I guess when you've got an ego the size of Barry "Almighty's" you just automatically assume yourself to be an expert at everything. Of course in Barry's case the definition of an expert is, 'a drip under pressure.' Anyway I'm sure we remember how it was a little more than four years ago, when it was suggested by Hitlery Clinton that her then-Democrat primary opponent Barry “Almighty” was so naïve on the world stage that he'd need a "foreign policy instruction manual" should he win office. And as much as I hate to ever agree with Hitlery, in this particular instance I feel that I must. Sadly, he did win. Now fast forward to the 2012 Democratic National Convention and listen to Barry, as he accepts his party's nomination for a second term by, of all things, touting his experience as a 'steady leader' in the face of overseas crises as he mocks his Republican challenger as "new to foreign policy Is that not the most ridiculous crap you've ever heard? And just how has he demonstrated that new found ability? Why, by apologizing to everyone in ear shot and bowing to everyone else.
Barry's latest tactic, apears to be an attempt to incorporate into his campaign message the sense that he has somehow managed to morph into what he calls a 'tested leader', and that Mitt Romney must be viewed as nothing more than a mere rookie. That may prove a bit risky. Because for some it may recall the very criticism against Barry, just like the above line from Hitlery, when he first ran. "Obama had probably less foreign policy experience (when he first ran for president) than Romney has," said Steffen Schmidt, political science professor at Iowa State University. Schmidt also noted that Romney is hardly alone among non-incumbent candidates in not having a tremendous foreign policy background. "The truth of the matter is, presidents learn on the job," he said. And when you put the fact that Barry is an extremely slow learner together with the very obvious disdain that he holds for this country, the result is a disastrous foreign policy that has us now turning on our allies and cozying up to those who only mean to do us harm. And Hitlery has been no master of foreign policy either.
Barry, in an official sense, I suppose may have had a bit more foreign policy experience when he first ran than Romney does today, but certainly not much more. Barry, in the very brief time he was in the Senate, was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And he traveled in 2005 with Republican Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar to Russia and Eastern Europe to visit nuclear and biological weapons facilities. The following year, Barry traveled to the Middle East. Barry made another foreign trip to several African countries in late 2006 as well. But in looking back, Barry worked to downplay the value of that experience during his 2008 primary run. "Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world," he said in April 2008. Adding, "This I know. When Sen. Clinton brags, 'I've met leaders from 80 countries,' I know what those trips are like. I've been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There's a group of children who do a native dance. You meet with the C.I.A. station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. ... And then, you go."
"The times have changed, and so have I. I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the president," Barry has been heard to declare. Schmidt said that Barry may be trying to inject more foreign policy into the mix, not just to deflect from other issues but to defend his administration against a GOP talking point that he is "leading from behind" on the world stage. The Romney campaign released a memo that highlighted Barry's many "manifold failures on foreign policy and national security." While Barry touts the successful takedown of Usama bin Laden and the official end of the Iraq war under his watch, Republicans claim he has done little to slow what they see as Iran's march toward a nuclear weapon. Sen. John McCain noted in a recent interview, "It's the job of presidents and candidates to lead and articulate their vision for America's role in the world. The world is a more dangerous place than it's been since the end of the Cold War, and so I think the president should lead and I think candidates for the presidency should lead and talk about it, and I'm disappointed that there hasn't been more."
When looking back at what an unmitigated disaster that last four years have been under Barry's watch, it's difficult to determine what has been worse for this country, his domestic policy or his foreign policy. In both areas Barry has succeeding in accomplishing just what he had hoped to, the making of this country weaker. Much, much weaker. And far from being a "tested leader", he has repeatedly shown himself to possess no leadership skills whatsoever. He has no clue what it is that even makes or defines someone as a leader. Walking around saying that you "won the election" really isn't behavior that one normally associates with someone who is supposed to be a leader. What Barry is, is a joke. And as such he has turned our country into the laughing stock of the world. He fails to recognize that not everyone has the same high opinion of him that he himself possess. No one respects him, so therefore no one repects our country. Most are able to see through him, and are therefore able to recognize him as the fraud that he his. They are also able see, and quite easily, that he does not stand for America, he only stands for himself.
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