webcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report Online” Wednesday night, Krauthammer said the president's moves (or lack thereof) on the budget process were strategic and not a result of his personality.
“I don’t believe that it is a matter of personality and that he’s naturally passive,” Krauthammer explained. “I mean, you can argue that he voted present dozens of times when he was younger in Illinois. When it comes to domestic policy, I think he’s got the passivity as a logic. The reason I think he’s passive on the budget is his strategy is to win reelection by having the Republicans walk the plank and make the proposal for cuts which he will now demagogue all the way to Election Day. It’s an active strategy, but it starts by being rope-a-dope and letting the Republicans act first. It isn’t that he’s being passive out of some sort of laziness or a personality flaw.”
Based on past speeches, it is apparent Obama wants to deviate from the “colonial way” of the West’s past, Krauthammer said.
“But on Libya and the rest of the Middle East, I think it’s ideological,” he said. “This is a guy, from all the speeches he made early on — when he made them in Turkey, when he made the speeches in Cairo — this is a guy with the mentality that the West has acted in a colonial way. He said this incidentally in his speech at the U.N., and thus it has to be extra careful in not intruding itself. Remember, the most egregious example of how passive he was — was during the Iranian revolt of 2009. And that was an example where the values of the United States and the strategic interests were entirely parallel and coincidentally he did nothing. In fact he actually acted in actuality as somebody who was helping to give legitimacy to this horrible regime.”
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The actors of the disappointingly named “Hope – The Obama Musical Story,” a new musical chronicling the life of President Obama that features dance numbers from Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin (as well as a rousing song or two by John McCain and Jeremiah Wright), seem to have internalized more than a few characteristics of the Obama administration.
“We’re getting a lot comments online, a lot of negative comments, but we don’t listen to them,” said Jimmie Wilson, the Detroit actor who portrays Obama.
“Many people are thinking we just put Obama on stage in a positive way,” acknowledged director Roberto Emmanuele, who insists that his play cannot be propaganda because it simply lifts quotes from the president’s speeches. (?)
Much like those in Grant Park on election night, the musical climaxes as the actors sing ‘Yes We Can.’
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