David Podvin
With Friends Like Obama, Who Needs Enemies?
August 4, 2009
 

Last week, Fatah announced that it will never recognize Israel's right to exist, and that it will continue its armed struggle until the Zionist Entity has been destroyed. Two days later, the president of the United States sent $200 million to Fatah. This highly predictable sequence should represent a clarifying moment even for the green leafy vegetables who comprise J Street. Assertions of eternal friendship notwithstanding, Barack Obama is a friend to Israel in the same way that O.J. Simpson was a friend to Ron Goldman.

Some insist that Obama is practicing "tough love” towards his Israeli pals, but invariably these are the same deceivers whose affection for Israel consists solely of vilifying the Jewish State. Pretending to love people while facilitating their demise is not only evil...it is gutless. Evil and gutless is not a good combination.

It is, however, the Obama foreign policy. When the president is not assailing the Middle East's only democracy, he is abandoning freedom protesters in Iran and demonizing democratic forces in Honduras. It is almost as though his fascistic policies are being formulated by William Ayers, which cannot be the case because that would mean the media lied when it declared Obama's close association with the Weather Underground terrorist to be irrelevant.

Since taking office, Obama has gone out of his way to alienate the British and the Germans, while obsequiously ingratiating himself to the Cubans and the Syrians. It is the change in international affairs that liberals have been waiting for; finally, a president has the courage to identify America's allies as being the bad guys.

Even while Obama assiduously alienates our friends abroad, he finds time to wreak havoc upon his supporters at home. Confronted with a weak economy staggered by excessive debt, Obama has added approximately twenty trillion dollars to that indebtedness. In the process, he has consigned his working class Democratic base to the lower standard of living that accompanies servicing such massive deficit spending.

Obama's cap and trade legislation will do nothing to eliminate nonexistent global warming, but it will significantly raise the cost of energy consumption to average voters - most of whom supported the Democratic presidential nominee. It is unclear why Obama is being so punitive towards the people who elected him...maybe the patriot hidden deep within his psyche resents them for choosing such a lousy president.

The African American community provided Obama with ninety-seven percent of its support. In return, he is implementing policies that will devastate his most loyal followers. Obama has already repealed much of the Clinton-era welfare reform that encouraged personal responsibility and engendered increased prosperity. The black community's reward for supporting Obama is a regression to the devastating pathology of dependence upon governmental largesse.

Being Obama's friend has not been the kiss of death for everyone. He has attended carefully to the needs of his major campaign contributors, so ACORN and Goldman Sachs are prospering, as are General Electric and Hamas. But aside from providing kickbacks to his political benefactors, Obama has consistently betrayed those with whom he pledged solidarity.

That betrayal begins with the American people. Voters were promised an administration that would govern honorably. Instead, they are enduring a regime unable to distinguish right from wrong. Overseas, Barack Obama consistently chooses to support whichever side is most hateful towards the United States. Domestically, his policies are hurting the very people who placed their trust in him.

It is an appalling record of treachery.