western powers should be ashamed of themselves for breaking up a Christian European nation, just to appease Muslims

    • rdlynn

      The Terror Bombing of Serbia was a disgrace and a blemish on America’s military tradition. There wasn’t much talk about civilian casualties then.

    • CapitalistPig

      It teaches “Pax Islama” Kinda like “Pax Romana” –Roman Peace. Pay your taxes to the Romans & don’t make a fuss & you will have peace.
      Complain about the Romans or cheat them out of those taxes—-& you will still get “peace”.—Roman style & now “Islam style”.

  • Ray Burke

    The world is laughing as well it should !!!

    • Virgil Hilts

      Large parts of the US are vomiting!

  • sly311

    Liberalism is a mental disorder. We have a seriously impaired and mentally ill president. Surrounded by sycophants and a very diseased media. This country needs a true conservative. Nothing wishy-washy will do. A major housecleaning effort is in order. If we make it that far.

    • Gee

      Liberalism is okay – the issue should be leftism.

    • disqus_Imoi7LGhwf

      Obama isn’t mentally ill, he is choosing to be delusional about what’s going on.

  • Gee

    You left out the invasion and occupation of Kashmir by Pakistan, Jordan’s invasion of Judea and Samaria followed by their murder and ethnic cleansing of Jews or the same by Egypt in Gaza. Morocco’s occupation of Western Shara, etc.

    The list is long and the UN has never done a darn thing about that.

  • namberak

    The UN is a very bad, very expensive joke. But then, so is the president. They were made for each other. Perhaps after he leaves office (tragically still 848 days away as I write this) he can become secretary general so he can go on living like a king on someone else’s labor and hectoring not just the US but the entire world about things he obviously knows so little about and understands not at all.

  • Arafat

    OT…

    Duke University and its newspaper is one of the bigger
    supporters of Islam and haters of Israel out there in the American university
    system.

    Here are two articles published today in the Duke Chronicle
    illustrating this. Please take the time
    to write a comment slamming these articles, their authors and Duke more
    generally for creating an atmosphere where these types of articles are commonplace.

    http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/09/24/american-jew-palestine

    http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/09/24/isis-and-its-enemy-pluralistic-dialogue-and-understanding

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    The “Progressive Mind” dissected here: http://clarespark.com/2014/01/08/the-frontiersmansettler-as-all-purpose-scapegoat/. “The Frontiersman/settler as all purpose scapegoat.” POTUS drew upon these stereotypes to present himself as the humanitarian alternative to the misbegotten United Nations.

  • Cleetus

    Islam IS a religion of beauty and peace, but only if you are a devout Muslim. If you are anything else, Islam is full of hate and violence as it demands your subjugation and conversion to Islam.

  • Bert

    It was already clear in the 2008 campaign that Obama was unfit to be president. And yet three fourths of my fellow Jews chose him over John McCain in greater numbers than did the rest of the country. The political soil of America is contaminated and is producing defective political produce. What to do? I wish I had an easy answer.

  • CosmotKat

    Clinton’s bombs on behalf of Moslem’s managed to alienate the Russians who are aligned with the Serbs through the Orthodox church. This is where you find the need for a re-set with Russian, not due to Bush. In addition, the democrats are always so ready to defend Moslems, but yet they tolerate the genocide of Christians and Jews around the world. As Mr. David Horowitz say’s, The democrats give of bankrupt principles, discredited policies, and two-faced political arguments.

  • Bandido

    Obama is an imbecile, a moral and intellectual pygmy, a renegade, and an American traitor. He belongs under arrest in Fortress Monroe, in the cell next to Kerry.

    • C.Zabar

      I keep saying Obama are THE biggest racists in American History. Turns out I was right as usual!

      1.The Commander in Chief is not a member of the military nor is Commander
      in Chief a military rank. 4 star general and Fleet Admiral would be the
      highest rank in the military (I could be wrong, I was army, not really
      familiar with naval rank).

      Yes, the President, whoever it is, should respect the because the military
      has to salute them, those salutes should be acknowledged with respect.
      This doesn’t always happen, with any president, and it not happening is
      not some great conspiracy that shows that president “hates” the
      military. It proves how much of a racist you scumbags are..Was your
      outrage and disgust the same when previous president’s held their dogs
      in the same manner? hahahaha…I keep forgetting, it’s because Bush was
      White, so it’s okay.

      2. He did not bash Israel or the Jews….In
      fact he hardly mentioned them……This was a case for getting more
      Muslims country to go against ISIS…If we can get more Muslims
      countries to serve America against Terrorist groups, and really have
      them have a serious deep moral and soul searching look into themselves,
      then doesn’t that serve the big picture anyways?

      3.
      And still more Zombie Lies. Memes are created by them, debunked not
      only by partisans, but by independent organizations, and yet the throngs
      of mindless idiots continue to operate as if they are simply uttering
      an accepted truth. There is, was no ‘apology tour’,

      There is
      plenty to criticize and plenty that can be improved, but crap like
      ‘apology tours’, or ‘Obama hates America’, or ‘he has no affinity to
      freedom’ or Alinksy, socialism, creeping sharia, it’s all never ending
      sewage, that despite debunking, continues to spill out leaving an
      endless mess for reasonable people to clean up…and nothing gets done.
      All created as buzz words and covering that fact they can’t stand having
      a Black Man run the world.

      American issue, mybutt. This is nothing but a Right-wing racist issue to attack the Black man in office!

      Is Barack Obama an evil man?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Failure?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Dictator?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Muslim?–No
      Is Barack Obama a Traitor?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Disgrace to America?-No
      Is Barack Obama a Marxist?-No
      Does Barack Obama hate America?-No
      Is Barack Obama destroying America?-Only the economic sector, otherwise not at all
      he has 2 kids and is married. But not a true homosexaul!

      All
      these lies, created by racists, bigots, black-hating extremists who
      hate having a Black man in office! if Obama is a Marxist then this must
      be a Marxist country b/c he won two elections quite handily, didn’t he?

      Respect for the office of the presidency is an obligation of all
      American citizens. I have never seen such disrespect for the office of
      the presidency by any group of people. And the idea that the left trea t
      ed bush worse is laughable.

      I never heard half the conspiracy theories and disrespect out of the left during the bush years.

      And
      this says nothing about his personal conduct or his family. How many
      times did you hear the left talk about bushes vacations. Practically
      zero but it’s a topic brought up almost daily in conservative media. How
      often did you hear liberals talking badly about Mrs bush, basically
      never. But how many conservatives do I hear talk about how much Michelle
      Obama looks like a man or calling her moochelle or any number of other
      disrespectful things. All the time.

      Some seem to have an irrational hatred of the man who is their very own President! Mostly because he’s black!

      Calling the POTUS a POS, a thug and a fraud IS THE usual calling call for you right-wing racists and bigots like you!u

      • Gee

        General of the Army and Fleet Admiral for the Navy are the highest ranks – those are Five-Star ranks.

        • Crassus

          Those ranks were abolished sometime after World War II. Nimitz was the last five star admiral. Eisenhower, Bradley, and MacArthur were the last five star generals.

  • truebearing

    “Barack Obama’s address to the U.N. General Assembly was so insubstantial, so full of airy platitudes, and so adulterated with the gaseous clichés of bankrupt internationalism and progressive bromides that I thought at any minute he might just float away.”

    The speech was pathetic, but it became not only anti-American but racist when Obama attached his Ferguson “bro”-mides. If only he would float away.

  • wileyvet

    The Democratic party jumped on the anti-war bandwagon before Saddam was even caught. In the run up to the 2004 election that led to selecting a traitor for their candidate, it was a steady stream of anti Bush lies and rhetoric. Leading the charge were Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, John Kerry and of course the bloviating Ted Kennedy. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention an unknown Illinois senator named Barack Obama wowed the crowd with what would be a consistent theme. By 2007, now US senator Obama, was continuing his anti war, anti Bush rhetoric. Running in the primaries against the Harpy, he made sure everyone knew that he was the only candidate that had opposed the war from the beginning. His calls for closing Gitmo, and immediate troop withdrawal played for the lunatic left anti-war supporters.

    He condemned the surge led by General Petraeus. Said it wouldn’t work. Denied it was working when the evidence was clear. That did not matter to him. Because he was the anti Bush. That was it. His whole campaign, aided by a deceitful media and a slanderous Democratic party apparatus worked this theme. He had no solutions just verbal assaults on Bush. It was he that would end the war, regardless of the ramifications. Did he not realize that in this day and age of instant communication that the enemies in Iraq were listening? Did he not understand he was telegraphing his entire foreign policy to them and all they had to do was wait?

    The situation in Iraq is a direct result of Obama and the contemptible Democratic party, many who are still there, and their traitorous actions that emboldened the enemy. The Democratic machine did not seek victory. They in fact undermined the war effort for rank partisan political gain. They did so in reclaiming the house in 2006, and did so in the promotion of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008. The shameful fact is they exchanged military success for political victory. To lose the war meant a political win. For political gain, America had to lose for Obama to win. This is how far the leftists that control the Democratic Party would go. This is how low they would sink, to elect one of their own.

    Now what to do? The entire world knows he is useless and indecisive. America’s enemies know this as he revealed himself as long ago as 2002. Scrambling for solutions that can somehow still fit his misguided worldview, all the while ignoring reality and facts as they are. His own lies and of the machine that got him elected propped up a weak no account community organizer to lead America. Those lies and a meager resume have proved to be no substitute for character, integrity and substance. No substitute for leadership as has been made manifest by his epic foreign policy failure.

  • NoelH

    Obama repeated the “Allah Hu Akbar” 3 times daily from approximately age 6 to age 13. He has ‘romantic ties’ to Islam he cannot escape. He defends Islam as a “religion of peace”, when it is clear to anyone with eyes, it is not. I think he’s developmentally stunted at around 12 years old. He has this ‘rose-colored glasses’ view of Islam developed in his formative years that is not even close to reality. And that makes him DANGEROUS!

  • USARetired

    Obama is not only a devout Muslim, but also an illegal immigrant, in office and America with no legal documents. His SSN is stolen from deceased Harry Bounel, Connecticut! This is the only SSN he has used all his adult life! He has clearly been inserted into American politics for destructive reasons, which he has been carrying out quite successfully!

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    “He represents the moral idiocy and fashionable self-loathing that signals to our enemies and rivals that the United States can be had.” Right On!

  • prman

    Our Apologist-in-Chief for Islam.

  • Pericles

    “This speech proves once again that Obama is not a serious man. His
    badly trained mind is a warehouse of the sort of leftist and progressive
    received wisdom and dull clichés that pollute our universities, media,
    and popular culture. He represents the moral idiocy and fashionable
    self-loathing that signals to our enemies and rivals that the United
    States can be had.”

    Chameleon, sophist, shape-shifter: Obama is these things and a snake-oil salesman. He richly demonstrated, for the thousandth time, these traits in his platitudinous lecture and sermon at the UN. He cannot be taken seriously. He has become a caricature of himself. Wind him up and listen to him speak.

  • hammar

    President Obuma cannot say the word terrorist because he knows the true meaning of the word. Think about it? Or put it together with the word islam?
    But yet he knows that the roots of the problems with the world are Christ the Savior, the Hebrew People, and morally good people in general cause the problems. Why do you think the United Nations is run by islamic nations.

  • Jason Vickers

    Great read.

  • http://consciouseffectiveparenting.info/ Carol

    I disagree, he is very serious about subverting the constitution and rule of law in favor of Sharia Law. He is a Traitor and must be treated as such. Anyone who calls this man incompetant, ignorant or any other excuse is flat out lying.
    Time for American BadBoys to step up and clean out this nest of vile traitors! ENOUGH!!
    At least 3 decades of this subversion in the name of progress!
    http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/08/cia-expert-obama-osama-share-mideast-goal/#jHWiOTaw1GVEQ1tT.01

  • andrewwhitehead

    Every time Obama(PBUH) opens his mouth, he confirms just exactly what a mental lightweight he really is. This person is incredibly dumb…he doesn’t know how to pronounce “Marine Corps”, he doesn’t know that Islam is at war with the United States…he really is a special kind of stupid.
    No wonder his alma mater doesn’t put him on recruiting material. They’re just as embarrassed of him as we are.

  • CapitalistPig

    That’s pretty much every speech he’s ever made–they’re all soaring, platitudinous screeds that describe a vague utopian vision based on a vague socialistic vision with few, if any of those annoying details or hard truths–unless you’re successful, in which case you’ll be the one being penalized to pay for it all.
    Never bought into from the beginning–don’t buy into any of it now.

  • nomoretraitors

    “I thought at any minute he might just float away”
    Dare we hope??

    “His badly trained mind”

    On the contrary, it’s very well trained in the doctrines of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky