Trust-fund O-baby

U.S. presidents traveling abroad are generally mindful they are
standing on the shoulders of forefathers who built the greatest nation
on Earth on the principles of freedom, hard work, accountability,
capitalism and belief in the potential of the individual. They
understand their calling to live up to the excellence of the legacy
entrusted to them.

But like a spoiled trust-fund baby putting on airs, and with little
understanding of his predecessors’ contributions, success, genius and
courage, which built what warrants this respect reserved for greatness,
Barack Obama makes his first foray into serious international affairs
at the G-20 summit in London this week representing a nation lessened
by his promised “change” that is destroying the legacy of those who
built the business of America.

Our forefathers believed America’s enterprise is business, commerce and
the creation of wealth and opportunity, rather than the source of cash
for government programs and bailing out failures.

They built our strength, which empowers us to protect ourselves and those around the globe who need our help.

From the Obama power grab at General Motors to the politically correct
neutering of accurate labeling of murderous terrorists that can result
in lulling us into a pre-Sept. 11 sense of faux security, topped by
military spending shortfalls in the Obama budget, the United States is
weakened daily. Obama’s commitment to punish success with draconian
confiscatory taxation underscores the need for our leaders to have a
clearer understanding of where taxes come from before being in a
position to determine how they are spent.

Obama’s disturbing “never let a crisis go to waste” philosophy
facilitates an agenda not to ensure the greatness of the U.S. — our
wealth, freedom and ability to help others around the world, therefore
earning their respect and gratitude every day. No — Obama’s agenda is
to exploit an economic crisis and create further chaos as a diversion
so he can employ a leftist agenda to remake America. Naively, Obama
assumes he will endlessly reap the benefits of our forefathers’ grit,
guts and genius while making no effort to expand or emulate those
qualities. In Obama’s world, Daddy’s trust fund is a limitless credit
card on which to party.

Obama’s traveling entourage to the London G-20 summit is sizable
enough, befitting a U.S. president. But like the nation he serves, his
travel staff is diminished from that of previous presidents. Somehow it
seems fitting. He is systematically diminishing our greatness, our
superpower status, our ability to aid other countries and serve as a
crowning jewel of freedom, democracy, capitalism and strength. This
weakness has created a vacancy in global leadership, and the world
leaders meeting with Obama understand this perfectly. Obama exhibits
the self-assuredness of past U.S. presidents, but the clout may be
fading.

It’s long been said that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.

Thanks to Barack Obama, soon when America sneezes, we may be lucky if the rest of the world so much as offers us a hanky.

Jacobus, president of Capitol Strategies PR, has managed congressional
campaigns, worked on Capitol Hill and is an adjunct professor at George
Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.  She
appears on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News as a GOP strategist.