Post by AztecWilliam on Feb 15, 2010 11:27:41 GMT -8
Okay, okay, I know. Obama's personal popularity is still pretty good. Still, his personal popularity is not nearly what it was a year ago. And many of his policies are decidedly unpopular. With The White House and the Congress in their power, the Democrats have been remarkably unable to push through their agenda.
Doubts about ObamaCare and prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts are one thing. I think there is something else, something so basic that even the most popular politicians would suffer its effects. That has to do with how a politician sees the U.S.A. Do you think FDR, JFK, Dwight Eisenhower, or either of the two Bushes would have gone around the world apologizing for their country and bowing like an impoverished supplicant at the feet of foreign leaders?
I don't think so.
Barack Obama is, basically, an internationalist. He sees America the way bureaucrats in Europe see Belgium or Spain; namely, subordinate components of a larger whole. . . as cogs in a machine that have little relevance outside of the workings of that greater mechanism.
I don't say that Obama does not love America or that he does not want the best for his country. I do say that his definition of "best for his country" involves denying that the U.S.A. is anything special, certainly not more special than any other country, no matter how small or lacking in power. He said as much when asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism.
The American people have not yet bought that bill of goods. Gen. Patton's remark is, I feel, still pretty much true. . .
America loves a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Obama has gone out of his way to convince the world that his goal for the U.S.A. involves making America smaller and less significant. Something like emulating Costa Rica, I suppose. I know that he means well. But the American people are not, and likely never will be, on the same wavelength,
Nile Gardiner explores this question. . .
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100026007/dick-cheney-%E2%80%93-obama%E2%80%99s-worst-nightmare/
AztecWilliam
Doubts about ObamaCare and prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts are one thing. I think there is something else, something so basic that even the most popular politicians would suffer its effects. That has to do with how a politician sees the U.S.A. Do you think FDR, JFK, Dwight Eisenhower, or either of the two Bushes would have gone around the world apologizing for their country and bowing like an impoverished supplicant at the feet of foreign leaders?
I don't think so.
Barack Obama is, basically, an internationalist. He sees America the way bureaucrats in Europe see Belgium or Spain; namely, subordinate components of a larger whole. . . as cogs in a machine that have little relevance outside of the workings of that greater mechanism.
I don't say that Obama does not love America or that he does not want the best for his country. I do say that his definition of "best for his country" involves denying that the U.S.A. is anything special, certainly not more special than any other country, no matter how small or lacking in power. He said as much when asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism.
The American people have not yet bought that bill of goods. Gen. Patton's remark is, I feel, still pretty much true. . .
America loves a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Obama has gone out of his way to convince the world that his goal for the U.S.A. involves making America smaller and less significant. Something like emulating Costa Rica, I suppose. I know that he means well. But the American people are not, and likely never will be, on the same wavelength,
Nile Gardiner explores this question. . .
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100026007/dick-cheney-%E2%80%93-obama%E2%80%99s-worst-nightmare/
AztecWilliam
