The Francophile Democrats.

As Yogi Berra said, ‘You can see a lot by just observing’, and that’s about what I’ve been doing lately, just watching to see which way the wind is blowing as Yogi himself might have said. Not that I didn’t know really but this morning I came across an article by Paul Kengor at American Thinker, Obama’s Curious Inaugural Rhetoric, and ‘click’, everything fell into place. It isn’t the kind of article you can quote from, you have to read the whole thing, a must read.

Related to it, is this by John Rosenthal at Pajamas Media on the absence of the word Democracy from Obama’s speech.

Barack Obama spoke loftily of American “ideals.” But he spoke so loftily, at such a high level of abstraction, that one would not even know what they are. And, in any case, the main reference to those “ideals” — “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals,” etc. — was obviously just a stick to beat President Bush on his way out the door. Thus CNN, recognizing its cue, deftly cut away to a close-up of the somewhat pained expression on the outgoing president’s face.

But how can we know if we are preserving “our ideals” if we do not even name them?

Incidentally, the new president followed these remarks with an historical allusion that perfectly illustrates how his vacuous rhetoric produces outright howlers when it risks coming somewhat closer to matters of fact. “Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks,” he said, “but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.” But, of course, America’s key ally in defeating “fascism” — or, more precisely, Nazism and, more precisely still, Nazi Germany — was none other than the Soviet Union. This was anything but a “sturdy alliance.” It was entirely tailored to the needs of the moment and the only shared conviction on which it was based was the conviction that Nazi Germany had to be defeated. As President Obama’s own reference to “facing down communism” unwittingly reminds us, after this task was achieved, the two World War II allies soon resumed their more natural role of adversaries. Important lessons might indeed be drawn from this experience for America’s current war with Islamic extremist organizations. But those lessons have nothing to do with President Obama’s comforting platitudes.

The problems with Obama aren’t that he’s not smart, they are firstly that he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is and secondly that he just doesn’t know enough. He’s too young to have learnt from life and he has not spent wisely his years so far in learning about history and how the world works. I fear he is another of the black African leaders who have led their post colonial countries into Marxist disaster areas.

Already in his first few days in office he has shown that he is adrift with no real idea of what to do, hence his verbal! order to close down Gitmo with no idea how or what the legal ramifications would be or what to do with the evil men contained therein. Just this airy fairy notion ‘Gitmo bad, gotta go’. Nincompoop.

On the plus side, Rush Limbaugh is going to have a lot of fun and a new generation will learn that the Democrats juvenile feel good agenda won’t work any better with Obama than it did with Carter or Clinton.

Update.
Well whaddya know, Iowahawk is making fun of the One! All this time it was verboten if not impossible to make jokes of Perfect Perfection Personified and now it turns out we were bamboozled by Beelzebub as he turns out to be. Watch out for lightning bolts and black looks Iowahawk, you’re in his black book now. Go read the Idiossey.

H/T Fresh Bilge.

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