And this is just the tip of the iceberg

Wesley Pruden, editor emeritus of the Washington Times, takes a sobering look at Dear Leader.

Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing'

The White House is a risky place for on-the-job training, as Barack Obama and the rest of us are learning. But the president doesn't deserve all the blame for the installation of a handsome but unprepared matinee idol in the toughest job in the world. The adoring cult, the 53 percent of the giddily oblivious electorate that took a flyer on Election Day, deserves most of it.

Matinee idols only do what matinee idols do, look pretty and inveigle softly with practiced seductiveness. Trouble arrives when the matinee idol and his public confuse role with reality. Reality arrives with the surprise and impact of a lemon-cream pie in the face.

Nasty surprises abound across the real world. Iran completes a third round of testing of Shahab-3 and Sajjil medium-range missiles capable of hitting not only Israel, Eastern Europe and several Middle Eastern countries but, if all that were not sobering enough, several U.S military bases as well. Venezuela boasts that it's working with Russia and Iran in finding sources of uranium, the key ingredient of nuclear weapons technology. China says it will display new "upgraded missiles" in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Red China. India announces that it can now make nuclear weapons up to a strength of 200 kilotons, four times over the line that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty pledges signing nations not to cross.

This is the fine mess Barack Obama told us would never happen if Americans would elect him to soothe the fears of the frightened and bank the ambitions of evildoers of the world. Suddenly, the president has to deal with headaches, a thousand town halls, with hundreds of thousands of angry bigots, racists and Nazis of hysterical liberal imagination jeering his scheme to take over the health care of the nation, never prepared him for. He's got headaches no speechwriter can cure.

There's a good deal more at the link, and, while it's well worth the read, it doesn't come close to enumerating all the troubles about to befall the White House.

The upside-down foreign policy practiced by the Kumbaya King is about to come crashing down on all our heads. In every instance, this administration has taken the wrong side. The tasteless gifts and obvious snubs to Britain, the bow to the Saudi king, the letter to the wrong president of France were just the beginning. Obama and his idiots have placed us squarely on the wrong side of every conflict - Iran, Honduras, Israel/Palestine - as he seeks to lift and legitimize every despot and dictator at the expense of our allies. If he has the opportunity to do real harm, as in Poland and the Czech Republic, he embraces it. If not, insults, even Arabic insults (showing the soles of his shoes during a conversation with Netanyahu), suffice for the time being. Obama and his party have glorified and strengthened the Castros, Chavez, Putin, Ahmadi-Nejad and Zelaya while denouncing, humiliating or dismissing almost every ally we have.

What's more, President Hopenchange is stalling on Afghanistan for purely political reasons. So intent is he on his socialist takeover of our healthcare industry, he will not spend what little remaining political capital he has with his own party on doing the right thing for the men and women who are risking their lives in what he used to claim was the important war. Not only is he not properly managing American involvement, he is working hard to offend most of the allies who have, for eight years now, endured the slings and arrows of their own constituents to stand by us in the battle. Why would Poland continue to risk lives in Afghanistan? Soon enough they can expect to need their forces at home, though they have little hope of resisting the onslaught that will surely come from Russia.

It does not take a foreign policy expert to know that alliances between Russia, Iran and Venezuela are not in the best interest of these United States. With a little help from China, and the continuing economic foolishness of Washington, they will destroy us without firing a shot. They have the power to destroy our currency and, with it, what remains of our tattered economy.

Millions of ordinary American citizens are standing up against this onslaught of ignorance that is clearly annihilating our nation - and being called fringe groups and domestic terrorists for sounding the alarm. In the span of slightly more than eight months, a handful of fools are systematically dismantling what millions have spent two centuries building and we're supposed to sit quietly by, holding our tongues as all we hold dear is shredded. No responsible citizen, however pacifist, can be expected to deny their own self-interest and their children's futures for even a good cause, much less the suidical course we find ourselves following. Is it any wonder they're afraid of the threat from within?