America Has No President, For Now

With unbound arrogance and a naivete more suited to a first-year world history student, the current occupant of the White House set aside his oath of office at the United Nations today. Having done that, he proceeded to pick up the dangerous mantle of world functionary and global celebrity destined to leave the world in an alarming heap whenever his most unfortunate, but unavoidable term in office expires, or he's forced out.

The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama’s leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world – 94 percent in Kenya, 93 percent in Germany, 88 percent in Canada and Nigeria, 77 percent in India, 76 percent in Brazil, 71 percent in Indonesia, and 62 percent in China for example. The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008.

Typical but sad dilettante that he is, Barack Obama does not realize that a man can not be one for all the world and all for one nation, America, that his Constitutional oath requires that he be. In clearer-headed times, he'd have been lucky to avoid chains as he exited the UN, being then taken directly to Congress where he'd be promptly impeached and expelled as perhaps the most unprepared and embarrassing Chief Executive America has ever seen.

Unfortunately, the cover of his bi-racial color prevents that rightful end to this anti-American menace from ever taking place. While perhaps more structured and articulate, he is no better and America is no better off, than were she currently led by another self-styled clown, Muammar Gaddafi, who took to the stage after would be world emperor and New World leader Obama finally sat down and stopped embarrassing America in front of the world.

It's likely that he very much needed to rest his over-inflated ego and over-sized head; the one he somehow manages to fit through the White House door most nights.

As the Americans that we are and have always been, we'll endure this pathetic stain walking across the Oval Office carpet for the remainder of his four years. And I imagine he will actually see chains of a sort when his political party is ravaged in 2010. Only then can a new Republican Congress compose itself to rein in this foolish attempt to apologize for America's past sins.

Until that time, as loyal and patriotic Americans, we should have only two goals: to endure the unthoughtful shame and suffering of having this inexperienced, undemocratic boy king in the White House; and preparing to vanquish as many Democrats from Congress as we can in 2010.

That and nothing else is the only acceptable and ultimately American way of dealing with the tragic American political mistake Barack Obama truly is.

Comments

[Sir]

Obama is undermining his own importance to the world

[Barbara]

Dan,
now THAT is right on point. Stay focused enuff of this infighting crap

[Anon]

I have always felt that Obama views the Presidency as an embarrassing vehicle that is necessary for him to have the ability to save the entire darned world and remake America to match his marvellous values.

Can't think of any other reason that he's always jetting away from the White House.

[Dennis D]

America is not perfect but we have nothing to be ashamed of. We do not need to fear our great history and we do not need to apologize to 3rd world thugs for anything.Obama makes me sick.

[mike191]

Bravo Dan.This should be required reading for the RNC.

[SpeakEasy]

Carter v2.0

[joyMc]

"Forced out." That just sounds good. Barry preening & kissing the butts of tin horn dictators for all the world to see. Disgusting.

[Ran]

Dan,
Nicely said, and I'm in agreement, though I might politely disagree with your very last statement.

For starters, we didn't endure Nixon's malfeasance. We didn't endure Clinton's lies under oath. This Reign of Error will come to an end when enough Democrats realize that the Won is leading a "movement" that has no "clean" end. Bet you a beer he resigns before his first term is completed.

Cheers.

[Sheesh]

he's not interested in using the apparently offensive term 'victory' when speaking of the war on terror, but has no problem using it when agitating for 'victory' against fellow citizens (speeches about health care).

what a POS.

[Wyatt Earp]

Sadly, for this president, it's "When in doubt, throw Israel - and any other ally - under the bus."

[southdakotaboy]

We need to elect people to office who will have the guts to punish all those who are responsible for this disgrace. We can't let the Dems get away with this kind of behavior.

[Marcoin MI]

Damn good writing!
Lets make it happen in 2010

[Mark Turner]

I think the Pew survey results indicate a number of things:

1. In the countries cited above, there is an overwhelming desire for more engagement of the US in the international community, and a belief that Obama will somehow affect this positively and decisively.

2. This is particularly poignant in developing nations with non-Caucasian majorities, but also in distinctly left-leaning developed nations. Liberals in the US and EU want the US to be more like Europe, at least politically.

3. These are generally countries with strong penchants for socialism, whether democratic or non-democratic.

4. They like Obama's public image, much like the voter mania of last fall. He tells them what they want to hear; what aligns with their world view.

I have lived overseas since 2002, in Australia and Singapore. When in Australia, I did notice a strikingly anti-Bush sentiment, but Australia is a country modeled closely after Euro-style democratic socialism and is quite liberal politically (their conservative party is called the "Liberal Democrat" party). Singapore is also socialist (non-Marxist but not exactly democratic) but there is usually a more even-handed criticism in the media. The media here is state-controlled and political criticism in general is often frowned upon. Public protests are illegal.

[Mark Turner]

Ever notice that there is usually an inverse relationship to how popular a US president is at home vs. how popular they are overseas? Bill Clinton was another recent example; not so popular at home, wildly popular overseas -- Carter also, but less so. When you find a president consistently popular both at home and abroad, that is truly exceptional (and Obama does NOT fall in this category).

[PA]

He's popular with them, because they think they can roll him like a Bowery bum when it comes to extracting political and trade concessions from the USA.

[JoeCitizen]

'Ever notice that there is usually an inverse relationship to how popular a US president is at home vs. how popular they are overseas?"

No. Actually I have never noticed that. Rather the opposite.
Obama is in the seventies overseas, still in the mid-fifites at home. Both positive.
Bush was in the teens overseas, in the thirties at home. Both negative.
Clinton was very popular overseas - he left office with approval in the low sixties.

Sorry Mark, I think you got it all wrong.

[Mark Turner]

JoeCitizen -

Actually, you just proved my point -- Obama and Clinton have/had much higher approvals overseas than in the US; Bush had higher approval in the US than overseas (even though he ended very poorly, his home approvals were not consistently poor; similarly, Clinton's were not consistently high -- he won a second term with only 43% of the popular vote)

P.S. The mid-fifties approvals for Obama are a bit generous -- polls of "adults" or "registered voters", maybe? Low fifties at best, particularly of "likely voters", I consider to be a more accurate indication.

[patriot, father, gun-owner, homeowner, taxpayer]

I stumbled on this site by accident. What a crock!
Is this a harbor for trolls or just a place for racists to hang and pretend to be informed and important?

"Typical but sad dilettante" HA! I haven't seen crackpot writing like this since I read a page in one of my wife's romance novels twenty years ago. It was funny then...now its just sad and pathetic.

why don't you and your three crackpot friends move somewhere in the world where its perfect, like south africa. woops...too slow. repugnicants have great ideas...really. like deregulation and "free markets". time to get real girls, trickle down is just yellow rain pissing on your heads. Fight him all the way, at least Obama will try to get the country on course. who are you ladies rooting for?? palin? that idiot couldn't tie her own shoelaces let alone handle a piddly ass state government. huck? ha..another joke. mclown? ha..picked palin...nuff said. rudy, the phony saviour of nyc? maybe if he dolls himself up in a dress and heels. we'll have to be careful his wife doesn't kick him out of his own house. ha!

republican= guys who bash gays but get caught in public restrooms propositioning men.
racists who aren't ashamed.
creationists who believe the world is flat.
adulterers who take off on hiking trips to south america.
adulterers who get their parents to pay hush money to their mistresses.
whore mongers who get caught and play the pathetic repentant christian.

yeah...keep believing these a-holes are going to save you.

"Typical but sad dilettante"

I guess you gotta believe in something...the repugs are really going to look out for you. lol.

proud to be an American during the dark days of that idiot bush; Proud to be an American right now.

if you don't like it... move you pathetic wanking loosers.

[Mark Turner]

Ah, yes, another troll who "stumbled on this site by accident"...your ranting incoherence doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Obama's approach either, nor do the "racist" accusations, if you are a typical supporter. By the way, transforming the US into a social welfare state will not achieve the outcomes of "improving efficiency", "maintaining quality of services", "enhancing market competition", "reducing government waste", "ensuring equity and fairness", and other such platitudes spouted by the left. It was the liberal Democrats in congress who propounded subprime lending, which is a major root cause of our current economic troubles.

[VA_patriot]

Hmmm..."pathetic wanking loosers" That phrase sounds curiously foreign for someone with the overly-obvious name of "patriot, father, gun-owner, homeowner, taxpayer" yada yada yada (and I've lived overseas for years, so I'd know.)

All of those descriptions apply to me, so from THIS patriot, bring on 2010!

I've never been politically active before, but I am now.

I've never made a political sign before, but I have now.

I've never attended a friggin' Tea Party before, but I have now.

There are a lot of patriots like me, friend, who have been working their butts off, but who now are focusing on trying to preserve our liberty. And I don't need to brag about who I am or make childish comments about Democrats.

We'll fight you at the polls.

[mark l.]

I caught the messiah tour at the UN, opening act for Khaddafi AND Ahmadinejad?
I'm amazed at obama's naivete.

this admin has wagered so heavily on so many losers, that even if some tangible benefit is presented, it will be obscured by the chamberlain-ian stumbles history will lay at his feet.

thus far, he has bet on putin, chavez, zeleya, ahmadinejad,and is trying to fold the hand on his poker game with AQ/taliban over pakistan and afghanistan. This is going to end, badly.

for the first time in my life, I'm embarassed to be an american.

[David R. Graham]

The response of the current occupant of the White House to the rallies of 12SEP09 has been to double-down, lower head and order their entire line forward en masse, demanding space for every utopian (Greek, u+topos, no place) (communist) delusion dating from the 19th Century forward.

ACORN suing the spotlighters is of a piece.

These are very serious people occupying the White House and Congress, with very powerful mechanisms at their finger tips and unlimited finance in their pockets.

They will leave no avenue, means or type of attack untried. Wherever their line is, whatever it can do there, it will. Don't ever think about them using restraint for any reason whatsoever. They operate in a morality-free, humanity-free void, an unshakeable fantasy of self-righteousness.

The biggest error of their opponents during the 2008 national elections was thinking them stupid or ignorant or just plain unaware and dumb.

Anyone making book on elections worthy of the word happening in 2010?

If one wants the measure of what it is going to take to dislodge these people, to bring them to justice and get them in the Big House, permanently behind bars where they belong, review the history of what it took just to deny J. Robert Oppenheimer a security clearance. And he was never prosecuted, completed his life-long chain-smoking at Princeton's IAS an honored P, though unable directly to guide US nuclear policy towards Soviet and away from US interest as he had been doing for well over a decade. Hydra-headed, like Ravana, despite repeated attacks, Oppenheimer remained strong right until the decision to deny him clearance, which was just-barely. And the self-sacrifice of one personality in particular, a self-made man, a Jewish Republican of high intelligence, devotion and energy named Lewis Strauss, is what it took. Life for life. But Strauss was right. Oppenheimer was "a member of a so-called closed unit of the Communist Party's professional section in Berkeley, from 1938 to 1942." http://www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com/

That's where all this today comes from. The disarmament, the "international" governance of US security, the "world [Soviet] government," it's all there in Oppenheimer and his CP bosses and associates, e.g. Fuchs. And it antedates them.

It's that serious, that huge a battle and that profound a carnage to get it won by either side. Communism is hydra-headed and it doesn't give up, ever, just as Ravana did not until forced by superior authority, actual penal authority, Lord Rama. That's the typology we are looking at here. As General MacArthur said in his goodbye to Congress, "It must be of the spirit of we are to save the flesh."

I refuse to call this individual P-------. The individual is not that, he is a fraud fraudulently emplaced, along with his whole entourage. He is conducting an occupation, like Savio of Sproul Hall, that is all. He does not speak for the White House. The White House is American, sacred and honored, it belongs to us, the power of the nation. He is its current occupant, an occupier, as in usurper, illegitimate, a psycho-sociopathic devil-conjuring hell-raiser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw

Knowing all this to be true and the "pitchforks" on the way there, the occupant/occupier has mounted full spectrum attack against America to prevent opposition from reaching his inner workings. One should expect no less and fight smart to overwhelm it.

Always expect an enemy to do what they should do to beat you. Then make your plans on that basis.

[Peter]

"patriot, father, gun-owner, homeowner, taxpayer"

I'll bet my house this troll is none of those.

[xerocky]

"I'll bet my house this troll is none of those."

taxpayer is the one that stands out as complete BS to me. If you pay taxes, truly pay taxes, there's no way that you are still on board with the chosen one.

[xerocky]

A few things a) why even bother reporting that Kenya likes Obama. Duh right?

b) it should be noted that Gaddafi called Obama "son" on more than one occasion during his bizarre address.

Doesn't getting the nod of approval from Castro and Gaddafi simply say it all?

I’ll be honest, I’m still shocked that this guy is our president. It’s like a bad dream that the nation just can’t wake up from.

[Bob]

"Typical but sad dilettante that he is, Barack Obama does not realize that a man can not be one for all the world and all for one nation, America, that his Constitutional oath requires that he be. In clearer-headed times, he'd have been lucky to avoid chains as he exited the UN, being then taken directly to Congress where he'd be promptly impeached and expelled as perhaps the most unprepared and embarrassing Chief Executive America has ever seen."

What a pathetic excuse for political commentary. Riehl has no insights, no principles, nothing even remotely honest to say. All he does, all day long, is wallow in hate and try to stir up resentment in the rubes who take him seriously. This is basically all that "the conservative movement" has to offer any more.

[xerocky]

" This is basically all that "the conservative movement" has to offer any more."

So, you, Castro, and Gadaffi love Obama. Great.

[Bob]

"So, you, Castro, and Gadaffi love Obama. Great."

Like I said, stupid, meaningless comments like those of xerocky are all that the conservative movement has to offer. It has nothing to do with anything, and is based entirely on the idea that placing someone in the same sentence with a couple of international boogeymen is supposed to create some kind of guilt by association. By the same token, xerocky, Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh were once seen together in the same sentence, if you know what I mean, and -- wink, wink, -- I think you do. Nothing at all was alleged to have happened, but curious minds think that xerocky has some 'splainin' to do. They were all implying that the government WAS the problem, or something like that. But now xerocky pretends that it never happened -- I mean his name turning up in the same sentence. Does he have something to hide, or what?

[Xerocky]

"They were all implying that the government WAS the problem, or something like that. But now xerocky pretends that it never happened -- I mean his name turning up in the same sentence. Does he have something to hide, or what?"

Bob, take your pills. I never said that anything didn't happen. I just said that Gaddafi and Castro are the type of minds that think alike,(president for life and all good human rights stuff that Obama has no opinion on) and they like Obama. That should tell yo something. That's it. Not a word about killing innocent people, but again, good try.

And, we have plenty of constructive things to say, I've said them before and there's no way anyone like you is going to listen, Obama himself said that he doesn't want to hear it "from the people who made the mess" (?)

As for who it is that has nothing constructive to say, you have to admit that you're bending over backward to try to paint the teabagers with the same brush as the militia movement of the 90's. So, who's not constructive? And it's not the first time that you've said things like this, and for that matter so has Eric Holder. So much for Amendment #1.

[Bob]

Xerocky, you seem to have a little trouble making subtle (or even not-so-subtle) distinctions. Of course, any mainstream liberal/progressive is neither a socialist nor a communist nor a fascist, and would have no more use for Castro or Gaddafi than you yourself. In fact, just as an example, rumor has it that Obama is supposedly snubbing British PM Gordon Brown at the current G-whatever summit specifically because Brown's government freed one of the Lockerbie bombers, who then received a hero's welcome from Gaddafi in his native Libya.

Anyway, I was just ribbing you about McVeigh and Koresh in response to your apparent attempt to link me with Castro and Gaddafi. I certainly wouldn't seriously accuse you of any homicidal tendencies. But by the same token, it's not fair to say things about Obama (or any other liberal) having a secret wish to have our country become a communist dictatorship, or to pull the plug on grandma.

[xerocky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4ZPo&annotation_id=annotation_915443&feature=iv

Ok Bob, click on the link and tell me that this doesn't seem a little like political indoctrination to you. On 60 minutes about a week or so ago, O said that he plans to be president for "a long time"...I wonder exactly what he meant?

And I disagree with you. I'm sorry but I do. Mainstream liberals are in fact socialists. In a lot of not so subtle ways they are.

And come on, Obama doesn't need no godam Lockerbie excuse to snub Gordon Brown. What was his excuse the first few times? And what use is it to piss off our closest allies? Let's face it, Barry has a problem with G.B. because of his grandfathers struggles during the Mau Mau rebelion. It hasn't a thing to do with Lockerbie.

And to clarify, I'm not saying that Obama has use for Gaddafi and Castro, but they both seem to love him. And to me that says a lot.

I like it better when the dollar is strong, and when third world dictators don't heap praise on the president. That's just me though.

[WestWright]

Thanks Dan, love your site....what is it with today's crop of Obot Trolls? It is friday and maybe they got their O-pay and found some crack...but man they are off the leash today!