David Cameron must fill the leadership vacuum left by Barack Obama

Once again the UK papers understand what is happening with this Administration which means most of our media is MIA once again as they continue to carry Obama's water. This is so wrong that we have a President that would rather apologize for the US, diss our long time allies, and play up to our enemies. The UK Telegraph paper is right, we do have a leadership vacuum now with the Obama as President.

Who is behind Obama because it is getting more obvious by the day that someone other then Obama is calling the shots as he hasn't a clue how to govern? He couldn't even give a 5-minute talk at the IOC without his teleprompter. Why all the radicals in his Administration as CZARS? Did someone or some group buy themselves a President? Could it be George Soros who is famous for sinking economies of countries?

Obama becomes more of an embarrassment with his narsistic ways and always wanting to be on TV to say little of nothing. Who could have confidence in someone who always uses a teleprompter and without it has trouble answering questions without beating around the bush?

Is that what people wanted when they voted for Hope and Change? By the sinking poll numbers especially of independents and conservative Democrats that originally supported him, we would say that are shocked at what they are witnessing not only of the Obama Administration but out of the liberal Democrat Congress.

David Cameron must fill the leadership vacuum left by Barack Obama
David Cameron must reject the folly of the Obama doctrine and follow the example of Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, writes Nile Gardiner.

Published: 5:14PM BST 07 Oct 2009

With every major poll pointing to a Conservative victory at the next election, it is highly likely that David Cameron, and not Gordon Brown, will represent British interests on the world stage in eight months’ time. However, as Cameron prepares for power he would do well to look across the Atlantic for a lesson in how not to lead in international affairs.

The Tory leader, like the mayor of London, is unashamedly an admirer of Barack Obama, whom he has described as “incredibly impressive”. It is natural that the relatively youthful and charismatic Cameron seeks to emulate Obama’s electoral success and winning message of “change”. But he must not let his personal enthusiasm for the US president blind him to his considerable failures as a world leader since taking office in January.

Barack Obama’s central failing in foreign policy has been his striking hesitation to project American global power and leadership, which in the eyes of America’s enemies and competitors translates as weakness and vulnerability. He has sacrificed US strength and influence on the altar of international popularity, as though the world were an extension of the stage of American Idol, and not a hugely dangerous place where the United States remains hated and reviled by those who seek its demise.

President Obama has gone out of his way to apologise for his country’s past at almost every opportunity on foreign soil, from Cairo to Prague to Strasbourg. The result has been the humiliation of the United States, and the growing perception of the president as an extremely naïve commander in chief who appears to be sacrificing the national interest to appease international opinion. Obama’s spectacularly awful address last month to the United Nations was rightly met with widespread derision in the US, and was embarrassingly followed by Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi’s admiring call for Obama “to stay forever as the president.”

Barack Obama has also shown a marked willingness to undermine US national sovereignty, with clear signs that he supports an array of supranational UN treaties and conventions, ranging from Law of the Sea to the Treaty of Rome, the statute that established the International Criminal Court. His administration cares little for British sovereignty either, enthusiastically backing further political, military and economic integration in Europe.

In every area, the Obama strategy is undermining American power. The White House’s hugely controversial strategy of engagement with rogue regimes has backfired spectacularly, with Iran and North Korea responding with even greater threats and aggression. Even the French now think Obama is weak in the face of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the menacing Mullahs of Tehran.

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