One thing I’ve learned over my relatively short life thus far, is that people tend to expect people to view life through the same eyes that they do.  Generally, a dishonest person feels justified in their dishonesty because they figure everyone else is just as dishonest as they are.  A liar figures that they’re being lied to.  A trustworthy person generally trusts other people.  At some point or another, most people eventually realize that this is not the case, and then tend to gravitate toward other people that think as they do…  Look at San Francisco.

One of the reasons I’m afraid of Barack Obama as President is his overwhelming need to talk and negotiate with other, often hostile, foreign leaders.  Even without knowing what his pre-political profession was, I could tell he’s a lawyer, primarily because that’s the thought process of a lawyer.  He somehow believes that he could talk hostile countries out of their hostility, most likely because he could be talked out of his own opinions with a sufficient argument.  How do I know this.  It’s a system that I employ with my own children.  If you believe you should be able to do something that I say you shouldn’t convince me otherwise.  I’ll consider it and I’ll likely acquiesce, provided that the argument was reasonable and well thought out. 

This is NOT an attitude that should be possesed by a PoTUS.  He should have vision, and operate under that vision.  He should be looking after the interests of the citizens of his country, not trying to appease world opinion.  He shouldn’t be trying to win friends by humiliating his people.  He shouldn’t trade respect for pals.