The Superbower and Not So Smart Power
Your Saturday Steyn, on the weak fool we allowed to defraud his way into the Presidency:
This is the president who made “trillion” the new default unit of federal budgeting, and whose irresponsibility is prompting key players around the world to consider seriously whether it’s time to ditch the dollar’s role as global reserve currency. But Obama’s much vaunted “bipartisanship,” to which so many “moderate” conservatives were partial a year ago, seems to have dwindled down to an impressive ability to take one side of an issue in his rhetoric and another in his actions.
Which brings us to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. He’d been brought before a military commission, and last December indicated he was ready to plead guilty, and itching for the express lane to the 72 virgins.
But that wasn’t good enough for Obama, who in essence declined to accept KSM’s confession and decided to put him on trial in a New York courthouse. Why? To show “the world” — i.e., European op-ed pages and faculty lounges — that America would fight terror in a way “consistent with our values,” and apparently that means turning KSM into O. J. and loosing his dream team on the civilian justice system. But, having buttered up Le Monde and the BBC and many of his own lefties by announcing that Mohammed would get a fair trial, Obama then assured NBC that he’d be convicted and was gonna fry.
So it’s like a fair trial consistent with “our values” except for the one about presumption of innocence?
Nah. it’s more like Treacher’s old summation: this is a man who will say absolutely anything he thinks will get him through the next five minutes, while his hard-Left, America-destroying agenda steals march after march on American freedom, prosperity, independence, and strength.
…America’s enemies smell weakness, and our allies feel only the vacuum of U.S. leadership. About himself, the president speaks loudly. For America, he carries a small twig.
It’s not as if he doesn’t have one of TR’s big sticks available to him, you know. It’s that he’s willing to use it only on Americans, and our allies.
Update! And only now do I notice that Noel already linked this one. Ah well, at least we quoted different bits. And one can never have enough Steyn gracing the main page, right?
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