UPDATE: From our friends at Powerline, some good analysis of this article and the subject.

This guy gets it. Too bad Obama doesn’t. (Barf alert! Speech at UN upcoming … if you’ll pardon the expression)

The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak – Telegraph

It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, writes Nile Gardiner.

Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people.
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Obama, UN, weakness

If I hear another thing about “too much defense spending” I’m going to hurl.

Dear friends, please check out the actual numbers:

American Thinker Blog: Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009

Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009
Randall Hoven
“The United States will be paying the price of Iraq for decades to come. The price tag will be all the greater because we tried to ignore the laws of economics — and the cost will grow the longer we remain.”

Linda J. Bilmes (former CFO at the Commerce Department, teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (professor at Columbia University, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics), writing in the Washington Post.

National Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP

Year on year Defense Spending as part of GDP

Hoven’s Index for September 22, 2009

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 1990: 23.9%.

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 2007: 20.2%.

Source: Calculated from data in Table 455 of the US Statistical Abstract

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Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama — black, young, eloquent, and hip — soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush, and his unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Presidential Candidate Obama sensed their ecstasy, and so he made two great promises: 1. Whatever Bush was, he would not be, and 2. despite the right-wing slander about his former intimacy with Bill Ayers, the Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, and all his other old Chicago radical friends, Obama would be a centrist, a cooler version of Bill Clinton. There were to be no more red/blue state divides. The most partisan politician in the Senate promised a new era of bipartisanship. He who had profited from identity politics would suddenly be beyond race.

via Once Upon a Time . . . by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.