PrintSeptember 6, 2013
Barack Obama: Man of the World or Man of Another World?
During the apex of organized opposition to Barack Obama's mad rush to transform the United States, Shelby Steele wrote a helpful, albeit incomplete piece just prior to the 2010 midterms, titled, "A Referendum on the Redeemer."
Steele writes:
[Obama's] policymaking has been grandiose, thoughtless and bullying. His health-care bill was ambitious to the point of destructiveness and, finally, so chaotic that today no citizen knows where they stand in relation to it. His financial-reform bill seems little more than a short-sighted scapegoating of Wall Street. In foreign policy he has failed to articulate a role for America in the world. We don't know why we do what we do in foreign affairs. George W. Bush at least made a valiant stab at an American rationale -- democratization -- but with Mr. Obama there is nothing.
There appears to be no rationale or workable doctrine for Obama's foreign policy.
Why does Obama govern in a way that causes distrust at home? And why does he...(Read Full Article)
