When Barack Obama
first ascended to the Presidency, his American supporters exulted: now that the
hated Dubya Bush was out of the picture, the world would finally “like” us
again! It’s as if they were all in junior high school and considered the United
States a Facebook page, and nothing was more important than having the whole
world click our “Like” button. Now that the end of Obama’s tenure approaches, it
is abundantly clear exactly which world leaders “like” him and why they want
him to have a second term.
After four years
of apologizing for American arrogance, alternately either bowing to or embracing Islamic fundamentalists, insulting our oldest and closest allies like England and
Israel, and driving other allies out of power altogether, Obama has indeed
won over a certain sector of the world – the sector comprised of the most
America-hating dictators on the planet. And they “like” Obama because he has diminished,
if not crippled, American economic and military might, and because his goal conforms
with theirs – to move us into a post-American world in which we are no longer the lead actor
on the world stage. In short, he has alienated our allies and embraced our
enemies.
Case in point:
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who at the end of September publicly announced
his support for our Saboteur-in-Chief’s reelection bid. “If I were American,
I'd vote for Obama,” Chavez said in a television interview. Of course he would
– Chavez is a power-mad socialist. He’s certainly not going to get behind
capitalist Romney and his Ayn Rand-inspired running mate Paul Ryan. The
America-bashing, Hezbollah-supporting thug also pronounced Obama to be “a good
guy” and speculated correctly that if Obama were Venezuelan, “I think... he'd
vote for Chavez.”
She felt that Obama has been hampered in his efforts to
effect change. “He wants to do much more than what he's been able to do,” she
said. Oh, there’s no question about that. But given a second term, Obama will
certainly pull out all the stops to implement his radical agenda as thoroughly
as possible.
“I believe that
Obama needs another opportunity and he needs greater support to move forward
with his projects and with his ideas, which I believe come from the bottom of
his heart,” said. Actually, his projects and ideas come more from a lifelong
indoctrination by radical ideologues like Marx, Alinsky, Muhammad, Bill Ayers,
and Rev. Wright.
Then there is Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has eliminated most elections in his country, monopolized all major media and destroyed the political party system. Now the dictator has extended his endorsement, pointing out that Obama is “a genuine person” who “really wants to change much for the better.”
Then there is Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has eliminated most elections in his country, monopolized all major media and destroyed the political party system. Now the dictator has extended his endorsement, pointing out that Obama is “a genuine person” who “really wants to change much for the better.”
Speaking to
Russia's state-run RT television channel, he said a second Obama term could
help solve disputes over missile defense, whereas Mitt
Romney has said that Russia was America's “number one geopolitical foe.” Putin
said such talk was merely “mistaken” election rhetoric. He warned that a Romney
victory could complicate efforts to resolve Russia's opposition to a missile
defense shield. “Our American partners tell us,
'It's not [aimed] against you.' But what if the president of the United States
will be Mr. Romney, who considers us enemy No. 1?”
It was only a few
months earlier that Obama was caught
on camera reassuring Putin’s
predecessor Dmitry Medvedev
that he would “have more flexibility” to deal with such contentious
issues after he wins his
last election. “I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” said
Putin's number two.
Then of course,
there is the United Nations. Its Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and
Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, has warned Americans not to elect Mitt Romney president;
doing so would be “a democratic mandate for torture,” because Romney has
refused to rule out the use of waterboarding in enhanced interrogations of
terrorism detainees, a practice Obama ended (which didn’t stop him from taking
advantage of the technique’s success, under Bush, in obtaining information that
ultimately enabled Obama to claim his lone foreign policy achievement – the
elimination of Osama bin Laden).
“The reintroduction
of torture under a Romney administration would significantly increase the
threat levels to [Americans] at home and abroad," Emmerson said. “Such a
policy, if adopted, would expose the American people to risks the Obama
administration is not currently exposing them to.” So the UN supports Obama
because Romney is less likely to appease international bullies. No wonder that
organization has been so ineffective for decades.
Although the Muslim Brotherhood has not issued an official
public statement of support for one candidate or the other, Obama has made his support for Islam and the
Brotherhood crystal clear from day one of his presidency, so it’s difficult to
imagine that that support will not be reciprocated.
As my screenwriter friend Robert Avrech points out on his Seraphic
Secret blog, Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also has weighed in on the
election, issuing a warning
that Romney might steal the election through voting machines that "manufacture election outcomes.” Ahmadinejad
also claimed that polls favoring
Romney or even showing him neck-and-neck with Obama are fraudulent, and predicts
black Americans will riot if Obama loses.
When some of the
world’s worst current dictators openly get behind your campaign, it should be a
very clear red flag for American voters about your character and your policies.
With friends like these, America doesn’t need any more enemies – certainly
not in the White House itself.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 10/25/12)
