President Obama's Blind Spot?

President Obama's Blind Spot?


A blind spot is that small portion of the retina's expansion

where there are no rods or cones

because that 's where the optic nerve has to  reside.

The current occupant of the White House Mansion

often seems to prefer a world with fewer  Cohens

that prick   his ego, vanity and pride. 

hzl

2/10/15

(See amended blog of 2/11/15 with the Opinion article from the Washington Post by Ms. Rubin)

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Featured Obama's Blind Spot About Anti-Semitism There has been a great deal of justified criticism about President Obama’s unwillingness to respond to terrorist outrages with the sort of moral leadership that can rally the West to fight back. His comments at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast in which he sought to create a false moral equivalency between ISIS’s horrific burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot and the Christian West’s past sins during the Inquisition and even the Crusades have been rightly blasted for his tone-deaf approach to terrorism. The president seems so mired in his deep ambivalence about the West’s role in world history that he is unable to play his part as leader of the free world in what is, like it or not, a life-and-death struggle against truly evil forces. It is also revealed in his administration’s refusal to call Islamist terrorism by that name. But just as troubling is his unwillingness to address one of the primary characteristics of this brand of terror: anti-Semitism. In an interview with Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, he described the terror attack on a Paris kosher market as a “random” event rather than an act of murder motivated by Jew hatred. Though it won’t get the same attention as his outrageous speech last week, it gives us just as much insight into the president’s foreign-policy mindset. Read more...