Barack Obama Beats Up on Sarah Palin: Attacks Her as "Not Much of an Expert" on Nuclear Issues

In an interview with former Bill Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos to be aired on Good Morning America today, Barack Obama beats up on Sarah Palin by dismissing the value of her opinion on nuclear issues. Asserted Obama to Stephanopoulos in the ABC interview, "...last I checked, Sarah Palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues!" That Obama derision towards Palin was in response-clearly because Obama's thin-skinned and as hyper-sensitive as ever-to Palin's right-on-the-mark comments on Hannity's show on the Fox News channel earlier in the week, where she compared Obama's sissy policy of reducing the US' nuclear arsenal to a kid on a playground declaring that he won't fight back, even if he gets punched in the face. Obama's haughty dismissal of Palin is ironic at the very least since many people-not only conservatives-would credibly argue that Obama himself is no expert on many issues, as seen by his abysmal failure to contain Iran's nuclear buildup or turn around the economic situation at home, just to name a couple.

Obama's ill-disciplined and very unpresidential attack on Palin is nothing new from the very thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive president. His latest outburst certainly brings to mind the very recent and equally unpresidential embarrassment last fall when his administration started to-in an unprecedented departure from all prior presidential norms-begin a full-scale, verbal assault against the Fox News Channel of all places, all because little, wittle Mr. President didn't like their tremendously fair and balanced coverage of him (I suppose he wanted their coverage to be more worshipping, say, like MSNBS...excuse me...MSNBC).

Look for Palin's very innocent and oh-so-true comment about Obama's policy at the 1:10 mark:

The war of words between Obama and Palin comes against the backdrop of Obama's new, radical policy of reducing US nuclear arsenals when threats to world peace like Iran are actively and aggressively moving ahead-while Obama looks on seemingly helplessly-towards a full-blown, operational nuclear program. Curiously, or maybe I'm looking for the word "absurdly," the Obama Administration is actually claiming that reducing the US nuclear arsenal from 2200 to 1550 warheads over seven years will somehow put "pressure" on Iran and its saber-rattling mullahs to stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons! The hardened hallucinations occurring within the Obama Administration are simply mind-blowing as their logic makes no sense at all-unless, of course, you're an appeaser, which is what the administration is, so I guess that makes sense after all...kind of.

The Obama "strategy"-if you can call it that-of publicly denouncing his perceived enemies such as Palin is actually a really short-sighted move, because he's elevating someone not on the same level as the president to all of a sudden be his peer, against whom all criticism must purportedly be answered and then discredited. This is also not the first time Obama has foolishly targeted private citizens (Palin is no longer in office and now is merely a commentator and analyst); as some will recall, he went after Rush Limbaugh last year for merely the same thing of stating strong opinions that were critical of the president. In doing so, Mr. Hyper-Sensitive Barack Obama must be borrowing a page directly from the radical Saul Alinsky's playbook, the ever-reassuring Rules for Radicals, which calls for ridiculing enemies in order to tear down their credibility. With Palin, whom Obama clearly sees as a threat, demeaning her as "not much of an expert" is inarguably designed to ridicule her.

As for Obama's poor choice of reducing US nukes while Iran merrily goes on their way to building themselves a nuclear program, ratification in the US Senate doesn't look promising at this time. Since the humiliating loss of their very short-lived super-majority, Democrats only command 59 seats, and they need to bring on board eight Republicans for a total of 67 to achieve the number needed in the US Senate in order to ratify Obama's nuclear disarmament treaty. Again, ironically, at a time when the Obama Administration selfishly and arrogantly bullied their Obamacare bill through without any bi-partisan support at all, they now find themselves groveling and desperately needing GOP support for ratification of this bill. As White House propagandist (as Hannity likes to call him) Robert Gibbs said, "We are hopeful that reducing the threat of nuclear weapons remains a priority for both parties," according to an ABC News report.

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Sources:

Karen Travers, EXCLUSIVE: "Not much of an expert"--Obama Slaps Sarah Palin for Nuke Policy Criticism, ABC News

White House Urges Other Networks to Disregard Fox News, FoxNews.com

Sunlen Miller, Obama, Medvedev Sign Arms Reduction Treaty, ABC News

Jon Ward, WH admits Limbaugh attacks unhelpful, Washington Times

Rules for Radicals, Wikipedia