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| Brits miss Bush; Obama an 'embarrassing amateur' in comparison Posted: 01 Sep 2013 05:23 PM PDT 
Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, provides at The Telegraph a Brit's view of President Barack Obama and his immediate predecessor, the much-maligned George W. Bush. Gardiner's piece was published the day before Obama's confusing "I don't need Congress' authorization to invade Syria, but I'm going to wait for it anyway" speech (emphasis below - mine): [...] There can be no doubt that David Cameron’s defeat in the House of Commons was a huge blow to President Obama, and has dominated the US news networks this morning. The absence of Britain in any American-led military action significantly weakens Obama’s position on the world stage, and dramatically undercuts the Obama administration. The vote reflected not only a lack of confidence in the Commons in the prime minister' Syria strategy, it also demonstrated a striking lack of confidence in Barack Obama and US leadership. In marked contrast to Obama, President Bush invested a great deal of time and effort in cultivating ties with key US allies, especially Britain. The Special Relationship actually mattered to George W. Bush. For Barack Obama it has been a mere blip on his teleprompter. Bush also went out of his way to build ties with other allies in Europe, including with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and an array of countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Obama simply hasn't bothered making friends in Europe, and has treated some nations with sheer disdain and disrespect, including Poland and the Czech Republic. He has found common currency with France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande, an ideological soul-mate, but finds himself in a very lonely position elsewhere across the Atlantic. In addition, and most importantly, George W. Bush was a conviction president on foreign policy matters, driven by a clear sense of the national interest. President Bush emphatically made his case to the American people and to the world, explaining why he believed the use of force was necessary, and dozens of countries decided to follow him. In the case of Barack Obama, whose foreign policy has been weak-kneed, confused and strategically incoherent, the president hasn’t effectively made the case for military intervention in Syria, and has made no serious effort to cultivate support both at home and abroad. President Bush may not have been greatly loved on the world stage, but he was respected by America's allies, and feared by his enemies. In marked contrast, Obama hasn't generated a lot of respect abroad, and he certainly isn't feared. Read more here. Hat tip - Bizpak
| | Barack Obama ... The Me, Myself, and I President Posted: 01 Sep 2013 04:53 PM PDT As John Steele Gordon wrote at Commentary a couple of days ago, with Barack Obama it’s always all about him. While this is certainly no revelation to Americans on the certer-right of the country given Obama's reputation for narcissism, Gordon's piece puts in in the context of the Syria situation: [...] Asked at his early August press conference why there has been so little progress in getting the perpetrators of the Benghazi massacre after eleven months, Obama replied, that these things can take time and added by way of example that "I didn't get Bin Laden in eleven months." Obama, of course, was in the White House that day, playing cards. It was Navy Seals who put their lives on the line as they stormed the house in Abbottabad and "got" Bin Laden. (Can you imagine the mockery the media would have rained down on George W. Bush had he ever used such a construction? Bush, of course, a modest man, would never have said any such thing.) Now Obama is planning a response to the gas attack by the Syrian government against its own people. Again, it’s all about him. Had Obama last year not indulged his bad habit of speaking when he should be quiet and announced with little apparent thought that the use of chemical weapons would be a red line that must not be crossed, no one thinks we would now be about to attack Syria. Read the rest here. While we're on the topic of Barack Obama and his narcissism, here's an interesting video overview of Narcissism and why some say Obama is an extreme Narcissist or pathological Narcissist, also called an egomaniac or a megalomaniac. I offer no comment as to the validity of its contents or its author's expertise ... I simply agree that Barack Obama is a pathological narcissist:
Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin's website is here.
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