RSSThe Bloom Is Off the Obama-Rose
Gene Lalor | December 19, 2009
In what must be a major trauma for Obamians, President Barack Hussein Obama’s rep as the Savior of All Mankind, the Second Coming of the Obamassiah, the Man Who Would Be King, the Man Who Would Bring Us Change and Salvation, after less than a year in office our president has come up against a shocking reality.
He’s none of the above.
Hot on the heels of repeated failures at home, in Asia, and in Europe, Mr. Obama went to Copenhagen where, despite all the bluster, he failed yet again at the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit. 
His dramatic collapse in approval ratings was very predictable but his penchant for repetitive screw-ups, disappointments, and outright failures on various world stages were anything but predictable, at least to his idolators throughout the planet.
Just months ago, they still regarded him as the best thing to happen since Bill Clinton beat his impeachment rap.
Obama is sadly reminiscent of the title character in Hemingway’s short story, “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Francis’ pathetic life, however, ended on a distinct and glorious uptick after an extended period of living as a cowardly appendage of his wife, Margot, when a wounded African buffalo kills him.
Okay, all comparisons limp somewhat and Obama’s experience has been the reverse of Macomber’s.
After years of glory and acclaim, the president’s life, if not literally ending, has entered a trough so deep and so irredeemably inescapable that he must wish for a few more shining moments similar to Francis Macomber’s.
Figuratively shuffling off this mortal coil on a high note sure beats being a lame duck with 3 more years during which Obama, based on his record to date, will surely sink lower than a snake’s bulging belly in a swampy sinkhole in the Bayou, as Dan Rather might have said.
Copenhagen was the president’s Waterloo. Instead of leaving with a Caesarian declaration of “Veni, vidi, vici,” he left with his presidential tail between his legs, a defeat salved only by the conference’s “unprecedented breakthrough.”
That’s diplomat-speak for a feigned agreement comparable to SNAFU, the inimitable World War Two U.S. Army acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
At the last minute, America’s negotiators hammered out an agreement with China, Brazil, India, and South Africa–making the agreement unanimous among all of 5 of the hundred or so nations–some say all 193 U.N. nations were involved– who sent representatives to the gathering in the Danish capital.
The other 95, or 188, nations are certain to sign on–in Obama’s dreams.
That farcical “agreement” is what Asians refer to as saving face, principally Obama’s face.
After spending two whole days in the protest-racked, blizzard conditions of Copenhagen and beset with rumors of Climategate dancing in his head, Obama couldn’t very well be bid adieu and sent packing with nothing to show for his efforts.
All hundred, or 193, nations know that, as inept as he is, this American president was certainly preferable to any possible Republican winner in 2012.
That winner might actually stand up to their importuning demands and assert that the United States wouldn’t kowtow to pipsqueak, socialist dictators whose main preoccupation is seeing how deep they can shove their hands into Uncle Sam’s pockets.
Contending that the other 95, or 188, nations will agree to the 5-nation accord and that any agreement beats no agreement, Obama beat his hasty retreat before the 95, or 188, could rise up and tell him where to stick his phony accord.
Stay tuned also for Chinese, Brazilian, Indian, and South African fine tunings of their agreement which will effectively make their accord null and void.
The blame-game was bubbling at the conference, with the bulk of the blame for global warming being assigned to the U.S. and with African nations expressing their wintry discontent with Secretary of State Clinton’s promise of $100 billion a year of aid to the Third World.
Hillary didn’t specify the source for those billions and, if they somehow come to fruition, she didn’t elaborate on how many millions would reach the people of the Third World after the bulk is raked off to furnish the mansions and supplement the lifestyles of their leaders.
The sum total of the Copenhagen farce was expressed in the words of the Papua New Guinea delegate, who happens to have as much authority in the U.N. General Assembly as the United States.
Thomas Negints greedily had hoped for “more on emissions, put more money on the table, take the lead.”
More to the point, Greenpeace U.S. Executive Director Phil Radford commented that Obama was, “the man who killed Copenhagen:” http://bit.ly/5gN1Vl
I don’t know if Obama killed Copenhagen. I think the climate summit was a suicide precipitated by Third Worlders expecting First Worlders, mainly the United States, to bail them out to compensate for their inability to govern, feed, and house themselves.
In any event, poor Barack comes home with yet another unaccomplished goal and yet another failure.
Given more time, poor, pathetic Francis Macomber would have done better in preserving Obama’s rose.
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