Rare Arrogance
Barack Obama’s most conspicuous quality, if you want to call it that, is shameless arrogance. His trip abroad was like Hitler’s tour of Italy in 1938. Before you dismiss my view as that of a party hack tearing down the opposition, read Susan Estrich’s column on FoxNews.com. (Estrich was Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988).
First, Presidential candidates rarely campaign in war zones, and for good reason. American politics traditionally sort of stopped “at the water’s edge,” as the saying went. It was never completely true, but more mature politicians took steps to appear that they put their country before their parties and candidacy. Not this ass.
Second, he hold himself immune (with the help of a fawning press) from the consequences of his own words. There is seemingly not an issue on the planet on which he does not simultaneously hold 3 or 4 mutually exclusive positions. Pointing this out earns his scathing, superior, Harvard put-down. “You’re not smart enough to undertand the complexity of my mind,” he seems to tell us.
Third, in his Germany speech, he told the world that it should allow him to remake it in his image and likeness. As we know, many people in many countries bristle at American calls to adopt our ways. When a first-term Senator travels to Europe to tell them they fucked up the planet and only he can fix it, well, that gives a whole new meaning to “ugly American.”
Fourth, he dissed wounded troops in Germany and, like a petulant four-year-old, blamed it on the Pentagon. We now know that the Pentagon had made elaborate preparations for his visit. Obama personally turned his back on the troops when he learned that there would be no photo-ops.
Fifth he turned the Wailing Wall into a campaign headquarters and lied about where the Obama posters came from. This act of arrogance brought shouts of “Jerusalem is not for sale,” from the locals who were offended by his crass commercialization of a holy place.
Americans (63 percent according to Rasmussen) don’t believe the trip made him more presidential. In a separate poll, 45 percent say Obama’s too inexperienced to be president.
His trip seems to prove that 45 percent right. Not only was it the work of a man inexperienced on the world stage, it gave a sense of naivite and immaturity to a man who seriously lack gravitas to begin with.
Or maybe it’s just mad wanderings a very arrogant candidate.
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Northwest Passage Today
We’ve heard that all the ice will be gone from the Arctic soon. Supposedly responsible “scientists” told us that the Arctic Sea would be ice-free in 2012.
Better hurry:
Arctic Sea Ice
Obama Round-Up: Gateway Pundit
The best Obama round-up is on The Gateway Pundit.
Obama’s so anti-American and so, well, stupid, that it’s difficult for me to keep up with his antics. It’s nice to know that someone has it covered.
By the way, you cannot vote for Obama and call yourself and American patriot. Unless you’re really dumb.
Who Else Believes Hansen a Fraud?
Brian Sussman writing on American Thinker, for one.
In an article titled, “James Hansen: Abusing the Public Trust,” Sussman writes:
Topping it all, Hansen has allegedly received hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to further politicize the issue of global warming. According to Investors Business Daily, “How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely ‘NASA whistleblower’ standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by [George] Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI), which gave him ‘legal and media advice’? That’s right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros’ flagship ‘philanthropy’ by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI’s ‘politicization of science’ program.”
So Hansen takes cash under the table to channel George Soros’s twisted mind. Great. Perhaps he’ll use his windfall profits to buy some thermometers that work. Or maybe he won’t (h/t Anthony Watts).
Update to my post of last night: I got a lot of hits thanks to National Review’s Edward John Craig on PlanetGore. Gracias, Señor!
The high today in St. Louis was 70. Average for this time of year about 90. Luckily, we managed to keep the kids away from the polar bears floating down the Mississippi on ice floes. I wonder what 70 F translates to on the Hansen Scale?
UPDATE: NewsBusters has touched off a continuing battle amongst the AGW crowd.
Dr. James Hansen of GISS is a Liar and a Fraud
Dr. Hansen purposely and with malice aforethought manipulates actual temperature observations in order to perpetuate a global warming hoax.
If I’m wrong, he can sue me. But he won’t, because he’s a fraud.
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