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Sol Sanders -- Follow the Money No. 58 Horror vacui
Here is anther great column from Sol Sanders on the state of disarray within the Obama White House. He paints a picture of Obama as Chicagop-based Louis XIV. A version of this column is scheduled to be published in The Washington
Times, Monday, March 21, 2011. If you follow his analysis on the degree of cluelessness inside the WH, then look at the housing sector's meltdown, raises questions about Obama's viability in 2012. -- Chris
Follow the Money No. 58: Horror vacui
Sol Sanders <solsanders@cox.net>
Pres. Barak Hussein Obama has given new meaning to that epithet “imperial presidency”. It’s was slung at Pres. Richard Nixon not only for his extravagant “palace guard” – some in kitschy uniforms – but his more serious unconstitutional overreach.
But if imperial in his style, Mr. Obama reigns; he does not rule.
Whether domestic or foreign policy, Mr. Obama abdicates to Congressional or bureaucratic control then spins the often resulting muddle as something for which he is not responsible. It results, for example, in outgoing Sec. of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen pontificating far above their pay grade, to be contradicted almost instantaneously by events or Mr. Obama himself. The President’s hands-on applies only to maintaining his leftwing political base, whether Wisconsin unionists or Washington lobbies, reinforcing his South Side Chicago-Hyde Park 1960s leftwing agenda and his search for reelection campaign dollars.
Given the presidency’s dual role as chief of state as well as chief executor, celebration of a multitude of ceremonies is necessary and fitting – all the more in times of peril when the nation’s spirit needs uplift. But Mr. Obama’s sports addiction, his gliterrati extravaganzas, his causal acknowledgement of our closest allies’ tragedies, and his wife’s Marie-Antoinette progressions are increasingly bizarre. Importing a Chicago Daley mob family member, supposedly as a pragmatic chief of staff, so far has not injected restraint much less austerity.
This standard operating procedure is reinforced by Mr. Obama’s denigration of historic American accomplishments, often on foreign soil. Symptomatically, in the one international arena where he has sought leadership, relations with the Muslim world, there’s almost total disaster. Having made what he, if not most scholars, considered two seminal speeches offering renewed friendship with Islam, American interests are now in jeopardy in both locales. Turkey, site of his first lecture, once a stalwart NATO ally, defies the West’s policies on the Iranian nuclear weapons issue, the greatest threat now facing the alliance. His Cairo speech, seemingly falling on deaf ears, was followed by his bemused Administration fostering regime change but adding little to its still awaited outcome.
Of course Pres. Obama did not create these long simmering crises. But he contributes to them through his Administration’s lack of faith in American power, hard and soft. Favoring multilateralism to American leadership, his UN representative, Amb. Susan Rice, preaches that gospel but neglects reform of the organization’s abysmal corruption and inadequacy for which taxpayers pick up too much of the tab. Only when Muammar Qadaffi began slaughtering his own people did Washington join to redress the charade of Libya’s prominence on the UN Human Rights Council.
In this world of rampant behaviorism and relativism, Aristotle may not dominate as he once did. And his concept that nature abhors a vacuum [horror vacui in Latin] may be questioned with such new mysteries as black holes in outer space. But we are getting its proof in what happens geopolitically when the world’s paramount power chooses not to lead. Or worse still, when Mr. Obama trumpets policy without following through. Minor players with fewer resources, physical and intellectual, take the field exacerbating regional conflicts in an increasingly intertwined world.
Nowhere has that been more apparent than Washington’s approach to the Egyptian regime’s collapse, the Bahrain religious conflict and now the Libyan civil war with their attendant growing threat to world energy supplies.
Like a sick dog to its vomit, Washington returns again and again to the Israel-Palestine issue as the magic bullet to cure Mideast troubles. It’s the one international issue where the President enthusiastically commits his prestige. But having chosen Israeli settlements in areas won in the 1967 war as fundamental – it was subsidiary until he came along – Mr. Obama jeopardizes Israel’s basic security further postponing any agreement. The absurdity of his position is self evident: in a “two-state solution”, he ignores Israel’s almost 2-million Arabs but infers a Palestinian state must be “judenrein”.
Elsewhere lack of U.S. leadership – even withholding rhetorical support for Iran’s opposition -- has helped extend Tehran leadership’s religious fanatic and kleptocratic tentacles across the Fertile Crescent. The Persian Mullahs have managed to play all sides in “the Arab spring”. Not only does Tehran use Shia Syrian and Lebanese co-sectarians, but it sponsors Sunni Palestinian terrorism including Hamas, offspring of Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood. [The latest unspeakably barbaric murder of an Israeli family eclipsed by the Japanese catastrophe was apparently Tehran-sponsored.] Iran may well profit from whatever comes of Mr. Obama’s belated moves to oust Qadaffi.
The arguments against American intervention in Libya were strong. Though Washington’s choice was to disremember his murder of Americans, in a Berlin discothèque in 1986 and PanAmerican 103 at Lockerbie in 1988, it is not forgotten in a region where mayhem and revenge are ever present. Ultimately, Mr. Obama could no more ignore Tripoli [ah! the ghosts of Thomas Jefferson and his Marines!] than rising oil prices spurred by Obama Administration counterproductive domestic energy policies could fail to cripple American recovery.
Thus Pres. Obama and the U.S. have been sucked into an undelineated vacuum, in part of his own making.
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Look, the guy said he was going to change the American way of life, and many of those who pulled the lever for him didn't stop to think that change can mean any number of things, many of which were not in their best interests. Doom on us for voting him in, but more doom on us if we don't vote him out.
Very disappointing article from many angles. Makes one wonder if there is any possible hope to correct our flight to oblivion. The flight from fact seems to be the current fad.
Sol,
Barry Soetoro's actions are quite understandable.
From the perspective of a Muslim believer.
I don't really get the point of this author. All I could get from this is that he is anti-Obama backed up by some really weak arguments. All in all the author simply seems to be pulling the Israeli line.
The author is mad because Obama is not a neocon. I don't like Obama or neocons.
"I don't like Obama or neocons."
then you will have no vote in 2012..
ZH needs the hits for some statistical reason I suppose. I think it bombed, however. There hasn't been the frothing-at-the-mouth flaming that was hoped for. An article this inflammatory has been greeted with rather lukewarm comments. I'm disappointed that the article got posted at all.
I don't know about that; but, it would be nice if the World would be hofjuden-frei
correction: Pres. Barrack Hussein Al-Obamahim, born in Kenya, a.k.a. Mr. cannot find my long-form birth certificate because those jungle bunnies in Kenya with banana groin loin cover are sworn to secrecy.
haha! That was pretty funny. Well, not really you stupid redneck.
Go easy. This person actually has a vote. Scary.
Must listen Chris Whalen interview here
http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/3/19_Chris_Whalen.html
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Here's an incredible video from the MSM on the banking/FED fraud.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/495/240/Amazing_Dylan_Rattigan_Exposes_the_Fed,_Government_Corruption_and_the_Criminal_Banking_System.html
I'm sorry, but I must beg to disagree with the common sentiment that Mr. Obama is not qualified nor doing a "good job" as President. If that job is to see that attention is diverted from critical issues (like the death of the Gulf food chain, theft of the national treasury, potential nuclear disaster, debt designed to collapse the dollar) then he's doing exceptionally well. Most people don't seem to realize that his job is not at all what you think it is...much like America's foreign policy is not controlled by the United States.
I thought it would have been obvious by now.
Right on MNY. Repost this everytime you see the left vs right blood on this board begin mounting their steeds to defend their hollow honor.
Right on MNY. Repost this everytime you see the left vs right blood on this board begin mounting their steeds to defend their hollow honor.
Absolutely. Its the people against the money power that controls the entire political system ... and 'the people' are losing big time. Doesn't matter which "party" is in power, they're sock puppets. Biggest and most technologically advanced military in the world and in history and bankers run the place.
Not intending to light a left/right debate here -- both sides suck banker c*ck -- but JFK started this. Or perhaps TV did. JFK was the first empty-suit prez who nevertheless became a celebrity. Each election it's gotten more and more out of control, as each party "learned" the lessons of mass-marketing and PR.
Obama seems to be as far as it can go. But we can still queue up Paris Hilton and other National Enquirer dingbats. I see no reason for optimism. Ask the average person to name 10 states and they won't make it.
"JFK was the first empty-suit prez who nevertheless became a celebrity. "
Not exactly. You ought to read H L Mencken on Presidents Wilson and Harding. Not to mention Roosevelt.
Leave the guy alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His basketball brackets are 29/32. Why isn't this being reported??????????????????????
It's early... Let's see how the Elite 8 picks look...
"Like a sick dog returns to his vomit..." Great phrase.
Why did Rick Santorum just pop into my mind-stream?
+1 Knukles, I'm afraid you are correct sir!
In summary, We Are Soooooooooooo Fucked.
RC Whalen??
What the hell? I thought you were an intelligent, thoughtful guy...perhaps with analyzing bank credit....but not moral values or politics....Obama is a complete sell-out weakling without moral character, but Sol Sanders is worse
You don't understand, Sol. They are celebrities. Their shit doesn't stink. Just ask them. As to the mob connections, they simply don't know any decent people. What would you expect?
..."Mr. Obama’s sports addiction"...
Sports addiction. Now there's an impeachable offense. OMdoubleG. If O'B paid no attention to sports you'd probably call him unAmerican or insinuate a lack of testersterone.
..."Marie-Antoinette progressions"...
Quite a catchy phrase. But, again, what the F do you mean by it? You throw the dart but leave Ms O'B out of your Nat'l Enq. tone article
spin, spin, spin. You getting (even more) dizzy?
Sure, corruption abounds with this administration as it did in the previous admin. and the one before that. and the one before that. and the one be....y-a-w-n. tell me something I don't know.
Awww, back to Bush bashing. That's pretty original for all of you Obama lovers. Get his balls out of your mouth, you'll think better that way SheHunter.
This guy is a complete disaster. He's the worst president on every metric since the inception of the U.S. No, sports addictions are not impeachable but it goes to show you the arrogance, only surpassed by his ignorance when he's on ESPN filling in a bracket while the world is coming apart. Adda boy Barry, you f'n dip shit!
And since he's a puppet of George Soros, he's just following orders. I don't think he can even do that as Soros now wants Barry out...that really says something about this brutha.
Try pulling your balls out of your mouth and you might think a little clearer. I'm no fan of Mr Slick. Voted for him because of the alternative (or lack thereof). My tone to you stems from my no longer falling prey to the contrived GOP vs Dem hate competition. Someone further up on this board said what I am saying: time to see you are being manipulated like a lame sheep and taking up the cardboard sword to defend your plastic GOP/Dem soldier. We're all in this together and have more we agree than disagree on. So back off.
Weird, ain't it? I didn't know Muslims liked basketball. It's obviously a diversion used to fool us. His record of picks is bad so there's the proof.
Abolish the Koch Brothers and everything will fall in its place.
Defund "Amercians for Prosperity" and "Freedom Works."
Has none of you listened to the telephone conversation between Gov. Walker and the fake David Koch ?
Your left wing bias is obvious. Do you not know that both political parties in the U.S. are part of the plutocracy? If you did, or submitted an honest argument, you would throw the many organizations funded by George Soros on the list to "Abolish". This tired left vs right argument simply pits us against each other while the oligarchs reign with impunity. So, in short, take the left/right B.S. and shove it up your ass. I and many others see it for what it really is.
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It may be a tired argument, but it lives on. It's the tried and true method of control of The Idiot Fucking Sheep. Hegel's dialectic works very well when it's augmented by Bernays' principles and 21st century media campaigns.
You only have to ask the average American how many buildings fell on 9/11 to verify this. Building What?
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the only thing with which i would agree is that obama is a complete and utter disaster. however, we disagree on the causes....
sol laments the lack of neo-con credentials of the the pompous, preening teleprompter-in-chief, but i lament his blood thirsty foreign policies crafted by his twin brother george....especially at a time of america's economic implosion....
"This standard operating procedure is reinforced by Mr. Obama’s denigration of historic American accomplishments, often on foreign soil"
i wonder why a kenyan born indnonesian citizen would speak so....but he speaks with the same disdain as the bush crime syndicate, banksters, and other elitist citizens of the world....
sol, go fuck yourself along with obama, north american mossad director emmanuel, and every other bombastic whore maintaining the charade in the white house.
www.obamacrimes.com
There is no "special" person who can change the kleptocracy in which we are enslaved. Neutralize all the politicians by changing the system of voting to REFERENDUMS. Let all the people vote on major issues at the Fed, State and County levels rather than continually being screwed by our so called "representatives". Could the people really do any worse than what we have now? It's time for a real change!
Anti-Obama Protests in Brazil
http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/18/rubber-bullets-fly-at-anti-...
Those who call Obama a leftist or a Socialist do so either because they're ignorant or simply conditioned by disinformation. Obama is a kleptocratic capitalist. I agree with the poster that said his only ambition is to join the ranks of oligarchs. Obviously the fact that Obama supports Public-Union empolyees in Wisconsin does not fool Brazilain Private Union employees.
DECEITFULLY CLUELESS
"Mr. Obama jeopardizes Israel’s basic security further postponing any agreement."
I tuned out after that. More shilling for ZOG, from "Sol".
ditto. i notice this thread basically takes the "obama not good" idea and runs with it, largely ignoring the neo-conservative critique of obama as some sort of leftist (lol).
"Obama has been a complete failure for the hope and change crowd"
But he has delivered!!! he promised "change" and we got it just because it is in a negative direction doesn't matter we got change
How is he so much worse than the administration that enabled the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of others, caused the housing bubble and gave the banks trillions? Remember The Village Idiot, Easy Al Greenspan, Hank "Martial Law if you don't give the banks your $$$" Paulson, and "Deficits Don't Matter" Cheney?
Obama has not lived up to his promises, but to say that his direction is negative to his predecessor is (unfortunately) grossly untrue.
on balance i think you've got the better argument. obama has continued, elaborated and consolidated the crony capitalist police state that w. bush built on the foundations laid during the prior wars.
As far as I'm concerned the president is a non-entity. He ranks right up there with the tabloid headline stars as a person to be ignored.
I will add that we are screwed as long as the federal reserve exists.
bingo! people are getting distracted by everything else. End the Fed and everything else will fall into place. Thats why Ron Paul should be president. Did you notice how no one else wants to end the Federal Reserve Corp.? Hmmm, why is that?? Any other 2012 presidential candidates want to do that? So no one likes Ron Paul? I think the globalist controlled MSM has brainwashed you all!
excellent point regarding Ron Paul which I happen to agree strongly with. However, Alan Grayson was pointing out the problems with the federal reserve as well .. but the status quo political system got Grayson thrown out of office. What I don't agree with R. Paul about are libertarian policies, I think we're already in a libertarian 'free market' utopia now and it doesn't work. The only politicians who seem to get "nominated" are all globalists ... we don't need globalists in govt but the non-globalists will likely get snuffed by the money power just like they did to JFK ... he tried to take some of their power away with 01111.
And we would be less screwed if Congress took over the duties of the Fed? Just sayin'.
Chaos, incompetence, or criminality are not replacements for proper governance.
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