Obamanations

Since the Democrat candidates have sullied former President Obama in their recent debate, I guess it’s now OK to join the fray. It's only been 31 months since the worst president of our lifetime has left office into hyper-wealth ... and the outline of his legacy is beginning to be written by historians ... and far-left Dems. Let me help them with my thoughts of his, can I use the word, obamanations? Here are a few of my cringe-worthy recollections:

- A fake $831 billion “stimulus” package ... no real “shovel-ready jobs”

- Obamacare ... in all its gory

- The Iran nuclear deal which gave it hundreds of billion dollars in which to sponsor terrorism in the Middle East, cooperate with North Korea in its drive toward an atomic Armageddon, and still pursue its own nuclear/missile ambitions.

- Inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House multiple times ... the MB is a Muslim terrorist organization

- Conveniently ignoring China’s unfair trade practices ... and pushing the TPP

- An eight -year neglect of our anti-missile technology development ... leaving us seriously unprepared for Kim Jong Un's madness.

- Allowing US manufacturing to die a slow death — no “magic wand”

- The exchange of five highest-level Taliban commanders for that Army deserted, Bowe Bergdahl

- The Paris Climate Accord in which the US carried almost the entire responsibility

- Continually demeaning the US and our potential

- Sham "surge" in Afghanistan for political purposes. It did nothing ... mainly because of inane rules of engagement.

- Refusing to recognize domestic radical Islamic terrorism

- The hollowing out of our armed forces.

- Treating ISIS as the JV team ... using more inane rules of military engagement.

- Weaponizing US intelligence agencies against the Trump team

- The commuting of Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence for treason.

- His opening to Cuba ... for which we got damaged diplomats and more problems with Venezuela.

- The paying of at least $1.6 billion in cash to Iran for two hostages

- And a whole lot more ...

Now no president can accumulate this many screw-ups without some winners. Unfortunately I can't recall any.

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Schiff rankles Republicans talking Russian probe on T.v

Shock poll shows Kid Rock with a huge lead in Michigan GOP Senate primary

Chicago on course to top 700 homicides this year ...

Rubio: Venezuela crisis 'personal priority' for President Trump

Bipartisan House group meets quietly on Obamacare

Report: Mooch's wife files for divorce

Apple removes apps from China that would help Internet users avoid censorship

Tillerson standing between Muslim Brotherhood and terror designation

Trump intends to sigh Russian sanctions bill into law

North Korea says ICBM test showed surprise attack capability

Musk warns of [Tesla Model 3] 'manufacturing hell'

Baby Charlie Gard dead, 'Our beautiful child is gone'

Headlines

All found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration

Exclusive: Radical Dem worked for Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr.

Obama DOJ gave Natalia special entry

John Bolton: Trump administration needs to call Muslim Brotherhood, Iranian Guard terrorist groups

Trump: Putin would prefer Hillary Clinton for U.S. president

France unveils plan to 'systematically' deport illegal migrants

Impeachment effort gets just one Dem supporter

11 countries resume compliance with U.S. deportations, halving international resistance

Wray: l've given no loyalty oath to Trump

Harvard Faculty Committee recommends banning frats

Former Brazil leader Lula gets 10 years in jail for graft

WaPo: NRA hurts itself -- with unwavering support for law enforcement

Gutter Balls

Early in his first administration President Obummer had a photo-op at a bowling alley and proceeded to roll a series of gutter balls. This turned out to be a metaphor for his next eight years wherein he flubbed the dub so many more times than he succeeded. Not even counting his many departmental  scandals, here is a listing of some of  his administration's many gutter balls

- The "good war" in Afghanistan (green-on-blue American killings)
- Obamacare
- Tax reform (none)
- Too long treating ISIS as the JV team
- Globalism push
- Cash for clunkers
- General Motors extra-legal bailout
- Unconditional opening to Cuba
- Healthy school lunch program
- A premature bug-out from Iraq (no status-of-forces)
- His apology tour of foreign countries
- The Syrian "red line"
- Muslim Brotherhood endorsements
- Encouraged illegal voting
- Cold shoulder for Israel
- Solyndra and many other "green" money pits
- "A nation of bitter clingers"
- The Russian reset (and the result in the Crimea)
- A trillion dollar stimulus of shovel-ready jobs (not so)
- Regulation reform (just the opposite ... Many more)
- "You didn't build that"
- Obsessed with closing Gitmo
- Huge increase in food stamp, SSI, etc, recipients
- A rogue Secretary of State (e-mail server, pay to play, etc.)
- Open borders (amnesty for "dreamers")
- Fluid gender bathrooms
- Benghazi
- Race relations (Black Lives Matter, etc.)
- Banking reform (Dodd-Frank straight jacket)
- The Arab Spring and its repercussions thoughout the Middle East
- Slow economic growth
- Legions of "Czars"
- War on coal
- A myriad of extra-legal executive orders
- Fast and Furious
- The Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange
- The Iran nuclear deal
- Government spending control (deficit reduction)
- Real employment and income growth

But to be absolutely fair, Obummer did lead the Seal Team that took out Osama Bin Laden. (I hear that Hellary was flying one of the helicopters.)

Headlines

Shock -- and awesome: Movement of ordinary Americans stun global elite

Silicon sultans shit themselves ...

Trump shocks everyone with his performance among Hispanic and Black voters

3 states OK recreational pot

White House doesn't rule out pardoning Hillary Clinton

Wall Street traders chant 'lock her up' during Hillary's concession speech

Moveon organizes anti-Trump demonstrations around nation

Egyptian MP: Trump victory means 'dark days for Muslim Brotherhood'

Trump Jump: Stock market surges after upset victory ...

Artificial Intelligence predicts fourth election in a row ..

'Moving Sale' signs flood LA ...

Mick Jagger hints at playing Donald Trump's inauguration

Under the Bus

Why would Hellary Clinton, in answering a question over the weekend about the FBI looking into newly discovered e-mails and thus re-opening its criminal probe of her, refer to Huma Abedin as "one of my staffers?" ... see: Daily Mail Article. Yes, these e-mails were discovered on Huma's or more likely her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner's laptop computer. But Huma has been Hellary's closest personal aide for many years, vice-chairman of her campaign and is often referred to as "her second daughter." Very strange reaction from this woman running for president ... particularly since it seems that these e-mail may have been purloined and secreted by Weiner as a bit of "life insurance." This odd behavior is compounded by the fact that Huma is no longer traveling with Clinton and seems to have gone missing.

By not keeping closer tabs on what Weiner might have been doing to acquire some 650,000 of the Clinton's inner circle e-mails ... many likely classified, Huma clearly is culpable for Hellary's current dilemma ... but is this enough to be thrown under the bus and repeatedly run over? To a normal forgiving woman, probably not. But Hellary, from all we know about her relations with "her staffers" is a tyrant of the first order. And I am quite sure that, through Cheryl Mills and her close contacts within the Justice Department. Hellary knows exactly what the smoking gun was that caused Comey to take his unprecedented action. Having her chances for the presidency jeopardized by Huma must have caused her to be so extremely vindictive.

But, I believe what was discovered might have been a more serious breach than just classified information in these e-mails ... which has already occurred and been broomed. What could be more serious that might land both Huma and Hellary in the hoosegow? That would be if it is discovered that Huma was acting as a Muslim mole ... and forwarding some of theses more sensitive e-mails or documents to her mother or brother in the Muslim Brotherhood. Such an event would certainly be treasonous and kill Hellary's any chance for the presidency (even if elected), turn her into a national pariah and have her fitted for an orange jump suit.

Interestingly. President Obummer also backed away from Hellary today when it was revealed that he has "every confidence in Comey" ... just when Hellary is attacking the FBI Director ... a little strange also. I am suspicious Obummer knows exactly what is going on behind the FBI curtain ... and has decided to protect his skinny butt.

Brotherhood's Keeper

Are we.the Muslim Brotherhood's keeper? To a certain degree, yes, we already are ... and will be much more so if Hellary Clinton is elected president. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is, to many, a terrorists organization ... but it's slowly becoming our own terrorist organization as it stealthily insinuates itself into our government. President Obummer has already met with this group multiple times at the White House. And we also know that Hellary's close confidant, Huma Abedin, previously worked for 12 years for the main MB publication and that her family (father, mother, brother) are key executives in the worldwide MB organization. (If you don't know these things, read The Hill Article or, if you prefer, The Washington Post Article.) But now we find out that the Clinton Foundation employed the MB's chief spokesman, Gehad El-Haddad, for a formative five years ... see: Powerline Blog. He is now in prison in Egypt.

During the Obummer administration ... and with its support ... the Muslim Brotherhood under Morsi came within a whisker of turning Egypt into a totalitarian caliphate and now is on trial there for a series of heinous crimes. I would like to believe differently, but I am convinced the the MB tenants are ever so slowly shaping the foreign policy in the United States ... and that we are now on the doorstep of its attempt to duplicate the Egyptian experience here.

I know it is often difficult for we complacent Americans to confront a dangerous future, but now it's decision time folks.

Khan Artist

The Democrats' attack dog at their recent convention, Khizr Khan, has proven himself to be a Muslim grifter ... notwithstanding the sacrifice that his Army captain son made in 2004 in Iraq. Nothing like besmirching the memory of your hero son by using his death for your own political purposes ... primarily the forwarding of  Islamic Sharia law in the United States ... all with the help of Hellary's fifth column. He even has espoused in writing that Sharia law should subordinate the U.S. Constitution ... that document he waved in front of cheering Democrats and with which he challenged Donald Trump to read ... see: Breitbart Revelations. This Pakistani-born man also has close ties to the Clinton Foundation, Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood ... obviously not someone who has no vengeful ax to grind.

For those of you who do not quite understand the threat that Sharia law poses to the legal system in America, I below quote a listing of its major tenets from the following source: Sharia Law Tenets.

• Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand 

• Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.

• Criticizing Muhammad or denying that he is a prophet is punishable by death.

• Criticizing or denying Allah, the god of Islam is punishable by death. 

• A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death. 

• A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death. 

• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death. 

• A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old. 

• Girls' clitoris should be cut (Muhammad's words, Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251). 

• A woman can have 1 husband, who can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more. 

• A man can beat his wife for insubordination. 

• A man can unilaterally divorce his wife; a woman needs her husband's consent to divorce. 

• A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it. 

• Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman. 

• A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s). 

• A woman's testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man's. 

• A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits. 

• A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval). 

• A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative. 

• Meat to eat must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah - i.e., be "Halal". 

• Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.

Now, did Donald Trump have reason to question this man's ulterior motives ... and did the Democrats try to pull a sneaky, cynical fast one again?

We report ... you decide.

Afterward: See his interview with Andersen Cooper: There is no such thing as Sharia law.

Kaine Mutiny

Not only can her VP pick, Tim Kaine, speak Spanish but he also, like Hellary Clinton, is enamored of Muslims ... see: Breitbart Article. This obviously helped seal the deal with Huma's close friend. Here is the key summary of this hyperlink:

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect; and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.

Boy will Trump have fun with this one!

Parallel Lines

Is there a parallel to be drawn between the current coup underway in Turkey and what happened in Egypt three years ago? To me, it appears so. Mohamed Morsi, with the tacit support of President Obummer, was elected President in Egypt in a supposedly free election. So was Recep Erdogan reelected in Turkey ... also with a nod from the current U.S. administration. Morsi rapidly began to consolidate his undemocratic control in Cairo by seeding secular Egyptian institutions with his Muslim Brotherhood cronies and fomenting radical unrest. Erdogan has clearly departed from General Mustafa Ataturk's secular vision for Turkish government and has more gradually reimposed autocratic Muslim strictures on the media and those who elected him. He has also been playing footsie with ISIS by allowing it to smuggle Syrian oil and refuges through his country ... and foreign fighters to join ISIS. Morsi clearly found the levers of power intoxicating and lined his and the Muslim Brotherhood's pockets. Erdogan recently built himself a super extravagant  $615 million royal palace ... see: Yahoo New Story ... and his son has been accused of benefiting from ISIS oil smuggling.

Morsi's excesses and attempts to crush Egypt's democracy finally inspired huge street riots and its military to stop this country's slide into a caliphate. General Abdel el-Sisi ousted Morsi who is now on trial with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for murder and crimes against the state. Now, Turkey is going through a similarly coup to try to wrest Erdogan firmer grip on power. Whether this coup succeeds is still very much an open question. If it doesn't prevail, the Middle East will certainly experience a great deal more innocent bloodshed.

True to form, the Obummer administration is supporting Erdogan in this putsch attempt whereas I can't help but wonder if Russia's Putin might not be pulling some other strings in this puppet show ... and he doesn't like to lose.

We should know the results of this Turkey trot fairly soon. Is Erdogan gone? Let us hope so ...

Afterward: Bloody failure ... see: Daily Mail Story. Did Erdogan set this up to cleanse things?

More: And now others are speculating the same thing ... see: Daily Mail Story.

Misdirection

The Obummer administration does one thing really very well ... changing the subject of course. This is with the sleazy cooperation of the elite media and those peevish parolees in the House of Representatives.  It was a mere ten days ago that the self-declared ISIS supporter, Omar Mateen, killed 49 patrons of the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

And how has this story been portrayed? Not as an Islamic terrorist act nor as an anti-gay hate crime by a Muslim? No, it is another random act of violence somehow perpetrated by guns alone. Our increasingly political Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, even retreated into Clintonian legalese when she said that we may never know the "precise" reason for this massacre.

And the media are co-conspirators in this political misdirection. They have been running banner headlines and op-eds blaming the guns used by Mateen, even though both were obtained legally. And a small Pack N Play group of militant Democrats staged a tantrum yesterday on the House floor to do what? To change the subject once again away from the embarrassment caused by the blatant incompetence and/or subterfuge of Obummer and his band of Muslim Brotherhood wannabes.

Common sense be damned! This misdirection is comparable to a pickpocket who elbows you in the side as he slips your wallet out of your back pocket.

Never mind that the Republicans have offered multiple fair gun laws that might help curb gun violence ... all of which were filibustered by the Democrats ... for it is not really the laws that the Democrats and elite media want. They want the issue ...  and to be able to change the subject away from radical Muslim extremism.

The reason for this misdirection is beyond adult understanding ... given that Muslim jihadism is being papered over ... putting everyone, even these truculent Democrats, in peril. Is it that winning elections is more important than our lives?

The Answers

What is the solution to increased Islamic terrorist attacks inside the United States?


- Not being willing to identify the motivation of the terrorists?

- A mad dash to allow more unvetted Muslims to immigrate into the U.S.?

- Increasing the number of gun-free zones? (The Pulse nightclub was one ...)

- Running vanity shots of the killers on the covers of Rolling Stone magazine?

- Continuing to slow-walk the defeat of ISIS?

- Disrespecting Israel?

- Disallowing undercover surveillance inside Mosques?

- Closing Gitmo and sending many internees back to the Mideast?

- Giving Iran, the chief sponsor of world terrorism, $150 billion?

- Closing down "see something, say something" FBI investigations because of PC concerns?

- Increased government funding of CAIR and other such organizations?

- Inviting the Muslim Brotherhood back to the White House?

- Electing Ms. Benghazi, Hellery Clinton, as our next president?


In other words, more of the same is going to fix things ...

Success!

When Obummer first took office, Rush Limbaugh issued that famous quote, "I hope he fails." Well, unfortunately, Rush was wrong ... and Obummer, over seven years, has experienced fairly wide-ranging successes with his objectives ... many, I am sure, we will hear about this Tuesday night.

He has pulled our troops out of Iraq. He has orchestrated a surge of troops in Afghanistan, "the good war." He has gotten his health care reform, Obamacare, passed and now implemented. He has opened our borders to many tens of thousands of "dreamers," or young illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants. He has also admitted tens of thousand of legal Muslim immigrants. Through the Muslim Brotherhood, he helped spawn the Arab Spring and all the changes it caused in the Middle East. He overthrew the Kadaffi government in Libya. ዕብያ።With the generous help of the Federal Reserve Bank , he has reduced the national unemployment rate to 5 %. He has drawn attention to possibly illegal police shootings throughout the country.  He has waged a relentless war on domestic "assault weapons." He has negotiated a nuclear limitation agreement with Iran. At the Paris Climate Conference he has focused world attention on global warming. He has gone a long way toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. He has championed a new free-trade pact with the Far East. He has gotten his most recent $1.1 trillion omnibus budget passed ... funding most of his residual objectives.

All this while enjoying himself immensely and playing hundreds of rounds of golf all around the United States.

Of course many of these successes have also had a dark side ... but we will leave them for another time.

The Oath

When our president twice took his oath of office, he swore to protect the American people from "all enemies, foreign and domestic." I can't believe that anyone truly believes that Obummer has fulfilled this pledge. Here are but a few of the instances where he has fallen down on his job one:

The Fast and Furious scheme inside his Justice Dept., his premature pullout from Iraq, his release of thousands of immigrant criminals, his unwillingness to identify the radicalized Muslim enemy, the series of terrorist attacks inside the U.S. on his watch, the release of hundreds of terrorists from Gitmo, his open borders policy, his tepid response to the ISIS threat, the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange, his politically motivated "surge" in Afghanistan with no chance of success, his embracing of the Muslim Brotherhood, his sponsoring the Arab Spring and its dire consequences (Egypt, Libya, etc.), and his capitulation to Iran on their nuclear program/sponsorship of terrorism.

Enough? (There are lots more.) Obviously this man then had scant regard for this oath ... or the Book upon which he swore it.

Actions Instead of Words

 

President Obama just gave an impassioned talk in Turkey in which he reiterated his misbegotten views of Islam ... saying that this religion is not one of violence and that it is Muslims who are the overwhelming victims of those radicals (a bit of a contradiction). He also warned that the West's equating of ISIS with the Muslim faith will only lead to larger recruitment of such terrorists. And he also cautioned that to use a religious test to sift out potential terrorist from among the Syrian immigrants is not the American way and is shameful. For those of you who want to scratch you head over Obama' s full speech, it is reproduced HERE..

Excuse me Mr. President but you are full of hot air. Your actions defy your words. Time and time again you have ignored opportunities to begin to move the Muslim religion away from its radical tendencies and have enabled them to march further into the depths of depravity. Your strategy to "diminish and defeat" these ISIS savages and the other radical elements of Islam does nothing but let them have their leash. Let me count the ways:

- From the very first days of your presidency, you have embraced and met with the Muslim Brotherhood ... a group that has since been identified as a terrorist organization.

- You have diminished and slighted Israel at every opportunity ... the only true ally we have in the Middle East and a major bulwark against the radical elements of Islam.

- When el Sisi, President of Egypt, called for a "reformation" within Islam for it to denounce its more radical tenants, what was your reaction? You stayed stunningly mum.

- You pulled our troops out of Iraq ... only to have this country sink below the waves and spawn ISIS. And instead you created a surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan ... the "good war." However, the rules of engagement you imposed upon then neutered them to the point where nothing got accomplished ... except "green on blue" killings of Americans by turncoat Afghans.

- You have repeatedly crowed that the greatest threat to world security is ... climate change! Yes, climate change!! We don't have enough turnip trucks in the United States for our people to fall off of for this bit of sinister misdirection to be believed.

- President Obama, last year, proudly released five hardened Islamic terrorists back to the battlefield in exchange for the Army deserter, Bowe Bergdahl ... one of the most bone-headed prisoner exchanges in history.

- And when Egypt offered the Palestinian Authority large swaths of the Sinai Peninsula so that they could  expand the Gaza Strip into a real two-state solution, what was your reaction? You refused to even acknowledge this act of statesmanship of Egypt's part.

- Your attempts to neutralize ISIS, for some strange reason, did not include the bombing of its capital, Raqqa, or the elimination of the oil infrastructure that provides much of its operating budget. In fact the number of air sorties over Iraq and Syria that you have authorized are but a tiny fraction of what would be required ... with 2/3rds of our jets returning with their weapons unused. You have no strategy to defeat ISIS ... you barely have any tactics.

-You have cozied up to the Ayatollahs in Iran and given them the resources to continue their sponsorship of Islamic terrorism throughout the world ... and clearly given a path to atomic weapons.

Need I document more of your tilt toward Islam?

Mr. President, I can't imagine that, if you truly believe in the bilge that was spewing out of your pie hole, that you would have behaved, over the last seven years, in the ways other than what I have just recounted.

The Obama Agenda

Over the last seven years President Obama has revealed three major thrusts to his political agenda:

- Muslim accommodations -- by refusing to refer to jihadists or Muslim extremists by these appellations, by cozying up to the Muslim Brotherhood -- a clearly extremist organization, by offering only token resistance to the ISIS threat, by negotiating a sham agreement with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, by dissing Israel at every opportunity and insisting that it return to its 1948 borders, by admitting hundreds of thousands of Muslim "immigrants" into the United States preferring them over other religions, by staying mum as thousands of Christians are murdered and enslaved in Africa and the Middle East by Muslim extremists, by observing Muslim holidays in the White House, by repeatedly refusing to call terrorist attacks in this country by that name (workplace violence?) ... and too many more to mention.

- Black accommodations -- by inviting the Black Lives Matter radical organization to the White House, by saying the the Cambridge police force acted "stupidly" in the Chip Gates case, by refusing to condemn the recent rash of police officers killings by black miscreants, by saying that Trayvon Martin "could have been my son," by only proposing blacks to be Attorney General and to many other important government administrative positions, by continuously fanning the flames of racial divide by his speeches and his actions, by refusing to disavow Rev. Jeremiah Wright for his racist comments, by calling his grandmother "a typical white person" ... and too many more to mention.

- Gay accommodations -- by "evolving" to a position supporting gay marriage, by bathing the White House in rainbow lights after the gay-marriage decision by the Supreme Court, by removing the "don't ask don't tell" rule for military service, by naming an openly gay man to be Secretary of the Army, by having numerous gays as high-level advisory positions, by frequently pushing the gay rights agenda in speeches, by hosting a LGBT Pride event at the White House, by opening the Peace Corps to same sex couples, by backing gays as Boy Scout leaders ... and too many more to mention.

And there are other controversial causes he is also pushing ... but what, in fact, does the above track record suggest about the predilections of our president? One, possibly two are obvious. No more hints ...

Bro

Best Man

Malik Obama, Barack's half brother isn't the most complementary of his part-sibling. He recently said that the president is a ...

"schemer. He’s not been an honest man . . . in who he is and what he says and how he treats people."

Not that Malik himself is a paragon of virtue. He recently sold a letter from his half-brother, along with an annotated editor's copy of the president's first book for apparently big bucks ... see: New York Post Story. Malik Obama, the Kenyan-born son of Barack's father and a different mother,  is also the international finance minister of the Muslim Brotherhood ... see: WND Article. Can we ever have the scales fall from our eyes about such blood-connections, Bro?

Foxy

Fox News did our nation an important service last night when it aired an exclusive interview by its anchor, Bret Baier, with Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (see: Fox News Story), in which the Egyptian leader said many things that American citizens should find encouraging:

1) He called for an "Arab-ready" force to battle the Islamic State (ISIS),

2) He asked Muslims around the world to stand up to the more radical elements of Islam in a religious revolution. (I have called it a reformation ... see: A Modern Crusade.)

3) He hinted that the United States may not be on Egypt's side in that it had suspended arms shipments to his country after the coup that ousted that Muslim Brotherhood dictator, Mohammed Morsi ... and still is holding back on critical needed materials.

4) When asked how his Arab allies view America's (read Obama's) leadership in the region, he responded, "Difficult question."

This interview was continually (and strangely) interrupted by transmission difficulties and didn't touch on other issues that would have been revealing ... such as Egypt's offer to the Palestinian Authority to extend the Gaza Strip lands with a huge chunk of the Sinai peninsula ... see: The Impossible Dream.

Clearly the Obama administration is still on the outs with Egypt over el-Sisi's removal of the Muslim Brotherhood from its government, but, in doing so, it is failing to recognize one of the real hopes to counter radical Islam encroachments around the world.

If el-Sisi continues on his current tack, I am convinced that history will treat him with more kindness than Obama. George Will has even gone so far to suggest that el-Sisi should win the Nobel Peace Prize. I concur.

Roots

The Diplomad, who has spent considerable time acting as our official representative in Muslim countries and can offer an unique perspective on same, has just written in his blog a reprise of our president's background ... investigating why Obama may have deep sympathies for the Muslim religion ... and thus be somewhat paralyzed to address its more violent tendencies ... see: Obama, a Muslim Hater of America?. Obama has even slipped into saying that he was a Muslim ... see: First Bing Video ... and has often extolled this faith to great lengths ... see: Second Bing Videos ... far further than his somewhat less enthusiastic treatment of Christianity (remember his National Prayer Breakfast slights?)

But what the Diplomad has left out of this tracing of Obama's roots is his possible relation with Bill Ayers' father, Thomas Ayers. Admittedly this relationship is somewhat fuzzy and speculative but it is worth a gander and some further study ... see: WND Article ... perhaps we'll see more in history books yet to be written. Also let us not forget that Obama's half brother, Malik Obama, is the international finance officer for the Muslim Brotherhood ... see: WND Article.

But there has to be some reason why our president is unable to separate the wheat from the chaff in the Islamic faith ... and this may well be the imprinting from his childhood ... augmented by the warped view, learned on his mother's knee, of the sins of the country he now leads.

Straw Man

Once again our pusillanimous president has erected a straw man to suit his misguided notion that "radical Islamic terrorists" are not our enemy. He is now saying that it is an "ugly lie" that the West is at war with Islam ... see: Breitbart Article. Duh! Of course the West is not at war with the entire Muslim religion. We are ... or should be at war with the jihadis, those Muslims who want, in the name of Mohammad, to establish a world-wide caliphate ... subjugating all other religions through taxation, conversion or murder.

By saying that we are not at war with Islam, President Obama is suggesting that someone, somewhere, at sometime has asserted this to be true. I haven't seen a scintilla of evidence to back up this silly claim. Does Obama want the over one billion Muslims in the world to believe that this is occurring on a regular basis? Certainly these words would so suggest ... and have sinister implications as to the motivations of the "leader of the free world." To me Obama's refusal to make a clear distinction between all Muslims and those Muslims who are so radicalized as to pose a serious threat to world order ... is, in itself, a swipe at a hornets nest ... an act that may have serious world-wide consequences for many years to come.

This posing of a straw men by Obama ... coupled with his foot dragging in creating a viable strategic push-back to ISIS, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and the various factions of al Qaeda (such as in Yemen) ... has me questioning his true motivations. This is particularly so when I see his continual cozying up to Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood ... his refusal to see the benefit that can come from Egypt's stance against radical Islam ... and his blatant animosity toward Israel. Clearly, whatever our president's deep-seated intentions are ... and despite his smooth Teleprompter rhetoric ... the result of his presidency has been to make a dog's breakfast out of the winning track he inherited from his predecessor.

Can this be what he meant by his vow to "change" things? God, I hope not!