Obama: A Profile in Cowardice

Daniel Greenfield

By Daniel Greenfield Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Meet Barack Hussein Obama. The man who turned his own middle name into
a no-go zone during the election, only to bring it out of the closet
when he trotted down to a Muslim country. The man whose associates
labeled talk about his Muslim background as racist, only to proclaim
his Muslim background loudly and proudly from the podium of a Muslim
country.

There’s a word for a man like that. Coward.

Meet Obama, the bright young Senator with a phony biography geared to
playing up his biracial angst for the college campuses. Who promised
his leftist volunteers an end to rendition, detentions, eavesdropping
and a whole bundle of other things, only to pull a bait and switch on
them.

After all tools like that come in handy, even if they’re less likely
to be used against Muslim terrorists, than they are against Tea Party
protesters.

Meet Barack Obama, the man who was going to bring an end to the
American coercion of other countries. No more would the White House
tell the rest of the world what to do. Except of course to dictate
where Jews can live in Israel, how the Honduran judiciary can operate
and who can head the Muslim community in Greece.

Of course Obama has drawn the line somewhere. He has drawn the line
against standing up to Ahmadinejad, Chavez or any Socialist or Muslim
tyrant. Instead Obama has browbeaten America’s democratic allies, in
support of Muslim and Socialist tyrannies. You can read that as Obama
putting his own political and religious loyalties ahead of America’s
interests. Or you can read it as the act of a craven coward who hopes
to sacrifice America’s remaining allies in order to win over America’s
enemies.

When the Iranian youth came out to protest against Ahmadinejad, Obama
mumbled and fumbled for something to say. He dragged it out long
enough to send a loud and clear message to the Iranian regime, that
America would not interfere no matter what they did. And the regime
got the message. Obama cannot be held completely responsible for the
ruthless crackdown that has followed, but some of the blood is
certainly on his well manicured hands and sleeves.

As the supposedly most cyber-aware fellow in the White House, Obama
could have followed up on the British effort to provide social
networking access to Iranian protesters, or on the one proposed by
Senator John McCain, the man the media lambasted as tech-illiterate
and out of touch. He could have imposed sanctions on Nokia for aiding
in the repression of political dissidents and compelled them to make
the plans for the technology they sold to Iran, public.

Harnessing America’s status as a world power and his own supposed
global goodwill, Obama could have organized an international
diplomatic response to the crackdown. He could have made any nuclear
negotiations contingent on the treatment of the protesters. He could
have done a dozen things, but aside from making a series of fumbling
statements when his inaction became humiliating even for his own
party, Barack Hussein Obama did nothing.

Behold the man. Behold the coward.
By contrast when Honduras’ legislature and supreme court acted to
remove President Manuel Zelaya, a close ally of Chavez, who had fired
the head of the army and attempted to stage a coup by violating the
Constitution, Obama and his people have been working around the clock
to restore Zelaya to power, even while stating that they want the
whole thing to be “free from external influence and interference” (the
hypocrisy on that line alone is almost enough to choke even Chavez
himself). The question is why?

But of course it’s not that difficult of a question. Not when you
think like a coward. Not when you think like Obama.

Why wouldn’t Obama panic at the sight of a Congress and Supreme Court
removing a left wing Socialist President who violated the Constitution
in pushing to make himself el-presidente for life, by violating term
limits. Let alone the military dumping said President across border.

Obama no doubt has nightmares of waking up on a C-31 transport to
Kenya, after enough of his wrongdoing leads him to being booted out of
the White House by what remains of the American legislative and
judicial infrastructure.

Today Manuel “ALBA” Zelaya. Tomorrow it could be Barry “Hussein”
Obama. And Barry knows better than anyone else the full catalog of
lies, crimes and scandals brewing beneath his regime. Obama’s rise to
power has been part of an American hemisphere trend that covers the
likes of Chavez, Zelaya, Correa, Silva and even the return of Kerry’s
old buddy, Ortega, to power in Nicaragua. What all of them have in
common with Obama is a left wing socialist agenda that ignores the
rule of law. An attack against Zelaya, could in Obama’s mind be seen
an attack against him equally.

If the rollback of socialist tyranny begins in Honduras, it might
spread. If Brazil, Venezeula and Ecuador follow-- might not the
democractic revolution spread to America as well, and make the Prince
of Chicago’s throne shakier than ever?

That is how a coward thinks, and Obama is nothing if not a coward. And
like all cowards, he knows how little he deserves what he has, and how
easy it would be for him to lose it all. A gang of greedy and deluded
followers, and a nationwide 24/7 propaganda blitz can only do so much.
After all there isn’t a socialist tyrant in the hemisphere who hasn’t
had the same thing. And yet the latest of them is enjoying a well
deserved vacation in Venezuela.

A profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who serves his own
ends first and his host country’s, last.
Heavy hangs the head that wears the ill-gotten crown. From one corner
of the globe to another, Obama flits back and forth, delivering
speeches and posing for photos. Like a rat rubbing against a rosebush,
hoping some of the loose petals will attach themselves to him so that
he can appear more like a rosebush and less like a rat, Obama hopes
that going through the motions of being a world leader will actually
get people to confuse him with a world leader.

Yet his mumbling silence on Iran speaks far more eloquently about the
sort of man Obama is, than all his scripted speeches ever could. Obama
has been compared to JFK, but what he represents is no profile in
courage, but a profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who
serves his own ends first and his host country’s, last. Who proclaims,
Ask not what I can do for your country, Ask what your country can do
for me. And above all else, a craven coward.