[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]Perhaps the most ginned-up, overheated rhetoric generated by the Obama administration during its 16 months in power is its daily burbling over the anti-illegal immigrant bill that Arizona passed last month.
President Obama and Atty. Gen. Holder bumped each other’s heads as they dashed through the door, lurching toward hungry microphones to virulently condemn the state of Arizona and its misled legislators who crafted the bill. Never mind that 7 out of 10 Arizonans and nearly two-thirds of Americans love the law that neither man has read.
Subtlety, nuance, diplomacy, not to mention class, the standard tools of previous administrations, are not to be found in the portfolio of the Obama crowd. Their idea of criticism is to stealthily approach with a sledgehammer in either hand.
A year ago, during Mr. Obama’s first spring in office, with the slightest encouragement, he regularly flew off to tour capitals of the world. At almost every stop, he attracted stinging criticism from shocked Americans for his nettlesome habit of blissfully apologizing for American behavior the past 200 years. Like an alcoholic desperately trying to prove he is clean. He portrayed himself as blameless.
I Am Sorry, I Am Sorry, I Am Sorry
Comes word this afternoon that when the Obama administration engaged China in a rare round of talks last week on human rights, the President’s men shamefully again dipped a knee and begged China’s mercy for America’s latest “failure.” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_china_human_rights)
The Red Chinese government, which goes by a phony, nicey-name that would sound palatable to Mama, has slaughtered more of its own citizens than any country on the planet. Yet we apologized to them for passing the Arizona anti-illegal bill.
As reported by powerlineblog.com, here is a portion of the transcript of an interview with one of the principals, Asst. Secretary of State Michael Posner, the Boob of the Week.
QUESTION: Did the recently passed Arizona immigration law come up? And, if so, did they bring it up or did you bring it up?
Mr. Posner: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society.
The ongoing bumbling naiveté of the Obama amateurs, abetted by a coterie of unchained ideologues, is outrageous.
He Betrays Us Again
A former father-in-law used to cry out periodically, “Are there no prisons?” No wonder. It was his daughter who used to delight partygoers with colorful, lengthy and enthusiastic recountings of my impressive list of imperfections.
President Obama is my ex-wife.
The undisciplined man with a roaring furnace for a temper is committing the identical social/diplomatic atrocity, bragging/complaining about how vilely Americans behave.
I started to say I am bereft of a logical explanation for why he insists on apologizing for all present and past conduct that he, a poor student of history, disagrees with. No longer.
He has logged dozens, possibly hundreds, of statements that would have qualified as shocking coming from any other U.S. President.
Among his earliest, most disappointing and most revealing, was his bizarre declaration that he does not believe in American exceptionalism. We are merely another fixture in the world crowd, another of the 192 nations occupying the planet, no better or worse than others.
This kind of twisted thinking has led to a regrettable egalitarian frame of mind that rationalizes: What difference would it make to blab about a law I hate? Since China has killed so many of its own, the more we apologize, the more they will like us, and keep lending us money.
Those are Mr. Obama’s main objectives.
Welcome to a sad new world.
