Gee Mr. Goodwin it is not like people did not warn you what American and the world would be like if we voted in an untested, ideological, inexperienced, neophyte to the most important position in the world. Obama, a man of the radical left (wearing a neat suit and a pasted on smile) and the corrupt Chicago machine, is what you get when you give a mediocre, unqualified professor real power. It amazes me that intelligent people such as Michael Goodwin and Daniel Hannan either voted for him or supported him (Hannan is British) and are now expressing buyers remorse, I guess all those warnings that the Edsel was a lemon would not have stuck with you either. We need a good candidate in 2012.
by Michael Goodwin
First I did a double take. He said what? I read it again and the shock waves followed.
A beleaguered President Obama has told aides it would be so much easier to be the president of China, The New York Times reports.
There are two ways to read the remark, which is attributed to anonymous aides. One is that Obama resents the burden of global leadership that comes with the American presidency. The other is that he longs for an authoritarian system, where he need tolerate no dissent.
Under either or both interpretations, his confession carries a dose of self-pity that means Obama has hit a wall.
He is in over his head, and he knows it.
Even before the horror in Japan, the president faced a litany of nightmares. From Libya to Iran to Afghanistan to gas prices, unemployment and rising debt, Obama is surrounded by serious trouble.
His responses range from halfhearted to wrongheaded. Nothing is working. Unhappy voters already repudiated his first two years and might fire him when they get the chance. It is a moment that brings home the truth of the sign on Harry Truman’s desk: “The buck stops here.”
Yet my suspicion is that it’s not the problems per se that have Obama envying a lower rung on the global ladder. It’s that he regards them as endless distractions that keep getting in the way of his transformative agenda.
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He wants America to be less exceptional and more like every other nation. He’s uncomfortable with our status as the No. 1 superpower, as he made clear with his apology tours and by submitting to the lowest common denominator in the United Nations.
He talks about wanting Moammar Khadafy to go but takes no action to make it happen and even signed on to an arms embargo that the State Department says bars our supplying the rebels.
As The Wall Street Journal wrote, the rising slaughter reveals “what the world without US leadership looks like.”
Meanwhile, he punts on the budget mess, as if details are beneath him. On soaring gas prices, the purpose of his dreary Friday press conference, his policy seems to be peevishness that he must be bothered.
As shocking as the China lament is, it’s not surprising. The desire to sidestep messy reality is the thread that runs through his presidency, starting with the campaign.
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