Outrageous Behavior by the Obama Administration
September 7, 2010
I hardly need comment; I merely post in its entirety an article by Nile Gardiner:
Barack Obama has bowed before the UN over Arizona immigration law
By Nile Gardiner August 31st, 2010
Obama has kowtowed to the UN (Photo: Reuters)
There can be few sights more humiliating for the American people than that of a US president kowtowing to a foreign leader or to supranational institutions. Continental Europeans are used to this sort of thing after decades of dominance by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and have grudgingly accepted over time the gradual and undemocratic erosion of their freedoms. But most Americans fiercely defend their national sovereignty, and find the idea of giving international organisations a say over their laws and lives completely unacceptable.
The Obama administration however has submitted a report to the UN Commissioner on Human Rights, South African judge Navanethem Pillay, which makes direct reference to a popular Arizona immigration law aimed at tackling illegal immigration, which is fiercely opposed by the White House, and is the subject of legal action by the Justice Department. The report references
A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, (which) has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined.
The highly controversial reference to the Arizona law serves only one purpose – to gain UN and international support for the Obama administration’s position in the face of mounting opposition from Arizona legislators and a majority of the American people. A recent Rasmussen poll showed 61 percent of Americans backing Arizona-style laws for their own states, and just 28 percent supporting a Justice Department challenge .
By doing so, Obama officials undoubtedly hope to stir up international condemnation of the Arizona policy in advance of the UN General Assembly meetings in September, which they believe will increase pressure on Arizona to back down. It is a highly cynical move that speaks volumes about the Obama team’s willingness to undercut American sovereignty and popular will on the world stage.
This approach has rightly been strongly condemned by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who described the Arizona reference in the government report as “downright offensive”, and called on it to be removed. The State Department has just announced that it will stand by its decision to include Arizona in its UN submission, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly in favour of it.
It is important to note that the Obama administration’s report to the United Nations will go before the UN Human Rights Council, which includes in its current membership some of the world’s worst human rights abusers. The likes of China, Cuba, Libya, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, will have a right to pass judgment over the Arizona immigration law, a humiliation for a great superpower before some of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth.
Over the course of the last 19 months, Barack Obama has bowed before Emperors and Kings, and apologised for his country on numerous occasions, from Cairo to Strasbourg. By deliberately placing the immigration policy of a US state before the Human Rights Council, he is now bowing before the United Nations, and undercutting the sovereignty of his own nation. This is not leadership but a surrender of US interests before a declining world body that is a hotbed of anti-Americanism, and a bully pulpit for many of the world’s most odious tyrants. It is also yet another example of an imperial-style presidency that is increasingly out of touch with the American people and public opinion.
Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR.
Neville Obama?
May 23, 2010
Charles Krauthammer makes the case that this presidency is disastrous with regard to foreign policy.
So Much for those “Giving” Liberals…
April 16, 2010
There are people who get really antsy when I talk about the generosity of individuals—but I don’t care; I’m going to talk about it anyway, because what we voluntarily give says more about us than most anything else when it comes to our personal priorities. And so with that thought in mind, we now have access to the priorities of the two leading liberals in our country, President Obama and Vice-President Biden.
I will congratulate the president; this return compares favorably with some of his returns from previous years, which demonstrated him to be, frankly, a pretty stingy individual. That said, I’d hardly gush with the praise heaped on him in this article, which says he was “very generous, giving $329,100 to 40 different charities.” On an income of $5.5 million? Seriously? They’re impressed by that? I suppose that compared with a lot of Americans, it’s not terribly bad, but if you read the article and do the math, it indicates that after taxes, the Prez and First Lady still had nearly $4 million left over—which means that after they gave, they still had a cool $3.6 million. Yawn. Not terribly impressive on the old giving scale; if I made that much jack and gave less than a million, I’d be embarrassed, frankly, and I don’t say that to toot my own horn; sheesh, shouldn’t something in that ballpark that just be par for the course, particularly for a professing Christian? Not even a hard call.
But alas, that liberal paragon Joe Biden, on a salary of over $330K, forked over less than 5 large to charity. Sorry, but that’s just downright stingy. Not that that keeps people like Mr. Biden from supporting tax increases so that our money is forcibly confiscated by Washington in order to support whatever “beneficial social program” the liberals deem necessary. This reminds me of the old adage that there’s nothing particularly virtuous about being willing to try to do good with other people’s money—not that that’s ever stopped a liberal politician, mind you…
The Emerging Obama Pattern
April 5, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson puts the dots together on the Obama administration’s first 14 months and sees a pattern that seems to be unmistakable:
As Hanson rightly points out, we might forgive an instance of statism here or there, a power grab or an unwise decision with adverse consequences, a diplomatic faux pas or a dubious association. But when all things are taken together, a pretty clear portrait emerges, summed up in Hanson’s closing argument:
In any isolated circumstance, we are willing to give the president of the United States a pass on a particular disturbing decision. But after 14 months of them, the Obama particulars add up to a remaking of America that is now clear and consistent: Grow government; redistribute income; establish permanent political constituencies of dependents; increase entitlements; hike taxes; demonize “them” while deifying their supposed victims; seek global neutrality abroad; and always play fast and loose with the truth.
Orwellian
March 22, 2010
The president of the United States of America—or, what’s left of it—actually said this, on the heels of the passage of this damnable legislation called “health care reform”, a piece of legislation about which the American people had made themselves abundantly clear (in the negative):
“We proved that this government, a government of the people and by the people, still works for the people.”
Yes, he actually said that. Presumably, with a straight face.
George Orwell would be proud.
A Humorous Look Inside the Cult of Obama
March 20, 2010
First, read A Lack of Healthy Boundaries, and then get the real laugh, the original article itself on the inane Huffington Post, written by Michael “Politics of Meaning” Lerner, entitled Reviving the American Liberal Movement. These people are a hoot—and they’re serious!
Good Thoughts on Obamacare
March 20, 2010
I will withhold the full fury of my thoughts until Obamacare passes, if indeed it does, this travesty that is being foisted on the American public against its will by a lying President, a power-possessed Speaker, and a tone-deaf Democrat Congress. But in the meantime, here are two articles that need to be read, particularly the first, by Peggy Noonan.
The Health Care Wars are Only Beginning
The first deals with the embarrassment that Mr. Obama has already become, so quickly in his administration; that this man is deceitful is obvious; that his ideology is far-leftist is clear; that he is in way over his head experience-wise isn’t hard to discern at all. Peggy Noonan’s article deals mainly with the latter, and his pitiful attempts to cover up this fact.
The second, by Freddie Barnes, deals with the fact that passing Obamacare will signal, not the end, but the beginning of a long, drawn out fight that may last decades. Good reading, both.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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