He did not come into the Presidency simply as America's president. Rather, he came to the 2008 elections as a candidate for a presidency that would be of world wide significance, as in "president of the World." thus, he was the first president to campaign for the American office in a foreign country (Germany); was the first president to seek out the Islamic media (immediately after his inauguration), the first president to give a speech to the Islamic world (Cairo), and the only president to have as his chief adviser, a person who would have sympathies for a non-violent Iran (Valarie Jarrett) . . . . . . information that is important as you read the following:
Thomas
Friedman: Obama Can See America
from Iran’s
Perspective NewsBusters
We get
that Barack Obama can view American from Iran's perspective. What
we're worried about is whether he can view Iran
from American's perspective . . . Ronald Reagan: "My idea of American
policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and
some would say simplistic. It is this: we win and they lose." Thomas
Friedman on Barack Obama: "He actually knows what America looks
like from the outside in. And he can actually see America even to some point from the
Iranian perspective."
So whom
will history record as being more effective in countering America's
adversaries? The "simplistic" Ronald Reagan, or that cosmopolitan
sophisticate, Barack Obama? Appearing on today's Morning Joe, Friedman
apparently thought he was praising Obama, but Joe Scarborough wasn't so sure, asking
"is it an admirable quality for us to have a president who can look at the
world through the eyes of a regime that you and I both know has been the
epicenter of terrorism since 1979?"
As Friedmann argues, Obama has eyes for the country that are from without its borders, giving him a unique perspective as to what is right about this nation in view of competing international opinions. He knows those opinions, He is admired in Europe and trusted by our allies. In fact, he as reached out to increase those who call themselves "allies" of our country. That makes for strong America. Your pettiness on this matter (Obama's international influence) is embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteThe editor's comment line is carefully managed. That is why you don't see a lot of bullshit comments on this blog except for some liberal friend the editors from back east. Their marathon discussions can be interesting, but, as a rule, we do not know how the blog is perceived because of the management of the comment line. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a fact.
DeleteYes, I do mange the comment line. I hate small talk, name calling and what most do not realize is this: much of the small, idiotic talk comes from the Right. More than this, I get compliments, with regularity and do not publish those . . . too self serving. And the Left camps on filthy "dialogue" and threats.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Friedmann is concerned and our first comment, above: you and he are making too much of Obama's time in Indonesia, where he lived from age 6 to age 10. It is not his time outside the country but his assoications within our borders: the Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Writghts, Valerie Jarretts, Louis Farrakhan, any number of Islamic domestic leadership, the radicals in the Muslim Brotherhood who are members of his Administration, CAIR, and his defense of the New Black Panthers, his friendship with Al Sharptoin, the black bias of his own wife, the fact that his father was Muslim, his mother an atheist and a Communist . . . . . all this and more, have made Obama what he is today, a man who dispises our history, our laws, and our 230 year place in this world.