There has been something that has been tugging at my soul since 52% of  the voting public foisted the man-made disaster named Barack Hussein Obama(mm mmm mmmm) upon us.

There is a palpatable sense of aloofness and undeserved conceit that seems to emanate from him like radiation from a tanning bed.

Remember this quote from a San Francisco Fund Raiser in April of 2008?

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.  And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

On October 28., 2008, this appeared in Jake Tapper’s Blog:

The respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that according to a “senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as ‘utterly immature’ and comprised of ‘formulations empty of all content.'”

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., met with Sarkozy in July and they are said to have discussed Iran at length.

French authorities are said to be concerned that the international community doesn’t take the Iranian threat seriously enough. French intelligence has concluded that Iran has already obtained up to 40% of the enriched uranium it needs for a bomb, the newspaper reports, and will have obtained the rest next summer.

In April 2009,  in a meeting with American CEOs of American banks, when the CEOs tried to explain that the nature, complexities, and competition of the finance and banking industries required that they continue retention bonuses for their employees, Scooter  interrupted them and said:

Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.

Swapan Dasgupta, writing for the Daily Pioneer, tells us that in the past few months, the international grapevine has been abuzz with stories of a new, abrasive style of diplomacy that has become the style of the Obama Administration.  Smart Power!

This departure from diplomacy would have been understandable if they had only done it in dealing with countries such as Iran and Venezuela that take cheap shots at the US. Instead, Scooter appears to have reserved his Don Rickles impersonation for our allies.

I know you’re thinking that I’m speaking of the way he’s treated Bibi Netanyahu.  It’s not just Israel.   Obama made a sudden visit to Kabul on March 28, partly for a photo-op with the American forces stationed there and partly to meet with President Hamid Karzai.    Obama’s handlers carefully sent out the news that Obama read Karzai the riot act.  Obama told him that the US found his style of governance wasn’t cutting it and the levels of corruption would not be tolerated.  He was told to shape up or ship out.

Obama’s nagging hasn’t gone over well in Afghanistan. Karzai was offended by Obama’s attitude and has lashed out at the West. He has  subsequently sought to befriend Iran, caution the US against any unilateral offensive on Kandahar and even let it be known that sheer exasperation with American arrogance may drive him into the arms of the Taliban.  Obama responded by questioning Karzai’s mental stability and inferring that he is suffering the effects of hallucinatory drugs.  Talk about a relationship going from bad to worse.

The latest example of  Obama’s unbridled arrogance was, of course, last night on NBC’s Nightly News, when he tried to talk tough about the Gulf Coast Crisis:

I was down there a month ago, before most of these talkin’ heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standin’ in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. and I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose *** (expletive deleted) to kick.

I find Obama’s imperious attitude hauntingly familiar.

Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution. She has gone down in history as the arrogant monarch who, when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread, said “let them eat cake.”  Marie was despised by the French citizenry for her foreign birth and extravagant lifestyle.   While today,  most scholars dismiss the quote as phony revolutionary propaganda, Marie was truthfully known to have been an out-of-control spender as a young queen. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie left Austria for France in 1770 to marry the prince of France. In 1774 the prince became King Louis XVI and Marie became queen.  The king and queen tried to flee as revolution swept Paris in 1789, but were captured.    Marie and Louis XVI were kept as prisoners at the palace at Tuileries, while the revolutionaries tried to figure out what kind of government France was going to have.  They were arrested and charged with treason in 1792.  Louis was beheaded on 21 January 1793 and Marie was beheaded months later, on 16 October 1793.

In 2008, Obama was on a Campaign appearance in Iowa to speak about rural issues and, in an attempt to fake sympathy for farmers and their economic struggles, he said, anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  You could have heard a pin drop.  Scooter had no more knowledge of the daily lives of those Average Americans than a penguin would know how to survive in a desert.  He is as out-of-place as an American President as Marie Antoinette was as the Queen of France.

Let them eat arugula!

Sources:  dailypioneer.com, pajamasmedia.com, answers com, glennbeck.com, abcnews.com