By Ed Randazzo
Another initiative by Obama to draw attention away from his dismal performance in office.
Yesterday, the president sought to grab the headlines by delivering a policy address in which he endorsed a key Palestinian statehood demand, Did he think that this would help him keep the 78% of the Jewish vote he garnered in 2008? Not hardly.
The president’s call for a Palestinian state based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War seemed to place him on the side of the Palestinians at the starting point of what he hopes will be a new round of peace talks.
I’m certain the Israeli’s were not pleased. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is set to meet with Obama on Friday, said in a statement that while Israel “appreciates” Obama’s commitment to peace, the prime minister essentially wants Obama to retract his remarks.
In the U.S., the policy shift could pose a problem for Obama with Jewish voters and donors.
So why did Obama do this?
It appears to me that his internal polling is telling him that running on his record of acheivements in office will net him a stunning defeat. He has apparently decided to act as though he is the challenger, not the incumbent president. So his game is to stay on the television screens day and night and open so many cans of worms that people may forget his abysmal domestic record and his lack of leadership skills.
Expect more smoke, mirrors and lights in the days to come.
Of equivalent likelihood: President Obama is trying to distract us from his failure to address climate change and the “new normal” of monster storms and droughts it has produced:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110518/sc_nm/us_climate_extremes
Obama’s new normal is to ignore his failure of a presidency, his lack of leadership skills and his failed socialistic economic gambits. He’s making Jimmy Carter look good by comparison. At least the peanut farmer was honest and forthright.
You’d make up nonsense like this to rationalize your failing worldview no matter what President Obama did. It also seems strange that you assume he’s trying to boost his poll numbers by announcing a policy on Palestine that could cost him even more support with a key voting block. Try working from some real evidence instead of your fantasies about his internal polling.
My failing world view? Where is Obama succeeding in his world view?
It’s hard to say what drives a man like Barack Obama. It may be many things.
Of course, the Left has for years had an uncanny knack for aligning itself with evil. That knack has become so reliable, you can usually determine the right/wrong of an issue simply by finding out how the Left reacts to it.
Therefore, it is only normal that Barack Obama, being among the most liberal of Leftists, would endorse the position that strengthens bloodthirsty terrorists who are bent on wiping Israel off the map.
Of course, he seems to have a greater than usual (for the Left) affinity for all things Muslim, so this only strengthens the odds that he would back the proposition of the only democracy in the Middle East giving up land in the vain hope of placating the implacable.
It’s easy to see what drive men like you, a self-serving belief you are doing God’s work. President Obama is a much better Christian than you’ll ever imagine yourself to be.