Barack Obama’s Lack of Leadership Has Allowed the Spread of Evil

Freedom Outpost

Does the extinguished candle care about the darkness?  Ask the huddled  masses who are yearning to be free.  America was once thought of as a  light  unto nations.  Obama has single-handedly extinguished that light. 

I saw it all coming.  In my 2010 book The  Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, I  noted that one student who was interviewed after an Obama town hall meeting  during his first presidential trip to Europe in 2009 said happily: “He sounds  just like a European.”  That is, not like an American president who loves  his country.  And he doesn’t: asked during that visit to Europe about  American exceptionalism, Obama answered: “I believe in American exceptionalism,  just as I suspect the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks  believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

In other words, he didn’t believe in American exceptionalism at all.  In  a seminal moment for modern historians and active political observers like  myself, a snapshot came across the newswires in May 2008, showing candidate  Obama crossing an airplane tarmac, mid-gait, and holding Fareed Zakaria’s  American epitaph, The Post-American World.  In the photo,  Obama is holding his place in the book with his finger, as if he didn’t dare  put  it down and wanted to dive back into it as soon as he could.

The vicious Zakaria describes his book this way: “This is not a book about  the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.”  In  it, he details the era he hopes we are entering now — a world in which the  United States would “no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate  geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures.”  He asserts that the “rise of the  rest” is the “great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world.    The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and  most  advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States.   This  economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride,  and  potentially international problems.”

 

Obama seems bound and determined to drive America over a cliff and make  Zakaria’s vision of the future a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Obama went to  work from his first day in office to make Zakaria’s wishful thinking about  America’s decline a reality.  As the most powerful man in the world, he  would level the playing field, even if it meant cutting America off at the  knees.  Good and evil would be made equivalent, with evil sanctioned by  the  world’s only remaining superpower.  He turned against our allies  (particularly Israel) and showed them that America could not be relied on.    He taxed us into poverty and stirred up racial strife to make us all less  safe.  He has enabled Russia to re-emerge as a world power, and the  Islamic  jihadists are bolder than ever.

Obama vowed to make America just another nation — unexceptional — and he  has.  It’s not that other nations have risen.  They haven’t.    It’s that Obama has dismantled American hegemony and diminished our  standing in the world.

And so, during the Muslim massacre at a Nairobi mall, whom did Kenyan  officials call for help?  They called Israel.  Obama is Kenyan, with  close relatives in the country.  It is his native land, the country where  his father was born.  So you might think he would have sent help, but his  father (and stepfather) were Muslim; perhaps that is why he always comes  down on the side of the jihad.

 

Where is the media coverage?  This is Obama’s native land — where is  his condemnation of the vicious sharia?  His silence is sanction and  support.

And in general, the U.S. is glaringly absent in this worldwide fight for  freedom against Islamic jihad killers.  Here is where America should be  leading from the front, or the side, but at least from somewhere.  I am  ashamed for my country.

Kenya has been a beacon for democracy in Africa.  But Africa has come  under the boot of Islam under a post-American U.S. president who is aiding and  abetting the global jihad.  Obama aided Islamic supremacists in Egypt,  Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria.  And Islamic supremacists have been waging a  vicious jihad in Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania…the whole  continent.   This is the horror of Islamic supremacism.

Egypt, in a fierce rebuke of Obama and his patronage of  the Muslim Brotherhood, on Monday banned  the Brotherhood.  Here in America, the Muslim Brotherhood  should be designated a terrorist organization like Hamas (an MB group), along  with its proxies in the U.S. such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and MAS.  Despite  Egypt’s massive rejection of Islamic supremacism, and despite the recent rash  of Muslim on non-Muslim attacks, the jihad-aligned media is  digging in and whitewashing Islam and jihad, while doing everything they can to  make Obama look good.

But despite their best efforts, that task is getting harder and harder.    And the absence of America acting in the defense of freedom across the  world is proof that Ayn Rand was right when she said that “the spread of evil  is  the symptom of a vacuum.  Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by  the  moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise  on  basic principles.”

And the Obama presidency is an epic moral failure.

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During Jihadists’ Kenyan Mall Massacre, Jihad Flag Was Flying Proudly Over The Streets Of New York City

Western Journalism

At the same time as devout Muslims were separating Muslim children from non-Muslim children and executing them in cold blood in an upscale mall in Kenya, Muslims marched down Madison Avenue under the flag of jihad (the same flag the Muslims in Kenya were killing under.)

Busted! Obama Lied About Not Having Cigarette in 6 Years

 Gateway Pundit

On Tuesday, we reported that President Obama was caught on mic  telling a U.N. official that he has not had a “cigarette in six years” because he “is scared of his wife”.  Daily Caller has pointed out the lie by our pathological liar in chief:

Despite his claim to having had a cigarette in six years, Obama had one at least as recently as February 2010, according to Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who performed a physical and who was quoted in the New York Times on February 28, 2010.

In December 2010, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama hadn’t had a cigarette in nine months.

Michelle Obama initially asked Americans to watch out and to try to catch her husband smoking on the campaign trail in 2008 but she gave him a pass for smoking in March 2010.

“I’ve never been a smoker so I can’t relate, but people who’ve smoked say like anything, you have dips and valleys, and to try to quit smoking in one of the most stressful times of the nation’s history is sort of like, you know, okay, he’s going to struggle a little bit. This may be the year he’ll struggle,” the First Lady told Politico’s Nia-Malika Henderson in March 2010.

When trying to sell Obamacare in 2009, Obama admitted that he occasionally had a smoke. While pushing for passage of health care reform in 2009, he admitted that he still struggled with cigarettes and has continued to smoke on occasion as president.

“I’ve said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it.  Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes?  Yes.  Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker?  No,” he said at a press conference in 2009.

“I don’t do it in front of my kids,” the president argued.  “I don’t do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95 percent cured.  But there are times where…There are times where I mess up.”

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