POTUS Does It Again: Barack Obama Bad Mouths America While on Australia Trip, Keeps Blaming Americans for Nation’s Problems
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 21, 2011
Crikey, is there ANYTHING Barack H. Obama likes about America or Americans? Besides breaking the presidential golfing record and flying around every bloody week on Air Force One?
Last week, Pres. Obama said Americans are lazy and soft and lack ambition. Wonder if that assessment includes the Occupy Wall Street vandals, rapists, thugs, rioters, and other socialist lawbreakers across the nation who want more expensive Nanny State government handouts and coddling, and whom Pres. Obama has publicly applauded — well, does it, Mr. President?
Now the Golfer/Vacationer/Whiner in Chief — despite, or because of, his record low approval rating among Democrat and Republican voters — dissed America while talking/whining with high school students during his trip this week to Australia.
From Fox Radio News, Obama Complains about USA to Australian Teens:
President Obama bad-mouthed the United States during a visit to an Australian high school, telling teenagers that the United States has “fallen behind” in education, according to a White House pool report.
He told young people at Campbell High School the United States has “fallen behind” when it comes to math and science education – explaining why he made it a priority in his administration.
He also said poor American children don’t get “the support they need when they’re very young” and are “already behind” when they enter grammar school.
President Obama also told students that he is “always inspired when I meet with young people because you’re not stuck in some of the old stodgy ideas” one finds in grown-ups.
Yeah, “old stodgy ideas” like American pride, patriotism, free market principles, and constitutionally protected freedoms like freedom of speech.
From Washington Times, Obama’s growing disdain for American worker:
The president, jaunting around the world as America’s economy crumbles and Congress lumbers along, leaderless, dropped into a high school in Australia. Talking to the Aussie kids, he said America’s public school students have “fallen behind” them in math and science. And he said in the U.S., many children don’t get the “support they need when they’re very young” so they’re “already behind” when they enter elementary school.
Of course, that doesn’t apply to the president’s and first lady’s daughters. There was no chance the One Percent Couple were going to send their own children to a public school in the District of Columbia; they’re off at a private school that costs $30,000 per child per year.
But that is what Mr. Obama – the president of the United States – thinks about the state of education in America. And we Americans should just get used to it. Our president now travels around the world to pronounce the end of the American era, kowtow to foreign leaders by saying the U.S. is no longer the singular force in the world, and essentially disrespect everything that has made this great country so great.
While the Nobel Prize winner courts the world, looking for lost love, he holds a special disdain for the working American. Now, mind you, this from a guy who has never held down a real job: from community organizer to Illinois state senator to U.S. senator to president, taxpayers have been paying his salary since the mid-1990s.
In the past three months, his real feelings about the state of the U.S. economy have come out and, more important, just who’s to blame for it. You won’t be surprised: It’s YOU.
About his criticism of the education of American students, The Lonely Conservative opines, “Maybe he should take that up with the teachers unions.”
From The Baltimore Sun, Obama to America: It’s all your fault:
Congratulations, average American! It’s your turn to be blamed for President Obama’s — and America’s — problems.
This is the biggest honor you’ve won since Time magazine named “you” the Person of the Year.
Being the root cause of our dire national predicament puts you in some very august company indeed. You are joining the ranks of George W. Bush, the Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, Wall Street fat cats and other luminaries, both living and merely anthropomorphized.
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He’s constantly stoking nationalistic and quasi-paranoid fears of China to goad Americans into supporting ever more “investments” in green energy and high-speed white elephants.
Indeed, China always seems to be on the man’s mind. He’s even reportedly expressed envy for Chinese President Hu Jintao. “Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China,” the New York Times reported last year. “As one official put it, ‘No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.’”
What’s so pathetic here — other than the obvious grotesqueness of envying totalitarian tyrants — is that President Obama’s objections are so baseless. Americans remain the most productive workers in the world. As Mr. Obama himself notes, we attract more foreign investment than any other country.
Meanwhile, it’s President Obama and his allies in Congress who’ve been at the forefront of the effort to make America less competitive. Mr. Obama delayed free trade deals for years, until he could lard them up with Big Labor giveaways. He’s thrown roadblocks in front of a multibillion-dollar U.S.-Canada pipeline project, which many ambitious and imaginative people see as something like this generation’s Hoover Dam or Golden Gate Bridge. He did postpone those new job-killing smog regulations his EPA administrator wants, but he’s also let everyone — including foreign investors — know that he’ll put them back on the agenda if he’s re-elected.
In 2008, Mr. Obama said the $9 trillion in national debt under President Bush was “unpatriotic.” Now he questions the patriotism of those who think the Obama debt of $15 trillion argues against spending even more money we don’t have. And of course, there’s that giant unfunded disaster known as ObamaCare, which Nancy Pelosi claimed was a “jobs bill” because it would lead to “an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”
But, yes, by all means, let’s blame our lack of competitiveness on the American people.
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