Sophomoric is putting it mildly. She’s totally deluded and obviously has no understanding of the real issues at hand. That’s the part the scares the wits out of me.
Obama gets elected and surrounds himself with these pea-brained idiots. The next thing you know, Israel is sold down the river in the name of so called human rights abuses and settlements.
Meanwhile, Iranian backed hezbollah and hamas run rampant.
It could turn MAJOR ugly with the lives of several million Jews/Israeli’s not to mention the state of Israel itself, held in the balance.
These leftist talking points are TRULY starting to piss me off. Why oh why doesn’t someone call them out on these in public?
I bought Powers’ book, The Problem From Hell, several months ago but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. I bought it after reading Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Familes: Stories From Rwanda, which I highly recommend. Powers’ book seemed like the natural next step in understanding what happened in Rwanda and why the U.N. is a worthless organization.
These leftist talking points are TRULY starting to piss me off. Why oh why doesn’t someone call them out on these in public?
The “someone” in your sentence who have some level of public access would be (1) Conservative pundits, radio talk-show hosts, columnists, commentators and bloggers; (2) Republican candidates and elected officials; and (3) the MSM.
The first of those three groups are doing it. The Republicans won’t because they’re too chicken. The MSM won’t because they agree with the talking points and they’d be calling out themselves.
That leaves the voters, especially Democrats, blissfully ignorant because most of them, unfortunately, don’t pay much attention to the first group which happens to be the only real source of information that might enable them to make an informed decision.
Boy, I really want our credibility restored among Muslim despots, appeasing European defeatists, the communist Chinese, the backsliding loser Russians, the jaw-droppingly corrupt and violent Africans, the narco-states of South and Central America, Bronze Age Central Asian warlords masquerading as presidents and prime ministers, and the crooked child-molesting United Nations.
We sure suck compared to these paragons of virtue and enlightenment.
People need to remember the commandment is NOT “Love thy neighbor” it IS “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” This is not an egotistical mantra - if we don’t like/love/respect ourselves (in other words, if we constantly criticize ourselves, our nation, our kids, etc.) we cannot possibly help someone else to improve. When cultures like so many in the Muslim world believe in only the negative, death and destruction, western concepts of respect/tolerance/etc. cannot get a foothold, even if Samantha wishes it so.
She is a product of the Women’s Studies curricula, period. She is an empty-headed, empty suit, blue-elite liberal who is full of herself and has no substance.
Back to the Jews - for a culture that respects education for as long as the Jews have, associating themselves with these vapid people is just mind-boggling.
Samantha Power’s “dignity promotion” is laughably the foreign policy counterpart of PC speech codes on college campus’.
Notice how on every important issue she takes the wrong turn and tries either some lame moral equivalence argument or simply dismisses years of American foreign policy history by claiming that we’re not good world citizens.
Excuse me lady – I am not a citizen of the Freaking World – I am an American and I EXPECT my government to pursue policies that reward our friends and punish our enemies. The “One-World-Governance” crowds led by luminaries like Al Gore and Jacques’ Chirac and Ms. Power have such oh-so-sophisticated views because they exist in a vacuum detached from reality.
The elitist myth that Israel alone is responsible for all the strife and unrest in the Middle East is a fantasy that endures simply because many reporters are either too lazy or too dumb to separate reality from their anti-Semitic politics.
Israel has been our staunch ally and friend in the region for over half a decade. President’s of both parties have recognized this ((with the notable exception of Carter (see dumb above)) and even those with reservations about Israel came to understand its strategic and political importance.
Obama and his “dignity promotion” advisors are simply not ready for prime time.
I bought Powers’ book, The Problem From Hell, several months ago but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. I bought it after reading Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Familes: Stories From Rwanda, which I highly recommend. Powers’ book seemed like the natural next step in understanding what happened in Rwanda and why the U.N. is a worthless organization.
Now, I think I’ll just throw it away.
Aw heck, Flash. Take one for the team and read it so we don’t have to.
Senator Obama has no political record yet. He doesn’t have any executive experience such as running a large city or state but he wants to run the most powerful nation in the world and more or less says don’t worry about it; my advisers will help me. So if we vote for OyamaBama we get the empty suit full of clowns like his racist minister, his wife who doesn’t see the stupidity of her remarks about having no pride in the country which gave her a million dollar free education at Prinction and Harvard. Ms. Powers who alienates our friends and brings succor to our enemies with her hair brained prattle and the other advisors of Jimmy Carter who lie about Israel and wish to see its demise. Mr. Obama needs to ditch the racist church, get more experience of an executive sort and mark finished to taking help from Syrians who front money for his home, if he were president not only wouldn’t I feel safe but would feel worried.
This just reinforces my well founded belief that Pulitzers, Nobel Peace Prizes, Oscars etc. are just worthless awards that allow slackjawed liberals to heap praise on each other in the hopes of gaining more money or political gravitas.
As a measure of the worth of the book, person or movie, they are virtually worthless. Idiots like this win Pulitzers, Gore (the C/D science student), Carter and terrorists get Nobels, and the lame Moore’s and Gores of the world get Oscars. ‘nuff said.
If Obama continues to surround himself with unrepentant and unapologetic antisemites and crackpots like this, he will be looking for a spot in the dustbin of history.
To the delight of many in the crowd, Power even hinted that she could be part of that hypothetical Obama cabinet. “Because of the kind of campaign that Senator Obama has run,” Power said, “it seemed appropriate for someone of my Irish temper to step aside, at least for a while. We will see what happens there.”
The “kind of campaign that Senator Obama has run” must be a campaign where he doesn’t talk truthfully or in detail about the foreign policy he will implement if elected. If mainstream America really knew, his candidacy would be over in a second. This is why Power has to disappear for now, only to re-emerge later, after the election.
Will Obama ever appear on Fox News Sunday? And if so, will they pin him down with any tough questions?
God help us all if this guy gets elected. How did he ever get elected to the Senate?
The worst thing for the dissidents in Iran would be for America to take their side. It would tarnish the whole enterprise.
Without necessarily endorsing anything else Power says, she’s absolutely on point with this comment because she’s referring to publicly. This is not a novel or leftwing nut observation. It points to the downside of the US publicly supporting dissatisfied Iranians who are still nervous and angry about what happened in 1954 when the CIA joined with MI5 to undermine Iran’s fledgling democracy and gave them the Shah instead. We should support dissident Iranians thru expats and exiles, with intelligence, money, and training. That’s how we can influence them meaningfully. It is already extremely difficult for the political moderates and economic liberals in Iran to gain any traction in the government. US public support would be disastrous. 70% of Iran’s population being under 30 and 90% of them being unemployed provides enough potential instability for the repressive government without our getting warmly enthusiastic about their dissatisfaction with the regime. If we had world enough and time, it would be best to just let that pot boil of its own accord.
Power’s views on Israel aside, her principal threat to the Obama campaign has been her rather unremarkable CFR realism/pragmatism, which flies in the face of Obama’s naivete or his duplicity with the base, or both.
RJ: “God help us all if this guy gets elected. How did he ever get elected to the Senate?”
VERY personal attacks on his VERY qualified opponent that made him drop out.
You mean the guy who forced his wife to go to strip clubs? I guess you were against Clinton’s impeachment then.
Meanwhile, while Rebublicans are hyperventilating about Samantha Power and Jeremiah Wright, Rockets are raining down on the Green Zone, Iraq is on the brink of full scale civil war despite the “success” of the surge”, the US dollar is fast becoming a third world currency, and our economy is floundering. And your nominee doesn’t know thing one about who’s who in Iraq, but wants us to stay there for 100 years nonetheless.
