Ben Shapiro: Barack Obama: The Black Jimmy Carter
[Ben Shapiro, 24, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School. He is the author of the recently published "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future," as well as the national bestseller "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth."]
On Sept. 16, ex-president Jimmy Carter excoriated opponents of President Barack Obama as racists. “I think people who [attack] Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American,” Carter blathered.
Obama’s spokespeople quickly backed away from Carter’s statements; Obama went so far as to remind David Letterman that he was black before the presidential election, and that the American public had elected him anyway.
The fact is this: the American public is not racist. In fact, we’re downright evenhanded—we elect incompetents of all color to high office. We don’t just elect Jimmy Carter president—we elect the black Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama.
Obama resembles Carter in virtually every way. Carter handed over the Panama Canal, built by the United States, to leftist dictator Omar Torrijos; Obama is currently in the process of handing over Honduras to leftist would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya, and he has already kowtowed to Venezuelan leftist dictator Hugo Chavez, Nicaraguan communist dictator Daniel Ortega and Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Carter hated Israel, and along with his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, sought to undermine it; Obama, along with covert foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, hates Israel and seeks to undermine it. Brzezinski came out this week in favor of American forces shooting down Israeli jets headed to Iran to bomb their nuclear reactors. Obama used the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana as an opportunity to push Israel into concessions to Arab terrorists (his Ramadan message, by contrast, praised the contributions of Islam and pledged America’s “unyielding” support for a Palestinian state).
Carter surrendered Afghanistan to the Soviets; Obama is on the verge of surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Carter pushed for nuclear disarmament. Under his administration, officials at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the U.S. State Department and the White House met with leaders of the disarmament movement. He offered a personal endorsement for SANE, the nation’s leading disarmament organization. Carter even cited a discussion with his 9-year-old daughter, Amy, about nuclear weaponry...
... But in the largest sense, Obama and Carter bear striking and disturbing resemblances. We can only hope they bear one last resemblance: a one-term presidency.
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On Sept. 16, ex-president Jimmy Carter excoriated opponents of President Barack Obama as racists. “I think people who [attack] Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American,” Carter blathered.
Obama’s spokespeople quickly backed away from Carter’s statements; Obama went so far as to remind David Letterman that he was black before the presidential election, and that the American public had elected him anyway.
The fact is this: the American public is not racist. In fact, we’re downright evenhanded—we elect incompetents of all color to high office. We don’t just elect Jimmy Carter president—we elect the black Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama.
Obama resembles Carter in virtually every way. Carter handed over the Panama Canal, built by the United States, to leftist dictator Omar Torrijos; Obama is currently in the process of handing over Honduras to leftist would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya, and he has already kowtowed to Venezuelan leftist dictator Hugo Chavez, Nicaraguan communist dictator Daniel Ortega and Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Carter hated Israel, and along with his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, sought to undermine it; Obama, along with covert foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, hates Israel and seeks to undermine it. Brzezinski came out this week in favor of American forces shooting down Israeli jets headed to Iran to bomb their nuclear reactors. Obama used the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana as an opportunity to push Israel into concessions to Arab terrorists (his Ramadan message, by contrast, praised the contributions of Islam and pledged America’s “unyielding” support for a Palestinian state).
Carter surrendered Afghanistan to the Soviets; Obama is on the verge of surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Carter pushed for nuclear disarmament. Under his administration, officials at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the U.S. State Department and the White House met with leaders of the disarmament movement. He offered a personal endorsement for SANE, the nation’s leading disarmament organization. Carter even cited a discussion with his 9-year-old daughter, Amy, about nuclear weaponry...
... But in the largest sense, Obama and Carter bear striking and disturbing resemblances. We can only hope they bear one last resemblance: a one-term presidency.