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by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ PJMedia<\/a><\/p>\n

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Everything that Barack Obama touches seems to turn to dross. Think of it for a minute.\u00a0He inherited a quiet Iraq<\/a>\u00a0[1]<\/sup>\u00a0(no American combat deaths at all\u00a0in December 2009<\/a>\u00a0[2]<\/sup>). Joe Biden bragged of the calm that it would be the administration\u2019s\u201cgreatest achievement.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0[3]<\/sup>\u00a0But by pulling out all U.S. peacekeepers \u2014 mostly for\u00a0a 2012 reelection talking point<\/a>\u00a0[4]<\/sup>\u00a0\u2014 Obama ensured\u00a0an ISIS wasteland<\/a>\u00a0[5]<\/sup>. He put his promised eye on Afghanistan at last, and we have lost more soldiers there than during the Bush administration and a Taliban victory seems likely after more than a decade of lost American blood and treasure.\u00a0The message seems to be that it is better for Obama to have his eye off something than on it.<\/p>\n

Remember those threats to Syria? After the U.S. threatened and backed off, the violence only escalated and spilled into Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Libya was no paradise under Gadhafi, but it is now\u00a0Mogadishu on the Mediterranean<\/a>\u00a0[6]<\/sup>. Not even the president\u2019s supporters believe that he told the truth about Benghazi. Reset with Russia green-lighted Putin, as he sized up Barack Obama as a lamb waiting to be eaten. The Bowe Bergdahl-for-five-terrorists swap (likely illegal) is not headline news only because\u00a0dozens of scandals since<\/a>\u00a0[7]<\/sup>\u00a0have eclipsed it, and the likely deserter is apparently still kept incommunicado, lest he speak in the fashion of his father at the earlier White House press conference. I don\u2019t think Bergdahl is a model for future negotiations with the Taliban.<\/p>\n

Israel? We never have been more estranged from the Jewish state. Open mic outbursts against Netanyahu define our true policies. The terrorist state run by Hamas is now a partner for peace \u2013\u00a0tunnels, missiles, syringes, handcuffs<\/a>\u00a0[8]<\/sup>\u00a0and all. Did outreach to Hamas lessen or spike violence?<\/p>\n

Did the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the Islamist Recep Erdogan lead to regional calm, and does it still exist?<\/p>\n

The war on terror? Obama has derided most anti-terrorism protocols, even as he kept some Bush-Cheney policies \u2014 to the incoherent point that no one has any idea what the U.S. is doing. Jihad a personal odyssey? Muslim Brotherhood largely secular? Major Hasan\u2019s murdering mere workplace violence? Outreach to Islam NASA\u2019s primary mission? Remember overseas contingency operations and man-caused disasters?\u00a0In the Obama war on terror, waterboarding three architects of 9\/11 is\u00a0our \u201cfolks\u201d torturing their \u201cfolks\u201d<\/a>\u00a0[9]<\/sup>; but judge\/jury\/executioner drone strikes that blow up 2,000-plus suspected (not confessed) terrorists \u2014 and anyone in the general vicinity when the missile hits \u2014 are far more moral. Out of sight, out of mind.<\/p>\n

When CIA Director John Brennan speaks, we all\u00a0assume he is not telling the truth<\/a>\u00a0[10]<\/sup>, as in the past. Whatever the DC dictate is at the present, Brennan makes the necessary immoral adjustments.<\/p>\n

Past cabinet heads? No one knows exactly the circumstances under which Lisa Jackson, Hilda Solis \u2014 and even David Petraeus \u2014 left their offices.<\/p>\n

Iran and the bomb? Look to red lines in Syria for an example of how our Iranian threats will work out. One cannot distinguish parody from Obama\u2019s Iranian policy. We worried more about sanctions hurting Iranians than forcing them to comply with non-proliferation promises.<\/p>\n

The world sort of likes the new reduced profile of the U.S. This is especially true of Russia, China, and Iran, as they fill the regional voids. The weaker we become, the more likely Obama is popular overseas, and the more likely the Left applauds his new global likability.<\/p>\n

In the Obama view, millions do not like Israel, Britain, or any pro-American Western democracy, and so applaud his new corrections.<\/p>\n

At home? Obama has wrecked our healthcare system. Every promise about the Affordable Care Act proved an outright lie. No one can define Obamacare or explain how it is supposed to work. In fact, no one really even tries any more.<\/p>\n

The budget? Obama\u2019s legacy is $8 trillion more in debt, chronic 6% to 7%-plus unemployment as the new norm, and the idea that trillion is the new billion, as a $600 billion annual deficit is proof of fiscal responsibility and sermons on \u201cgrowing inequality\u201d reflect Obama\u2019s record of creating record inequality. Zero percent interest rates ensure Wall Street zillionaires, the impoverishment of the once thrifty middle class \u2014 and the idea that saving money is stupid, owing it and not paying it back smart.<\/p>\n

Students and college? One trillion dollars in collective debt buys a politicized college education to put twenty-somethings in a job market where 60% of newly minted BAs find jobs. Student debt\u00a0is the new housing bubble<\/a>\u00a0[11]<\/sup>, but at least a roof is more valuable for a time than a sociology degree.<\/p>\n

The Border Patrol? It no longer exists. No one believes crossing illegally into the U.S. is a crime, and so there is no need for a law enforcement agency. Everyone is\u00a0a DREAM-er<\/a>\u00a0[12]<\/sup>; doubt that and\u00a0you are a racist<\/a>\u00a0[13]<\/sup>. To the extent the Border Patrol is not a parody of itself, it is a social services agency designed to facilitate illegal entry into the U.S.\u00a0La Raza and the Chamber of Commerce, not Congress, set immigration policies.<\/p>\n

The IRS? It too is ruined. It has become a Third-World extension of a partisan regime that hounds out political enemies. Ditto EPA, which mostly finds ways to circumvent Congress to punish successful companies and to pursue green statutes that Congress has no desire to pass.<\/p>\n

NASA? We beg our enemy Putin to ferry us into space, as the director brags that the chief mission of the agency is now Muslim \u201cfeel good\u201d outreach. Eric Holder has so politicized the Justice Department that we nonchalantly assume that racial matters determine to what extent Holder decides to enforce or ignore a law. Holder\u2019s legacy is that John Mitchell now looks moral in comparison.<\/p>\n

And the law? In some sense, we are in French revolutionary times. The ACA, immigration statutes, environmental laws \u2014 they all simply no longer exist. The law is what the president deems the public wants or what he believes is socially useful.<\/p>\n

Race? We have become so inured to Trayvon Martin as Obama\u2019s might-have been son, the stereotyping police, the \u201ctypical white person,\u201d \u201cmy people,\u201d \u201ca nation of cowards,\u201d \u201cpunish our enemies,\u201d etc., that such polarization from on high is normal. Divide and conquer is the new old politics. After Obama won a decisive victory in 2008 that transcended race, we were suddenly told the world of the old white guy was over \u2014 ad nauseam \u2014 and race became essential, not incidental, to those who had proclaimed a need to go beyond race. In truth, the race fixation was not about justice, but raw power, the pathway to obtaining it and the mechanism for keeping it.<\/p>\n

The presidential style? We assume that every Obama speech is an exercise in the use of the first-person pronoun. Every tired emphatic (\u201clet me be perfectly clear,\u201d \u201cmake no mistake about it,\u201d \u201cin point of fact,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not kidding\u201d\u2026) is proof of just the opposite. Equivocation, not clarity, is the goal of an Obama speech. In lieu of candor, there is always a macho brag that proves empty; always a straw-man,\u00a0Emmanuel Goldstein-style<\/a>\u00a0[14]<\/sup>\u00a0enemy whom we are supposed to hate collectively; always some clueless clinger, devious capitalist, old Tea Party guy, or carbon polluter who is the source of all our problems. We assume that when the president gets off the teleprompter his speech will be incoherent and laced with \u201cuh uh uh\u201d \u2014 as the press gushes that it is Lincolnesque.<\/p>\n

Obama is a community organizer in endless search of a war to distract from the reality that\u00a0he is Icarus falling<\/a>\u00a0[15]<\/sup>\u00a0with melting waxen wings. Without drumming up an old white guy war against women, against Latinos, against children at the border, against the environment, against gays, against blacks, against mom and apple pie, our Obama is what he always was \u2014 a smooth version of Rev. Wright, a community organizer whose bullhorn could not deliver a crowd.<\/p>\n

The press? But\u00a0there is no press<\/a>\u00a0[16]<\/sup>. Long ago\u00a0it became a ministry of information<\/a>\u00a0[17]<\/sup>\u00a0and decided that Obama was the rare gift to enact a so-called progressive agenda. If or when there is a non-liberal president, we will be told golf is aristocratic time-wasting, that mention of race is hatred, that tampering with the IRS, NSA, \u00a0or any other agency is an impeachable offense, that ignoring enforcement of the law is treasonous, that $300 billion deficits are ruinous, that junketing to resorts is frivolous, that bombing without the approval of Congress is amoral, and that the teleprompter is proof of vapidity.<\/p>\n

Our culture?\u00a0Cool is all that matters<\/a>\u00a0[18]<\/sup>. Outsource, offshore, speculate, crony capitalism \u2014 just do it with Birkenstocks and shades. If you are hip, rules melt. Nerds like Al Gore are cool and so seek to dodge new capital gains taxes,\u00a0profit from oil-rich dictatorships<\/a>\u00a0[19]<\/sup>, and offer snake-oil nostrums to the crises they hype as they lecture us about our selfish carbon-spewing sins. The key to understanding a John Kerry, Al Gore, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates is that they are cool, and thus seek to avoid the property, capital gains, or inheritance taxes that they urge be hiked on everyone else. The Obama cultural legacy is that it does not matter what you do, only how coolly you do or describe it. Appear hip, and greed is forgiven. Buy a ticket to a $35,000 Obama fundraiser, wear something hip, and sound cool, and you are a progressive egalitarian. Silicon Valley, Hollywood,\u00a0and Wall Street<\/a>\u00a0[20]<\/sup>\u00a0learned that con long ago.<\/p>\n

The president enjoys a 40% popularity rate and thus has institutionalized a new facet of American political life: redistributionist policies such as Obama\u2019s guarantee that 4 out of 10 Americans will always stay supportive and that abroad most will like what the U.S. is becoming. That is the real Obama legacy: there are no politics any more, just an endless class war between patriotic progressives and counter-revolutionary clingers.<\/p>\n

Everything our un-Midas touched turned to stone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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URL to article:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/the-un-midas-touch\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[1] He inherited a quiet Iraq:\u00a0http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB123241360913796235<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[2] in December 2009:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/meast\/01\/01\/iraq.us.deaths\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[3] \u201cgreatest achievement.\u201d:\u00a0http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/biden-once-called-iraq-one-obamas-great-achievments_794909.html<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[4] a 2012 reelection talking point:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2014\/08\/08\/the-bill-comes-due\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[5] an ISIS wasteland:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2014\/08\/08\/isis-are-fast-track-nazis\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[6] Mogadishu on the Mediterranean:\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/07\/26\/us-evacuates-embassy-in-libya-amid-clashes-in-tripoli\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[7] dozens of scandals since:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2014\/06\/28\/obama-scandals-dense-pack\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[8] tunnels, missiles, syringes, handcuffs:\u00a0http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/07\/27\/stories-from-the-battlefield-hamas-tunnels-used-to-target-israels-kindergartens\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[9] our \u201cfolks\u201d torturing their \u201cfolks\u201d:\u00a0http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/08\/01\/incredibly-careless-president-obama-tells-press-we-tortured-some-folks\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[10] assume he is not telling the truth:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2014\/07\/31\/whatever-gets-you-through-the-news-cycle\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[11] is the new housing bubble:\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0088Q9TAU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0088Q9TAU&linkCode=as2&tag=pjmedia-20<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[12] a DREAM-er:\u00a0http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-TV\/2014\/07\/03\/2012-Obama-Executive-Order-Dream-Act-Will-Strengthen-America-Economy-and-Security<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[13] you are a racist:\u00a0http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/08\/05\/dreamer-confronts-steve-king-here-tear-up-my-daca-card-if-you-dont-want-me-here\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[14] Emmanuel Goldstein-style:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmanuel_Goldstein<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[15] he is Icarus falling:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/michaelwalsh\/2014\/06\/05\/icarus-descending-dishonorably\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[16] there is no press:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/?s=Democratic+operatives+with+bylines+<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[17] it became a ministry of information:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/226135\/end-journalism\/victor-davis-hanson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[18] Cool is all that matters:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/300700\/power-cool-victor-davis-hanson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[19] profit from oil-rich dictatorships:\u00a0http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2013\/01\/05\/al-gore-declares-mission-accomplished\/<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

[20] and Wall Street:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/nrd\/articles\/356610\/losing-gordon-gekko<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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