Last night CNN’s Don Lemon was grilling Republican
presidential candidate Ben Carson about his relative inexperience with
international relations, and he spoke with Mr. Carson as though such things can’t
be learned by a responsible and sincere person, and as though Mr. Carson will
not have experts on his staff to advise him if he is elected president. But Mr. Lemon glossed over the necessity of a
president to be flexible and willing to listen and learn and desirous of making
wise decisions that will better serve the American people, all of which things
are dangerously lacking in Barack Obama.
Mr. Lemon forgets that as a presidential candidate,
Barack Obama, as well as having no experience and no desire to learn about
international relations, refused to even discuss the subject in any real way,
and actually held the subject in disdain and regarded domestic politics as the
only subject worth considering. After
all, how could Obama develop and accomplish his “fundamental transformation of
America” while worrying about dealing with Russia, for example, which Mitt
Romney warned Obama would have a large impact on the next presidential administration.
And after seven years in office we see Obama floundering and a total failure in
anything foreign (except publicly bad-mouthing and blaming America for the
world’s woes while speaking abroad) and that he remains completely personally
unable and unwilling to listen to expert advice as to how to deal with Islamic
terrorism or Russian expansion. But Mr. Lemon doesn’t want to criticize the man
who has placed America in such dangerous circumstances; he only wants to
criticize Republicans, and especially black Republicans.
Also ignored by liberals is the fact that Hillary
Clinton was Secretary of State during most of Obama’s presidency and that she has
contributed mightily to the disastrous failures with international relations
seen during the Obama years, but the likes of Don Lemon are not grilling
Hillary nor asking about her personal failures as Sec State and how she is
preparing to do a better job as president.
Only Ben Carson can be criticized for a relative lack of experience,
although he’s demonstrated a great willingness to learn and has put himself at
some risk to do so.
Liberals also turn a blind eye to the favors Hillary,
as Secretary of State, gave select foreign leaders if they would donate money
to the Clinton Initiative “charity”, which serves as a charity mainly for the Clintons,
with some money actually leaking to the needy on occasion. During Hillary’s
time as Secretary of State this charity served largely to enrich the Clintons while
doling out American governmental favors to some bad international actors at the
expense of the American tax payer.
But the liberal press is what the liberal press is,
although lately there are indications that they are less enchanted with Obama
than in previous years. Some of the glitter of our Barry is wearing thin.
