Obama is a Smorgasbord of Arrogance & Incompetence

Some good reading on this general topic of Obama the Magnificent:

Poll: 55 Percent Believe Obama a Socialist

Kevin hits this at Exchequer, Jim at Campaign Spot.


http://article.nationalreview.com/437808/the-selective-modesty-of-barack-obama/charles-krauthammer


And this little gem:

Obama: Israelis Mistrust Me Because of My Middle Name [Kevin D. Williamson]

Apparently, his middle name is "Clueless," if this Haaretz headline is any indicator:

Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein

A friend points out that the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty was signed by a certain King Hussein.
What did Obama study in college?


And those Russian spies:

Dr. K On the Obama administration’s alacrity in expelling the Russian agents:

Everybody treats this as a joke — Anna Chapman the Bond girl and all that. The fact is, that they were here as sleepers for ten years. And one of their charges was to recruit others.

It's true none of the ten were in the government, but who was recruited? Where were those recruits? Any of them in the government? Any information we get on them?

It is quite remarkable to kick ‘em out overnight without any interrogation. If you stick them in jail and you have a plea bargain, you might be able to get information that we don't have today. Why are we not attempting that — like we did with the Detroit bomber who got his Miranda rights in ten minutes?

So that‘s number one. The other part is this is not about justice. This is about diplomacy. It is a swap, but the odd thing is how the administration from the top, from [the] State Department and the White House, was so eager to get rid of this right away.

On June the 29th a State Department spokesman described all this as "some vestiges of old attempts to use intelligence," said nobody is shocked, nobody. In fact, his only complaint seemed to be against Justice for getting in the way of the great [Russian] "reset." He was asked about this investigation and the arrest. And he said: Oh, Justice, it’s on its own track and we are on our track. This is extremely odd. Russia spies on us. We are the victims, [yet] we are the ones who immediately dismiss it as nothing.

And the Russians, who if anything are the aggressors here, are complaining about our arrest of their agents. And we essentially say: Sorry about that, we'll get it off the table. Very odd.
Look, if you want good relations with an adversary and you give him everything and you roll over, of course the relations will remain good. It's a high price, though.