President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him/) on Saturday said Libyan despot Moammar Kadhafi was no longer a legitimate ruler and proclaimed that he had to leave power immediately.

Gee, Scooter.  Ya think?

This proclamation breaks an eerie silence coming from the White House concerning this nutjob.

Perhaps Obama has been so slow in responding to the Libyan Crisis because, according to an article posted by Aaron Klein at wnd.com:

Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Obama’s longtime Chicago church, went with [Rev. Louis] Farrakhan to visit Gadhafi in 1984.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Wright himself noted the trip could cause problems for Obama.

“When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Kadhafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

Farrakhan, a close friend and associate of Wright, has been financed by Kadhafi, including with a $5 million interest-free loan in 1985.

Later that year, Kadhafi spoke by satellite to Farrakhan’s Saviour’s Day Convention in Chicago, and reportedly told Farrakhan supporters he was prepared to provide weapons to a black army in the U.S. to destroy “white America.”

In October 1995, Kadhafi reportedly called Farrakhan with congratulations on the success of the Million Man March. Kadhafi was said to have assured Farrakhan that together “we will unite our capabilities and efforts to achieve this.”

According to reports in 1996 from Libya’s news agency, JANA, Farrakhan and Kadhafi agreed to work together to mobilize “oppressed blacks, Arabs, Muslims and Red Indians” to help reshape U.S. foreign policy.

Gadhafi said that until his alliance with the Nation of Islam, “our confrontation with America was like a fight against a fortress from outside.”

He asserted his alliance with Farrakhan provides him with “a breach to enter into this fortress and confront it.”

Farrakhan went to Libya for multiple other events. He was the recipient in 1996 of the Gadhafi Human Rights Award, which came with a $250,000 prize. Farrakhan accepted the prize despite U.S. sanctions on Libya.

A statement released by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, summarizing a telephone conversation Scooter had with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said:

When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now.

Before now, Obama had been extremely mealy-mouthed as far as ousting the Libyan strongman was concerned.

By the way, do you get the feeling that Chancellor Merkel told Scooter the way that the cow ate the cabbage?

On Friday, the Administration froze all Libyan assets in the U.S. that belong to Gadhafi, his government and four of his children. Obama also closed our embassy in Libya and suspended the limited defense trade between the countries.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Saturday that the U.S. had revoked the visas of senior Libyan officials and their immediate family members. According to the former First Lady, applications from these people for travel to the United States would be rejected.

Clinton issued her own proclamation, saying Kadhafi “should go without further bloodshed and violence,”.

Obama has been trying to get a group consensus among world leaders about Libya’s revolution. Scooter is praying that other world leaders will jump on aboard the Oust Kadhafi Express, taking some of the heat off of him. In fact, Obama has sent Hil to Geneva today to berate, err, I mean, coordinate with foreign policy officials from several countries.

The U.N. Security Council (don’t get me started) debated new sanctions against Libya yesterday. These brilliant minds could not even come to an agreement concerning a proposal to refer Kadhafi and his top lieutenants to an international war crimes tribunal.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the U.N. should act immediately to protect Libyan civilians.  He’s visiting Scooter in Washington on Monday to try to figure out how they can provide themselves political cover.

According to witnesses, Kadhafi is arming civilian supporters to man checkpoints and initiate roving patrols in Tripoli, the capital.

After Americans were finally evacuated from Libya by ferry and chartered airplane, Scooter signed an executive order imposing financial penalties on Kadhafi’s government. According to this proclamation, the meltdown in Libya presents an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security and foreign policy.

Libyan citizens have been protesting against Kadhafi’s government since Feb. 15 and rebels have gained control of most of the eastern half of the country.

Kadhafi has responded by having his troops open fire on civilians.

While Obama has been holding audio conferences with his buds at the U.N., Americans have been suffering at the gas pump.  In the Mid-South, gas prices are at somewhere in the $3.20-plus range and climbing.  The effects of these outrageous prices will soon be felt all over our already poor economy, as people stay home, instead of jumping in the car to go some place and spend money that they no longer have.

His domestic and foreign policies have failed and the Leader of the Free World can’t decide whether to wind his backside or scratch his watch.

God protect us.