Obama Congratulates Himself

[Geee]

American Spectator:

In his speech on Libya Monday evening, President Barack Obama demonstrated why self-congratulation is an awful basis for foreign policy. The stated aim of the address was to tell the American people "what we've done [in Libya], what we plan to do, and why this matters to us." That might have been a genuinely interesting bit of oratory. It is not what we actually heard.

Perhaps the wrong speech got loaded onto his teleprompter, because the preachment Obama delivered fudged the past, gave us weasel words in place of real goals, and substituted a vigorous Nobel Peace Prize-winning pat on the back for any good reason to make this our fight. The evasions of fact and friction were so breathtaking that they need to be cataloged for posterity. What I offer here is only a first and flawed attempt:

1. What national interest? Obama said that when Americans' "interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act." These are two very different things. If America got into it with other nations every time they offended our values, we would need a much bigger military. (Maybe we could borrow China's?)

By putting interests and values together, Obama tried to pull a switcheroo. He said that if he had "waited one more day" to act, a massacre might have occurred in the city of Benghazi, which might have "stained the conscience of the world." He explained, "It was not in our national interest to let that happen." More to the point, "I refused to let that happen."

[clearvision]

Good summary.

[Pepper]

Geee Clearvision

 

"...stained the conscience of the world." Dear Leader explained, "It was not in our national interest to let that happen." More to the point, "I refused to let that happen.""

 

What a stupid statement. The world has no collective conscience. Individuals do.

 

The Obama regime's rationale does not compute.

Where was Obama in 2009 with the Green Revolution in Iran?

Why is Obama not attacking North Korea? The starvation there is well documented.

Why not Syria?

 

 

When Tea Party and other conservatives get their rights crushed by the Obama regime leading up to 2012, will we too be able to tweet and twitter our way for an international team to rid us of his oppressive regime?