On Humiliation

A friend recently chastised me for wishing for our current leadership's humiliation.  I actually haven't actively wished for it rather I've pointed out its inevitability given this Administration's chosen course.  However point taken.  But then I read bout the Arizona immigration law flap.  It seems that BHO, AG Holder and Secretary Napolitano along with the rest of bien pensant opinion rushed to sneer at the Arizona law before actually reading it's ten short pages.  It turns out that when read, the law reads exactly like the 50 year old Federal law except that the Arizona has more explicit protections against profiling written into it.  Since the Federal Courts have long ruled that state officials can enforce federal immigration laws, it would seem that in their rush to prove their progressive credentials our 'fearless', no make that 'clueless' leaders and the crowds of the illiterati that hang around them have embarrassed themselves.

So one would expect a walkback, yes?  Or at least a decent silence?  Of course not.

This week BHO hosted Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico in the White House.  To BHO's face, in the People's House, in public, Calderon strongly criticized the Arizona law and American immigration policy.  So we have the spectacle of a country who Amnesty International says has one of the worst record of treating immigrants in the world dumping on us, the nation with the best record in the world.  Hmm. So what did our "brilliant" "Constitutional Law Scholar" say?  BHO agreed with Calderon, citing the Arizona law as his
justification (Despite the fact that of the three laws in Question - Mexico, US and Arizona's, it
is the least harsh, containing the most protections against abuse).

So to my friends criticism:  how could I possibly heap more humiliation upon a man who chooses to humiliate himself thus?  I feel embarrassment for him: for his ignorance of subjects that he is supposedly 'expert' on, his inability to distinguish between reality and his 'racist' propaganda and his obvious enthusiastic anti Americanism. Even while standing as our President in the President's house he can't defend his own country's outstanding record against one of the world's worst.  Pathetic.  Doesn't he understand what it means to be our leader? And doesn't he understand the world is watching?

A leader who won't stand up for his country will soon find out that his country won't stand up for him.

This just in:  Sr, Calderon described Arizona's (really America's) immigration laws as full of  “intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse” to a joint session of Congress and the Democrats went wild with a standing ovation.  Andy McCarthy rightly described the behavior of the Democrats a 'catastrophe' for our nation.  I do not understand how Americans, our people, could do this.  They don't seem to be on the same side as me.