Once again I have to give it to Obungler. He did an interview in the Atlantic and in this colum we find a few nuggets.

When Obama does act, he prefers to “lead from behind,” as one of his aides described the Libya intervention. Now that Libya has turned into a “shit storm” — the words that Obama uses privately, according to Goldberg — Obama is eager to deflect blame from the United States. “When I go back, and I ask myself what went wrong,” Obama said, “there’s room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up.”

What a shocker — when the United States refused to act decisively to support a post-Qaddafi government, the Europeans didn’t step up. This should have been expected by anyone who is remotely familiar with the post-1945 history of the Western alliance, but Obama was apparently so invested in his multilateral fantasies that he was blind-sided by European indolence.

Nothing is ever his fault.

Predictably, Obama is even more scathing when it comes to Israel, which, unlike Saudi Arabia, is a democratic country that respects human rights. It will surprise no one who has followed closely this administration’s foreign policy that Obama blames Prime Minister Netanyahu for the failure to achieve a peace treaty, giving a pass to the leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state or even to condemn terrorism against Israel. According to Goldberg: “Obama has long believed that Netanyahu could bring about a two-state solution that would protect Israel’s status as a Jewish-majority democracy, but is too fearful and politically paralyzed to do so.” If Obama has stern words for Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of Hamas — who are the actual obstacles to peace — Goldberg does not record them.

Obungler hates Jews and loves Mooslimes.

In some ways, the most amazing part of Goldberg’s article is his account of how Obama, who had essentially no exposure to the Middle East before becoming president in 2009, had the temerity to lecture Netanyahu, who has lived in the region his entire life. After Netayanhu tried to explain Israeli thinking to Obama, the president curtly cut him off: “Bibi, you have to understand something,” he said. “I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.”

The arrogance and assholiness of this idiot is astounding. What does being a black dude with a single mother have to do with understanding the Middle East?

Not only is Obama arrogant, but he also appears utterly devoid of self-reflection or self-awareness. It is now generally agreed that one of the biggest disasters of his administration was his haste in setting a “red line” over Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons and then failing to deliver any meaningful consequences when Assad violated that “red line.” As Goldberg notes, “Even commentators who have been broadly sympathetic to Obama’s policies saw this episode as calamitous. Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote recently that Obama’s handling of this crisis — “‘first casually announcing a major commitment, then dithering about living up to it, then frantically tossing the ball to Congress for a decision — was a case study in embarrassingly amateurish improvisation.’”

Obama, by contrast, bizarrely claims: “I’m very proud of this moment.” No doubt Jesper Berg would have been proud, too. But for anyone who believes that America should maintain its strength, credibility, and deterrence, this was one of the most cringe-making episodes in a presidency full of them.

The worst president this country has ever had and the person whose number of AOTW Awards will never be exceeded. If Thunder Rodent Thighs gets elected and serves two terms she may come close but I don’t think even she will be able to surpass his record number of awards.