This Administration is Drifting Off Into Bizarro World

Michael Posner, the Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama administration, is just the latest entry into the Bizarro sweepstakes.  Michelle Malkin has some good background information and more of the story here.  The Bizarro concept was made popular again, in the show Seinfeld.  The original concept emanated from the DC comic books, such as Superman.  That being the polar opposite of Superman.  In the show, Jerry was a Superman fan and, in the 137th episode of the series, "The Bizarro Jerry" - The show heavily referenced the bizarro concept, to the point of the gang of Seinfeld friends, George Elaine, Kramer and Jerry coming face to face with their own polar opposites.

For Assistant Secretary Posner's part, He has demonstrated the polar opposite of how a high-level diplomat in an American administration should comport himself.  I sat, stunned, in front of the TV tonight when seeing this little Q & A exchange the Assistant Secretary had, after meetings with China representatives and covering things, such as...human rights:

Q: Did the recently passed Arizona immigration law come up? And if so, did they bring it up? Or did you bring it up?

MR. POSNER: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society.

Breathtaking

It should be noted that Mr. Posner was positively glowing, at being able to state with pride how, "We brought it up early and often."  And don't miss the little ditty of how the Arizona law is the disturbing trend in our society and not rampant illegal immigration itself or the drugs and criminals that flow through our porous southern border...or even the Cartels that now reach across the border to kill Americans.  No troubling trends there.  It's those damnable LAWS!

The previous question sheds more light on Posner's thinking and sheds a little light, as well, on the questioner and their apparent desire to create some sort of equivalence:

Q: Was there any areas in which China sort of turned the tables and raised its own complaints or concerns about U.S. practices around the globe or at home? Can you give some examples there –

MR. POSNER: Sure. You know, I think, again, this goes back to Ambassador Huntsman’s comment. Part of a mature relationship is, do you have an open discussion where you not only raise the other guy’s problems but you raise your own and you have a discussion about it? We did plenty of that.

In Mr. Posner's response...I'm assuming "the other guy's problems", refers to the other guy's government and not what may be perceived to be, potentially, in the hearts and minds of an American state's police officers in carrying out the laws of of their state and some concern of potential, racial profiling by these same police.  So, in China's turning the tables on us, as posed in the question - human rights record to human rights record...it's not a fair fight.  Please....China??

What's telling is the pervasiveness of  an absolutely, pornographic desire to perpetuate and declare their perception of America's un-exceptionalism to the world.  And by they, I mean from the President, on down through the entire administration.  Well, no...not to paint all in this administration with that broad brush but, surely all the Lib-con Progressives that pepper this current administration - from Posner to Cass Sunstein, ( a whole other blog post in itself) Manufacturing Czar, Ron (the free market is nonsense...we kind of agree with Mao that political power, comes largely from a barrel of a gun) Bloom.  The increasingly buffoonish, AG Eric Holder.  This is not an America first crowd.  The school of progressive thought that heavily colors those, who now lead us is counter to what is in the best interest of this country, in the near, medium or long term, both domestically and internationally.  It's like, it stands everything we believe in, on its head. 

Like Seinfeld's Bizarro Superman.  Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwoods of Bizarro world.  Up is down, down is up.  He says "hello", when he leaves..."goodbye", when he arrives.

Bizarro indeed.