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Barack Obama's Incurable Nausea
By Joan Swirsky, For The Bulletin
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series.
In the panoply of human ailments, few compare to chronic nausea, the overwhelmingly sickening feeling that you’re going to throw up at any minute. So revolting is this gagging-in-the-throat feeling that anything associated with it — a hamburger, a chicken dish, or even yogurt that made you sick — is enough for anyone to forswear this-or-that food forever. Memories of the hot sweats, the bile in the esophagus, the retching into the toilet, and then the cleanup are etched into one’s consciousness forever. Added to the horror is the impossibility of staving off the inevitable outcome. Deep breaths, a cold washcloth on the forehead, even anti-nausea medication don’t help. There is something bad going on inside — something toxic — and it’s got to come out … it’s got to be thrown up.
For the past several decades, it is clear that the left has suffered from this malady — this chronic unrelenting nausea — that seems only to be relieved by their periodic explosions of verbal vomit.
What is making them so sick? What exactly can’t they stomach? In a word, America!
Who can forget the noxious regurgitation leveled at our country and our last president — during a time of war and on foreign soil — by former presidents Jimmy (Mr. Misery Index) Carter and Bill Clinton, or U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s, D-Ill., vile comparison of the guards at Gitmo to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others …?”
But these pale in comparison to President Obama’s groveling apologies and egregious insults to America on his recent trip abroad, starting with his telling a French audience: “In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world … there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
Why do leftists behave like this? Why do they condemn and insult and apologize for our great nation to foreigners who have always envied and resented us?
Because they hate us too! These are the ingrates who don’t deserve the privilege of having been being born in America — and I wish they hadn’t been! What I wish is that they’d been born in Communist Russia or Cuba, in Socialist Venezuela or Europe, or in “Jihad-Central,” Saudi Arabia or Syria, where they’d have fit right in to the totalitarian regimes they unfailingly glamorize.
But the unlucky citizens of our country are stuck with this bash-America crowd and with their jihad against our exquisite Constitution, our envy-of-the world free-market capitalist system, our bountiful generosity, and the foundation of morality and lawfulness — based on Judeo-Christian ethics — that has guided our nation for over 230 years.
Calling Mr. Obama’s apologia “unforgivable,” the publisher of www.conservativetruth.org Tom Barrett notes: “It seems that Obama has devised a strategy to deal with those who continually criticize the United States. He’s doing it for them … he’s the same anti-American internationalist that he’s always been. He was just doing what came naturally. It was frankly embarrassing. He even made liberals like Clinton and Carter look like patriots. Obama has always admired everything European, and he praised his fawning audiences lavishly. But when he deigned to mention the country he supposedly represents, it was to criticize her or apologize for her.”
Or as Don Surber writes: “What the devil was he talking about?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in 1917 to side with France and Great Britain in World War I?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in supplying the war materiel needed to save France again in World War II?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in winning back the entire European continent one square inch at a time beginning at Normandy?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in flying, ceaselessly, supplies to Berlin when the Soviets cut off the roads in 1948?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in sparing South Korea from being run over by the Chinese in 1950?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in defending Europe from the Soviet threat, sheltering vanquished Germany from our ally in World War II?
“The only thing that President Obama should be ashamed of,” Mr. Surber continues, “is President Franklin Roosevelt’s refusal in May 1939 to extend political asylum to the Jewish refugees aboard the transatlantic ocean liner St. Louis. This administration should not apologize for the strength shown by previous presidents. They shouldered their responsibilities and maintained the capacity to save hundreds of millions of people. It remains to be seen whether the Obama administration can do as well.”
As Mr. Obama was lavishing praise on the Europeans and betraying his startling ignorance of American history, best-selling author and radio-host Mark Levin was reminding his listeners that Europe has indeed led the world — in colonialism, imperialism, communism, fascism and Nazism — movements that were all born in Europe and metastasized from there like the cancers they are.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer also reminds the president that, “Europe has been sucking on America’s teat for 60 years — parasitically. In order to attain the adoration of the crowds [Obama] denigrated his country in a way that I think is disgraceful.”
And writer Raymond S. Kraft weighs in with the kind of nettling facts that make leftists such as Mr. Obama incurably nauseated: “In little more than two centuries, despite its faults, America has offered more freedom, more opportunity, and more prosperity to more people than any other nation in history. And America has spent more of its money and blood to liberate other peoples from tyranny and totalitarianism than all other nations in history combined.”
Smiles Of Relief
Why did President Obama smile his way through Europe? That’s what people do after their nausea has abated, after they’ve finally thrown up. Think about it, in just eight short days, Mr. Obama:
• Declined President Sarkozy’s invitation to visit the cemetery in Normandy to honor the fallen American heroes who liberated Europe His flimsy excuse: It might offend the Germans! But that didn’t stop him from accepting an invitation to visit a mosque in Istanbul. No nausea here, as he threw up on America.
• Told the G-20 members he favored Turkey becoming a member of the European Union. No nausea here as he threw up on the “West’s” years-long resistance to this idea.
• Began the turnover of U.S. sovereignty in which all U.S. regulatory bodies and companies will be placed under international regulation, which, as writer Sher Zieve has documented, “will of course override the US Constitution.” No nausea here as the vomiting on America continued.
• Announced the reduction in U.S. nuclear weaponry so that, as Mr. Zieve says, “the U.S. is no longer a threat to anyone — let alone terrorists. Never before … has a leader announced — in no uncertain terms — that it is his plan and duty to dismantle and destroy the country he represents.” Definitely no nausea here as his purging brought more and more relief.
• Bowed deeply to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, alluded to his Muslim ties, and said that America had been “shaped” by Islam. No nausea here as he showed unseemly — and unprecedented — obeisance to a foreign power and threw up on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, which he trumped by telling an audience in Turkey that America is not a Christian nation. As one blogger said: Submission Accomplished!
“Unless he considers himself an Indonesian,” writes scholar Robert Spencer, “Obama’s statement was extraordinarily strange.” Mr. Spencer enumerates the multiple ways in which Islam has not “shaped” America:
• No Muslims along Paul Revere’s ride.
• No Muslims standing next to Patrick Henry when he proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
• No Muslims among the framers or signers of the Declaration of Independence.
• No Muslims among those who drafted the Constitution [and] enumerated the Bill of Rights.
• No Muslims played a role in the great struggle over slavery that defined so much of our contemporary understandings of the nature of this republic and of the rights of the individual within it.
• No Muslims shaped the way the U.S. responded to the titanic challenges of the two World Wars, the Great Depression, or the Cold War.
• No Muslims of the Islamic faith — which institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims — who shaped the civil rights movement in the U.S.
“So in what way has the Islamic faith shaped Obama’s country?” Mr. Spencer asks. “The most significant event connected to the Islamic faith that has shaped the character of the U.S. was the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 … Of course, it is certain that Obama had none of that in mind. But what could he possibly have had in mind? His statement was either careless or ignorant, or both — not qualities we need in a commander in chief even in the best of times.”
Writer Diana West goes further.
King Abdullah, after all, is the head of a state that is the very caricature of modern-day evil, a Shariah dictatorship that fosters religious repression, de facto slavery, subjugation of women, and, not least, the international export of jihad and Shariah through “charities,” mosques, madrassas, textbooks, university endowments, Shariah finance and, of course, terrorists, some 15 of whom attacked the United States in 2001.
Just last month, King Abdullah elevated the delusionally hard-line interior minister Prince Nayef, who long promoted the crackpot theory that Saudis were not involved in 9/11 (it was the Jews, he said), to a direct line of succession to the Saudi throne. King Abdullah himself has donated at least $1.35 million to Saudi telethons that raised $174 million for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers from Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. In 2007, King Abdullah explicitly denounced the U.S. presence in Iraq as “illegitimate,” thus encouraging attacks on Americans in Iraq, where, not incidentally, Saudis are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than any other nationality.
That’s just for starters. In other words, this is not a personage an American president can ever, ever show deference to without besmirching the memories and lives of the American dead and maimed.
And, as James Lewis asks in The American Thinker, “What kind of man has such an obsessive need to put down his own country?”
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based author and journalist who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
In the panoply of human ailments, few compare to chronic nausea, the overwhelmingly sickening feeling that you’re going to throw up at any minute. So revolting is this gagging-in-the-throat feeling that anything associated with it — a hamburger, a chicken dish, or even yogurt that made you sick — is enough for anyone to forswear this-or-that food forever. Memories of the hot sweats, the bile in the esophagus, the retching into the toilet, and then the cleanup are etched into one’s consciousness forever. Added to the horror is the impossibility of staving off the inevitable outcome. Deep breaths, a cold washcloth on the forehead, even anti-nausea medication don’t help. There is something bad going on inside — something toxic — and it’s got to come out … it’s got to be thrown up.
For the past several decades, it is clear that the left has suffered from this malady — this chronic unrelenting nausea — that seems only to be relieved by their periodic explosions of verbal vomit.
What is making them so sick? What exactly can’t they stomach? In a word, America!
Who can forget the noxious regurgitation leveled at our country and our last president — during a time of war and on foreign soil — by former presidents Jimmy (Mr. Misery Index) Carter and Bill Clinton, or U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s, D-Ill., vile comparison of the guards at Gitmo to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others …?”
But these pale in comparison to President Obama’s groveling apologies and egregious insults to America on his recent trip abroad, starting with his telling a French audience: “In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world … there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
Why do leftists behave like this? Why do they condemn and insult and apologize for our great nation to foreigners who have always envied and resented us?
Because they hate us too! These are the ingrates who don’t deserve the privilege of having been being born in America — and I wish they hadn’t been! What I wish is that they’d been born in Communist Russia or Cuba, in Socialist Venezuela or Europe, or in “Jihad-Central,” Saudi Arabia or Syria, where they’d have fit right in to the totalitarian regimes they unfailingly glamorize.
But the unlucky citizens of our country are stuck with this bash-America crowd and with their jihad against our exquisite Constitution, our envy-of-the world free-market capitalist system, our bountiful generosity, and the foundation of morality and lawfulness — based on Judeo-Christian ethics — that has guided our nation for over 230 years.
Calling Mr. Obama’s apologia “unforgivable,” the publisher of www.conservativetruth.org Tom Barrett notes: “It seems that Obama has devised a strategy to deal with those who continually criticize the United States. He’s doing it for them … he’s the same anti-American internationalist that he’s always been. He was just doing what came naturally. It was frankly embarrassing. He even made liberals like Clinton and Carter look like patriots. Obama has always admired everything European, and he praised his fawning audiences lavishly. But when he deigned to mention the country he supposedly represents, it was to criticize her or apologize for her.”
Or as Don Surber writes: “What the devil was he talking about?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in 1917 to side with France and Great Britain in World War I?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in supplying the war materiel needed to save France again in World War II?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in winning back the entire European continent one square inch at a time beginning at Normandy?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in flying, ceaselessly, supplies to Berlin when the Soviets cut off the roads in 1948?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in sparing South Korea from being run over by the Chinese in 1950?
• Is he ashamed at our arrogance in defending Europe from the Soviet threat, sheltering vanquished Germany from our ally in World War II?
“The only thing that President Obama should be ashamed of,” Mr. Surber continues, “is President Franklin Roosevelt’s refusal in May 1939 to extend political asylum to the Jewish refugees aboard the transatlantic ocean liner St. Louis. This administration should not apologize for the strength shown by previous presidents. They shouldered their responsibilities and maintained the capacity to save hundreds of millions of people. It remains to be seen whether the Obama administration can do as well.”
As Mr. Obama was lavishing praise on the Europeans and betraying his startling ignorance of American history, best-selling author and radio-host Mark Levin was reminding his listeners that Europe has indeed led the world — in colonialism, imperialism, communism, fascism and Nazism — movements that were all born in Europe and metastasized from there like the cancers they are.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer also reminds the president that, “Europe has been sucking on America’s teat for 60 years — parasitically. In order to attain the adoration of the crowds [Obama] denigrated his country in a way that I think is disgraceful.”
And writer Raymond S. Kraft weighs in with the kind of nettling facts that make leftists such as Mr. Obama incurably nauseated: “In little more than two centuries, despite its faults, America has offered more freedom, more opportunity, and more prosperity to more people than any other nation in history. And America has spent more of its money and blood to liberate other peoples from tyranny and totalitarianism than all other nations in history combined.”
Smiles Of Relief
Why did President Obama smile his way through Europe? That’s what people do after their nausea has abated, after they’ve finally thrown up. Think about it, in just eight short days, Mr. Obama:
• Declined President Sarkozy’s invitation to visit the cemetery in Normandy to honor the fallen American heroes who liberated Europe His flimsy excuse: It might offend the Germans! But that didn’t stop him from accepting an invitation to visit a mosque in Istanbul. No nausea here, as he threw up on America.
• Told the G-20 members he favored Turkey becoming a member of the European Union. No nausea here as he threw up on the “West’s” years-long resistance to this idea.
• Began the turnover of U.S. sovereignty in which all U.S. regulatory bodies and companies will be placed under international regulation, which, as writer Sher Zieve has documented, “will of course override the US Constitution.” No nausea here as the vomiting on America continued.
• Announced the reduction in U.S. nuclear weaponry so that, as Mr. Zieve says, “the U.S. is no longer a threat to anyone — let alone terrorists. Never before … has a leader announced — in no uncertain terms — that it is his plan and duty to dismantle and destroy the country he represents.” Definitely no nausea here as his purging brought more and more relief.
• Bowed deeply to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, alluded to his Muslim ties, and said that America had been “shaped” by Islam. No nausea here as he showed unseemly — and unprecedented — obeisance to a foreign power and threw up on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, which he trumped by telling an audience in Turkey that America is not a Christian nation. As one blogger said: Submission Accomplished!
“Unless he considers himself an Indonesian,” writes scholar Robert Spencer, “Obama’s statement was extraordinarily strange.” Mr. Spencer enumerates the multiple ways in which Islam has not “shaped” America:
• No Muslims along Paul Revere’s ride.
• No Muslims standing next to Patrick Henry when he proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
• No Muslims among the framers or signers of the Declaration of Independence.
• No Muslims among those who drafted the Constitution [and] enumerated the Bill of Rights.
• No Muslims played a role in the great struggle over slavery that defined so much of our contemporary understandings of the nature of this republic and of the rights of the individual within it.
• No Muslims shaped the way the U.S. responded to the titanic challenges of the two World Wars, the Great Depression, or the Cold War.
• No Muslims of the Islamic faith — which institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims — who shaped the civil rights movement in the U.S.
“So in what way has the Islamic faith shaped Obama’s country?” Mr. Spencer asks. “The most significant event connected to the Islamic faith that has shaped the character of the U.S. was the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 … Of course, it is certain that Obama had none of that in mind. But what could he possibly have had in mind? His statement was either careless or ignorant, or both — not qualities we need in a commander in chief even in the best of times.”
Writer Diana West goes further.
King Abdullah, after all, is the head of a state that is the very caricature of modern-day evil, a Shariah dictatorship that fosters religious repression, de facto slavery, subjugation of women, and, not least, the international export of jihad and Shariah through “charities,” mosques, madrassas, textbooks, university endowments, Shariah finance and, of course, terrorists, some 15 of whom attacked the United States in 2001.
Just last month, King Abdullah elevated the delusionally hard-line interior minister Prince Nayef, who long promoted the crackpot theory that Saudis were not involved in 9/11 (it was the Jews, he said), to a direct line of succession to the Saudi throne. King Abdullah himself has donated at least $1.35 million to Saudi telethons that raised $174 million for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers from Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. In 2007, King Abdullah explicitly denounced the U.S. presence in Iraq as “illegitimate,” thus encouraging attacks on Americans in Iraq, where, not incidentally, Saudis are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than any other nationality.
That’s just for starters. In other words, this is not a personage an American president can ever, ever show deference to without besmirching the memories and lives of the American dead and maimed.
And, as James Lewis asks in The American Thinker, “What kind of man has such an obsessive need to put down his own country?”
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based author and journalist who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
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