The Utterly Immature Naïf
By Truthteller on October 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM in Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Barack Obama, Iran, Israel
One wonders how Barack Obama will solidify relations of trust with our allies abroad when Nicolas Sarzoky, the French President who presided over a joint press conference with Barack Obama on the subject of Iran in July, characterized Obama’s foreign policy stances and formulations to Isreali foreign officials as “utterly immature,” “empty of content,” “very problematic,” “arrogantly” ignorant and “not crystallized.” Certainly he will not have the power to mobilize the support required to stabilize the Middle East if European leaders dismiss him as a hopeless and hapless naïf of foreign policy, and certainly he will exacerbate our already strained relations with France and other countries if the leaders of those states regard Obama, the American naïf, as not only vague but also recklessly supercilious.
Prompting Sarkozy’s scathing assessment of Obama’s foreign policy is Obama’s desire to engage with Iran without preconditions. This stance is of concern to Sarkozy and other European powers, for Germany and the countries representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, or the United Kingdom, the United States, the Russian Federation, China and France, presently comprise a united front whose goal is to prevent the development of nuclear arms in Iran. Unilateral action by Obama can and probably will compromise the power these countries wield over Iran, and it will certainly give Iran the impression that the sanctions already imposed by the Security Council can be flouted. This explains why Sarkozy uses the adjectives “problematic” and “immature” when he discusses Obama’s foreign policy.
Also not to be ignored is Sarkozy’s use of the adverb “arrogantly.” The United States, we recall, already ignored the United Nations once this decade with its illegal and unwarranted invasion of Iraq. Will not another unilateral act outside the agreement forged by the permanent members of United Nations Security Council and Germany rekindle all the resentment that has weakened our power and influence abroad? Obama should understand this. After all, he is the Chair of the Subcommittee of European Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But because he chose not to convene any policy hearings as Chair of the Subcommittee of European Affairs, he fails to comprehend the importance of maintaining amicable relations with our European allies now that the United States is economically and politically vulnerable on the international stage.
According to French intelligence, Iran is already in possession of 40 percent of the enriched uranium required to create a nuclear bomb. Any breakdown of negotiations between the Big 5, Germany and Iran will have dire consequences for the Middle East, especially for the country of Isreal, a country Ahmadinejad hopes to “wipe off the map.” What if unilateral negotiations with Iran without preconditions fail? How will Obama respond? How will he seize control over a country that is well on its way to building the next nuclear bomb? Because Obama has not even entertained this possibility, Sarkozy dismisses the American naïf’s various pronouncements as “not crystallized.” And the only explanation Sarkozy can probably muster for the American naïf who believes one can contemptuously disregard the Big 5 and Germany and negotiate willy nilly with Iran is that his mind is “empty of content.” For once I agree with Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy is not the only person abroad who has concerns about Obama’s proposed foreign policy stance with Iran. According to Ynetnews, 52.5% of Isrealis believe McCain possesses the requisite skills to deal with the security threat Iran poses to Israel. Compare this number to the paltry 27.6% of Israelis who are confident that Obama is prepared.
I guess Joe Biden is correct when he warns:
Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.
Yes, the world is looking: France and Israel are gazing at us with worried eyes, while Iran is monitoring us with the hope that we will fumble and elect the utterly immature and naïve Barack Obama.
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Hey everyone, going to post this here, as well.
Please spread this around…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh7xMhsLnac
Try 4 years ago:
It was only after he took flak for the connection that he told Rev. Wright (who confirmed it himself) to go the Time Out corner until the election was over.
Whew! You’re back!
I get really nervous when you guys vanish.
Like the Obots have attacked.
Those words by Sarkozy are stunning. Why wasn’t that a big story in July? It’s not surprising, but that should have been a loud warning sign. I have said all along, that his combined inexperience and arrogance are not just a problem but dangerous. The idea that people would substitute one inexperienced and arrogant leader for another, after what we’ve witnessed the past 8 years, is appalling. And Biden is right about one thing: the aggressors are watching closely, and they know a pushover when they see one. It will actually invite aggression. Obama thinks everything can be solved by talk, because that’s all he does, but there are leaders/countries that are looking for a political and economic advantage, and if they see weakness, they will exploit it.
This is HUGE! This story was in today’s Haaretz. Check out this graph:
Is this what Biden meant when he said “at first it might not be apparent Obama is doing the right thing, and we’ll have to stand by him”? (I’m paraphrasing.)
I heard about the French president’s comments on the news this afternoon and laughed out loud.
As for this photo op Obama took with Superman — my gut feeling is that he indeed thinks he’s Superman and is totally clueless as to what lies ahead for the next president.
He’s surrounded himself with people who idolize him, he has the press fawning all over him, and he is making the one mistake that is bad news for all of us …
Obama now believes his own hyped up press, that’s how big his ego is.
With each passing day I see Obama as the the Democrat version of GW Bush — arrogant and oblivious to reality.
And I hate to say it — with Obama’s screwed up idea of foreign policy and pro-PLO advisors, he may well be even a worse president than GW Bush.
We can’t keep electing the candidate we’d like to have a glass of Wine/Beer with — it’s killing our country.
I’d rather have wine/beer with Hillary than Obama.
If BO thinks he’s Superman, I assume he knows that his kryptonite is a woman named Sarah.
Random guy — saw a post from one of your co-workers at the O-camp. Can you confirm any of the following? Quote:
France and Israel in all likelihood cannot believe their eyes that Americans en masse could be so easily duped by such a neophyte as Barack Obama. These countries and others like them realize America would have to plumb the depths to come up with anyone less qualified or more risky than BO for POTUS. Europeans must find it laughable that this election is more about American Idol and less about national security, but, hey, this is the juvenile mentality of America’s elite journalists who took it upon themselves to determine the direction of this race. CNN and MSNBC have only themselves and their Obama besotted journalists to thank should their idol win on Nov 4 and the United States becomes the laughingstock of the entire world.
Barack Obama has not even been a leader within his own party’s delegation, either in the Illinois part-time Legislature or in the U.S. Senate, where he’s been absent since he got there.
NO ONE in the Democratic legislative leadership looks to Barack Obama for leadership on policy on ANY topic. Yet, he wants to be leader of the free world.
What is there about this that is so hard to fathom for the disciples laying palm fronds in his path for entry into the holy city of politics?
I loved the article printed some time ago in The Economist. Strange they’re not fawning over him, considering how GOOD he’s supposed to be for the economy (that he knows nothing about).
Anyway, the article laid out all the grandiose beliefs of the Obama followers about their candidate. And concluded with one question:
“Based on what?”
Simple question. Still has not been answered.
I’ve asked this question so many times, it’s ridiculous and I’ve still not gotten an answer. And this goes back to the primaries.
Tell me one thing, one significant accomplishment of the man you suggest should be the leader of the free world? Anything he has done, any initiative or legislative act which is identified with him, which he initiated, on his own (not tacked onto by those trying to help him build a resume he doesn’t have).
Tell me one thing he has done that recommends him to assume the office of President of the United States.
Let me put it this way: I don’t believe Barack Obama is qualified to be MAYOR OF WASILLA, much less President of the United States.
that’s the main reason why Dean, Pelosi, and Reid want Obama to win. Obama is not a leader, he’s someone that tries to please everyone by agreeing with everyone. Dean, Pelosi, and Reid doesn’t want a leader in the Oval office, they want a puppet they can lead by the nose and do their bidding.
I think we have one of two scenarios with Obama in relation to the reality of the world and the ideological struggle we are in between freedom/democracy and the personal responsibility it requires vs. limited liberty/ruling by an elite class and bitter dependence upon the state: 1) he has no idea this struggle is taking place across the world, or 2) he is on the wrong side of that struggle.
I invite you to watch this video I put together back in July that I think lays it all out. It’s entitled “Who?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o78Wxu-l4e0
America’s elections used to be about issues. This one is about ideology. Choose wisely.
Oh, and as always, thanks NQ for everything you do.
Excellent video! Thanks!
Whoa! Powerful video. Thanks.
Sarkozy’s comments make it essential that the L.A.Times release the Khalidi tape. And, his own running mate’s comments make the tape newsworthy. Obama is not America’s ally.
Oh, I hope they release the tape! Then, we can watch McCain try to explain why the International Republican Institute gave Khalidi a half million dollars under McCain’s chairmanship. I’ve got the popcorn ready!
Reference?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html
still waiting…Blue. nothing..thought so.
If you don’t want to go to HuffPo, here’s a link directly to the pdf file of a 1998 IRI tax filing. (See grant number 5180, “West Bank: CPRS” on page 14). http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IRIForm9901998.pdf I assume you can use Google to find proof that McCain was IRI chairman at the time.
Oh, Huff & Puff for the truth? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Surely you jest.
I don’t care about that tape anymore. I’m ready to hear Michelle’s diatribe to the African press. That ought to be interesting.
Obama says that he will make us more respected around the world. He says that he will lower our taxes but has no record of ever lowering taxes, only raising them. He has not done anything of substance for his home state of Illinois.
I cannot even imagine a President Obama. He is so undeserving. He hasn’t really accomplished anything and lacks judgment. He has actively sought out his radical associations. Why is it so unnerving to some people when you bring up these things? They just say it doesn’t matter.
At work, when colleagues say they’re for B.O., there’s an “understanding” that there can be no other choice, no questions, and no thoughtful discussion. They make silly jokes about Governor Palin. We McCain/Palin supports have to share our views in hushed tones in the photocopy room—literally looking around to see it anyone’s coming. It’s like being in a totalitarian state! Only you, my friends, at NQ have kept my head from exploding.
supporters
It’s like the sci fi movie INVASION of THE BODY SNATCHERS.
Why be ashamed? Get in their face and tell them you don’t plan to vote for Obama and NO you are not a racist. Make them tiptoe around you for a change.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…
CAPTAIN BULLSHIT!!!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/bsman.jpg
Here’s another Superman from 1972.
http://media.npr.org/politics/politicaljunkie/2007/jan/mcgovern140.jpg
You go Sarkozy. I guess it really is easy to read Obama when he isn’t reading a teleprompter.
Wasn’t Sarkozy a big fan of BO during the primaries, preferring him to HRC?
What an about face! His criticism of BO pretty much nails it.
Obama, the strangest of all creatures, a leader who has never led.
You guys sure do love your stories from “unnamed sources”.
I repeat… Reference?
And I repeat: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html
Oh, little bot. Haven’t you figured out yet that the Huffington Post has no credibility here…and never could?
Now take that surprised look off your face and go have some yogurt or something. Better yet, some hot food would ground you and perhaps then you might GET IT.
There’s nothing you could possibly sling at McCain could overcome the damning evidence we have against Barry.
Time to stop bothering the grown ups and go to bed.
This is a must read.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5861
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5868
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5871
Here’s another really good link.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5871
Great piece, Truthteller! Thank you for making these connections!
You have to know when the Frenchies call you arrogant, your ego is out of control. But this is scary, scary business. A man with no foreign relations experience [other than his college trip to Pakistan and whirlwind tour of Europe], his willingness to sit down eyeball to eyball with thugs [tiny countries or not] and the inevitable wreakage that an unfettered Dem Congress/Dem Presidency will do to an already weakened economy.
And did you hear Pelosi [who I was so excited about when she was first named as Speaker of the House] say that when the Dems rule there will be a “bipartisan” atmosphere? I almost gagged. The most partisan of partisans saying she would make nice once she had the studded whip and nuclear bomb in hand.
Oh please. This whole scenario is like a surreal nightmare.
I don’t know what’s happened to my own Party. But I cannot and will not accept it. I’m praying that the majority of the electorate realizes the real danger we’re facing. But I’m encouraged by the tightening polls and the amazing uptick on Wall St. today. I have to believe that the internal polls are neck to neck in Pa right now. Otherwise, why is everyone there? And why are the Obamatrons running around like their hair’s on fire. That in itself is a tip-off.
I’m going to have ulcers before this thing is over. But I guess everyone here feels the same way.
Time to check out. My head is splitting and tomorrow’s another day!
Get some sleep. Relax. JM and Cindy looked absolutely loose on Hannity tonight. Not a care in the world. They know their polls are right.
And you’re right about the bots. They’re out in force. New, fresh ones apparently since the old ones haven’t seemed to make a dent in the NQ’s.
Keep calm
and
Carry on
McCain/Palin 08
WRITE TO PRESIDENT SARKOZY THANKING HIM FOR SPEAKING OUT ABOUT OBAMA
http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire/
HE IS SEEING THAT OBAMA IS A DANGER
TOOK HIM A WHILE…
OBAMA WILL ABANDON EUROPE AS HE PROCEEDS TO DESTROY AMERICA
HE WILL SINK EUROPEAN EFFORTS WITH IRAN, AND LEAVE IT HIGH AND DRY WITH REGARDS TO RUSSIA
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/28/the-utterly-immature-naif/
“Illegal” invasion? Why in high hell should countries that hate our guts (like China) get a vote on our national security? They’d love a nuclear Iraq because they’d love to see us get destroyed. They’d also love a nuclear Iran, which is why they will never take action against it.
Not only does Barack Obama not look like the presidents on the dollar bills, he doesn’t look like Superman either.
Great article, TT. Thanks for the additonal insights.
you are very welcome, ken.
Do you like to cuddle?
oui, des temps en temps.
I knew you were a cuddler.
avec des femmes? ;P