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| -Election 2012 |
| For Barack Obama, it's 1979 all over again ("It's déjà vu all over again" redux Jimmy Carter). |
| 2012-09-17 |
| Images of Muslim extremists storming an American embassy recall the Iranian revolution and force the US president to focus on foreign policy. WASHINGTON (AP) -- His eye fixed firmly on securing a second term, President Barack Obama had hoped that the rest of the world would wait until after the election if it had to grow restless and demand his attention. It doesn't appear the rest of the world has decided to wait. The eruptions in the streets of the Arab world, inflamed by an anti-Muslim video made in the US, mean Obama can put it off no longer. The protests are testing the president's foreign policy skills and giving voters a pre-election view of how he handles a crisis. Er, er, er I vote Present. The turmoil also offers an opportunity -- a risky one -- for Obama to appear presidential in the midst of the election campaign, to contrast himself with a challenger less experienced in foreign policy and to illustrate that being president is not just about being a steward of the economy. Empty chair symbolism comes to mind. Even with a rebellion in Syria and tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions, no international image can be more searing and demand more public attention than that of a US embassy under attack and American civilians in peril. This week's angry demonstrators, flag burnings and imperiled civilians already were drawing comparisons to 1979, when Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took 60 hostages and held them for 444 days, helping erode President Jimmy Carter's public support. The barbarians are at the gates. For Obama, the timing of the violent demonstrations less than two months before the election creates further complications. Well, there's the golf and my meetings with Pimp with the Limp, Beyonce, and Morsi. His rival, Mitt Romney, jumped on the administration for what he claimed was a feckless response to the breach of the US Embassy in Cairo. A favored and popular US diplomat, the ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, was killed along with three other Americans in an attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. And protesters in the capital of Yemen stormed the US Embassy compound there and burned the US flag. Let me remind you, "I am the President" but I'll have more flexibility to attend to pesky issues after the election. Fast and Furious didn't work. We'll figure out some other way to go after that pesky, annoying 2nd Amdendment. Osama is dead and Govmint Motors is alive. "I know that it's difficult sometimes seeing these disturbing images on television because our world is filled with serious challenges," Obama told supporters Thursday in Golden, Colo. "It is a tumultuous time that we're in. But we can and we will meet those challenges if we stay true to who we are, and if we would remind ourselves that we're different from other nations." "Yes, it is a tumultuous time that we're in." I didn't have anything to do with that. I inherited all my problems from someone else. |
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