On
Monday, during a fundraiser in California, President Obama declare that
Europe’s debt problems and their inability to solve them was “scaring
the world.” He went on to explain that Europeans “have not fully healed
from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with the challenges
that their banking system faced” and that “they’re trying to take
responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as
they need to be.”
This of course is coming from a President who
has done nothing to deal with our own country’s enormous debt crisis and
who is in fact eager to incur even more debt with another useless
stimulus bill (now called a “jobs bill” though the last stimulus failed
to produce the jobs it promised, which is perhaps why Harry Reid
doesn’t seem too eager to bring this new bill to a vote despite the
President’s demands to “pass this bill”). Yes, Europe has serious debt
problems, but for President Obama to be lecturing our allies about not
being “quite as quick” in dealing with a debt crisis is downright
hypocritical.
When his all-too-common finger-pointing is directed
at Republicans, President Obama’s search for a scapegoat is swallowed as
merely the typical Beltway politics of our permanent political class.
But pointing fingers at our allies when they are working to get their
own financial house in order is counterproductive and can have a serious
negative affect on our ability to lead the free world.
One German newspaper
denounced the President’s comments as “overbearing, arrogant, and
absurd.” Another wrote: “The gloomy state of the economy is putting a
damper on Obama’s future prospects. The optimism of the past is gone,
replaced by a cheap search for a scapegoat.” And still another wrote:
“That’s not how friends talk to each other. That applies particularly to
friends who have themselves failed to get a handle on their own,
self-made crisis.”
Can we blame them for feeling this way? Keep in
mind this was a President who was supposed to make the rest of the
world “like” us again.
It’s about time the President showed some
leadership and took responsibility rather than campaigning on blaming
everyone else for the financial mess his policies have exacerbated.
Between President Obama’s hypocritical lecture poking our allies in the eye again and one Democrat governor’s call
to postpone lawfully mandated elections for two years, I suppose
nothing should surprise concerned Americans anymore. But that doesn’t
mean we have to accept these misguided memes. 2012 can’t come soon
enough.
- Sarah Palin