Is the President an Arrogant Fool?

It’s hard to find evidence that he’s not.

Consider Barack Obama’s response to the Parisian massacres.  He calls them “setbacks”.  That’s an odd way to refer to mass killings.  “Setback” is typically used to refer to a temporary thwarting of forward progress.  A more accurate appraisal would be that Paris showed a failure of prior policies to defeat ISIS.

But, of course, our president is unable to acknowledge that.  In fact, he pledges that such American policies will remain essentially unchanged.  (Those policies left undisturbed the ISIS oil “pipeline” which helps fund the terrorist group.  It took French fighter jets to attack – a year after the White House promised to defeat ISIS.)

That’s foolish, of course, but Obama has long been wedded to the belief that what he wants to believe will, by his thinking so, morph into reality. 

To be sure the world is full of fools who are such because they refuse to learn.  Yet it’s distressing and alarming in the extreme that the president of the greatest nation on earth is so afflicted.  Even the often foolish Jimmy Carter eventually wised-up while president about the nature of America’s enemies.

 

As if Obama’s ideologically shaped illusions are not appalling enough, his plain arrogance is maddening.  He chides anyone who suggests that his policies are inadequate and need strengthening.  He singles out Republican critics (although a few Democrats are among them) for sarcasm and dismisses their objections as without any merit.

Think of it.  He attacks those who have the temerity to say that his obviously failed policies are failures.

Doesn’t he remind you of the conceited high school “know it all” whose arrogance is without justification?

Barack Obama never grew out of it. 

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Historically, I fear America will look back on its first black president with great sorrow about what might have been.  Why did he have to be such a disaster?

We are justifiably proud of so many “firsts”.  Not this one.

Forget fairness.  The racially prejudiced and bigoted in our land will long feel warranted in pointing a finger at the abysmal failures of Obama as justifying opposition to another presidential candidate of color.