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The Morning Journal Serving Northern Ohio
Opinion
THE EDITOR'S COLUMN: Obama cooking up something, can you feel the heat?
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Think about the cautionary tale of the frog that is enjoying a warm soak in a pan of water while it slowly heats over a fire. Before the unwary frog realizes it is in danger, it is cooked.
More and more, I'm thinking we ordinary Americans are the frog.
While going blissfully about in our daily lives, we're in danger of being slow-cooked, along with the free life and prosperity that we enjoy and want for our children and grandchildren.
The chef who is cooking America is our smiling, charismatic President Barack Obama.
I'm not sure yet whether Obama is just an ego-driven fool or a calculated participant following a sinister recipe. Obama can be spellbinding as he reads lofty speeches off of a TelePrompTer. But without a script, he can't find his tongue to swiftly condemn piracy against Americans.
He can't stand up for Americans in danger, and he bows to the king of Saudi Arabia where women are oppressed. Then his flunkies deny that he bowed.
At the Summit of the Americas, Obama allowed himself and our country to be savaged in an hour-long socialist tirade by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Obama strolled through a happy handshake session with evil clown Hugo Chavez, the socialist president of Venezuela, accepting Chavez's gift of a book condemning our treatment of South America. By taking abuse and failing to defend the United States, Obama weakens himself and does our nation a grave disservice.
Notice that when Ortega bashed the United States for the anti-Castro 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Obama merely joked that he's glad he wasn't blamed for an event that happened when he was 3 months old. Sadly, and dangerously, Obama fails to distinguish himself personally from his elected job as the one entrusted with the Office of the President of the United States, under oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" history's greatest blueprint for liberty.
Closer to home, Obama's debt-laden, business-stifling, tax-happy policies threaten to suck the life out of the nation's economy. Obama's disastrous vision of the presidency and America is so apparent it can be seen clear across the Atlantic. On Friday, British author and commentator Gerald Warner noted on Telegraph.co.uk, "Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter." Warner concluded, "President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cozying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realized is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: Why does President Pantywaist hate Americans so badly?"
Why, indeed. And what are Americans going to do about it?
Tom Skoch is editor of The Morning Journal.
I know my comments will release a wave of nasty replies, but it must be pointed out. Did those videos of Bush holding hands with Crown Prince Abdullah (April 2005) put the editor of the morning journal in a tailspin? Or in 1983 when Rumsfeld, then special envoy to Reagan, shook hands with Saddam Hussein?
ReplyDeleteReally Mr. Smith as an elected official with constituents from both sides of the aisle, should you be posting such incendiary articles?
Tab, surely you see that a hand shake and a bow are not equivalents. On April 27, 2005( 4 years ago today!) CBS made fun of President Bush holding hands with Abdullah and I suspect that other Bush bashers on the left did so as well although I have not researched it. To see the article copy and paste the following http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/27/eveningnews/main691413.shtml
ReplyDeleteI lived in the Middle East for quite a few years and it is a common for male friends to walk hand-in-hand. Kissing on both cheeks is also common. There was an occasion in Luxor, Egypt in 1974 when Secretary of State Kissinger and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy were walking hand in hand. My Egyptian counterpart and I were walking behind them we too were holding hands. It happens often in Middle East diplomacy. On the other hand I don’t remember any President bowing to Queen Elizabeth and according to reports the Obama’s appropriately did not. The cover story the White House put out about the alleged bow may well be true but in all the video I have seen it sure looks like a bow.
With regard to the 1983 Saddam-Rumsfeld handshake that was resurrected in 2003, it has to be viewed in the light of U.S. serious concerns about the ascendancy of Iran in the troubled Middle East. In 1983 we needed Iraq to serve as a counter balance to Iran and therefore held our nose and re-established Diplomatic Relations. It was the anti-Iraq war media and Bush bashers that put a negative spin on the event so many years later. We still need Iraq as a counter force and hopefully the Obama administration will hang in long enough to ensure that Iraq can defend itself and survive as a democratic country. Such an outcome will be good for the Iraqis and serve as a model for the rest of the Middle East.
You are right in observing that I have constituents on both sides of the aisle. I would add that many from the "other side" have been loyal supporters even though I always ran as a conservative Republican. As for the article being "incendiary" I don’t agree. I posted the column because I like many of my fellow Americans are truly frightened by the direction President Obama is taking our country and I want my friends to know that Middle America is beginning to realize that the change we are getting may well destroy our way of life.
BTW We try not to be nasty and mostly we succeed. For some folks even the truth is considered nasty and vicious. For instance such indiscretions as reporting on a politicians voting record or from whom he or she received campaign contributions.
Tab -
ReplyDeleteBush did not bow to a king - he held out his hand to help an old man walk and the MSM went into a hissy fit over it.
And no one in the media or otherwise would have had any problem whatsoever with Obama shaking hands with the king.
Isn't it time for Obama to go on another overseas Apology Tour?
ReplyDeleteTab- An American President bowing to a King is definitely not protocol. Anon at 4:10 PM above does have a point about Abdullah and Bush. I looked at the video closely and it appears that the Prince had stumbled and President Bush simply reached out and took his hand to steady him as they walked. In any event enough on this. Its time to move on.
ReplyDeleteI did read the NY Post link and it proves once again that the Congress and the Government can't do anything right. This is why so many of us are frightened. Obama and company are hell bent on increasing the size and power of of government.
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