l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Jan LaRue
Bill O'Reilly's interview of President Obama on Fox News just prior to the
Super Bowl confirmed that he remains a self-absorbed leftist.
Now that he's ardently denied moving to the political center, maybe pundits
and Republicans like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will finally get it, unless
they naïvely believe he's been there all along.
Obama's responses qualified for more penalty flags than were thrown during
the game. His reaction to the crisis in Egypt is similar to his comment
about the Super Bowl. He refused to "pick sides." The transcript is
available online.
Obama revealed his alarming apathy about the Muslim Brotherhood seizing
power in the aftermath of the Egyptian crisis. While Obama easily faulted "
the judge in Florida" who declared "ObamaCare" unconstitutional, he couldn't
manage to criticize the Brotherhood despite its commitment to a worldwide
caliphate imposing Shariah Law and Jihad on all nations.
Its "spiritual leader," Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, hosts a daily TV show viewed
by 40 million Muslims. He defends Hitler, suicide bombings, killing Jews,
and Muslims employing nuclear weapons "to terrorize." Despite all the
evidence of the Muslim Brotherhood's radicalism, Obama created a false
dilemma by contrasting the Brotherhood with the "suppressed Egyptian people"
under the current regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
O'REILLY: The Muslim Brotherhood, a great concern to a lot of people.
Are they a threat to the USA?
OBAMA: I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt. They
don't have majority support in Egypt. They are --
O'REILLY: Are they a threat?
OBAMA: But they are well-organized and there are strains of their
ideology that are anti-U.S. There's no doubt about it. But here's the thing
that we have to understand. There are a whole bunch of secular folks in
Egypt, there are a whole bunch of educators and civil society in Egypt that
wants to come to the fore as well. And it's important for us not to say that
our only two options are either the Muslim Brotherhood or a suppressed
Egyptian people.
O'REILLY: But you don't want the Muslim Brotherhood ....
OBAMA: What I want is a representative government in Egypt. And I have
confidence that if Egypt moves in an orderly transition process, that we
will have a government in Egypt that we can work with together as a partner.
When asked what is the "absolute worst part of being president," Obama's
self-absorption was evident:
O'REILLY: Okay. Worst part of this job? What's the worst, absolute worst
part of being president of the United States?
OBAMA: Worst part of the job is, first of all, I've got a jacket on
Super Bowl Sunday.
O'REILLY: That's true.
OBAMA: If I wasn't president, that would not be happening.
O'REILLY: I have a tie. You don't have a tie.
OBAMA: The biggest problem for me is being in the bubble. It's very hard
to escape. You know, you can't go to the corner ....
O'REILLY: Everybody watching every move you make.
OBAMA: Every move you make. And you - over time, you know, what happens
is you feel like - that you're not able to just have a spontaneous
conversation with folks.
O'REILLY: Yes.
OBAMA: And that's a loss. That's a big loss.
Most presidents say that sending America's soldiers into harm's way is the
worst part of being president, not the loss of their personal comfort zone.
In his book, An American Life, President Reagan recounts telling a group of
children: "As I've said, the hardest part of the job was having to send
young men and women into situations of danger and then having to tell the
families of some why they weren't coming back."
Every president has experienced the discomfort of "being in the bubble."
For Obama, it's all about him.
Obama didn't deny that he's a "big government liberal." But he flatly
denied that he's "a man who wants to redistribute wealth," claiming that he
"lowered taxes over the last two years." O'Reilly let that pass and didn't
remind Obama of the 2001 interview in which he championed redistribution of
wealth and criticized the Supreme Court for failing to do so.
Recall Obama telling "Joe the Plumber" in 2008 that it's good "to spread the
wealth around":
JOE WURZELBACHER, PLUMBER: Your new tax plan is going tax me more, isn't
it?
OBAMA: It's not that I want to punish your success; I just want to make
sure that everybody who is behind you that they've got a chance to success,
too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
Obama said he's "the same guy" he's always been.
Both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Big Government guys are counting on it. |
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