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I just watched an episode of the Powerpuff Girls <\/a>in which the Gangreen Gang, so named because they all seem to have green skin, is placed in the Powerpuff Girls’ kindergarten by Jack Wednesday, Truant Officer, who seems unable to distinguish adolescent troublemakers and arch-criminals from kindergarten-age kids.\u00a0 I suppose he can’t be blamed, since the teacher seems to accept these obviously too-large and too-mean “kids” into her class with open arms.<\/p>\n As the day proceeds, the Gangreen Gang lives up to its billing by stealing cookies, pouring milk on students, throwing paste in the other kids’ faces, etc.\u00a0 Each time, the teacher somehow seems not to notice who the real miscreants are, and when the Powerpuff girls try to stop the depredations of the Gangreen Gang, the teacher admonishes them that “there’s no fighting in school” and “you just need to learn to trust strangers.”\u00a0\u00a0 The Powerpuff Girls protest that the Gangreen Gang aren’t strangers, they are nearly-super-villains, to no avail.\u00a0 The teacher says that *she* hasn’t seen the Gangreen Gang do anything especially bad.\u00a0 Of course, she hasn’t really been paying attention, a fact obvious to any viewer.<\/p>\n This back and forth becomes so extreme that at recess, it’s the Powerpuff Girls who are given a “timeout,” while the Gangreen Gang essentially commit assault in a game of “dodgeball” with overmatched 5 yr olds.\u00a0 And even then, when the Powerpuff Girls try to tell the teacher what’s happening just outside the schoolroom window, the teacher shushes them and returns to reading her book, right up until one of the balls breaks throught the schoolroom window and nearly decapitates the teacher, who finally notices the near-carnage on the playground.<\/p>\n In the denouement, when the Powerpuff Girls beg to be allowed to set things right, the teacher insists there is “no fighting at school,” but with a very broad hint to the Girls, she sends them out to play (and finish) a particularly violent game of dodgeball, that leaves the Gangreen Gang on the ropes, and ready to be picked up again by Jack Wednesday, Truant Officer.\u00a0 We’re supposed to think the teacher is cool because she authorized the Powerpuff Girls to “fight” without really “fighting,” though only after intolerable provocation and injury to the rest of her class.<\/p>\n It is, of course, only a cartoon.\u00a0 Nothing like this would happen in the real world, right?\u00a0 But President Obama’s foreign policy seems at least this cartoonish.<\/p>\n He seems not to have read or been briefed on any of the history (old or more recent) of the players, from Iran to Venezuela’s Chavez to North Korea to Russia to China to Islamofascism in all its forms.\u00a0 He acts like every day is a new day, and maybe today they’ll all play nice with him.\u00a0 He seems bent on following some misplaced notion of “international law” and honoring the U.N. and its ridiculous “community of nations,” including a “human rights commission” staffed by some of the most abusive governments on the planet.\u00a0 In this, the U.N. is more cartoonish than the Powerpuff Girls.\u00a0 It’s as if the script writers had put the Gangreen Gang in charge of the entire school district, with the more lowly gang members in charge of the welcome wagon for new students.<\/p>\n Obama’s inexplicable support for illegal, unconstitutional actions<\/a> by former President Zelaya of Honduras, his feckless approach to a nuclear-arming Iran, his tried-and-worthless approach to the Israel\/Palestinian conflict<\/a>, all of these make the actions of the Powerpuff Girls’ kindergarten teacher seem positively wise and far-sighted.<\/p>\n At least she knows when it’s time to bend the rules.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Obama gives obeisance to everyone who intends ill towards the USA, including the UN, the IPCC, and every third world dictator he chances to meet.<\/p>\n Hope and change.\u00a0 Only now, there isn’t much left of the former, and only bad omens for the latter.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>