from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT

In the sixth month of his presidency, Obama has turned an
economic downturn into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing
entire companies, and driving the nation deep into deficit spending
expected to pass 10 trillion dollars.

Abroad, Obama seems to have no other mode except to continue on
with his endless campaign, confusing speechmaking with diplomacy. It is
natural enough that Obama, who built his entire campaign on high profile
public speeches reported on by an adoring press, understands how to do
nothing else but that.

While the press is still chewing over
Obama's Cairo speech, this celebrity style coverage ignores the fact that
Obama's endless world tour is not actually accomplishing anything. Instead
his combination of ego driven photo op appearances and clueless treatment
of foreign dignitaries have alienated many of America's traditional
allies. Those who aren't being quietly angry at Obama, like Brown, Merkel
or Netanyahu, instead think of him as as absurdly lightweight, as Sarkozy,
King Abdullah or Putin do.

While his officials carry out their
dirty economic deeds, Obama responds to any and every crisis as if it were
a Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musical, with a cry of, "Let's put on a
show." Thus far Obama has put on "shows" across America, Europe and the
Middle East. And what the adoring media coverage neglects to cover, is
that Obama's shows have solved absolutely nothing. They have served only
as high profile entertainment.

Neither alienating America's
traditional allies, through a combination of arrogant bullying and
ignorance, nor appeasing America's enemies, has yielded any actual
results. Nor does it seem likely to. Islamic terrorism is not going
anywhere, neither are the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran. While
Obama keeps smiling, the global situation keeps growing more
grim.

At home, if Obama was elected as depression era
entertainment, the charm of his smiles and his constant appearances on
magazine covers appear to be wearing thin on the American public. Despite
the shrill attacks on Rush Limbaugh or the Republican Enemy of the Weak--
the Democratic party of 2009, is polling a lot like the Republican party
of 2008. The Democrats have suddenly become the incumbents, and the only
accomplishment they can point to is lavish deficit spending, often on
behalf of the very same corporations and causes they once postured
against.

The European Union Parliament's swing to the right cannot
be credited to Obama, though doubtlessly some European voters seeing
socialist economic crisis management on display in the world's richest
country decided they wanted none of it, but it is part of a general
turning against federalism. And Obama's entire program is dependent on
heavily entrenching federalism at the expense of individual and state's
rights. Yet that is precisely his achilles heel with independent voters
who are polling against more taxes and expanded government. And no amount
of speeches by Obama can wish away his 18 czars or the national debt he
has foisted on generation after generation of the American people. That
leaves Obama with a choice between socialism and the independent voter.
And thus far he has chosen socialism.

Obama's tactic of hijacking
Bush Administration era policies on the economy and the War on Terror, and
exploiting them as trojan horses to promote his own agenda, have left him
coping with a backlash from his own party, as well as general Republican
opposition.

His Czars are meant to function as the bones in an executive
infrastructure accountable to no one, but a lack of accountability isn't
just another word for tyranny, but for incompetence. A functional chain of
command is accountable at multiple levels if it is to function
effectively. Obama's White House by contrast is in a state of
over-organized chaos, the sort of organized disorganization that
undisciplined egotistical leftists naturally create for themselves,
complete with multiple overlapping levels of authority and no one in
charge but the man at the top, who's too busy doing other things to
actually be in charge.

Dennis Blair as National Intelligence, who
collaborated with the Muslim genocide of Christians in East Timor, trying
to muscle out the CIA to create his own intelligence network, is typical
of the kind of chaos being spawned by every chief in an expanding
government bureaucracy working to make sure that all the indians answer to
him. Similarly the National Security Council wrestling with the State
Department, highlighted by Samantha Power getting her own specially
created NSC position to butt heads with Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, illustrates the state of conflict and chaos in American foreign
affairs. A state of chaos so pervasive that incompetence has now become
commonplace, and no one can even be found to double check the spelling of
a Russian word that is meant to be the theme of American's diplomatic
reconstruction with Russia, or to pick out a gift for the visiting British
Prime Minister.

Meanwhile on the economy, Obama exploited the
ongoing bailouts, transforming them from bailouts into takeovers meant to
shift the balance of power in what had been a democracy and socially
engineer not only corporations, but the lives of ordinary Americans. But
the public's patience with corporate bailouts is at an end, most Americans
were never happy with them to begin with, and want them to end. The death
of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and the UAW might look like a victory in
the union ranks, but it doesn't play too well outside Detroit. And tacking
on CAFE standards that will kill the pickup truck and the SUV will badly
erode Obama in the swing states, if exploited properly in 2010 and
2012.

Despite the constant media barrage, orchestrated out of the
White House, the public is growing disenchanted with the performance of
Obama and the Democrats. With unemployment booming and the economy
dropping, the jobs aren't there and the spending is out of control.
Republicans today are polling better on ethics and the economy, than the
Democrats are. That shows a trend which is likely to register in the
mid-term elections in 2010, in the same way that the EU parliamentary
elections served as a shock to the system.

In the opposition,
Republicans are free to embrace the rhetoric of change, to champion reform
and push libertarian ideas about the size and scope of government. In turn
all Obama has is his celebrity fueled media spectacle world tour. A
charade now serving as a parallel to the depression era entertainment that
functioned as escapism in a dour time. But before long, it may be Obama
that the American public will want to escape from.

Obama has tried
to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK and FDR-- but in the end he can only play
himself, a shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over
his head, and trying to drag the country down with him. Obama's White
House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still glittering and
the parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and the
Democratic Congress may be headed for a recession of their own.