Wow!  Talk about a psychological profile fitting someone to a…

Barack Obama has turned his back on democracy

“As we welcome the Leader of the Free World – as American presidents used to be called – to London to lecture us about the supposed evils of Brexit, we ought to consider Barack Obama’s long and despicably ignoble history of denying support to the democratic aspirations of others.

…Part of the mission and pride and duty of American presidents was to support the right of self-determination for other peoples. Until Barack Obama.

Almost alone amongst US presidents, Obama has turned his back on this fundamental duty, and instead showed peoples who are struggling for sovereignty the superior sneer of the cold, haughty (Islamofascist) academic that he really is. When the Iranian people protested against the theft of their June 2009 election by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and took to the streets at the cost of around 100 dead and 4,000 arrested—the exact figures will never be known due to government censorship—President Obama merely stated that the difference between Ahmadinejad and the opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi ‘may not be as great as has been advertised’ and ordered American diplomats to do nothing to support Iranian pro-democracy campaigners.

Similarly, during the Arab Spring, the Libyan Uprising, the annexation of the Crimea, the Syrian civil war, and the Ukrainian insurgency, Obama has in each case carefully identified the pro-democracy forces and then either denied them American support or actively undermined them…”

Costing thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of lives in the process.  Deaths directly attributable to the hopelessly misguided policies of modern Liberalism over the last hundred years, from malaria in the Third World resulting from the totally unnecessary ban on DDT to support for Communist “liberation” movements around the world, total not in the millions, but the hundreds of millions!

Hey, at least Progressives can sleep at night; but only because ignorance is bliss!

Which brings us to another cautionary note from Jim Geraghty:

…as are we!

In a related item, brought to us today by Guy Benson and Townhall.com, it appears The Donald isn’t up for appearing more…”presidential“:

Report: Irritated Trump Rejects ‘Act More Presidential’ Counsel, Demotes Manafort

“There’s trouble in paradise — if “paradise” is “Donald Trump’s historically-unpalatable and logistically-shambolic presidential campaign.” After quite a bit of media tongue-wagging about how Trump was finally getting serious by bringing on some seasoned professionals and transitioning to a “more presidential” tone, Trump has reportedly rejected the advice of his top new seasoned professional, Paul Manafort, effectively stripping him of power. Politico has details:

Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO…Now Trump is taking steps to return some authority to Manafort’s chief internal rival, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski…campaign insiders say it has become increasingly clear that Trump, for all his boasts about his ability to become more “presidential,” is simply unwilling or perhaps unable to follow through, and resents efforts to transform him…”

Because this is one lying Liberal leopard wholly incapable of changing his spots.

Which brings us to the Environmental Moment, as we commemorate Earth Day 2016 by observing, yet again, the Environazi doomsayers have always been wrong:

It was Earth Day yesterday and once again we were subjected to harangue after harangue about the perilous state of the environment and how unless EPA bureaucrats were granted unlimited power the Earth would become inhabitable in the next 15 minutes.

Perhaps it would be insightful to look at the record of these green doomsayers since they have had 45 years now of apocalyptic pronouncements to judge. Mark J. Perry of the American Economic Institute helpfully collected 18 of the worst calls by notable tree-huggers over the years.

7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

 

If these environmental fear mongers had to put their own money where their mouths are, they’d all be dead broke.

And in the case of the co-founder of Earth Day’s ex-girlfriend, dead ; not “dead wrong”, just dead!

Yes, that’s self-described Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn who murdered and composted his ex-girlfriend in 1977.  He spent 23 years on the lam in Europe, avoiding extradition in large part because of his environmental activism.  After all, have you ever met an Environazi interested in saving the humans?!?

On The Lighter Side…

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy of James Taranto’s Best of the Web:

Nobody’s Perfect

Dennis Hastert, who served as speaker of the House from 1999 through 2007, is to be sentenced tomorrow after pleading guilty “to illegally structuring $900,000 used in payments to an individual he allegedly sexually abused while serving as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in a small Illinois town more than 30 years ago,” Politico reports. “Two other ex-students have made similar claims about Hastert, as has a woman who says her late brother reported sexual contact by Hastert.”

Hastert’s defense submitted a series of character references to the court, many from powerful, or at least formerly powerful, people. Here’s a quote from Tom DeLay, who served as majority whip and majority leader during Hastert’s speakership:

“We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few. He is a good man that loves the lord [sic in Politico story]. He gets his integrity and values from Him. He doesn’t deserve what he is going through. I ask that you consider the man that is before you and give him leniency where you can,” [DeLay’s letter] concludes.

You might even say Hastert has only one flaw. But is it ever a humdinger.

You might even go further and say, not only was the utterly uncontrolled spending of Lying Tom DeLay’s budgets largely responsible for The Obamao’s ascension to the White House…

…but his brand of self-serving, pork-barrel Republican politics is one of the primary reasons The Donald’s where he is today.  Absent the intervening grace of Christ, Denny Hastert will burn in Hell; and given the substance of his aforementioned character reference, it’s likely Tom DeLay will be right beside him.

Magoo