Has Obamamania Given Way To The Rodney Dangerfield Presidency?

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Published: May 29, 2009

Has Obamamania Given Way To The " Rodney Dangerfield " Presidency?

by Satire by w. Lillpop

In the just over 120 days since the fate of 300 million Americans and the

totality of western civilization itself were thrust upon the unqualified, yet

defiantly arrogant, community organizer from Illinois, America's chickens are

coming home to roost, to paraphrase a who was hardly ever right.

The latest example that Barack Obama is quickly becoming more like Rodney

Dangerfield than an omnipotent Messiah comes from North Korea where the very

sick Kim Yong Ill has conducted a powerful underground nuclear test AND has test

fired short range missiles during the same news cycle.

Thus, in spite of tough talk from the President of the United States and his

ferocious Secretary of State, an amiable sort completely in over her head, North

Korea marches towards nuclear mayhem, unafraid and undeterred.

As Dangerfield would say, " I tell ya, I get no respect! "

The story is pretty much the same in the Islamic state of Iran, another " Axis of

Evil " that President W. Bush tried to warn the world about in 2002, only

to be ridiculed and disparaged by liberals as a fundamentalist Christian nut on

steroids.

Under the shaky hand and unsteady mind of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran

continues to work toward becoming a " nukkler " power.

Ahmadinejad drives his nation in that perilous direction with little or no

regard for our very well tanned Rodney Dangerfield president who actually

believes he can dissolve thousands of years of feuding between Jews and Muslims

with dialogue and diplomacy.

Moreover, the disemboweling of Obamamania is not limited to " bad Axis " on the

world stage. Indeed, Israel, one of America's most dependable allies, is proudly

proclaiming its recovery from Obamamania, and is doing so loudly and clearly.

After receiving marching orders from President Obama about surrendering to the

Palestinians, abiding a nuclear Iran, and accepting the rather bleak future of

Judaism with good cheer, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu decided that

excrement is not Kosher, thus he declined to further ingest said substance on

behalf of Israel.

In defiantly refusing Obama's orders, Netanyahu was quoted as saying, " The

demand for a total stop to building is not something that can be justified and I

don't think that anyone here at this table accepts it, " the PM told his cabinet,

referring to Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Even like minded leftists from his own party have parted ways with President

Obama when it came to his foolish plans to close GITMO without having thought

the process through.

Transferring 248 world class terrorists from an isolated naval base in Cuba to

the U.S. homeland is change of the sort that America can definitely do without.

A stinging 90-6 rebuke in the US Senate put Obama's ill begotten GITMO plans on

hold, and forced the president to duck " friendly fire " from otherwise adoring

leftists.

The decline and fall of Obamamania in foreign lands makes perfect sense. After

all, this president seems obsessed with dismantling America's defenses against

terrorism; defenses, by the way, which have kept the nation safe for seven plus

years.

Why should any foreign leader, whether friend or foe, respect a president who is

committed to making his own nation weaker, more vulnerable?

The Obama presidency will surely be recorded in the annals of American political

history as the greatest snake oil scheme ever perpetrated on a presumably

educated and sophisticated electorate.

With barely more than the charisma of a rock star going for him, Barack Obama

managed to convince over 65 million voters that he possessed the requisite

intelligence, mental toughness, determination, and leadership skills needed to

protect and defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic while

functioning as the nation's Commander-in-chief.

As painful as it is to admit anything even approaching agreement with Hillary

Rodham Clinton, one must concede that the Hildabeast got it right on Obama:

This is a man without any notable accomplishment or experience.

Alas, he is NOT the one who should be taking those 3 AM red phone calls.

W. Lillpop is an independent columnist