The Obama administration is staggering toward some kind of conclusion in Libya.  This would be hysterical to watch, if it wasn’t for the sad fact that when Obama looks this bad, our country looks this bad.  There are only a couple of places in the world where any new government is likely to be better for us than the status quo.  One of those places is Iran, since it is hard to do worse than an Islamic fundamentalist state whose president is a firm believer in the 12^th Iman.  The other is Libya, home of the dearly beloved Moammar Gadhafi.  Ronald Reagan described him as a “Mad Dog,” which seems about right.

Obama kissed up to Gadhafi big time and the United States agreed to participate in the UN Human Rights Council in May, 2009.  George Bush also tried to play nice with Gadhafi, even sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Libya for a nice chat after Gadhafi got the nuclear itch scared out of him with our attack on Iraq.  But Bush never considered joining the Human Rights Council so we could get advice on how to improve our own human rights performance from fellow members like Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Cameroon and, of course, Libya.

That all changed in May, 2009, when the United States proudly joined these marvelous symbols of enlightenment, beginning with the appropriate apology:

We have not been perfect ourselves,” said Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador, after the United States got 167 votes out of 192. “But we intend to lead based on the strong principled vision that the American people have about respecting human rights, supporting democracy.”

Actually, Obama has pretty much avoided talking about human rights, unless he was apologizing for the United States.

Gadhafi thought Obama was just great and told the entire Muslim world that Obama was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Since I am not sure they even have sliced bread in Libya, you know that was special.

The pattern here is crystal clear.  If you are one of our enemies, like Iran or, now Libya, then protests against the government are ignored.  After all, we don’t want to stir things up unnecessarily.  But if you are a friend of ours, like Egypt, then Obama is much quicker to jump on the protest bandwagon.  Isn’t democracy great?  Who cares if the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to take charge?  We can handle that.  I mean it’s not like they hate the U.S. and want to annihilate Israel.  (Actually, it’s exactly that.)

Anyway, after withering and dithering and desperately seeking some hint as to the ultimate outcome so he could appear to be in charge, Obama finally decided it was time to take a stand.  He took time off between the Motown party and his most recent golf outing to read a statement warning Gadhafi his conduct was simply unacceptable.  Rumor has it that Qaddafi was really quaking in his boots at that.  Lately, Obama has escalated the rhetoric to “outrage.”  There are few things more frightening on this earth than seeing Obama read a TelePrompTer speech in his traditional monotone warning of dire consequences for those who dare defy him.  Actually this is rather scary when you consider the fact that this is the guy we chose to defend us.

So far, Gadhafi seems to be putting up one heck of a fight.  It reminds me of watching the O.J. Simpson low-speed police chase in the infamous white Bronco.  O.J. Simpson is a brutal murderer, but it was still good theater.  No one will shed a tear for Gadhafi, but the man does have a certain style.

In any event, the “Anointed One” has managed to get himself involved in the ultimate international keystone cops routine.  Who knows where this will go.  We could end up with either Gadhafi, Tea or Me:

Gadhafi

Moammar Gadhafi  ignores the rest of the world, as he has done for decades and just kills anyone who disagrees.  Although it is really hard to find a friend of Gadhafi these days, one suspects that at least some leaders are hoping he succeeds in stopping the revolution.  They don’t like him, but they also don’t like the sight of another government collapsing because of public protests. 

Tea

The Brits, who are trying to show some leadership to save the day.  I am not too optimistic after the British SAS troops promptly got themselves held hostage by the rebels they were trying to encourage on to victory.

ME

With Obama, it’s always about him.  I mean how else do you explain a President who plays golf while the world is on fire, yet has time to produce a feel-good video greeting for the Oscar crowd and even tries to steal some of the spotlight from the Superbowl by scheduling a softball interview with Bill O’Reilly?  With Obama the only thing you can ever count on is him saying:

“Me! Me! it’s all about ME!”

Libya is hardly a threat to us and regardless of what happens there it really shouldn’t matter, except for the fact that Libya has lots of oil and this has the potential to tank our already sinking economy.  Thank goodness we have a great leader in Barack Obama who knows that the one thing he can and should do is cut the red tape so we can “drill, baby, drill.”  Oops, I just remembered that the Obama administration sued for the right to continue the ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. 

I feel warm all over.

 TDM