WHY DO THEY LOVE OBAMA AT THE U.N.?

I thought you might like this article from the UK

http://http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6221379/The-UN-loves-Barack-Obama-because-he-is-weak.html?state=target#postacomment&postingId=6224513

OBAMA CONTINUES TO DIS OUR NATION'S FRIENDS

Today Israel is holding a nationwide air raid drill. Simulated fire power destruction litters the Israeli countryside. Children in schools are practicing for the worst. News commentators suggest that the amount of destruction far exceeds that which would occur from the rockets--relatively less lethal--that continue to bombard Israel from the north and the south. The demonstrated destruction of this drill is more like the destruction wrought by a bigger warhead--the kind of which Iran boasts. Commentators suggest that this drill demonstrates that Israel is in a state of readiness to react to a strike on them from Iran. They also suggest this is a statement to President Obama--a reaction to America's change in support.

It is frightening to watch these air raid drills on television. It is frightening to hear the suggestion that a strike from Iran could create another massive loss of Jewish life--another REAL attempt at GENOCIDE. We're only a bit more than 60 years from the last attempt to wipe Jews off the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, President Obama is heading to the mideast. He is visiting several countries in the area---BUT OBAMA IS NOT VISITING ISRAEL. I watched the news conference when the President sat with Netanyahu. He never looked at him. He talked at him, not with him. The essence of that talk was to warn Israel to stop building on the West Bank and to agree to the two-state solution--without first requiring the Arabs to agree to Israel's right to exist.

Remember, too, that Obama gave huge sums of money to Gaza after the recent battle with Israel--one that began as Israel tried to stop the barrage of rockets launched into towns like Sderot. Before the smoke cleared, the "Palestinians" were smuggling more rockets into the area via tunnels from Egypt. Israel was to blame for the damage?????? Israel is warned to change????

In the same way that my post on merit (one post prior) points to Obama's disregard for merit in favor of political expediency, his actions in this case point to his lack of respect for our allies around the world. He demonstrated this in his treatment of Poland early in his still-short-but-far-too-long-for-me administration, his dvd gift to Gordon Brown as well as his iPod gift to Queen Elizabeth a short time later, and recently his complicity by not immediately insisting that Queen Elizabeth be invited to the Normandy ceremonies. She, the only ruler still living who lived through WWII and who worked in England's gallant war effort, was not invited by the French. Incredibly gauche.

On this trip, the President will stop over in Germany and visit Auschwitz. It is a political stop for him, objected to even by Obama's uncle, part of the American militiary that freed the Auschwitz victims. His uncle rejects the idea of using this site for gaining political cash; Obama can't see the horrific irony of using it while throwing our only mideast ally, Israel, under the bus. What ISN'T going on inside Obama's head is, at once, astounding and problematic.

While Obama will kow tow and make a "major address to Muslim nations," he has no qualms about insulting those other Americans hold near and dear.

Let me note that while the slobbering love affair with Obama's onscreen personality (or onteleprompter) continues, HE HAS YET TO CONVINCE ANYONE TO CHANGE THEIR BASIC STANCE AND SUPPORT US MONETARILY OR MILITARILY. He has, in fact, failed to impact any problem in any positive way; he continues to bamboozle the American public.

While Congress has at least begun to question some of what is going on, the question remains whether they or the American public will wake up and rub their knuckles hard against their eyes to get them to open after a way-too-long sleep.

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CHAVEZ TO OBAMA: THE DIS-GIFT

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)

“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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GEORGIA & POLAND--WHAT'S MOTHER RUSSIA'S PLAN?

The problems in Georgia and Poland should give the world pause.

Russia is not our friend! Putin is not our friend! Russia is just lying in wait until it can rebuild the Soviet Union by ensnaring all those countries on its borders which haven’t the strength or alliances to protect themselves.

Americans were surprised when those small countries, relatively newly freed from the Soviet Union’s domination, volunteered to help us in Iraq, but those countries do not take freedom for granted having lived under the grinding Soviet heel for so long. They understand the purpled fingers of joyous people who get to vote. They understand the struggle and sacrifice it is to make a democracy work.

Georgia’s struggle is the struggle of all free people. The United States took the lead in supporting them.

Poland signed a treaty with us to place ten defensive missiles there. Russia immediately threatened Poland stating that by agreeing to this placement, Poland is in danger of nuclear attack from Russia. Indeed, it would AIM its missiles with nuclear warheads at Poland. Today that threat was modified to say that would be the case IF Russia and the U.S. go to war. A map, however, shows that missiles from Russia toward the U.S. would not fly over the range of those ten U.S. missiles in Poland.

Whose missiles aimed at the U.S. would fly over that area in Poland? Iran’s missiles. Just as the U.S. said when it first proposed the system to protect against rogue nations. Remember, too, we received no help from NATO in proposing a defensive missile system.

CNN this morning suggested we provoked Russia to issue that threat, but CNN would like to paint us as the world’s enemy as often as it can. After all, Iran’s buildup of nuclear power is merely peaceful. Isn’t it????

Western Europe is mum about Russia’s invasion of Georgia. They’ve been happy allowing us to take the lead in protecting the world, and they vetoed Ukraine’s and Georgia’s membership in NATO. The U.S. has already sent humanitarian aid to Georgia while Europe is afraid to confront Russia and its oil. The only pipeline bringing oil from the Caspian Sea that does not traverse Russia is the one that traverses Georgia. So Europe is pretending this will all go away. Just as Europe sat back and allowed Hitler to invade sovereign countries, they will appease Russia.

History tells us where the appeasement (milk & cookies approach) led. Ernest Hemingway, then a reporter, warned the world about Hitler and Mussolini when he correctly called the Spanish Civil War a testing ground for the fascists. He predicted a world war within ten years. Hmmmmm

All of this takes us inevitably to our presidential candidates.

Obama wants all this at the U.N. and the Security Council. Duh! Russia has veto power on the Security Council. Does Obama really think Russia will vote for its own condemnation in any form?

McCain, who has been to Georgia on numerous occasions and who has vacationed there, said the U.S. must take a pro-active stand, though not a military one, in shoring up the country’s fragile democracy.

Both candidates applauded the President’s quick response with humanitarian aid.

Once again, Obama proves he just doesn’t get it!!!!

And good for President Bush, who had Condeleeza Rice there making an American stand for Georgia’s fledgling democracy. Much better a war of words than a war.

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