The Roots of Barack Obama's Selective Crises

The Roots of Barack Obama's Selective Crises

From the outset, when Barack Hussein Obama first announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in 2007 and through Election Day, Americans of every political stripe have had serious, if often belated, misgivings regarding a candidate with minimal qualifications and experience with all of two years as a U.S. senator presumptuously vying for the highest office in the land and the position as leader of the Free World. 

Unfortunately and wrongly, those concerns were frequently dismissed as baseless reflections of racial prejudice against an African-American.

A few days before that election, liberal Charlie Rose made no reference to that canard but astoundingly admitted to liberal Tom Brokaw on national television that, “I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.”  Brokaw responded, “No, I don’t either” and added that, “We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy” or the people advising him. 

In essence, two of Obama ‘s staunchest supporters were conceding that their chosen presidential candidate was a total enigma.  

In short order, although to my knowledge neither Rose nor Brokaw have ever reiterated their qualms, they and the American people have learned a great deal about Obama’s thinking on many issues and about his advisers and we are learning more and more every day about his thinking on both foreign and domestic affairs. 

Many of his ideologically-driven thoughts and actions have reinforced the view that Obama was woefully and dangerously unprepared for his office.  

For example, just recently, America’s commander in chief decided that the deadly Ebola virus currently confined mostly to west Africa represents a far greater threat to America and the world than any other problems including ISIS terrorists who have vowed to visit their murderous movement on our country and the rest of Western civilization.

There exists no reasonable doubt that Ebola represents a significant danger to Americans’ health and safety but the virus  hardly poses an imminent threat anywhere near comparable to ISIS.

In the unlikely event Obama is right in his comparative threat assessment of Ebola, which the UN Security Council has also called a danger to world peace–without singling out the virus as the most pressing world problem–he felt it merited dispatching at least 3,000 combat troops to Liberia to set up treatment centers in lieu of sending them to Iraq despite the fact they are trained for combat and not for construction missions.

Likewise, Obama has determined that in order to crush ISIS in the Mid East, “boots on the ground” are unnecessary and that America’s potent air power, in conjunction with assistance from our coalition allies, is sufficient to wipe out 32,000 ISIS terrorists.

The problems with his “strategy” are manifold, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=39120.)

Democrats, Global Warming, and Deceit

Democrats, Global Warming, and Deceit

 

Now that the presumptive 2016 Democrat Party nominee for president and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has seconded the current Secretary of State John Kerry in determining that climate change is easily the greatest threat to the future of the planet and America’s national security than all the other dangers confronting us and the rest of the world today, it might seem a tad impertinent to suggest that Democrats may be inhaling a lot of the mind-altering pot smoke that President Barack Hussein Obama once loved so much.

However, as impertinent as it may be, the charge is well-founded.

Clinton and Kerry, like Obama, believe that no national or international crisis, not worldwide Muslim terrorism, not the ongoing economic doldrums and related unemployment, and not any of the other serious and multiple issues facing us today are more dangerous to peace and security than the perils of climate change.

That fixation explains a great deal about skewed Democrat positions and their flawed thinking.

Defending why the president has placed climate change at the top of his priority list, Sec. Kerry unequivocably declared in August that the global impact of climate change is “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” 

Kerry subsequently cited biblical imperatives to support his view that reversing those changes is critical to saving “Muslim-majority”countries from the consequences of their environmental impact.

And, echoing both Kerry’s and Grand Climate Guru Al Gore’s dire warnings, Hillary Clinton said last Thursday at Sen. Harry Reid’s annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas that, “Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.  The threat is real, and so is the opportunity . . . if we make the hard choices,” the last remark clearly an allusion to her underselling recent book of the same title.

There are so many ironies involving the Kerry and Clinton pronouncements that it is difficult to prioritize them. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38910.)

John Kerry, the Flimflam Man, Does It Again!

John Kerry, the Flimflam Man, Does It Again!

 

John Kerry, who threw his Vietnam War decorations over a fence before he didn’t throw them over a fence, who voted for funding the Iraq War before he voted against the Iraq War, who railed against an Israeli security fence as ”a barrier to peace” before he called it ”a legitimate act of self-defense,” has for the umpteenth time put his foot in his mouth, this time on the very unsettled science of man-made climate change.

Now Secretary of State after succeeding the Queen of Flimflam, Hillary Clinton, Kerry gave a commencement speech at his law school alma mater, Boston College.  He encouraged graduates with the typical pap to get out there and save the world, etc. and focused on anthropogenic climate change, formerly global cooling, formerly global warming, as the chief threat to their futures.

Not Islamic terrorism, not millions of illegal aliens, not nukes in North Korea and Iran, not China, not Russia but Mother Earth’s temperature, a subject worrying a minuscule 24% of Americans according to a March 2014 Gallup poll.

Nevertheless, reiterating the tired, old, discredited Obama administration theme that the reality of climate change is settled science, whereas it is anything but “settled” and is more akin to a massive scam, Kerry delivered a fear-mongering address to his semi-captive audience.

He warned of the urgency for concerted actions to avoid almost-imminent, worldwide, catastrophic events such as food and water shortages, greater conflict and instability, and a spreading scarcity of natural resources. 

As he gravely intoned, should those actions not be implemented, “Things will change in a hu
rry. And they will change for the worse.” 

(Mercifully, Sec. Kerry spared the B.C. grads the popular, liberal-leftist canards that polar bears are running out of ice and caribou have lost interest in breeding due to global warming climate change.) 

The Flimflam Man ultimately arrived at his true purpose in Boston which obviously was not to confer gratuitous attaboys and attagirls but rather to push his boss’s agenda . . .(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37247.)