THE DEMIGOD SPEAKS – AT 7:49 A.M. ET:  President Obama, who imagines he's had one success after another, assures us that all will be fine, that he has the Earth, and the Heavens as well, under control.  From The New York Times: 

NEWPORT, R.I. — If the world seems troubled by all manner of calamities these days, President Obama does not want Americans to worry too much. After all, he said Friday, “The world has always been messy”; it is just more apparent because of social media. And, he added, today’s geopolitical threats are far less perilous than those of the Cold War.

No, they might actually be more perilous.  The Soviet Union, with all its horrors, was a relatively stable nation-state that had no interest in sacrificing its people in another huge war.  We face today far more reckless forces and ideologies, which have already inflicted the 9-11 attacks on us, attacks in which we lost more people than at Pearl Harbor.

Governing at a time of war, terrorism and disease, and frustrated on multiple fronts at once, Mr. Obama finds himself trying to buck up supporters heading into a crucial midterm election season. The succession of international crises has taken a toll on the public mood, not to mention his own poll ratings, and he seems intent on reassuring Americans that the challenges are manageable.

As he spent Friday sweeping through New York and Rhode Island to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for vulnerable Democrats, Mr. Obama addressed that public apprehension directly, acknowledging that many Americans “are feeling anxious” about their country and its place in the world. The showdown with Russia over Ukraine, the emergence of a radical new Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and the rise of China have stirred unease about the future of the United States, he said.

Does that remind you of something?  Remember Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech, in which he condescendingly suggested that Americans were suffering from a great "malaise"?  Obama is Son of Carter.

“If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart,” he said at a Democratic fund-raiser in Purchase, N.Y., just north of New York City. Expanding on a theme he has touched on at recent fund-raisers, Mr. Obama agreed that “we are living through some extraordinarily challenging times” and “I can see why a lot of folks are troubled.”

Yeah, folks are troubled, fella.  Just folks.

But Mr. Obama said Americans should remain calm and confident. “We will get through these challenging times just like we have in the past,” he said. “This is not something that is comparable to the challenges we faced during the Cold War.”

COMMENT:  We "got through" the Cold War with character and courage, and, for the most part, with presidents who understood the stakes.  We now have a president who probably believes it was all our fault. 

And we got through by maintaining a strong national defense.  Even Carter finally understood, late in his term, that he had let defense slip too much.  Obama keeps on cutting.  He fails to understanding the significance of Reagan's defense build-up, or Kennedy's pledge to pay "any price" in the defense of freedom. 

No one is suggesting that we go to war everywhere.  But, when you flash weakness, that eventually is what will happen.

August 31, 2014