Posted by
vonryansexpress on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:53:02 PM
This President is not a man of the world.
His time overseas as a youth did not accomplish what such foreign schooling usually does with young minds in foreign settings. Perhaps, the Muslim schooling he obtained overseas and the odd-ball parenting he received precluded a more 'universal' development.
Mr. Obama is not timid. He is making choices. He is fundamentally opposed to American influence in foreign states. He is a type of isolationist, though; I'd suspect he is not conversant with the history of isolation rejected in America, by Americans in the 20th Century.
Mr. Obama knows nothing of the post W.W.II, near east and Arabian Gulf. He could not 'free-style' discuss the Shah and Israel, bomb racks to the Saudi's or Hovercraft fleets. Our current President is not a scholar.
Americans need to disabuse themselves of the notion of Obama as cognoscenti of the world’s pulses.
His is a mind of slogans that he formed and philosophies he adopted from his moments in militant college bliss and during his much discussed, 'missing years.' Mr. Obama is a Jane Fonda without the sex appeal and a Stokley Carmichael without the rage. He is not a geo-political thinker or historical man.
Iran will play out despite his crafted reluctance to have an opinion or to feel any need to say loudly, 'we want regime change in Iran.'
It just isn't in the slogan playbook and it would give America importance, something Mr. Obama has been nurtured to reject.