Obama: From Libya to partisanship, it’s never, ever my fault

Source: New York Post
Published: Mar 13, 2016
Author: Michael Walsh
Post Date: 2016-03-13 13:33:01 by Justified
Views: 2443

To hear Barack Obama tell it, his career trajectory from backbencher in the Illinois state legislature to president of the United States has gone flawlessly. It’s everyone else who’s let him down.

Behold the Immaculate Administration — conceived in sinlessness and discharged with purity of heart. If only others would pull their load.

After all, it can’t be his fault that, seven years on, the economy is still a mess, the national debt is pushing $20 trillion, Russia is gobbling up bits of central Europe and his handling of the Middle East has sent a tidal wave of Muslim “refugees” streaming toward the heart of Europe while ISIS builds a caliphate, can it?

Case in point: Libya.

Obama made a great show of “leading from behind” when the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner ordered regime change there in concert with European allies.

Everything would have been just fine, but — wouldn’t you know it — those darn foreigners let the president down. As he told Jeffrey Goldberg in a far-ranging apologia in the Atlantic this month: “When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong, there’s room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up.”

Obama bashed former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for glory-hogging, and blamed the Libyans for an excess of tribalism “greater than our analysts had expected.”

But he saved his greatest scorn for a “distracted” conservative British prime minister David Cameron who, Obama said, simply stopped paying attention, allowing Libya to become “a s – -t show.”

That undiplomatic but typical Obama wisecrack forced the White House to quickly scramble for its long-lost reset button, affirming through clenched teeth how much it “deeply values” America’s “close partner.”

It’s nice to see that two terms as president has not dented Obama’s unshakeable faith in himself.

Speaking of those eight years, Obama also disavowed any responsibility for the country’s increased polarization over that period.

Those things he naturally blames on the evil Republicans and a (largely imaginary) hostile media. Nor is he responsible for the unexpected rise and continuing appeal of Donald Trump, who embodies the manifest resentment of millions of Americans.

“It’s fair to say that the Republican political elites and many of the information outlets have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed, that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal,” he said in a Thursday news conference.

But as long as the president’s definition of “compromise” is “do it my way,” it’s hard to grasp the concept of legitimate opposition, much less a loyal opposition.

As the Immaculate Administration nears its end, this is perhaps the most valuable lesson it can bequeath to its successor: let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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#1: buckeroo    To: Justified (#0)

I think he has performed a good job by running off all the Syrians from their home country and relocating them in Europe; obviously, the European women needed some raping and murder by ISIS besides the European population required a few terrorist bombings. It is a great accomplishment for a sitting president to know that he can relocate millions of people because he has a misdirected foreign intervention policy.

On the domestic side of his great accomplishments, he has ensured the price of medical care has risen to the point of not being affordable for most people, to include his tax-payer subsidized illegal aliens that are given everything for almost nothing out of their pockets.

buckeroo posted on 2016-03-13 13:53:43   Reply   Private Reply


#2: tomder55    To: Justified (#0)

Rush calls it the 'Limbaugh Theorem ' ;the emperor's perpetual campaign. The emperor's strategy is to remain above politics and not be identified with any of the policy failures or scandals surrounding his administration by blaming others for all that has gone wrong, as if he is an "outsider "doing all he can to solve problems. So no matter how much of his agenda he accomplishes ;he's still being prevented from doing his job by those evil do nothing Republicans.

This is true in scandals like the IRS ;and all his international failures like Libya .

tomder55 posted on 2016-03-13 16:03:58   Reply   Private Reply


#3: paraclete    To: Justified (#0)

Dont you get it Life is imitating art, Obama is imitating Palpatine, directing from the shadows, only using his forces when an overwhelming victory can be assured, which hasn't happened yet. He has everyoneelse doing his dirty work for him, even asking small nations like mine to confront China and send more forces into the middle east, just as he has the Europeans involved in Syria actually fueling the refugee crisis they have to deal with.

paraclete posted on 2016-03-13 20:25:59   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Stoner    To: Justified (#0)

" Obama: From Libya to partisanship, it’s never, ever my fault "

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Stoner posted on 2016-03-14 08:42:50   Reply   Private Reply


#5: sneakypete    To: Justified (#0)

Obama: From Libya to partisanship, it’s never, ever my fault

You have to wonder if he and Trump are related,don't you?

sneakypete posted on 2016-03-14 16:47:49   Reply   Private Reply