Ten More Reasons Why Obama Should be Fired!

OK, here we go with my second installment of brief summaries from Hugh Hewitt's The Brief Against Obama" (see link at end of this post). These ten reasons emphasize issues related to Obama's foreign policy-related decisions and actions. 

PART II: FOREIGN POLICY

1.    Iranian Appeasement (from chapter 11, “Standing by as Iranians Die”): This chapter focuses on Obama’s tepid response to the bogus Iranian presidential election and subsequent crushing of the uprising by the mullahs and Revolutionary Guard. Hewitt: “The opportunity came, and the opportunity passed, to stand with the people of Iran and force change upon the regime.”

2.    Hostility Toward Israel (from chapter 12, “Abandoning Israel to its Fate”): This chapter begins with Obama insulting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to the White House on May 25, 2010, then documents other instances where Obama has demonstrated hostility toward Israel, such as declaring on May 22, 2011 that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines (called “the suicide lines” because they are not defensible); Obama’s friendship with Rashid Khalidi (“a vociferous critic of Israel”); demanding “unilateral sacrifice” from Israel concerning the West Bank settlements; and insisting there’s a “moral equivalence” when comparing Israel with terrorist organizations like Hamas (which refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist). Elaine’s Note: we could include Obama’s tepid treatment of Iran, which has threatened to annihilate Israel. 

Ten Reasons Why Obama Should be Fired!

It occurs to me that a presidential election is like a job interview (for the challenger) and a performance review (for the incumbent). Barack Obama is the people's employee. We are his employer. The time has come to determine whether he should be retained as our employee.  The analogy makes perfect sense to me. Obama is not entitled to keep this job. We (voters) need to evaluate him on job performance alone--not fancy rhetoric, not the color of his skin, not the "cool" factor. Just the facts. 

How is the average voter supposed to be able to evaluate Barack Obama's job performance when all we have for reference is a fawning dominant media that camouflages Obama's flaws and magnifies his opponent's? 

Enter Hugh Hewitt. 

Mr. Hewitt has written a devastating critique of Barack Obama’s first and hopefully last term in office called The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency. The introduction itself is worth the cost of the book, but each chapter that I’ve read so far contains enough factual, documented information as to easily convict Obama of gross incompetence. It’s impossible to deny Hewitt’s claim that Obama is the ultimate “Peter Principle President.”

I'm about a third of the way into the book, and it occurs to me that some people may not be inclined to read this book, so I’ve decided I’m going to try and write abbreviated summaries of each chapter for those who won’t be purchasing the book, and post them here. Maybe someone reading this blog who might otherwise have thought Barack Obama deserves another term will change his or her mind. 

So here are 10 reasons why I think Obama doesn't deserve a second term in office, based on summaries of Hugh Hewitt's The Brief Against Obama first ten chapters, along with a few personal comments. Anyone who disputes these statements might want to read the book and check the sources Hewitt provides. As I said, these chapters are extensively documented. Also, for the record, lest I be accused of plagiarism, in summarizing these sections, I've decided not to put quotations marks around Hewitt’s wording.