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Friday, November 20, 2009

SALLY MORRIS: BARACK OBAMA SCHOOLING CHINA?

In a "presidential moment", on Friday, November 13, Barack Obama was feeling his oats.  He almost sounded like the storied American presidents of yore as he spoke out in Japan.  He criticized our largest creditor, calling upon China to correct its human rights practices.  he told them, ". . . the United States will not back down . . . ".  Hearty words.
 
He must have them rolling in the aisles back in Beijing.  Our "smartest president ever" isn't getting it.  Earth to Obama:  We OWE these people money - lots of money - that we CAN'T PAY.  See?  You've been so busy destroying our economy by borrowing money - on OUR account - and squandering it on such worthy causes as ACORN, SEIU, "Cash for Clunkers", federal grants for urgent projects like a study of the historic feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, works of propagandist art, bank and auto industry takeovers and the bribes that serve to get these things approved by a greedy Congress.  Your thirst remains unslaked, however, as you push for socialized medicine and an absurd and utterly pointless energy-starving bill which, if passed, will drive the final nail into the coffin of the American economy, precluding the idea that we MIGHT PAY our debts to other nations.  Our dollar is presently on a course to go under, with hyperinflation appearing around the corner.  Unemployment is now at 10.2% and rapidly rising, set to start an avalanche in our mortgage foreclosures.
 
You have weakened our national defense and injured, endangered and alienated our Eastern European allies, all in one swift decision.  Yet you can't make a decision on your war in Afghanistan, vacillating as our troops are cut down every day and our military leaders beg for your support for months, as their needs go unmet, their requests unanswered.
 
You're bringing terrorists right into New York City for a trial under American law - to which they are not entitled, and you plan to bring them into the heart of America, as prisoners.   This is supposed to be a great idea.  Stimulus?
 
You surround yourself with people who admire and would emulate Castro, Chavez and Chairman Mao, the butcher of some 70,000,000 Chinese.  Have you condemned Mao's human rights violations yet?  No, I didn't think so, and neither has your chum, Anita Dunn.
 
This is not to excuse China's abuses.  It is to point out two things in particular:
1) Why criticize a system and its leadership when it is toward their totalitarian direction that you are trying - with all your might - to steer America?  And with whose proponents and fellow travelers you surround yourself?
 
2) Secondly, despite the sweet nostalgia of hearing an American president mouth the words of support for human dignity and liberty, they are charged and potent only when America itself is both strong and great.  Right now we are not strong and this dims our greatness.
 
There was a time, Mr. Obama, when an American president could speak with authority - when America could and would back it up, and if anyone believed the man meant the words.  Your words are thin, hollow and absolutely meaningless.  World leadership was exemplified by President Ronald Reagan.  The world knew he meant what he said and that America was a force for good, a flame of freedom that lit a darkened world.  And the Berlin Wall came down and with it the oppression of the Soviet Empire . . . and millions of souls found their way to freedom by that light.
 
America, circa 2009, is not America, circa 1989.  And you, Mr. Obama, are no Ronald Reagan.  Only WE, the American people, have the power to change this picture.  A strong, free, financially sound and morally straight America has always been a powerful force for peace, prosperity and for good in the world.  A weak, bankrupt America led by a weak, dithering president, is a danger to world peace and prosperity - and in a very poor position to lecture the Chinese leadership about anything.
Sally Morris is a member of Americans for Constitutional Government

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