Obama the apologizer
French Prime Minister Sarkozy is tripping over his skirt trying to get close to Obama – and it’s generally the same with most of the leaders of Old Europe. They smell money. Old Europe remembers how Bill Clinton came crawling on his knees with bags of money in each hand, begging forgiveness for being a responsible nation and bailing Old Europe out of every jam they created for themselves. Jon Ward at The Washington Times notices that Obama tries out role as apologizer-in-chief.
Mr. Obama’s just-concluded eight-day trip abroad, his first major international foray, also marked the debut of a more humble foreign-policy style, one that sought to use cultural concessions and admissions of past mistakes to disarm other countries before challenging their own policies and attitudes toward America.
Repeatedly on a trip that included stops across Europe and in Iraq, Mr. Obama tried to pre-empt criticism of the United States by expressing it first himself – a sharp break from the practice of President George W. Bush.
Mr. Obama told Europeans that “America has shown arrogance” toward their continent, conceded that the United States bears much of the blame for the world’s economic plight, and said in a speech broadcast throughout the Middle East that America is still dealing with its “darker” legacies of discrimination and mistreatment of minorities.
More of the strategy that Obama intends to follow – that strategy is just doing the opposite of George Bush no matter how ridiculous and childish it seems. Why else would pirates wait to seize and American-flagged vessel and crew until we had a president that would apologize to them for interrupting their nefarious plans? Why else would North Korea fire a missile over Japan just now (and threaten Japan for the Japanese search for the Nork rocket’s booster stage)? Because Obama will let them get away with whatever they want to do and then he’ll apologize for things we haven’t done.
I expected while visiting Germany, he’d apologize for World War II.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck
check out this video of Olberman and Turley. Whats interesting is Olberman looks and sounds like he just lost his best friend. This needs to be pasted far and wide because of the comments by Mr. Turley at the end of the piece. For all the lefties that screamed prosecute Bush/Cheney for war crimes what do you say now? Put up or Shut Up
You’re Goddamn right I’m an arrogant American. Maybe its because I actually LOVE my country and want it to succeed… or that I think our Military is the best in the world, or that twice, we bailed out Europe when the continent was plunged into Wars….