By David Limbaugh
Friday, June 21, 2013
It's as if President Obama believes he's still in the
faculty lounge at Harvard glamorizing leftist ideals, seemingly oblivious that
he is actually president now and that his duties require him to work on truly
pressing matters instead of fantasizing about Utopia.
He is finally approaching the hot seat. Endless scandals
are dogging his Teflon. The young voter demographic is going south on him. The
foreign media are lampooning him. The economy is still tanking.
But in Berlin, with the disposition of Alfred E. Neuman,
the blind destructiveness of Mr. Magoo and the flimsily emulated elegance of
JFK, he lectured the world on the urgency of adopting his slightly modified
faculty lounge agenda.
As if having freshly emerged from a nuclear freeze
seminar, Obama spoke dreamily of arms reduction between the United States and
Russia. Never mind that rogue nations are on a fast track to developing nuclear
capabilities and that Obama has already scaled down our vital missile defense
systems, gutted our military space research and development, and shelved jet
fighter programs. Rather than recognize the ever-growing dangerousness of the
world, Obama defers to his reality-averse ideology. In his mind, after all, the
war on terror is already over.
Conspicuously bereft of the phony magic that accompanied
him on his 2008 trip, he told a shrinking German audience that climate change
is "the global threat of our time." This
national-sovereignty-eschewing executive of the world said: "With a global
middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all
nations, not just some, for the grim alternative affects all nations. More
severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that
vanish, oceans that rise -- this is the future we must avert."
Yes, global warming, er, climate change is conveniently
apocalyptic, because it is flexible enough to accommodate any and all
disastrous events -- natural or man-made, weather-related or otherwise, and
events that are completely contradictory. The theory is broad enough that it
can never be discredited, even if its proponents are caught scandalously
manipulating the data. If we have more tornadoes and hurricanes (or fewer), if
we have milder summers and winters or harsher ones, if the Earth has been
cooling for the past 15 years, and even if bitter clingers are stockpiling
AK-47s at an unprecedented degree, you can be darn sure global warming is the
culprit. So of course it's the most pressing problem of our time.
In fact, if we would just tame this dread monster, we
wouldn't need religion anymore, because man and nature would have achieved
perfectibility. Of course, for global warming zealots, environmentalism is the
one true religion, and faith in God (save Gaia) is passe.
I am nonetheless laboring in vain to divine Obama's
perceived causal connection between climate change and the economic calamity
he's presiding over, including our ever-exploding national debt, but I assure
you there is one.
With his charisma deflating like a punctured balloon and
his rhetoric stale, flat and irrelevant, he struck out, as well, in Northern
Ireland, where he either clumsily or intentionally offended Catholics with his
remarks on segregated, sectarian schools.
Obama said, "If towns remain divided -- if Catholics
have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see
ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden -- that
encourages division; it discourages cooperation."
While Obama is adamant about Muslim sensitivities, to the
point of deliberately ignoring jihadist behavior in security investigations, he
has almost gone out of his way to offend Catholics and other Christians, from
abortion to conscience rights to embryonic stem cell research. And it's
working.
Catholic World News reacted with this: "Ironically,
President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Muller, the
prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in
Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person.
Archbishop Muller said that Catholic schools should promote 'all that is good
in the philosophies of societies and human culture.'"
The Rev. John Zuhlsdorf wrote: "Another example of
what this man wants: total isolation of any religious values in the private
sphere alone. Pres. Obama is working either to intimidate or legislate or even
TAX religious freedom out of the public square."
Isn't it a bit bizarre that a man who trades in
divisiveness is so quick to lecture others about disunity? Isn't it pathetic
that in the very process of urging others toward unity, he alienates large
segments of his audience?
In the end, Obama couldn't be more clueless about the
problems really plaguing America and the world or more clueless about his
cluelessness -- sort of the Antisocrates.
Not only is Obama's stock plunging in the United States
but also his probable ambition to be president of the world may be in jeopardy.
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