“When [Obama's] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Gadhafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell,”-Rev. Jeremiah Wright 2008
When the UN Security Council met this week on Libya, where was our US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice? Answer: In Capetown, South Africa attending some environmental conference. Yet, days earlier when casting the (traditional) US veto against a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, Rice personally softened the blow by verbally denouncing Israel for those settlements.
Only today, in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama has finally said that Qaddafi must go. This just after US civilians were ferried out of Libya to Malta. He has taken sustained criticism in recent days for his apparent lack of stand against Qaddafi in the midst of all the violence. If you want to believe the worst, you might go to the opening quote of this short essay. Beyond the trip to Libya in 1984 by Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, there has been a much deeper relationship between Farrakhan and Qaddafi since, which includes financial support by Libya to the Nation of Islam.
Or if you want to believe the best, perhaps the President was merely waiting until the Americans were evacuated out of Libya before they could be taken hostage.
What a useful idiot you are. Considering all that Jeremiah Wright did to sabotage Obama's campaign, because it shook Wright's racial assumptions to the core to see a majority of Americans actually willing to elect ANY person of his color as president, you are just playing along with Wright's sordid little game.
ReplyDeleteYes, WRIGHT said, in public, with the intention that the press should pick it up, that HIS doings could derail Barack Obama's campaign. Fortunately, the American voters had better judgement than to fall for the ploy. (If Wright had kept it a secret, while doing all he could to see Obama elected, THEN you would have a valid point.)
Barack Obama understands that foreign policy cannot be conducted in the style Wikileaks advocates: everything isn't in public and on the table as delicate diplomatic negotiations are under way. I don't mind at all that Lieberman and McCain are advising him to be tough and move a little faster. That's good advice, and AS advice, it adds something useful to the situation.
Decisions are not being made based on what will elicit favorable sound bytes from you and Miggie. Its not about expressions of outrage - which are cheap. Actions will be based on the best judgement of what will actually move the situation in a positive direction.