How the West was lost by the selfie president

By Michael Goodwin

It’s official — the government of the United States of Obama consists of boobs and bores and is led by a narcissist. It is no consolation that Great Britain joins us in racing to the bottom.

President Obama’s flirting with Denmark’s prime minister would be shameful on any occasion. That it happened at the memorial for Nelson Mandela only adds to the embarrassment.

But the “selfie” episode also symbolizes the greater global calamity of Western decline. With British prime minister David Cameron playing the role of Obama’s giggling wingman, the “look at me” moment confirms we have unserious leaders in a dangerously serious time.

Pity I’m already suffering from Barry-Lethargy, I can’t bring myself to get excited or shocked by anything Obie-Wan is doing anymore.  At this point, less than a year from the midterm elections and two years from the next presidential campaign ( actually that campaign will start the day after the midterm elections), Obie has become nothing more than an distraction.

Hitler’s greatest mistake was being born too soon. If he were on the march now, would there be will in Washington and London to stop him? Would there be an arsenal of democracy to save mankind from darkness?

In fact, while Obama and Cameron were yukking it up in South Africa, the White House was denouncing bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass more sanctions against Iran. Doing so, it said, would scuttle the feeble interim deal Obama and Cameron accepted. Incredibly, administration arguments echoed Iran’s position.

Try to imagine FDR and Churchill siding with Hitler against their national legislatures. You can’t because they were the antitheses of the appeasers of their times.

Barry immediately removed Churchill’s bust from the White House when he moved in, he probably wanted to remove FDR’s and Reagan’s Presidential Portraits also. And he could have legally under  Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; to quote “Constituting an hostile work environment“.   What could be more of a hostile work environment for a frat-boy, narcissistic, bi-sexual loser than to wake up every day under the stern and measured gaze of three true men, saviors of  western civilization.

That leads me to ask, why didn’t the WH have a portrait of Margaret Thatcher for Obie-Wan to remove?