‘We’ve become disengaged and isolated in the global arena’
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug 1 – If isolation is a diplomatic way of penalizing a rogue nation, why is the White House so intent on isolating the U.S., Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens asked.
“The Obama administration has spent nearly six years seeking to make the U.S. a kinder, gentler ‘big brother’ in an effort to create a new kind of American diplomacy. Instead, he has diminished the international influence we once had. The most recent example of just how ineffective and potentially dangerous this new approach to global leadership was the failed mission of Secretary of State John Kerry to broker a peace between the warring Israelis and the Palestinians,” Weber said.
The AMAC chief said that Kerry was so intent on not offending the Palestinians that he forgot that Israel is the only ally we have in the Middle East on whom we can rely. As a result the U.S. came under heavy fire from all quarters in the Jewish State.
The country’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, put it this way in a scathing editorial this week: “The Obama administration proved once again that it is the best friend of its enemies, and the biggest enemy of its friends. The man of peace from Massachusetts [John Kerry] intercepted with his own hands the reasonable cease-fire that was within reach, and pushed both the Palestinians and Israelis toward an escalation that most of them did not want.”
In a previous editorial the newspaper had this to say: “Kerry isn’t anti-Israeli; on the contrary, he’s a true friend to Israel. But his conduct in recent days over the Gaza cease-fire raises serious doubts over his judgment and perception of regional events. It’s as if he isn’t the foreign minister of the world’s most powerful nation, but an alien, who just disembarked his spaceship in the Mideast.
Weber said that he, too, believes that Kerry and the Obama administration were well-intentioned, “although somewhat misguided and satchel-footed,” as he put it.
“Our country’s dealings elsewhere in the Middle East – Libya, Syria, Iran and Iraq, for example – as well as our lack of initiative in the Ukraine-Russia conflict are further proof that we’ve become disengaged and isolated in the global arena. I am no expert in diplomacy, but I can tell when a baseball player is in a slump and America is in a slump.”
NOTE TO EDITORS: Dan Weber is available for telephone interviews on this issue. Editors and reporters may contact John Grimaldi by phone at 917-846-8485 or via email at [email protected] to set up a call.
ABOUT AMAC
The Association of Mature American Citizens [http://www.amac.us] is a vibrant, vital and conservative alternative to those organizations, such as AARP, that dominate the choices for mature Americans who want a say in the future of the nation. Where those other organizations may boast of their power to set the agendas for their memberships, AMAC takes its marching orders from its members. We act and speak on their behalf, protecting their interests, and offering a conservative insight on how to best solve the problems they face today. Live long and make a difference by joining us today at http://amac.us/join-amac.
Our government has given me a hundred reasons not to trust them. In fact, it’s safe to say that they view the citizens of this country as their enemies in many respects! Why should other countries trust “them”???
When a majority of the citizens do not trust the federal government, there is little hope other countries should trust it.
Forget worrying about Hillary — it’s Elizabeth Warren we’ll have to deal with – and she’s more dangerous than Obama! Princess Pocahocus while railing against the “elites” and corporate America flies around on private jets – including to the Kennedy compound (they endorse her, by the way) — and she’s a bigger America hater than Obama, if possible! She is the one to fear – being a woman and a professed Communist, that will finish the U.S. off should she be elected.
Should Hillary fail to “excite the Democrat base” enough in the early part of the primaries, a number of high-ranking party members, the Obamas included, have been prepping Elizabeth Warren to step right in. She is being carefully coached and is more aligned with the die-hard Marxist wing of the party, which is a rapidly growing segment of the party, than Hillary. Hillary would, believe it or not, be considered “a moderate” by most Democrats at this point. That is how far left the Democrat party has moved in the last few decades.
By the way, your assessment of Warren is spot on. She created a fictional native American Indian heritage to get preferential treatment and easy enrollment in the best schools. She understood how to use the system, that her own party created, of preferential treatment for specific groups and classes of people to springboard herself ahead of others into a teaching position that paid her over $400,000 a year to teach a class. While at the same time, she was acting as an attorney to make millions in legal fees by defending some of the very companies she routinely bashes in her speeches. Hypocrisy should be her middle name, if it isn’t already. She, like all Democrats who say they’re “for the middle class’ love to wrap themselves in all the trappings of the ultra-wealthy as much as possible. Then again, the same can be said for the Socialist / Communist leaders of most countries around the world. Some are simply “more equal” than others as Orwell said.
Yes, one of the progressive subsets is that ‘ each new iteration is more wicked than the last’ to badly paraphrase the parable. They seem to be moving to the point where they no longer wear masks. If Warren the nominee it will mean they fancy themselves strong enough to dispense with cover stories designed to lull the dupes. I do believe the D nominee will be female. They want another first and their base thinks in terms of groups. The thing is, if they unmask will it be enough to wake the sleepers?
It just keeps getting worse daily. Folks, this progressive movement has gotten really really scary.
Have you noticed that the “crisis” they do not allow to go to waste now includes those that they themselves create openly without any cover what-so-ever. The only requirement is to try and make the next crisis of greater import than the one before. Not only do they not attempt to put out the fires, they create new ones that take over the news (?) media and allow the old to sputter out on their own, or better yet, to accumulate so that the opposition is overwelmed with their arsonist result
with raging infernos everywhere to stack up so no one knows where to start in fighting these fires.
You all are right in that a Warren presidancy would be so much more dangerous than has been Obama’s. She is much smarter, knows how to use the system while the system knew how to use him.
She has actually had accomplishments based on her own initiative, not on a prior selection for a juvenile to train up in the way they would choose him to go.
The Warren nomination would narrow the chance that a Republican could win in the general election and makes it more likely that a Carson might be the best way to counter their efforts.
Our options are shrinking and our nation and our people are at greater risk than ever.
It is enough to make pessimists out of all of us and in the doing change the meaning of pessimism to realism. D.A., that’s really scary.
And, as we talked about in Sunday School this morning, Christianity is under siege!! 5,000 have been driven from Mosul, but not before being tortured, robbed and stripped of every shred of decency and dignity. Too many think it can’t happen on U.S. soil – but it’s happening every day — like a virulent cancer, spreading silently.
If America is to prevail, it’s up to all of the Conservatives and Christians to rally their bases and be prepared for a hard fight. First, we MUST WIN THE SENATE!!! There is no “try” – we absolutely have to! Then, we must be sure to have the strongest, most Conservative and honest candidate for our nominee — someone who will inspire the voters to actually get up off of their recliners and go VOTE. Every NON-Vote by a Republican is a VOTE for a Democrat. I also hope nobody decides to run on an Independent ticket – because it does the same thing. It will rob the Republican candidate of votes. There is no one strong enough to pull enough votes on an independent ticket. Not right now, anyway. I feel strongly that Elizabeth Warren will be pushed, and the drooling Kool-Aid drinkers will adore her rhetoric and venom for “corporate rich guys” ……. never paying attention to the fact that SHE IS A VERY WEALTHY person herself – and isn’t going to go Homeless just to become president.
As an aside, KarenFaye, I just saw this morning on the “Oath Keepers” forum an article from “The Daily Mail” in the United Kingdom (Brits) that covered one atrocity that the Obama administration would not like us to hear about.
The article concerned the hundreds of illegals who were dying in the southern wastes of Texas, from dehydration and injuries, many pictures and one picture of a young man who had had his eyes pecked out while he was still alive and propped up agains a tree and unable to defend himself from the birds. Of course they blurred the picture because it was too gastly to view unedited.
This “hundreds” is probably an underestimate because the region is so vast and barren that they can only count the few that are actually discovered. Many of those found are women and children. Some are abandoned by the smugglers who were paid thousands of dollars to deliver them to the U.S.
This might be one crisis that the Democrats would try and end if the Republicans as a whole would get with the program. Goemert cannot do it alone, even though he has tried.
The blame needs to placed squarely on the Presidents back and the world needs to know what his immigration invitation has wrought. The American people especially need to know.
Where is the media in this? Does anybody care?
Obama welcomed them in and the smugglers killed them.
It has been rumored… On the web, that some of those ghastly corpses are folks with origins in Africa Ebola infected states. So much for a humanitarian, secure border. The latest quote from ODL ( our dear leader) “If you like your disease we will bring iit to a town near you” via the southern border.
I guess today’s failure re: Gaza & “the slump” isn’t worthy of discussion? The “Vietnam Vet’s failure in negotiating a resolution for HAMAS is, as all negotiations for or with Hamas…. are;predestined to fail as outlined in the: Hamas Covenant. Hamas (with the Gaza electorates approval, yes, Maryanne, elections, as in the US; do have consequences) rules the Strip, not the Palestinian Authority & as the Covenant decrees: Zionist-Nazis, Rotarian’s, Lions club members, the USA and the liberal western Media (Hamas sympathizers?) are declared enemies of the membership, who also question Egypt & the (former) PLO now the PA, I urge ALL to read the Covenant on line.Understanding Israel’s position & the mindset of these fanatics should provide a platform for why the USA needs better foreign diplomacy.
My comments are too old to be of any interest – and my views are not wanted – I have been wrong for so long I might turn out to be embarrassingly right – Obama has been right, most of the time and reading between the lines he does know – I may make it and celebrate his THIRD Term and make You-all look stupid. JHA.
Mister Amstad, sir …Comrade Obama hasn’t a snowballs chance in hell to be elected again, in fact, if we’re lucky, he’ll have a personal drone with a guided missile with his name on it to find the hole he’ll be hiding in!
I believe the Liberal Media is the biggest problem of all. We must establish (as has been done on the Radio) a Conservative TV Media that can express our feelings. If Glen Beck would have Fox News on his station I would sign up and cancel my subscription to Cable TV. I don’t want to keep funding these left leaning organizations. Let them try to Survive on their Liberal followers. The Liberal Media is available on basic Cable. To get Fox News you must subscribe to a much costlier Optimum Value package costing $64.95. The Broadcast Basic package is only $17.64 per month. I would be much happier to pay Glen Becks Channel to be able to get Fox News.
We PAY FOR FOX NEWS, and a few other channels of interest. My son in law has “Lamestream Media” totally blocked from his channel selections. If we have to cut costs again, I will find other ways, rather than be subjected to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN — not an option. Let them slobber over the next Marxist regime to an empty screen (or to the slobbering commie wannabees clinging to their free cell phones). I’m not interested in any of their propaganda.
I thought liberals were the ones who campaign against media outlets with whom they disagree. I am personally interested in propaganda from all sides, and then I make my own choice about which is more credible. How can you form an argument against the liberals if you do not know their side of the story?
I check in on the other news outlets periodically — but can’t take too much at one time. Their views are very skewed and often laughable. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but many on the left are really “out there”. I can tell within 30 seconds of talking to someone whether they depend on the mainstream news channels for information. Often they are totally unaware of many issues – that they should know about. That’s the difference. News isn’t reported “differently”, it’s often just not reported at all.
Real news people are supposed to report what happens, without bias, without editorial, and be a watchdog to those in power, especially the White House and Congress… not a lapdog. This is what I was taught in a journalism class many years ago. It’s a sad and scarey day when nearly all the mainstream media is a sycophantic slobbering boot-licking lapdog to the left. I view Fox as a little better, but only a little; they have disappointed me too often, so that I rarely watch anymore. They have a number of liberal talking heads there too. Fox is NOT a conservative network and it does not try to be; they are more balanced than the others, I will give them that, but there are still conservative stories they will ignore like the rest. Why would Glen Beck want Fox when they dumped him? Fox is in the middle; everything else is on the Left; we need an unapologetic conservative network. I think it would be wildly successful. Until that day, I will have to continue getting news from numerous web sources.
When fair/honest straightforward reporting dies, what we are left with is propaganda and we are all poorer and less safe for it. As for the story above… the slump… I think that’s too mild a word… I’d call it a downhill run that’s picking up speed! IMHO
I quote: “We’ve become disengaged and isolated in the global arena”
Well… when we tell everyone else how to run their country, and not responsibly control ours
When we pay countries aid when it is actually ‘pay for favors and friendship’
When we import aliens and pay them to have children and stay here without contributing
When we sell arms (weapons) on one side, aid them with arms, and defense weaponry on the other…
Aww hell the list is so long I digress
What would you think of the United States of America today vs let us say in 1960?
Republic, or Democracy or other… look it up.
When you say Pres Obama is well intentioned you are being kind. I am not so sure about that. Just look at his background,
his upbringing, his association with terrorists, his apparent looking up at Muslim rulers. I could go on and on..What about his lack of transparency. What seems to interest him the most is his legacy and what people think of him.
The next President is going to say, ” it’s all Obama’s fault.
And he will be correct in saying so!!!
I agree with RIK.
AMEN. I pity the person who has to “muck the stalls” behind Obama! It will take a decade to iron out some of the wrinkles the Obama administration has created on the flag of the United States – and some things may never be put right again. Too many say Obama is “naïve” ……NO WAY — he is fully cognizant of what he has done to this nation, and intends to still do. As a true Sociopath, the only thing he hasn’t done yet is directly murder any one … but the traits are all the same. No emotions, no connections, no GUILT, and the only person he truly admires is himself. If the voting public doesn’t learn a lesson from this fiasco, there is no hope!
While Hamas rockets rained down on Israel, Mr. Obama quietly gave Iran another six months that they will use to develop their nuclear weapon. Another “red line” moved. Will there be another extension, if needed, after that?
It seems that Mr. Obama, Mr. Kerry and the presumptive presidential nominee, Mrs. Bill Clinton, can’t bring themselves to state their true positions for peace in the middle east. But their actions, which they believe are well-intentioned, are sending a very “transparent” message to the world, after all.
Ask the Christians of Libya, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, and many other places about Obama’s kinder gentler world. Many are now dead or fleeing. He doesn’t send aid to them, or even mention them for that matter. But he has sent funds to Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, and Al Qaeda in Syria. Who is he?
Who is he? A radical Muslim, plain and simple.
*thumbs up on this post
I disagree with Mr. Weber that Obama and Kerry are well-intentioned. In my opinion, it has been Obama’s intention from the very start to destroy our nation, and there is no better way than to betray our Israeli friends (as well as the few other friends we had in the world!), destroying our national security by reducing our armed forces and opening our borders to anyone (including terrorists) who may want to enter our country, bankrupting the nation, violating the Constitution, and assuming unconstitutional dictatorial powers, while ignoring congress, the courts, the Constitution, and the will of thinking American people. Of course, the blood-sucking recipients of the welfare dole love the “free ride” and brainlessly adore and follow and vote for Obama, whom they see as their messiah. It may already be too late to salvage our beloved nation, much less the rest of the world.
you gotta agree with Jack, it can’t be out any clearer..
Dick – I never said what Jack said was not totally correct. What I DID do was point out the simple indisputable fact that both the Congress and Supreme Court have done little to nothing to rein in the Obama administration. As you succinctly pointed out: it can’t be out any clearer…
the pissing contest you refer to is what should be checks and balances, but our entire system is going to hell in a hand basket, and needs nothing short of a miracle to get it back in line.
old Korean vet. cpl. USMC…
SEMPER FI
Jack – I agree with most of what you said however there are a few things that might need a second look. Ignoring congress for one. Sadly congress has been actively complicit in a lot of what Obama has done. The Senate is Democrat run and Harry Reid will do anything Obama wants done no questions asked. The House, although Republican run, may have passed a bunch of bipartisan legislation the Harry Reid is blocking from any vote in the Senate however the Republican run House is not without fault. The in fighting and pi**ing contests between the different factions of the Republican party have done nothing to help the situation at large. The courts…the Supreme Court is almost evenly divided between liber and conservative judges all but assuring when and if any laws are passed they are almost always along party lines. Following this we are the treated to the losing sides diatribe about how “the other side” has ignored the people or some legal precedent and what the other side did passing said law was highly questionable. It just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling (NOT!) to listen to and watch the action (or in a lot of cases, NON-action) of those we elected or were appointed to positions of power where they are “supposedly” representing “we, the people”. “We, the People” have been left out in the dark for so long that we cannot really know just exactly what has been done to us. Our illustrious “news media” does nothing more than spew the beliefs of the party in power at that time. Honest to goodness, actual “NEWS” is a thing of the past.
Obama is doing a great job of fulfilling “Dreams From My Father,” to destroy America, as was his father’s wish.
President Obama promised, while he was running the first time, that we were ‘a few days from fundamentally change America’. Sadly, not every voter got the real meaning of his words. No one stopped to check his background. Nobody care to check where this young unknown person was coming from. Every time someone ask me if he has done a good job, I reply with a YES. His agenda wasn’t America’s agenda; instead he intended to destroy it, AND HE HAS. So therefore, he did his job as instructed. Thank you for the opportunity to opine..
People, it’s just business as usual, for this “transform America” president! … What has this president “ever done” that has been good for this country? This evil “American hater” and his Socialist/Communist cohorts have not done ONE thing to improve this country over the last almost 6 years of his administration. We have multiple crisis after crisis, we have lies upon more lies, … How does this president even keep a straight face as he spews lie after lie into the camera lens and microphones? Oh yeah, i forgot, attorneys “learn” how to become professional liars in law school, it’s the old established “reasonable doubt” defense … Like “it’s really George Bush’s fault!” … Yet, we do get more and more smirks in his expressions, almost as if he’s really thinking … “these yokels will believe anything I say, even when I get caught in one of my lies”. This isn’t just a fawning media, it’s a complicit media! Let’s face it, our whole country has been infiltrated with Socialist/Communist doctrine. Whether it’s the mainstream media, our educators, our Hollywood morality, and certainly, our justice and court system, our very fabric of everything that is good and democratic is being destroyed in front of our nation’s very eyes! And the worst of these evils, our justice system, is being used against us instead of protecting us! It just takes ONE JUDGE to overturn the will of the majority, as in overturning Californians voting “that marriage is between a man AND a woman”!!! … The quickest solution … Shoot ALL the attorneys!!! (Now, that’s the real reason they want to ban all citizens from owning guns!)
I was beginning to think I was in the minority in recognizing the “Obama smirk”. He not only smirks whenever he “speaks to the unwashed masses” he also looks down his nose displaying a very identifiable arrogance. The man thinks he’s above it all. Totally disgusting.
The “smirks” are required for all liberal spokespeople.
It really struck me a few years ago when I noticed it with Terry McAuliffe; now it’s the State Department “girls” who smile when describing serious topics; it’s David Plouffe, Jay Carney, Josh Earnest, David Axelrod, and virtually every “Democrat Spokesperson” that I see on TV news. It’s obviously something these people have been trained to do… if it doesn’t come naturally. It’s an attitude of being “above the fray” and, as a group, I find them very condescending… especially when they’re on Fox News.
Lois Lerner is another one of the arrogant minions of this administration. Every time they show that video of her coming in to testify, I get angry watching her stroll in with such a look of arrogance on her face (I’m untouchable), I just hope we are able to remove that arrogant expression from her face at some point.
Mark W. and Darlenea – Excellent observations. Just about everyone associated with the Obama administration fall into the “I’m so much better than you and you can’t touch me!” category. And Terry McAuliffe…research his background and you will find one atrocity after another he has been involved in and never been charged with anything. Anyone remember Global Crossing? That was where McAuliffe “turned” a $100,000 “investment” into $18 MILLION. How about Hillary Clinton when Bill was in the White House. She supposedly “invested” in cattle futures and lo and behold turned a measly $1,000 into over $99 THOUSAND in less than 10 months. Look it up. Somehow those associated with the Democrat party in the upper echelons seem to have “gift” for turning a few bucks into a fortune. Can’t wait to find out who in the Obama administration becomes and overnight millionaire! Sure wish those of us out here in middle America had this kind of “luck”!!
They don’t get it. They ignore the hurt that is allowed against them if they ignore the Constitutional limits on their offices.
Whatever we do from hereon out, we should never vote an attorney into any government position, from the president on down.
He struts and smirks, and why not — since nobody is stopping his evil agenda, he gets more confident and arrogant by the day. What I don’t understand is how so many people can be deaf, dumb and blind to his intentions.
I am very surprised, that Prez, has not been assinated.
I second and third that observation!!!!!!
I saw an email recently that pointed out a strange truth. Look up the party affiliation of mass shooters and you will find that they are registered Democrats or liberals. Do you think a liberal Democrat is going to assassinate its president? The end of the mentioned email said, “If you want effective gun control, Do Not let democrats buy and own guns”.
America is deeply divided, and this division will only end up badly for all of us. I understand the frustration and anger and it is certainly justified.
Regarding the issue of the conflict in the Middle East, I too agree that our policy is intentional and favors the enemy of freedom. The Palestinian people are not the enemy, but it is the radical elements of terrorism that’s the enemy in this conflict.
We need to come to a realization that progressivism is opposed to the concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This philosophy embraces death, enslavement, and misery for its subjects. It’s the progressive ideology that gave us abortion, “death panels,” out-of-control spending, increased debt, and more reliance on Big Brother for our daily bread. We see inflation on the rise, our dollar becoming worthless, and all the while we see a growing chorus of “We love you,” for the Dear Leader from those who look towards the god of government instead of the God of Heaven for their daily bread.
Folks, we keep looking at things and issues from a “left/right” perspective and all the while we’re being played by both sides. The opportunity we had in 2014 to have meaningful change happened during the primary season. Unfortunately, we selected status quo progressive Republicans to return to Congress. It’s in the primary elections where the real choices are, and our voter turnout was at an almost all time low in my county. For example, Indiana, which is traditionally a Red State, but the Republicans we elect are less than conservative, and usually support special interests rather than the electorate. Both parties seek control of the governmental apparatus for their own purposes.
I pray for the safety and protection of both the Palestinians and the Israelis, and I support Israel in their desire to live as a sovereign nation.
Is it possible for each of us to find people with whom we may disagree on issues, but who might share our values? We need to ask ourselves, “What exactly are my values?” “What are those principles and beliefs for which I would give my life?” Or, “Is there anyone for whom I would give my life?” This might be a starting point for us to come together as a people.
Yeah, I listen to GB too. I admire the restlessness with which he ‘ turns over rocks’ , frantically looking for ways to unify people. The values vs interest theme has been a worthwhile foray into hopefulness. His buddy the ny rabbi sounds like a real mensch. All that being said, there is no common cause possible with progressives. It’s like two people in St. Louis, one wanting to go to savannah, the other to San Diego. The only thing that happens with compromise is one side ends up in the wrong direction. Now he might rationalize that he is ‘only’ two hundred or eight hundred miles in the wrong direction and call that victory, but the fact remains that in the tug of war he has lost ground. This has been the game for a century. Traditionalists love to look back at the Reagan years for inspiration, but often forget that the eighties were but a brief lull in the mudslide towards collectivism. Tactical victorys were won, as in the fifties, but, alas, the collectivists consolidated their hold on one party while the other continues to this day to be sharply divided between ‘ lite’ version collectivists and a minority driven by Constitutional Principles. So, an idealogical war is being fought between, on the one hand, a unified and ruthless enemy and on the other by a group half of whom share the goals of their erstwhile opponents. The latter may croon a soothing lullaby to their voters, but the song wears thin. As they gain power, the progressives are going to be even less likely to compromise. GB needs to stay awake lest he become yet another moldy loaf in the idealogical bakery window.
You have the right idea. It is time to make changes!! Our representatives are worthless. With all that is going on right now our so called representatives are taking FIVE WEEKS OFF!!! That would not happen in my company.
A change is required. We need a new system—–a new party. Forget political parties. Establish a new party. AMERICA FIRST!!!! Those participating would have one basic priority. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!
Oh, fiddlesticks! Poor public officials are elected by good people who don’t vote. Or by voters who are too lazy to educate themselves. And you want a third party? What purpose would that serve other than allowing the “other party” to win? How about working within the party we now have to assist in educating voters, in getting out the vote, in promoting conservative goals, in winning elections? Our representatives may be “worthless”, but they’re ours, we elected them and we have the government we deserve. To quote our president, let’s be the change we want to see!
Fiddlesticks? …. Can we use those to loosen the brains of the uneducated electorate? If so, I’m all for it!
The Mainstream Media has protected the Obama Administration for over 6 years, which probably proves we don’t need a military or Intelligence capability. The MSM will take care of us.
Our Diplomatic Skills are are about as competent as our President’s policies but “What difference does it make?” will be the cry from the MSM.
America isolated? Would that it were so. To be isolated in that we have no enemies and no friends to determine our actions based on the principle that the friend of our friend is our friend; the enemy of our friend is our enemy; no nation that we must support in whatever it deems proper to do; no nation that we attack just because of a side of an issue it might take, but isolated in the sense of America First as proposed by our founders and repeated in the early 1900’s by the likes of Charles Lindbergh. Oh blessed isolation from fruitless treaties and political shinanigans by the likes of a Kerry (and yes, he is an evil man despite what Mr. Weber or the Isral press might voice) and Obama (also an evil puppet) who continues to organize the community into adversaries at every turn).
And while I totally agree with both D.A. and PaulE so far as I understand them, I cannot help but think that Mr. Weber is just playing “nice” like those weak-kneed Republicans in both House and Senate who soft-pedal every objection they might have with this administration.
There are some AMAC members who show more “fire” in their comments here than most establishment Republicans show in the total of their careers.
As far as “the global arena” goes, unlike Mr. Weber, I think we have meddled too much not failed to be involved, but too involved where it is none of our business. Why is it up to the U.S. to scour the world looking for monsters to conquer when we cannot even conquer those we have here at home?
Enough of this playing nice. Let’s get down to business and right this, our ship-of-state before attempting to right someone else’s, and especially before trying to topple some other tyrant while allowing the tyrant here at home free reign.
Well said, Ivan Berry!
Here Here! Ivan Berry! You are right on.
Ditto
I agree with you. How can anyone say the US is isolated when we don’t even stop hordes from Central America and other places from coming here supposedly illegally but with the blessing of the DC crowd and the Chamber of Commerce? When US meddling has created out of control situations in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq? When the US created ISIS by funding, training and arming rebels in Syria which our gov thought it could control? All of these places had stable governments before the US interfered. And now, Obama and the banker/globalist elite crowd seems to still want to provoke war in Ukraine, when it’s not in our sphere of interest. How about protecting OUR borders instead?
Palestine…I disagree with every poster here. Three Israeli youth hitch hikers were killed, we don’t know by whom, and in retaliation a Palestinian youth was burned alive. That’s far less violence than a typical Saturday night in Chicago. What Israel has done to non-combatants is inexcuseable and created the situation that is now out of control.
The reason the US is getting more isolated is that we are no longer the force for what’s right. Why would anyone respect the US in foreign affairs when we aren’t even protecting ourselves from invasion by hordes of people who undermine our way of life? When we can’t get one soldier released from a Mexican jail? When Miriam Ibrahim was freed by Italy and the Pope (not US diplomacy) to live in the US? When nothing was done to stop ISIS when they were marching through Iraq in a column? When we don’t censure the nutcase leader in Africa who doesn’t care about the teenage girls kidnapped by Boka Haran? When our President spends all of his time fundraising, vacationing, playing golf, and entertaining?
No the porblem isn’t that the US is isolationist. It’s that the DC crowd won’t put our own house in order.
grrrr…….
To say that I find this article more than a bit troubling would be an understatement. Not for how the various members of the Obama administration view themselves. That part is to be expected. They all view themselves as “the smartest people in the room”, even while they are constantly being out-played on every level, during every conflict. Rather what I find so disturbing is how Mr. Weber views what has transpired over the last six years of Obama’s appeasement and apology foreign relations policy fiascoes, as somehow all being well-intentioned efforts that just went terribly wrong.. Really? How Mr. Weber can honestly come up with his conclusion below is beyond me.
Weber said that he, too, believes that Kerry and the Obama administration were well-intentioned, “although somewhat misguided and satchel-footed,” as he put it.
“Our country’s dealings elsewhere in the Middle East – Libya, Syria, Iran and Iraq, for example – as well as our lack of initiative in the Ukraine-Russia conflict are further proof that we’ve become disengaged and isolated in the global arena. I am no expert in diplomacy, but I can tell when a baseball player is in a slump and America is in a slump.”
I’m hoping he, weber, doesn’t really believe that and that he is striving to be ‘ even handed ‘ . Can’t believe he would start Amac if he thought the country in the hands of good intentioned people. From the git I have seen the pres as an extremely adroit player at his chosen game. I expected McCain to demolish the community organizer in their debate. Whe I saw the well oiled facility with which the cover story was expounded I was aghast and have not recovered. This man is the most successful president in a generation, at least. The thing is, he is succeeding brilliantly in downgrading and downsizing this country and creating conditions escape from which will be very very difficult. He is imposing his will on three hundred million people, half of whom are writhing in horror. The others feel they’ve reached the promised land. The point here is that with few exceptions he has succeeded brilliantly in realizing the Marxian dream, all without ever mentioning his philosophic godfathers. All this talk of satchel footed this and tin eared that is no more than stubborn refusal to grasp that his goals are not our goals. It reminds me of the Brit generals in ww1 who persisted in the belief that massed attacks against machine guns would work if carried out with enough élan. How much evidence is needed that this guy actually meant what he said about fundamental transformation, and is making good on his promise? That the benefit of the doubt is still generously being given reflects the ‘ niceness’ of the giver. How many of us of a certain age were raised to stay quiet if we couldn’t find something good to say about someone? This restraint makes a useful tool for the ruthless.
I’m half way hoping that Mr. Weber is simply trying to walk some fine line between political correctness, for fear of possible retaliation from Washington, and being extremely polite and deferential to the office of the Presidency and the administration as a whole. That’s the only somewhat plausible explanation that even has an outside chance of justifying his comments about the administration being well-intentioned although somewhat misguided. Otherwise, I agree. Why even bother with creating AMAC in the first place.
While I agree with you that Obama has been hugely successful at de-constructing our standing in the world and transforming so much of the domestic landscape to align with his socialist vision of “a more just (economically impoverished with limited opportunities for advancement and suiccess) and humbled (racking up over $7 trillion in additional national debt in only six years) United States”, I don’t see him as the intellectual force behind it all. Yes, he can memorize talking points and can be coached to deliver them with great effect to fawning audiences (his greatest skill, if he stays on script), but he has displayed time and time again that he isn’t willing to put in the time and hard work to drive or implement anything. Everything is always “I’ve instructed my people to get it done”, with his inner circle doing all the detail-oriented work and making sure his cabinet heads and czars have the right marching orders to implement the changes. I would credit Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, John Podesta and a few others as the people formulating policy and making it all happen behind the scenes. Obama is merely the public face of progressive vision.
I’m also horrified by the near total lack of any effective resistance coming from the opposition party as Obama steamrolls one change after another over a dazed and disoriented Republican party. A very effective blitzkrieg action by the administration to keep the slow-footed Republican leadership off balance. It’s like the Republican leadership is expecting the Democrats to slow down, so they can have some time to reach a consensus on what the Republican response to something that happened a week or two ago should be. Not going to happen. Think faster on your feet, because this is what Saul Alinsky meant by creating non-stop crisis to overwhelm the system.
The obvious lies of the administration go unchallenged, while most Republicans in Washington seem more concerned with “trying to appear nice to the public” or “trying not to come across as combative” to an administration that is laughing at them. There are several scandals by this administration, any one of which would be enough to topple most administrations. Yet the various investigative committees either pursue the wrong line of questioning, as in the IRS scandal, or allow endless extensions of time for the administration to produce subpoenaed material.
Yes, half the country cringes, while the other half, having been effectively dumbed-down and brainwashed, cheers this new socialist utopia taking shape all around us. A little bit more each and every day. Piece by piece, brick by brick, the transformation is going along quite well. If we cannot re-take the Senate this fall and have the Republicans take a much more forceful stand against this administration’s policies, it won’t matter who is running in 2016. The country’s path will be cemented by the cumulative effect of so much embedded changes as to be unrecoverable.
The American people blew 2008. They compounded the problem by repeating the error in 2012, thus ensuring Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and a whole host of equally bad changes would go into effect. Now we’re at the point where if we can’t re-take the Senate and force Republicans to grow a spine, there won’t be much of a country left to save by the time the 2016 elections roll around. Everyone needs to get out and vote this November. No excuses.
The silent Americans you speak about had better hope that Obama doesn’t grant amnesty to the tens of millions of illegals already in this country before then. If he does, then I guarantee you the Democrats will find some federal judge to declare that these people are all eligible for immediate citizenship and with it the right to vote. That is what comprehensive immigration reform is all about for the Democrats and why they have been pushing so hard for it. Whether by legislation or executive action, if amnesty occurs, that will give the Democrats the over-whelming numerical majority they need for permanent control of Washington within two election cycles.
Remember, a good dictator must delegate. He may replace his subordinates often or not, but the only thing that matters to the progressives is the advancement of their agenda. I confess to lack of interest in which progressive is the puppet and which it’s operator. They have a unity of purpose that makes them interchangeable. They may hate each other, but they always agree on the goal, and that they hate the country more than each other. The opposition is not unified, not on strategy, not on tactics. I don’t think that will happen in time. Don’t think the Rs will win the senate. Voters want the influence that equals pork. There may never be a wealth tax; they may simply squeeze the money out of the middle with inflation and devaluing the dollar. Then, when the now apathetic find themselves broke, there will be a great clamor for salvation. Demagogues may arise, as the antidote, but the cure will involve more loss of freedom, not a restoration. If we lose this country due to laziness and apathy it will be one of history’s great tragedys. Sorry to be downbeat, but every time it look at boehners face and realize this is what we’ve put up against the progressive movement I am filled with despair. That he won’t step aside to ‘ spend more time with the family’ makes me angry. The crises are not only coming quicker, they are growing in magnitude. The Rs are like the French in 1940 earnestly hoping the panzers would take a siesta. There will be no break. Like him or hate him, the pres is a man of will and is bending all in his path, domestically.
I pretty much agree with everything you’ve said. The Republican leadership has done a pathetic job to date of articulating a clear, concise, unified and easy to understand value proposition for the public, that would be able to compete against the Democrats’ promise of “more free stuff”. Given the number of outstanding scandals, it would have been relatively simple to formulate a coherent campaign strategy around the series of broken promises, outright lies, illegal and unconstitutional executive actions and the general administrative corruption already documented, most of which there exists ample video and audio evidence of, to make a compelling case for change. Instead the Republican leadership spent more time and effort trying to marginalize the few fiscally conservative members of the Republican party, that actually wanted to fight back against the rising tide of progressivism, than developing an effective counter strategy to the socialist message.
Now with only three months left before the mid-terms and as they race out the door to a five week vacation, they’re likely to, once again, punt with the old standby of pouring money into a few select races and hoping for the best. That strategy rarely works out well, but they don’t seem to be able to evolve the old campaign playbook. They’re certainly not treating this election as the last opportunity, that it really is, to halt, or at least slow, the country’s slide into full-blown socialism.
Should we actually re-take the Senate, it will be solely because the people themselves decided that they have had enough. It certainly won’t be for anything the Republican leadership has done to mount an effective campaign strategy. If on the other hand we end up with the status quo, then that pretty much signals that apathy has won out, even in the face of blatant illegal and unconstitutional activity being perpetuated on an almost daily basis.
Paul E. you are also right on. How I wish that your statements and Ivan Berry’s could have a much wider audience. People need to be educated, and your statements are educational. I find your statements to be grounded and well reasoned out in response to the various articles that have appeared here. You need a wider audience. AMAC does not gather many younger voters or possibly even those who are on the receiving end of the social welfare programs. So your statements are educating to me and I would suspect many others too, but we are the choir.
How can we get your responses out for wider distribution? Is social media a possible format?
Mr. Weber, I believe is definitely being politically correct, after all he does not want to jeopardize what he has founded in AMAC. Even here it really comes down to the bottom line (profit) of his organization rather then the forum for comment that the newsletter has provided. That is sad. Political correctness is a very negative concept.
Thank you, Alice. Speaking for myself, I do try to educate even beyond this forum, sometimes successfully, but not always. And while I’ve even thought about getting a condensation or composit of our joint comments, not just mine and PaulE’s, but others’ as well, it does need to be realized that we do not always agree though it seems that some agree more often with each other than with some others.
In order to format a web mag that contained our comments, we’d require editorial effort to make them understandable if the comments were issued without the benefit of the articles that we were supposed to be responding to. And there’s the issue of copyright.
Just yesterday I had some small success when I was told by the local Masonic Lodge head that my suggestion about the bulk copies from nccs.net of the Declatation of Independance and the Constitution and the need to present copies and short lessons of our founding at the local schools on Constitution Day ( Sep. 17, I believe), had been looked into and was a good effort by the Lodge to pursue. I had explained earlier that Fraternal and Trade organizations and other self-help efforts had for the most part been taken over by the central government or the insurance companies. Thus, most any charitable efforts on the part of a Lodge would be in competition with the government &/or those companies.
Any other ideas that anyone else might come up with would be asset for all of us to chect out. And any thoughts about how we could address a wider audience, I would really like to hear.
Thank you again, Alice, for bringing up the question of a wider audeince and for showing your appreciation for our efforts.
Thank you for your kind words Alice. Personally, I try to spend a good portion of my free time, such as it is, speaking with various young people about how to better their lives through practical implementation of fiscally conservative principles. It is something they can relate to (they usually all care about making more money for themselves and then keeping what they make, no matter how many Democrat talking points they’ve memorized) and since it is directly applicable to them, it is a subject that holds their interest.
That in turn usually creates an opportunity to discuss the broader aspects of conservative fiscal principles in society as a whole and how what we have being espoused today in Washington, by the Progressives, is actually detrimental to their long-term financial, as well as career well being. No preaching. No banging them over the head about the Constitution this or the Constitution that. Even though I reference it throughout the discussion in how it is applied in practical terms on a daily basis. Just a nice, calm, rational discussion about how to maximize one’s opportunities in life through the decisions they ultimately choose to make.
What I find is the lack of basic knowledge, because they were either never taught anything or they were taught a bunch of Progressive nonsense as economic theory, is astounding in our young people today. It is no wonder that so many of them find the nonsense being espoused by Obama and the Democrats so appealing. It all sounds good and since they have NO basis in sound economic theory from which to make a sound decision, why wouldn’t it work as he and the Democrat party are saying it will? So it is truly a re-education effort one or two people at a time. Very time consuming, but usually at the end of the discussion, they see the value in conservatives fiscal principles for them.
Given the knowledge base of most young people, which is an indictment of much of our current public education system, I’m not sure how effective simply disseminating these articles and the associated comments would be to reaching most young people. Many of the subjects would be either over their heads or seemingly of no value to them. Remember, many of these articles are written to be relevant to older readers. Their focus in life is not necessarily aligned with our focus in life.
As an example, Social Security is viewed by many young people as something that they’ll never collect or the amount will be so small as to be insignificant to live on. So they wouldn’t care to read articles on the subject. Another example is health care. Many young people couldn’t care less about having any sort of health insurance. They think they’ll either live forever or their employer should just give it to them. Their biggest objection to Obamacare is that they can only stay on their parents’ health insurance until 26, before they have to either pay the fine or buy insurance they see no need for. Different perspectives on the issues.