Obama's sprint to disaster

Michael Goodwin:

He can’t bring himself to call Islamic terrorists what they are, but President Obama finally said something with which we can all agree. Speaking of his remaining time in office, he said: “Two years is a long time.”

He can say that again — and did, attaching a scary promise about his plans for the twilight of his ­tenure.

“Two years is also the time in which we’re going to be setting the stage for the next presidential election and the next 10 years of American policy,” he told wealthy ­donors in San Francisco. “So I intend to run through the tape and work really hard, and squeeze every last little bit of change.”

There you have it. Instead of cleaning up the messes he’s created, Obama is hell-bent on making more of them.

The word that comes to mind is “rogue.” As in, the president is going rogue. Like an elephant on a rampage, he’s breaking free of all constraints.

That makes the next two years extremely dangerous. Not just for Americans, but also for people around the world who count on us for their security and well-being.

It is party time for the bad guys. Imagine you are the head of Islamic State or al Qaeda. Or you are Vladimir Putin, the head of China or the ayatollah of Iran.

You know Obama has spent six years shrinking America’s footprint and abandoning allies, leaving behind the vacuums you are filling. It’s already a bonanza, and his vow to double down over the next two years means you will never get a better opportunity to make more hay.

The whole world knows that, no matter who the next president is, he or she almost certainly will be determined to reassert some level of global leadership.

Until then, the Putins, the mullahs and the terrorists will match Obama’s sprint to the finish with their own. The violence, chaos, millions of refugees and breakdown of sovereign states already under way could be just a preview of the coming dystopian future. From Eastern Europe to Asia to ­Africa to the Mideast, no populated spot anywhere would be ­immune from potential upheaval and collapse.
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While this is going on the liberal media and the Democrats will continue their attempt to make Republicans grovel because one of them challenged whether Obama loves his country.   This is a ridiculous response to the opinion of a guy who is not a candidate.  A more rational response would be to say he just does not love it in the same way as Rudy does, and get on with the real issue, but instead they view anyone who disagrees with them as disqualified for office?  That is an absurd reaction at a time when they should be focusing on Obama's screw ups and the potential disaster for millions of people around the world who are put at risk by his unwise policies.