NEW YORK POST: Who wrote President Obama's speech for the start of the UN General As sembly yesterday -- Rodney King? You know, the guy whose videotaped run-in with cops sparked the 1992 LA riots, leading King to ask: "Can't we all just get along?"
Today that question is used derisively, to mock naive "solutions" for social ills. But it essentially sums up Obama's 38-minute UN plea, as Washington's former UN envoy John Bolton noted.
Except that Obama is supposed to be the wise leader of the Free World.
What a truly pathetic performance.
Not only because of the president's stunning cluelessness about the world's nature. But also because of his repeated insults to America. And his back-stabbing of Washington's top Mideast ally, Israel.
Obama, yet again, focused on the world's "distrust" of this nation, thanks to the "belief . . . that America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interest of others" -- presumably, under George W. Bush's presidency.
Not to fear, though; Obama's here: He's closing Gitmo, he said, banning torture, quitting Iraq, scrapping nukes . . .
What about protecting America?
Obama believes "deeply," he said, that "the interests of nations and peoples are shared." (Cue the Kumbaya singers.)
Indeed, he practically begged world leaders to take their "share of responsibility" in responding to global challenges.
Did no one brief him about who'd be at the event? Like lunatic Libyan murderer-in-chief Moammar Khadafy (who ranted for 95 minutes)? And Holocaust-denying, terror-sponsoring, nuke-building, election-stealing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Obama can't truly believe these guys will do their "share" to make the world safe, however much he pleads.
And what's up with those gratuitous slams at Jerusalem? "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," Obama hissed. He insisted that "Israel respect the legitimate claims . . . of the Palestinians."
Memo to POTUS: Israel has always respected legitimate Palestinian claims.
Indeed, it is neither Israeli disrespect nor settlements that stand in the way of peace there -- but the Palestinian fantasy (fueled by folks like Ahmadinejad) of wiping the Jewish state off the map.
Obama can wish all he wants for everyone to "just get along."
But wishing won't make it happen.
He's got some serious learning to do. [Source: New York Post] | Thursday, September 24, 2009
