Sowell: Since when has Obama shown any concern about our national interests?

Regular season baseball just kicked off this week, and Thomas Sowell has hit the best homerun of all of them by far (via Instapundit):

President Obama’s speech on Monday night was long on rhetoric and short on logic. He said, “I believe that this movement of change cannot be turned back, and that we must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us.”

Just what would lead him to conclude that this includes the largely unknown forces who are trying to seize power in Libya?

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The most charitable explanation for President Obama’s incoherent policy in Libya — if incoherence can be called a policy — is that he suffers from the longstanding blind spot of the Left when it comes to the use of force.

A less charitable and more likely explanation is that Obama is treating the war in Libya as he treats all sorts of other things, as actions designed above all to serve his own political interests and ideological visions. Whether it does even that depends on what the situation is like in Libya when the 2012 elections roll around.

As for the national interest of the United States of America, Barack Obama has never shown any great concern about that.

President Obama started alienating our staunchest allies, Britain and Israel, from his earliest days in office, while cozying up to adversaries such as Russia and China, not to mention the Palestinians, who cheered when they saw the televised collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Many people on various parts of the political spectrum are expressing a sense of disappointment with Obama. But I have not felt the least bit disappointed.

Once in office, President Obama has done exactly what his whole history would lead you to expect him to do — such as cutting the military budget and vastly expanding the welfare state.

He has bypassed the Constitution by appointing power-wielding “czars” who don’t have to be confirmed by the Senate as cabinet members must be, and now he has bypassed Congress by taking military actions based on authorization by the United Nations and the Arab League.

Those who expected his election to mark a new “post-racial” era may be the most disappointed. He has appointed people with a track record of promoting race resentment and bias, like Attorney General Eric Holder and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Disappointing? No. Disgusting? Yes. The only disappointment is with voters who voted their hopes and ignored his realities.

In other words, what Sowell is saying is: Toldjah so.

Isn’t it wonderful to have him on our side?

CHOW says:

April 2, 2011 at 10:33 am

Yep. Sowell is a national treasure. Wonder who will be the voice of reason in economic circles when he is no longer with us.

bill glass says:

April 2, 2011 at 10:34 am

Thomas Sowell needs to be right upfront and more visible…his well- considered opinions are, more often than not, right and on the money…maybe he’d be good on a Sunday panel or something (like Krauthammer on Bret Baier). Anyway, he’s a treasure, and if you doubt his intellect and ability, just read one or more of his books.

Carlos says:

April 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm

I’ve been a fan of Sowell for years, and would vote for him in a heartbeat for any elected position he would run for.

Unfortunately, he is not a politician, and wouldn’t put himself in the position of being indebted to any donors.

In other words, he would have been the purest of what the Founders envisioned as a “citizen legislator.”

And that, friends, is our loss.

Brontefan says:

April 3, 2011 at 3:42 pm

Sowell is fantastic; I have several of his books! Obama has shown contempt for this country from the very first. He and his wife sat in Rev. Wright’s church and listened to bash America rhetoric for 20+ years and until Obama got the Democratic nomination, Michelle was never before proud of her country! The first official act Obama did as president was give an interview to Al Jazeera network, then he traveled around the world apologizing for the USA. Let’s not forget about his refusal to wear the US flag pin…

Now, all of a sudden, he sees America as exceptional? I doubt it. Clarence Thomas wrote that once you define yourself by your race, you will always define yourself by your race. I believe it’s true! Obama used the race card to get elected and now must continue to identify himself by his race. However, I never saw him as black; to me, he was always red. I did the research and knew his Marxist background. I knew he wanted to lower our standard of living so that the third world countries could catch up. He sees himself as a great LEVELER? And like all those who embrace the Marxist ideology, he wants socialism for the masses–but not for him and his cronies. He is not planning to redistribute the wealth from the rich to the poor. He plans to destroy the middle class and any possibility of mobility. The masses live under socialism; the elitists create the rules/laws and live above the fray.

April 3, 2011 at 3:52 pm

@Brontefan: Excellent, except that the transfer of wealth marxists like Obama want is not from rich to poor, but from some of the rich to themselves. Even they are smart enough to know they cannot create their own wealth, so they have to leave some of the wealth-creators (basically, the ones who cower at the feet of the marxists) so they can continue to be “more equal than others.”

Sowell recognizes this, and has written extensively about it.

captaingrumpy says:

April 3, 2011 at 7:10 pm

What makes everybody think that the 2012 vote will make a difference.
The unions have the vote rigged already with a win for Obama,but not too big as to make people wary.