Mr Obama attempts to celebrate Hanukkah, but starts it on the wrong day. Why attempt to celebrate the tradition of a religion that is not your own if you're going to completely disregard that tradition, essentially making it into something else that it was never intended to be? Have you ever seen a Muslim celebrate Easter, let alone celebrate it on the wrong day? Have you seen a Hindu with a Christmas tree?
Mr Obama has claimed to be Muslim and Christian, but I have never before seen him claim to be Jewish. Is he simply trying to make a backwards statement to a rich and powerful Jewish cabal, saying in essence, "I am one of you," or is he even thinking at all? Following is a list of statements this president has made that put him in league with George W Bush for lack of presence of mind.
We know Mr Obama drinks, smokes (though smoking is not known to cause such mental lapses), and is sleep deprived. But is the combination of these factors, along with the intoxication of political power, enough to make someone so lose their bearings and sense of reality as is presently and continuously exhibited by Mr Obama?
He often does not know where he is, even what country he is in, he forgets what religion he professes to be part of, forgets (or doesn't know) simple and obvious things about history, cannot read plain and simple English (as when he pronounced corpsman "corpse-man"), and et cetera. Is the man under so much mental strain that he can no longer perform such simple tasks as these? What does this say as to his ability to carry out tasks of much greater responsibility, tasks that he must engage with on a daily basis as POTUS? This would lead any rational person to ask whether or not Mr Obama is actually fit for the job.
Mr Obama prances around with a cocksure attitude, convinced of his own dubious charm and unconcerned whether others buy into the imagined world of idealism in which he immerses himself. No matter where he is, Mr Obama conducts himself with the attitude of a little kid in a candy store, uncaring and blissfully unaware of anyone but himself. This is the essence of a man whose soul has been consumed by delusions of grandeur, by the potentially all-corrupting power of the office of US president. Bigger men in the past have been able to handle it, or at least feign the humility that would imply they were able to handle it. But Mr Obama exhibits no such restraint or self control.
The unfortunate thing is that he is as dead to the world as the world is dead to him. This is his tragedy and this is why all that he does registers with such a false note. He has no control over the actions his government takes. Case in point, Mr Obama was as unable to stop the United States from going into Libya as he was to shut down Guantanamo Bay or as he was to end the wars when he came into office. Impotence is his biggest problem and yet he carries on as though he were all powerful, all the while forgetting what continent he's on, what religion he claims to belong to or even some basic truths about capitalism and democracy. He's nothing more than simply another George Bush II. A man with mental problems who became president.
Here's the evidence of his loss of coherence:"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..." -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
"We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." —Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011
"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy." —on Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." –mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.""Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference
"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy inKansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on aKansas tornado that killed 12 people
(From http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm.)
No comments:
Post a Comment