Obama ignores the enemy, focuses on a movie

Michael Goodwin:

That was a perfectly fine speech Barack Obama gave at the United Nations yesterday. Perfectly fine, except that he has been president for the last four years.

Perfectly fine, except that terrorists murdered our ambassador in Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. And perfectly fine, except that the head of al Qaeda released a videotape urging that murder and others during what he called a time of “American weakness.”

Mr. President: The video didn’t do it. Terrorists did. Say it, for God’s sake!

Facts, bloody facts, take all the shine off Obama’s speech. His teleprompted rhetoric no longer inspires because reality keeps interrupting the swoon. Even if you try, you can’t drift off into a dreamy vision of utopia while the corpses pile up and the hate burns red hot.


Unless you’re one of the bad guys , “Death to America” doesn’t make you want to get up and dance.

Give the president some credit. He tried, to a certain degree.

He brought his best scolding, patronizing tone for the day, as though the Turtle Bay club dominated by thugs, theocrats and cowards would be moved by his earnest pleas and frowns. It was an appeal better directed at third-graders than the Third World.

His boldest declaration, that “the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” was met with silence. Then again, he has said similar things before, and nobody believes him, so there’s no sense either cheering or hissing.

It’s just words. See, they’ve already evaporated.

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It is like he is trying to hide his incompetence rather than defend this country.  It is remarkable that the new Libyan government appears more attached to reality than the President of the US.  Why does anyone think this guy has a handle on foreign policy and should be reelected?  He has become as nuanced as vapor.