We are going to take a few days and discuss the track record of the Obama Presidency across several perspectives. The impetus for this discussion and review was the fact that when the world leaders and millions of French men and women rallied in France to protest and take a stand against global Islamic terrorism, this President embarrassed himself and the United States by NOT attending the gathering of world leaders in Paris. In our opinion, this was an epic fail and a missed historical opportunity.
Not only did he not attend, no high ranking member of his administration bothered to make the trip either. While world leaders of over 40 countries attended and high ranking officials of other countries made the trip, the highest ranking U.S. person was just the current French ambassador.
This snub of the French is a tremendous, and possibly historic, missed opportunity. This could have been a defining moment in the Obama Presidency where he rallied the rest of the world in its fight against global terrorism. The whole world was watching but apparently the President was back in the White House, rumored to be watching NFL football games instead of leading in Paris.
If Obama was a true leader, he could have used the commonality of the fight against terrorism to also work on other global issues. The leaders of Israel and the PLO were at the rally with a common, shared goal of fighting terrorism. What a great time in might have been of using that common objective to move onto other problem resolution opportunities.
The Russian Foreign Minister was also at the Paris rally. Why not use the common goal of fighting terrorism to talk about the Ukraine and other troubling Russian and U.S. issues? But the President missed this historic window of leveraging this common objective across most of the world.
But missed opportunities seems to be the theme of this President. Whenever an opportunity to be bold, productive, epic, and a leader arose, this President, and the administration he has put in place, has usually failed and failed miserably. Bad economic policies, divisive race politics, a failing health care reform law, a clumsy foreign affairs management history, bad management processes as a Federal government bureaucracy teeters on the edge of total incompetence, etc., this administration has not been able to get out of its own way to attain any problem resolution at all.
Given that we are comfortable calling his absence in Paris an epic fail, we are going to take a few days and see if there are other epic fails that this administration has attained. We will discuss the policies track records of this Presidency over the next few days according to the following general topics and see if the failure as epic as his absence in Paris has been repeated in other areas of governance:
Not only did he not attend, no high ranking member of his administration bothered to make the trip either. While world leaders of over 40 countries attended and high ranking officials of other countries made the trip, the highest ranking U.S. person was just the current French ambassador.
This snub of the French is a tremendous, and possibly historic, missed opportunity. This could have been a defining moment in the Obama Presidency where he rallied the rest of the world in its fight against global terrorism. The whole world was watching but apparently the President was back in the White House, rumored to be watching NFL football games instead of leading in Paris.
If Obama was a true leader, he could have used the commonality of the fight against terrorism to also work on other global issues. The leaders of Israel and the PLO were at the rally with a common, shared goal of fighting terrorism. What a great time in might have been of using that common objective to move onto other problem resolution opportunities.
The Russian Foreign Minister was also at the Paris rally. Why not use the common goal of fighting terrorism to talk about the Ukraine and other troubling Russian and U.S. issues? But the President missed this historic window of leveraging this common objective across most of the world.
But missed opportunities seems to be the theme of this President. Whenever an opportunity to be bold, productive, epic, and a leader arose, this President, and the administration he has put in place, has usually failed and failed miserably. Bad economic policies, divisive race politics, a failing health care reform law, a clumsy foreign affairs management history, bad management processes as a Federal government bureaucracy teeters on the edge of total incompetence, etc., this administration has not been able to get out of its own way to attain any problem resolution at all.
Given that we are comfortable calling his absence in Paris an epic fail, we are going to take a few days and see if there are other epic fails that this administration has attained. We will discuss the policies track records of this Presidency over the next few days according to the following general topics and see if the failure as epic as his absence in Paris has been repeated in other areas of governance:
- Transparency and integrity
- Economic policy
- Foreign policy
- Healthcare policy
- Government management policy
Foreign Policy Part A
1) The most epic foreign relations failure of this Presidency is discussed above. His non-attendance at the rally for unity in France to protest against terrorism was a historical opportunity missed and a slap at the rest of those in the world that are fighting against Islamic terrorism.
However, he doubled down on this disaster when later in the week he sent Secretary John Kerry to France along with James Taylor to have Taylor sing a long ago hit song, "You've Got A Friend." Really? Miss a historical diplomacy opportunity and instead you send an aged rock and roll singer who has not had a new hit in decades? This is what passes for foreign affairs management in the Obama administration, rock and roll songs? You cannot make this incompetency up. How embarrassing.
What's next? Send the cast from Disney's Toy Story movies to the Iranian nuclear disarmament talks to sing "You've Got A Friend In Me?" Once you replace real foreign policy thinking and strategies with popular rock songs the sky is the limit in other foreign relations situations.
2) President Obama took office in January, 2009. Six years later, North Korea and Iran are six years closer to having nuclear weapons capabilities with no credible deterrence or alternative implemented by the Obama administration.
3) President Obama promised that he would find a way to bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Not only has he failed to fulfill that promise, but the two parties decided to go to war while the Obama administration and its bumbling Secretary of State, John Kerry, fumbled their way to to being non-factors in the whole situation.
The diplomatic relationship between Israel and the Obama administration was further dampened when a high ranking Obama administration official went on record and called the Israeli Prime Minister a chicken sh$#. Not a sign of a good foreign policy when that policy degenerates into name calling like this, especially name calling an ally a chicken sh#@.
4) President Obama drew a "red line in the sand" if Syria's government used chemical weapons against its own citizens in the Syrian civil war. The Syrian government went ahead and used chemical weapons, Obama did nothing to enforce his red line declaration, even denying he ever made such a statement, and had to rely on Russia to get out of a very embarrassing international situation.
Such posturing without a an action plan to back up that stance further weakened the administration in the eyes of the rest of the world. This failure of action probably was a determining factor in Russia's unopposed march into the Ukraine and the annexation of a large swath of Ukranian territory.
5) The President illegally and un-Constitutionally committed U.S. military forces and taxpayer wealth to help overthrow the Libyan government of Gaddafi. This overthrow then led to the growth of Islamic terrorists groups in the country, some of which were involved in the siege of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the unnecessary death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
6) The President withdrew all U.S.military resources out of Iraq despite the objections of his military advisors and others who told him that Iraq was not yet ready to stand on its own. He proudly proclaimed that we were leaving behind a "sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq."
Shortly thereafter, as predicted by the experts, a Sunni and terrorist uprising in northern Iraq became ISIS, probably the most dangerous terror organization ever to be formed. ISIS threatens to destabilize whole countries in the Middle East and spread its version of violent and intolerant Islam to the rest of the world.
The President condescendingly referred to ISIS as the JV of terror organizations until they started beheading people and routing the Iraqi army. As a result of his faulty logic and reasoning, U.S. military forces are now back in Iraq and the American taxpayer is paying billions of dollars to bomb ISIS forces. "Sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq" appears to be either another lie, deception, or self delusion.
Despite the ISIS beheadings, the killing and enslavement of women and children, the murdering of homosexuals, the President still refuses to call these terrorists Islamic terrorists even though they do their atrocious deeds in the name of Islam. Failure to recognize a problem means you will never resolve a problem, another foreign affairs failure of this administration.
That will do it for foreign policy failures for today. We will finish the epic fail of the Obama administration relative to foreign policy tomorrow.
2) President Obama took office in January, 2009. Six years later, North Korea and Iran are six years closer to having nuclear weapons capabilities with no credible deterrence or alternative implemented by the Obama administration.
3) President Obama promised that he would find a way to bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Not only has he failed to fulfill that promise, but the two parties decided to go to war while the Obama administration and its bumbling Secretary of State, John Kerry, fumbled their way to to being non-factors in the whole situation.
The diplomatic relationship between Israel and the Obama administration was further dampened when a high ranking Obama administration official went on record and called the Israeli Prime Minister a chicken sh$#. Not a sign of a good foreign policy when that policy degenerates into name calling like this, especially name calling an ally a chicken sh#@.
4) President Obama drew a "red line in the sand" if Syria's government used chemical weapons against its own citizens in the Syrian civil war. The Syrian government went ahead and used chemical weapons, Obama did nothing to enforce his red line declaration, even denying he ever made such a statement, and had to rely on Russia to get out of a very embarrassing international situation.
Such posturing without a an action plan to back up that stance further weakened the administration in the eyes of the rest of the world. This failure of action probably was a determining factor in Russia's unopposed march into the Ukraine and the annexation of a large swath of Ukranian territory.
5) The President illegally and un-Constitutionally committed U.S. military forces and taxpayer wealth to help overthrow the Libyan government of Gaddafi. This overthrow then led to the growth of Islamic terrorists groups in the country, some of which were involved in the siege of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the unnecessary death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
6) The President withdrew all U.S.military resources out of Iraq despite the objections of his military advisors and others who told him that Iraq was not yet ready to stand on its own. He proudly proclaimed that we were leaving behind a "sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq."
Shortly thereafter, as predicted by the experts, a Sunni and terrorist uprising in northern Iraq became ISIS, probably the most dangerous terror organization ever to be formed. ISIS threatens to destabilize whole countries in the Middle East and spread its version of violent and intolerant Islam to the rest of the world.
The President condescendingly referred to ISIS as the JV of terror organizations until they started beheading people and routing the Iraqi army. As a result of his faulty logic and reasoning, U.S. military forces are now back in Iraq and the American taxpayer is paying billions of dollars to bomb ISIS forces. "Sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq" appears to be either another lie, deception, or self delusion.
Despite the ISIS beheadings, the killing and enslavement of women and children, the murdering of homosexuals, the President still refuses to call these terrorists Islamic terrorists even though they do their atrocious deeds in the name of Islam. Failure to recognize a problem means you will never resolve a problem, another foreign affairs failure of this administration.
That will do it for foreign policy failures for today. We will finish the epic fail of the Obama administration relative to foreign policy tomorrow.
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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.
Please visit the following sites for freedom:
Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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