Posted by
Jay Noble on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:12:50 PM
Many have commented on President Obama's aloof and detached response to the failed terrorist attack on a commercial aircraft on Christmas Day. I think the answer is simple, if difficult to accept for a president. You see, Obama, in his heart of hearts, thinks we deserve to be attacked, that America is as a nation deserves to be punished. Of course, he can't actually say that, so his lack of verve when commenting on terrorist acts results from the inner conflict between deeply held conviction and public relations. However, make no mistake, this president believes in his bones that America is a deeply flawed nation which has inflicted injury on all sorts of innocents at home and abroad, as well as the Earth itself. The president has no pride in American history, faith in its Constitution, or respect for our traditions and values. To Barack Obama, America before his term was an arrogant nation responsible for much evil, a country to be apologized for and diminished. And he is working overtime with a compliant leftist Congress to accomplish this goal.
I've commented before that Americans simply cannot grasp the fact that we have a president who despises the country he was elected to lead. We've never experienced a leader like this before. Americans naturally assume their president is a patriot: Barack Obama is not a patriot. Barack Obama is a committed leftist whose loyalty is to an alien ideology inimical to everything we hold dear. It grates on him mightily that he must for the sake of political survival pretend to care about national defense. Any decision he makes which superficially appear robust in terms of fighting America's enemies is calculated for public effect, not for actual effectiveness. Hence his dithering for weeks over sending reinforcements to Afghanistan, and then sending less than requested while setting a withdrawal date.
Barack Obama is sui generis in American history. A president who cares about national security only as it relates to political viability; a political ideologue who believes that America has it coming. The United States is in grave danger while this man holds office.