Two Weeks before the Elections
I believe that when President Obama took office, he wanted to see himself as a world statesman, responsible for the international problems, who can solve not only the national problems, but the international ones as well.
Forget the international problems; he couldn’t solve the most important national problem - the economy - despite the huge stimulus which did not help a bit. Being president, means for him giving speeches as a campaigner. Why did he sue Arizona in the court? Because he wanted to buy time! By doing so, he hopes to attract the Hispanic immigrants, who will eventually vote for him and consolidate his base for the second term.
During his campaign for the presidency, he spoke about change but he never specified the kind of change he meant. Now we can see the kind of change. We don’t to see his new “brochure”, we just have to weigh our experience with Obama as president.
Obama does not understand either America, or the European and the Arab way of thinking. I wonder if he understands Christianity and Judaism at all. After all, and despite his statements made overseas, the United States is a Judeo-Christian country.
By counting mostly on the stimulus to solve the economical problem, Obama had to borrow the money from other countries. The president mortgaged our children’s and our grandchildren’s future. He lost the leverage the United States had before and placed our country in a very dangerous economical and political situation. Our influence in the world is slipping away from our hands.
You can see what happened in the Muslim countries. Our president may be a good lawyer or a brilliant and persuasive orator and a charming man, but in my opinion, he doesn’t grasp what that means to be the president of such a huge and powerful country on which many nations are hinged upon.
The whip and the power of the law can make people run like animals but cannot force human beings to create. The creation can only come through private initiative. This administration does not understand that a government cannot create jobs. Only free entrepreneurs and free enterprises can create jobs and bring about prosperity to the United States. The private initiative is the one which made America the most powerful country in the world.
It is frightening to see how Ahmadinejad is playing politics with us when I read that China has invested $29 billion in an oil and gas project in Iran and another $10 billion for large refineries, indirectly countering the US sanctions.
We saw lately how Obama has changed his mind, just to prove to the Muslim countries that he is their guy, who throws Israel under the bus, as per Mitt Romney, and who is not a friend of Israel. Now, just before the elections he changed his mind again. It is not serious to see another change of mind from our president within a short period of time. We should not forget that we are a Judeo-Christian nation and we consider Israel is a part of us. I questioned before, in another article, does Obama understand the Bible? By wanting to appease the Muslim nations he contributed to that Egypt became closer to Hamas, and Iran to Syria and to Lebanon. Yes, Obama brought changes in the world but not the changes we expected.
Those who believe that Obama changed his policy may be surprised. Obama will never tell anyone what he is thinking; he is a smart and intelligent man and he keeps for himself the direction of his goal. Let’s pass the election and we will witness the naked truth.
As children are taught in American schools the words: “Let’s pretend”, the honesty and the fairness that we, the old generation, have known, no longer exists in the new American culture. In my view, the Obama administration is not honest.
I advise the Democrats in general, and particularly our fellow Jewish Americans to open their eyes, if they don’t want to be blamed. We have to look first to our beloved country, the USA. We need the creation of jobs, but not again with stimulus or on the backs of our children and grandchildren. Let’s be honest and pragmatic and not follow ideologies. If some leader wants to try ideological concepts, he should try it in his own back yard.
Copyright 2012 Emile Tubiana – Reproduction permitted when mentioning the author’s name.
