Out Of His League

Our very own Aleppine Elephant, George Ajjan, has a great post on Obama’s Foreign Affairs article.  George begins:

When I was in 8th grade, I ran unsuccessfully for Student Council President in a field of 6 or 7 candidates. One of those candidates was an immigrant from India named Surinder Singh. He spoke with a very thick accent, wore a turban, and was generally unaccustomed to American pre-teen life. Thus, Surinder had some hard times at Franklin Avenue Middle School.

But to his credit, that didn’t stop him from standing as one of my competitors in the election of 1989. To this day I can remember elements of Surinder’s campaign speech. He began:

“My name is Surinder Singh. My goal is to make school a better place. We will have longer lunch and recess. We will have more rec nights and field trips. I will clean up the bathrooms!”

And on he went from there with a hilarious litany of pie-in-the-sky campaign promises.

I only bring this up because after reading Barack Obama’s 7-page foreign policy outline published in the most recent Foreign Affairs issue (a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations), Surinder’s ludicrous wish list was the first thing that sprang to mind.

George has put together a list of Obama’s grandiose promises and concluded:

If anyone had any doubts that Barack Obama is totally out of his league and thoroughly unqualified to be President of the United States, this ought to remove them.