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“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
— On His Blindness, by John Milton

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“WASHINGTON -- What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama's America? If you're a Brit, your head is spinning. [...] And then there was Hillary Clinton's astonishing, nearly unreported (in the U.S.) performance in Argentina last month. She called for Britain to negotiate with Argentina over the Falklands. [...] Of course, given how the administration has treated other allies, perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised. Obama visits China and soon Indonesia, skipping India, our natural and rising ally in the region -- common language, common heritage, common democracy, common jihadist enemy. [...] Well, said David Manning, a former British ambassador to the U.S., to a House of Commons committee reporting on that very relationship: "He (Obama) is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia and who had a Kenyan father. The sentimental reflexes, if you like, are not there." I'm not personally inclined to neuropsychiatric diagnoses, but Manning's guess is as good as anyone's. How can you explain a policy toward Britain that makes no strategic or moral sense? And even if you can, how do you explain the gratuitous slaps to the Czechs, Poles, Indians and others?”
— Charles Krauthammer, April 02, 2010 (TownHall)

It's really hard to explain gratuitous slaps, if the presumption is that the slappers are rational. If that presumption is false, then, of course, no further explanation is required. Therefore, for argument's sake, let us grant the Administration the benefit of the doubt.

So, how to explain the actions of our former front-runner for the Democratic nomination of Presidential candidate? I really don't think she is stupid. She is a conniver and as power-hungry as they come, and she came very close to becoming President. But now, she busies herself by going around the world making a fool of herself, and, what is infinitely worse, of the Nation she represents as Secretary of State, which is the highest position of statesmanship our Nation has to offer, next to the Presidency. One can only assume she is simply following orders, from our Sphinx-in-Chief. Only following orders; like every other twit in this Administration.

Emergency Stop

And how to explain the actions of the Sphinx-in-Chief? Ah, well, there's a subject for volumes yet to be written (by those with much more patience than a mere mortal like me could ever muster). My take is much more prosaic: The Obama Himself is a self-styled enigma/poser, with a secret agenda that no one can fathom (that is, until someone can access the important personal documents that he guards, as if his life depended on it).

The only other possibility that I can think of is suggested by Thomas Jefferson in the caption for the cartoon below (click to enlarge).
h/t Theo

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