It’s important to get all the facts—if that’s possible. We’re being fed a diet of partial and edited facts. Saber es poder. Knowledge is power. Let's look a bit more closely at the progress made by President Obama with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and others.
We do know that on March 29, 2009, Chavez said this, “the least I can say is that he's (President Obama) a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality…."
We do know that the book Chavez gave President Obama is "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. This book is an extension of the March 29th remark, and it is his condescending way of “educating” his American counterpart. His gift is merely the gift of public humiliation.
This book is a favorite of the left. Let me quote Jake Tapper, ABC News’ Senior White House correspondent. Read this to see the intent of this “gift.” (The emphasis is mine)
We do know that on March 29, 2009, Chavez said this, “the least I can say is that he's (President Obama) a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality…."
We do know that the book Chavez gave President Obama is "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. This book is an extension of the March 29th remark, and it is his condescending way of “educating” his American counterpart. His gift is merely the gift of public humiliation.
This book is a favorite of the left. Let me quote Jake Tapper, ABC News’ Senior White House correspondent. Read this to see the intent of this “gift.” (The emphasis is mine)
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing," the book begins. "Our part of the world, known today as Latin America, was precocious: it has specialized in losing ever since those remote times when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations. Centuries passed, and Latin America perfected its role."
Galeano writes that while the era of "lodes of gold" and "mountains of silver" has passed, "our region still works as a menial laborer. It continues to exist at the service of others' needs, as a source of oil and iron, of copper and meat, of fruit and coffee, the raw materials and foods destined for rich countries which profit more from consuming them than Latin America does from producing them."
At another point in the book, Galeano writes: "Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others."
The book also criticizes the U.S. for "spreading and imposing family planning. ... In Latin America it is more hygienic and effective to kill future guerillas in the womb that in the mountains or the streets."
There was no way for Mr. Obama to avoid accepting the book, and it was indeed gracious of him to joke about it. He was caught by a man shrewder than he and far savvier about the machinations of power. BUT, and this is a big but, we the people have been led to believe that our President is making inroads though his apologizing and, as I see it, groveling at the feet of foreign powers. That’s doesn’t really seem to be true, and our media is not reporting it. We have to search for the world’s reactions even as we shake our own heads in disbelief.
President Sarkozy of France had no hesitation, as reported by the Times on April 17th, of cracking jokes about Europe’s Obamamania, and even said about Mr. Obama’s planned visit to Normandy in June for the D-Day anniversary,
“I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it.”
He had no hesitancy in calling our President weak. He said, again according to The Times,
“Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive…Obama has a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic,” the French President said. “But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency.”
Obviously I’m neither a fan of Chavez (I don’t buy Citgo gasoline) or of Sarkozy. I think France has always needed a severe attitude adjustment. But I am a fan of the U.S.A. and I don’t see us in the way our President or some of the rest of the world sees us.
I want a President who is going to tout the good things we do. I didn’t hear any of that from him. I want him to stop talking as if all our problems began during the George W. Bush adminstration. I’d like to move our country forward as it was designed; I’m not interested in a “new foundation.” We’ve got a good foundation; let’s use that strong base to be better.
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1 comment:
I absolutely agree with this post. I think that Obama is a man in a quest for adulation and approval, like a child seeking attention, and that is why you get comments like, "We are the people you were waiting for" along with the not so subtle shots at our former administration. I have never heard any former president speak as Obama speaks and I am embarrassed by how he speaks of Bush. Like him or not, Bush was our president and I hope that we will have a new leader in 3 3/4 yrs and that he or she will give Obama more respect than what has been afforded to Bush.
Knowing Latin people, I am guessing that they perceive him to be soft and weak. I am not sure that Chavez thinks that Obama is a tough colleague. I think he feels he can control Obama and he has so far been very correct in his assessment.
I am not a warrior by any stretch but I don't like the way Obama is portraying my country. He is making us sound weak and he is making us seem like a nation torn apart by strife. What good could possibly come out of Obama's consistent shots at our people, our former president and our culture? Arrogant? I think that best describes Obama.
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