One of his advisers described the President’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.” That’s not a slogan designed for signs at the 2012 Democratic Convention, but it does accurately describe the balance that Obama now seems to be finding. It’s a different definition of leadership than America is known for, and it comes from two unspoken beliefs: that the relative power of the US is declining, as rivals like China rise, and that the US is reviled in many parts of the world. Pursuing our interests and spreading our ideals thus requires stealth and modesty as well as military strength. “It’s so at odds with the John Wayne expectation for what America is in the world,” the adviser said. “But it’s necessary for shepherding us through this phase.”
What the hell is “this phase”? Where are we “reviled” and by whom? Syria? Russia? Yemen? Somalia? Cuba?
Wherever statist would be commissars and dictators rule. Wherever sh!t for brains socialist parasites infest society. Wherever victimhood is a lifestyle and social status of choice. Wherever the clowns in the MSM hold sway.
That’s where!
Where are we reviled? Why among the West’s own home grown and traitors spoiled brats and; The elite, establishment Left and their clients, patties and epigones, that is where.
In 10 years, how do you say “I told you so” in Chinese?
If you’re going to lead from behind can I at least get a reach-around? Off colour, I know…
That curious paragraph seems to be an attempt to put a positive spin on a President who is muddled and indecisive.
And miseducated and maleducated and malintentioned.
“… “It’s so at odds with the John Wayne expectation for what America is in the world,” the adviser said. “But it’s necessary for shepherding us through this phase.”
“Shepherding”. Herding sheep, isn’t it?
Hmmmmm. Fellow might be on to something there…
Americans will regret the day they let the the Child-Emperor in the White House.
They should put up a sign in the Oval Office:
“Adults Only”
One of his advisers described the President’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”
I thought he was supposed to be pushing the car out of the ditch.
Car seems to be deeper in the ditch, though he keeps pushing.
Maybe if he would let someone put gas in the car and drive it out instead of insisting that pushing is greener…
Re. Libya: What has Kate been saying. “Get our pilots out” I couldn’t agree more.
And if the USA would have done more housekeeping than world babysitting the last 50 years they wouldn’t be sinking down a blackhole of debt.
C’mon all SDA whiners, listen up. You hate the left wing and Obama so much you are blind to commonsense. The same kind of blindness that we criticize the liberal media and “elite” for when they can’t do anything but rant against Bush, Palin or Beck.
GET THE TROOPS HOME! Clean up your own backyard! Rebuild your house! NOT top-down Nanny state style. But grassroots style
I like that “leading from his “behind”. Very appropriate description of what we have seen.
So where’s their Lady Thatcher to reverse the “inevitable”?
I asked this question before but forget where so bear with me. Is anybody else seeing the titles of the postings as weird and twisted lettering?
Canuckguy: My wife got the same thing on her computer; but it was fine on mine ???????
… actually, I get the problem in IE but not in Firefox.
I’m using Safari and all the fonts seem okay. Maybe it’s just an Explorer glitch. Off topic I know, sorry.
I agree with you Fred but I also believe that most adults in America did not vote for the adolescent now in the Whitehouse. Adults (mental adults) were denied a vote FOR in the last election; they had the radical Golden Boy or the milquetoast McCain. Adults voted for McCain when he chose Sarah Palin for vice president. I blame the msm and the msm pleasing Republicans for the mess in USA.
The Tea Party patriots prove to me that the spirit of the USA lives on; America will elect a proper President in 2012 and American people will restore the true America: Strong and Free. I pray that this will happen as I do believe (unlike the Marxist/Islamic radicals in the Whitehouse) the Manifest Destiny doctrine. The idea that is America is the only hope for mankind, IMO.
I’m using IE9 and script is fine.
I love VDH’s writings. I’ve ordered all his books – they are great. Some of his articles are a bit repetitive, but the underlying theme is always worth contemplating.
President Barack Obama engages in “sandtrap dipolomacy.”
He has “four-sight” when dealing with the “Golf” region.
Probably your best post/link ever.
I exclude your ‘bike writings.
Leading from behind, soft-power.
It’s all the same progressive nonsense, Alice in Wonderland stuff.
How about, can’t make a decision? or permanently out-to-lunch?
Leading from behind, soft-power.
It’s all the same progressive nonsense, Alice in Wonderland stuff.
How about, can’t make a decision? or permanently out-to-lunch?
Canuckguy at 1:15 pm. I am probably one of the least tech literate folks on here, but I`m guessing it could be your version of IE. I have an up to date version on this computer, and I see the titles. My other system has an older version and it is seeing the titles in Klingon or something else weird.
So what more do you expect from a country that allows the most corrupt outfit the world has seen to occupy prime real estate in its biggest city??
The script problem is likley with the older 32 bit versions of IE.
If you can run 64 bit, upgrading to IE9 is free and all your favorites will go along with the upgrade.
Just go to the Microsnot home site and download the upgrade.
Be sure to make a backup on System Restore first before upgrading so that if you have any trouble with the new IE9 you can reverse the upgrade.
Canuck Guy … go to MS update and just do it…..load the latest IE version … it is free and only takes time.
OR …. go to Firefox and load FFox and 4.0 … way better and more stable than IE …. it is free and only takes time.
Leading from behind. That sounds like ‘soft power’ and ‘liberal intellectual’.
The Brits wanted to be loved by the Barbarians. Look where that got them?
An empire will eat itself because it has gotten too corpulent to remember what made it great. I would hate to see America fall only to see something like China rise.
Just my quick thoughts.
Where is ET? She should be all over this stuff with her brilliant posts!
Man I’m getting old. I call leading from behind as following or just going along. I did have a boss that said he stays in the back until he sees which way something is going to go then runs like H to get in front of the parade.
With the USA hamstrung by it’s hurt feeling in regards to those despot countries saying nasty things about it … I think the USA has a case to bring to a human rights council. Or … they could just not give a $hit and stop being so sensitive. But then, Obama is a fragile thug is his not?
johnbrooks: 我告訴你，
Cascadian: How about, can’t make a decision? or permanently out-to-lunch? — Racist.
andy: Leading from behind. That sounds like ‘soft power’ and ‘liberal intellectual’. So true.
“Where are we “reviled” and by whom?”
Let me put it this way: you are hated by all the right people.
Leading from behind takes the guess work out of the job.
Over half the population of Detroit is illiterate!
That’s a good place to start when looking at the “Decline & Fall of America”
47 million people on food stamps, an open border with millions of unskilled illegal aliens many criminal and many with infectious diseases flowing across it compounding the decline to third world status.
The manufacturing base has been outsourced to third world countries and the bulk of the remaining US workforce uselessly works for the government in some unproductive capacity, or sells cars, life insurance and flips hamburgers.
Forget the 4 expanding wars, the declining dollar, the runaway deficit and so on and so on…….
“Leading from behind” sounds somewhat sodomistic.
“The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”
gloating.
how reprehensible. you right wingers *want* it to happen to discredit the first black president and chirp about how you predicted it.
unconscionable.
The hypocrisy of our western political leaders is gob smackingly stupid, first Obama celbrates the death of Alquacka’s leader Osama and then we find out we’re supporting Alquacka terrorists in Libya. Those aren’t freedom fighters or rebels, they’re hard core Islamic enemy combatants we’re helping over throw the government. Let them at it and back away for crisps sake.
ping >
“you right wingers *want* it to happen to discredit the first black president…..”
The “president” has done a great job of discrediting himself, in the eye’s of both right & left wing politics.
The corruption at the top of the food chain that loots the country, is bipartisan. The corruption at the bottom through welfare, immigration, unsustainable entitlements and other social programs is all the left.
Everyone else “mainstream America” the countries clockwork, is slowly degrading into the third world toilet by feeding the parasites.
ping His latest gun czar is a lawyer that knows nothing of guns but I’ll let this paste tell the story.
“Back to Mr. Croley. He is, according to Mr. Horowitz, one of the top tort professors in the country, so smart that he got his fingers mangled in a snowblower. “He had disregarded the warning label, and he became an on-campus case study: If one of the country’s leading tort scholars fails to heed an advisory label, professors posited, do such warnings carry any weight?”
http://tinyurl.com/44dlsc8
Ping – so blame it on his white half instead. Most of us don’t care about his skin colour, it’s his politics. He has nothing but disdain for the free market, and his policies are similar enough to those of a socialist that he’s convinced many of us that he is one. His rule is so open and transparent that he didn’t even release his birth certificate for over 3 years (the real scandal behind his birth, IMHO, was the automatic secrecy). Frankly, we would take the same approach with anyone with the same approach. So why did you bring race into it, bigot?
ping at 6:06pm, that is a psychotic statement. My friends, ping is crazy. Stop feeding it.
“Obama: Leading from Behind” may not be a good slogan for the 2012 Democratic Convention, but it’s a superlative one for the 2012 Republican Convention.
Jamie MacMaster
“… “It’s so at odds with the John Wayne expectation for what America is in the world,” the adviser said. “But it’s necessary for shepherding us through this phase.”
“Shepherding”. Herding sheep, isn’t it?
Hmmmmm. Fellow might be on to something there…
Actually my position is that, that is what is called A FREUDIAN SLIP…..unwittingly telling the truth.
Much like Heather Malice’ rant t’other day in the
Guardian…….
This then comes to “THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT”….that was slick Willy Clinton….who referred to OBOZO as “…..the Chicago Thug…”
Our criticizm of this OBOZO clown is not racist….. but among other things, like marxist, il-educated/afirmative action, elitist, and grossly arrogant,..HE is racist!…..(Bob Goldwythe scream)….
The enmity of our enemies and the contempt by our competitors is not a mark of shame but a BADGE OF HONOR.
I wear it proudly.
C_Miner >
Obamba’s officially leaked birth certificate is an easily provable forgery. Anyone with mediocre Photoshop ability could have downloaded the file from the Whitehouse archives when they first presented it and opened it to multiple layers in Photoshop. Thousands did – you can readily find the online forums by the gobsmacked Photoshop enthusiasts all over the web. It’s not even a good forgery, and most think it was done as a joke. What is not funny is that most people have accepted it as real.
Here’s Atlas Shrugs version:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html
I already know that I am going to HELL
But —Tomorrow -I shall drink some Liquor–
After I have consumed some BACON!!!
Any bloody Prophet that will deny me entry
To Virgins .
For ETERNITY!!!!!!
Is a JOKE.
Fact is —
I like to screw Virgins .
Almost as much as Muhommad.
Fact is
I just can’t twirl around ..
And make them one of my many wives.
Knight – so be it. I still think it’s more important from a transparency view than a can-he-legally-be-president view. Wing-nuts on the left don’t have a counter for transparency.