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Determined Weakness – I guess I’m not the only one

I’ve said for years that the phrase “Determined Weakness” has been the hallmark of Obama’s intentions from from the get go.  His view of his mission to “make this America better” is actually to make it weaker.  Look at the results of his domestic policies (and not his words or “intent”):

  • High unemployment still
  • Worst labor participation percentage ever
  • Putting the Welfare State growth on steroids
  • Debt has soared $7 Trillion
  • Unconstitutional and illegal (as ruled by several courts) actions
  • Attempts to redefine the meanings of the plain language of the Constitution
  • The use of Government for retribution for identity groups that oppose him (Christians, TEA Party, Conservatives)
  • Unwillingness to work with Congress
  • Hollowing out our military

The list goes on and on.

And now to foreign policy where, once again from the get-go, he caused our allies to move away from us and made our enemies sneer at us – all the while blaming everyone else.  Problem is, not everyone is playing along with President Blameless and others are coming to the same conclusion I have (emphasis mine):

…Summing up the net effect of all this, as astute a foreign observer as Conrad Black can flatly say that, “Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and before that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States.”

Yet if this is indeed the pass to which Mr. Obama has led us—and I think it is—let me suggest that it signifies not how incompetent and amateurish the president is, but how skillful. His foreign policy, far from a dismal failure, is a brilliant success as measured by what he intended all along to accomplish. The accomplishment would not have been possible if the intention had been too obvious. The skill lies in how effectively he has used rhetorical tricks to disguise it.

Norman Podoretz in the Wall Street Journal continues:

The key to understanding what Mr. Obama has pulled off is the astonishing statement he made in the week before being elected president: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” To those of us who took this declaration seriously, it meant that Mr. Obama really was the left-wing radical he seemed to be, given his associations with the likes of the anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, not to mention the intellectual influence over him of Saul Alinsky, the original “community organizer.”

…But foreign policy was another matter. As a left-wing radical, Mr. Obama believed that the United States had almost always been a retrograde and destructive force in world affairs. Accordingly, the fundamental transformation he wished to achieve here was to reduce the country’s power and influence. And just as he had to fend off the still-toxic socialist label at home, so he had to take care not to be stuck with the equally toxic “isolationist” label abroad.

…The consequent erosion of American power was going very nicely when the unfortunately named Arab Spring presented the president with several juicy opportunities to speed up the process. First in Egypt, his incoherent moves resulted in a complete loss of American influence, and now, thanks to his handling of the Syrian crisis, he is bringing about a greater diminution of American power than he probably envisaged even in his wildest radical dreams.

For this fulfillment of his dearest political wishes, Mr. Obama is evidently willing to pay the price of a sullied reputation.

Unfortunately, he will always have, due to the racial divide that he has played upon and widened, the cache of being the first Black President – which to the Black community gives him The Golden Pass Card.  Ditto for the New Left (the descendents of the SDS / Weathermen / hard core socialists who have ALWAYS hated the American system as first conceived.  As with Cloward – Piven (in fact, I believe that this is “overload the American system, crash it, and reconstruct it as a socialist country” C-P strategy merely writ large).

We have been the most powerful country since the beginning of the last century with our notion of self-government and “Individual over the State”.  Progressives have maintained this is absolutely wrong – and evil.  They also believe that America is where it is because it has been evil in their “Marxist rose colored glasses”.  And evil must be destroyed before it can be rehabilitated – in their ways, like it or not.  Outside of them, we are the Stupid People and have to be guided to enlightenment – think the Communist re-education camps in other countries (after all, in many places, our Government schools have already become such, in part if not in whole.  Go ahead – compare what used to be taught and what IS being taught – you will not be surprised but you will be angry).  Yes, we are a retrograde nation and we must be taught what our proper place should be (er, weren’t those RACIST words back a coupla few decades ago?  “Don’t you know your place?”).  And who cares if it negatively affect a couple hundred million Americans – a mere penalty for our formerly evil ways – if we only are “just a run of the mill” country that may be worse off than others but certainly no better.  What can a country do when it has overextended itself financially (our national debt)?  Pretty much, simply sidelined and sitting in neutral.

By the end of his term, he may well have isolated the US from most of the rest of the world by his continued alienation of our traditional allies and increased derision by our enemies.  I believe that he is fine with this – so much more the better that “someone else is leading the world” even if it means hard times for the US.  Imagine if Putin was the leader of the only superpower of the world or Xi Jinping of China? Would our trade be curtailed?  The dollar off the world stage as the premier reserve currency?  And if we were attacked again, would it matter to anyone else?  Could we even defend ourselves (e.g., look at the chart again)?

As far as Obama’s “sullied reputation”, well, he will be a godlike hero to his fellow socialist sojourners.  Remember, unless you are politically connected, success is no longer defined by actual individual success but by Government making sure that no one is better than anyone else.

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