An American President Once Again, or ..... "President of the World!!! " ?

Barack Obama, still out fundraising in Rancho Mirage, California, sounds confused about his job description, but reveals some juicy nuggets when he speaks freely...

President Obama on Tuesday offered an extended critique of the Republicans running to replace him, describing them as “troubling” to people around the world...

Good thing nobody here is running for President of the World.
Fixing America is a big enough job right now.

I can imagine the elites around the world like having the American people's money at their beck and call and would be troubled by a strong, honest American president representing our own country's interests, first and foremost...  

I can understand why they would be it would be "troubling" for some return to the days when American presidents:

•  put America's defense and national security interests first; 
• secured our borders (like we are paying into an Iron Dome to secure those of our allegedly more vulnerable allies -- can we ever spend enough for them to know true security?);
• focused on our water quality and physical infrastructure rebuilding needs; 
• cared about the growing angst in our population of unemployed, undereducated, ill-supervised young men;
• threatened to widely distribute military weaponry to our citizens at home as deterrent defenses to protect themselves from overreaching local authorities;
• spoke about the need to help our poor and oppressed women prevent conception while still single or financially dependent and help change the culture to teach them the true worth of their brains, and not to view themselves as special beautiful creatures empowered through beauty, and booty calls, and irresponsible babymaking that is rewarded here with government checks for baby and immediate access to social benefits programs;
• helped true talent advance in our country via equal opportunities in all those places and workplaces that operate through slots reserved for legacy hires gained by networking, over honest competition (enough with the "it's who you know" valued more than the "it's what you know, and can continually deliver... at great value!")...

...and on and on and on...

Here's more California dreaming talk from our (?)  president (does he identify as ours, and we just share him w/the world?) who seems to think he is Leo DeCaprio playing... President of the World (King would surely seem a bit ostentacious)*:
 He added that his successor would have “the nuclear codes with them and can order 21-year-olds into a firefight and has to make sure that the banking system doesn’t collapse and is often responsible for not just the United States of America but 20 other countries that are having big problems, are falling apart and are going to be looking for us to do something.”

Bull-fucking-shit, pardon my French.  That's religious missionary talk, not smart political posturing.
I'd love to see the list of those 20 countries Mr. Obama thinks the American taxpayers are going to fund to ... "do something!"  -- I know Israel is number one, but now we've got 19 others huddling under our skirsts too???  The dumb ones will rely on us for help, instead of helping themselves best they can, because they overlook our track record of what our elites' understanding of "help" really means to the unlucky non-elite citizens, on the ground...

I hope he stays on permanent fundraising/golfing vacations for the rest of his term because our World President Dummy is apparently now is naming nation-building in Libya as a pie-in-the-sky goal:
He spoke more optimistically about Libya, saying that there was a recognition of the need for a coherent state. The United States, he said, would support efforts to put together a new government there.

Jesus Christ, it's like he has learned nothing on the job!

“The good news in Libya is that they don’t like outsiders coming in and telling them what to do,” he said.

Guess what, Mr. P?
People here on the local levels don't much cotton to outsiders coming in and telling them what to feed and teach their children; how their money for their own families and communities is needed to invest in other countries in our quest to fix the world;  don't like seeing our cultural traditions knocked any more than necessary to balance out the equal protections of the law guaranteed everyone (an admitted concession, if you support long-term democratic partnerships in a functional system that rewards the best people and best behaviors (best being defined here as "responsible and independent:  the two go hand-in-hand)...

We''ve proven we can draw distinctions between private preferences and public discrimination (ie/ you are free to object to having a gay person teach your children in public school, but the remedy is not replacing the gay teacher;  it's giving you the option to withdraw your own child and place him in a private school setting, where such discrimination is allowed, even encouraged, in some cases.   You want an all boys-school, with no girls around to distract them or compete with them?  Wonderful -- go private; don't expect the taxpayers to fund your discriminatory practices or beliefs that hold one gender, or race, or religion as superior over another.  Send them to Hebrew Day School, no problem, but don't expect people on a public bus to accomodate your religious preference not to sit next to an "unclean" woman because your religion teaches you that is wrong...

We have something beautiful here in America, still do, and that is a belief that private freedoms can co-exist alongside a strong national unity, that out of many comes on -- and that doesn't mean diluting everything and everyone down to simple black-and-white and rubbing out all of the beautiful shades of gray, because some people don't choose to share in all of our private cultural traditions or beliefs.

America has spend hundreds of years working out the special balance we have here, and we saw during both the Bush and the Obama years, how quickly we can begin to lose all that when we overspend, overpromise and overcommit abroad at the expense of investing in our country's needs, here at home.

You don't need wealth to be truly free -- sometimes the richest elites are the most trapped in their stations and schedules and find themselves answering not to their own instincts but to what they are paid to put out.

You do need to be financially independent though, and again -- look at our politcal campaign system -- the seemingly richest are often the ones held most in bondage here, I think, whether by the desires of wealthy parents wielding/withholding trusts (the power of the purse is often strong in wealthy families in keeping the younger generations dependent  -- some don't grow up until 26 or ever come out from their parents' shadows (see the Bush Boys, still trying to please Poppy and Babs and find independent career paths).

The best thing America could do right now is to return the balance to our nation AND the world by electing a strong AMERICAN president.  Someone who understands the quality of AMERICAN life is job #1, no matter how loudly 20 needy cultures cry out and

There are private world charities for that, like the Clinton Foundation say or religious missionary work that has been ongoing for centuries.  It's not a job for the American people, the American president, or the American economy though to fix the world.

Imagine if we fixed ourselves first how much better off the world would be!
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* Speaking of Kings, don't Americans understand anymore how Dr. Martin Luther King was able to achieve his dreams more fully through private, religious actions outside the government system by shaking things up so that the government had to recognize its failings and respond to the people amassed devoted to a cause?

He should be a good role model the next time the Bush Boys get an evangelical hunkering to paint people purple and make promises that maybe God can keep, but not the American taxpayers or military, or the Clintons want to help women in 3rd World countries (wonderful!  but, Don't do it for yourself, or as a way of fundraising or fundspending dollars that are not your own.)  We all see how devoted GWB was to his mission and principles -- it's like he forgot all about the people of the region he was allegedly devoted to helping once he got out of office!  Will Hillary Clinton prove to be the same, or does her missionary work abroad really mean something to her, even if she has to pursue it privately, with no calculated rewards for herself in mind?  Time will tell... as it always does.)

Oh, and good luck on the golf game, Mr. President!
Keep it up out there!, for as long as your family will tolerate your being away, playing this winter!

There's really nothing for you to bother trying to fix now in Washington or in the nation, on the local levels... Believe me.  You're better off, and we're better off as a country, we all realize now, when you don't even bother trying too hard...

Don't mess with us anymore, and in return, we'll politely see you out, ok?
(Oh, an whover provided/slipped you that false "World President" job description you've apparently been following these past 7-and-counting-down years?  You really ought to find the balls to fire him;  he did you no favors, if you have not yet come to discover that for yourself...)

ADDED:

Charity Begins at Home.
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.
The World Does Not Owe You a Living.

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 ((Those are private, not public, beliefs, which seems to make all the difference!)