The American Spectator

jack| 4.16.09 @ 7:13AM

i am convinced Obama knows very little about US history or world history. What were they teaching this imbecile in college? How did he get into college?
He is the Ted Baxter of US politics.
Never ever forget,this guy believed proper tire inflation could replace offshore drilling and he called Rev Wright the greatest influence on his life.

Dropping By| 4.16.09 @ 7:35AM

Great piece, Mr. Tyrrell. Obama is an accident of history and he won't be around long. A center-right nation was betrayed by its center-right political party and decided in 2006 and 2008 to banish those politicians most to blame. Very few people outside the hard left actually LIKE the Obama-Reid-Pelosi policy carnival and reflexive anti-Americanism. But Republicans needed time in the wilderness to locate their integrity (keep at it, guys), and swing voters needed to be reminded what it's like to have the Democrats running everything.

Craig Butler| 4.16.09 @ 7:39AM

"The Ted Baxter of US politics"...... that's hilarious! Too bad it is so true.....

Deborah| 4.16.09 @ 8:00AM

I don't think Obama got any reasonable education on America's history. He did a lot of growing up overseas (Indonesia, I believe)...which is probably where he learned about the 57 states (of Islam)...which he inadvertently(?) used as the number of US states on the campaign trail. Those lessons taught at an early age stick...which is probably why he bowed to the Arab King.

I'm sure in college he learned all the leftists wanted him to learn about the U.S. -- all the bad and none of the good. That has stuck as well -- I'm sure, like his wife, the only time he's not been ashamed of his country was when he was elected president. Nothing like have a president who dislikes his own country enough to want to change everything about it in three months time.

Robert Rosencrans| 4.16.09 @ 8:06AM

When the President selects tax cheats and other corrupt politicians to help him run his administration, what else would you expect?

The Bishop| 4.16.09 @ 8:16AM

This Motivational Speaker-in-Chief has given me political bulimia. My tax rates may not be reduced, but he is having a purgative effect on my stomach.

Mattled| 4.16.09 @ 8:38AM

Mr. Tyrrell,

Have been following you since '94 in the Conservative Chronicles.

With the media in the tank for Obama, the conservative message gets filtered. Witness the horrific CNN coverage yesterday of the tea parties.

I thought Mr. Steele was the great communicator, but he has proven to be a self-promoter. How about getting Ari Fleischer to map out a strategy---a LONG term strategy.

My spouses friends are all Republicans, but voted Oabama because of , get ready, Sarah Palin.

Not ONE of them knew anything about her except she had a bad interview with Katie Couric. This is what we're up against. Never mind that Obama had a bad "interview" with a non-licensed plumber. They also said she was a book banner and creationist. No proof whatsoever. The media said it, it is true.

The media Mr. Tyrrell, the media-----what is the plan?

Gill O'Teen| 4.16.09 @ 8:44AM

Mr. Tyrrell, you seem critical because “He gave the Queen an iPod.” But that iPod allegedly contains numerous examples of his teleprompter’s greatest moments. I’m certain she’ll appreciate this thoughtfulness when she learns it is truly a wonderful and inexpensive cure for insomnia. Given these wonderful medicinal qualities, it just may be in violation of British Medical Law. You also seem to think he is a mere “motivational speaker”. I can’t speak for others, but he certainly motivated me and at least 6,000 other folks to peacefully assemble last night. A third and final point. American History did not begin until last November 4. Knowledge of events which occurred B.o. (before obumah), by coincidence how he spells his puppy’s name, are no longer relevant. Besides he learned history at the same fine educational establishment that taught him Constitutional Law.

Mike M| 4.16.09 @ 9:07AM

I eagerly await Obama awarding himself the Navy Cross for his recent high seas bravery. Now that would be precedent setting.

loulou| 4.16.09 @ 9:27AM

** his virginal passport, a passport that was used precisely once before he became a national political figure.**
I'd like to get a look at that passport. Does it indicate his country of birth?

Wicked Dickie--Virginia| 4.16.09 @ 9:28AM

While you folks are being monitored by DHS, I'm at home compiling a list of Whitehouse Czars to suck up to. Never mind the cabinet front men. I'm also practicing my "Heil Obama" for the coming coronation of our first king/fuhrer/President-for-Life?

Melvin| 4.16.09 @ 9:30AM

Mr. Obama knows US history very well, he knows it so much that it reviles him at its very mention. By listening to his speeches and especially the ones from overseas we can feel the anti semitism toward the United States that oozes from every fiber of Mr. Obama.
Why did Mr. Obama major in Constitutional Law? If one knows how it is put together, then that makes it all the easier to take it apart. Yes?

Becky| 4.16.09 @ 9:33AM

I don't know if all the self-bashing comes from one psychological well. I get the feeling from some of the liberals I know, they are disappointed in their lives; somehow things didn't work out as planned.

Perhaps there are two reactions to losing a game, job, etc. One is to re-examine and re group, the other is to blame others.

2Anglico| 4.16.09 @ 9:35AM

"burlesque of a preening popinjay", had to look that one up. Excellent choice of words! And funny too.

K. Brockman| 4.16.09 @ 9:36AM

I, for one, eagerly await our Obamian overlords....

I hope they remember that this reporter always supported facism if it came from the proper demographic...

Dave LeBlanc| 4.16.09 @ 10:06AM

"...traveling through Europe on his virginal passport..." Is that an oblique reference on certain matters of faith and of the possible glories in the afterlife to the true believer? If so Mr. Terrell, heh, heh, chortle.

Tim| 4.16.09 @ 10:50AM

This past Tuesday Obama spoke at Georgetown U

What most folks don't know is that he instructed the University to cover the name of Jesus from the wall in back of where he was speaking from.

Hmmmm. Now let me get this straight.....The president of the U.S. goes to someone else's house to talk and tells them to take down their symbols of their Faith that have been in their house for many many years.

Will he do that to Notre Dame when he speaks there?

Will he tell that to the church he chooses to finally attend?

Will he take the "In God We Trust" off of the US money?

Just how anti---God...anti religion.... is this character?

Talk about a transparent stereo type 1960's/1970's God Hating and America Hating just like the good friends he hung out with all of those early years until about two years ago.

Can he even pretend not to be a stone cold atheist
who hates his country.....just for the sake of his two kids if not our own kids

Is it 2012 yet?

Country Boy| 4.16.09 @ 10:58AM

Great read Mr. Tyrrell.

I am heartened by your (and some posters') assessment that Obama's life in the spotlight will be shortlived. I can only hope.

Realistically, I think we are in a footrace with Obama to get him turned out, before he disables the legal safeguards which prevent a budding tyrant like him.

A different Tim| 4.16.09 @ 11:04AM

"I have a vision, and I know
The heathen shall return.
"They shall not come with warships,
They shall not waste with brands,
But books be all their eating,
And ink be on their hands.

"Not with the humour of hunters
Or savage skill in war,
But ordering all things with dead words,
Strings shall they make of beasts and birds,
And wheels of wind and star.

"They shall come mild as monkish clerks,
With many a scroll and pen;
And backward shall ye turn and gaze,
Desiring one of Alfred's days,
When pagans still were men. "

G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
read the whole thing

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse

mmw| 4.16.09 @ 11:19AM

Imagine if W had said that about Austria; Dan Rather and Katie Couric would be having an all-night orgy with Keith Olbermann.

Take a Look at G W Bush| 4.16.09 @ 11:26AM

Loulou.

Do yourself a favour and get a Brain.

lehrue stevens jr.m.d.| 4.16.09 @ 11:51AM

Arrogant and boring are synonomous in this very foolish young man!

Anthony| 4.16.09 @ 12:00PM

Once again Bob, you hit the nail on the head. Leftist arrogance is experiencing a new era of halcyon haydays. Obama's arrogance today is superceded by that which he will do tomorrow, and the day after.
Of course, you have just branded yourself a radical right wing extremist that Benito Mussolini's kindred spirit, Janet Napolitano, must take action on. I hope you fare well in the gulag, please dress warmly. We hope to organize a rescue party once the revolution has begun. Stay strong.
Note that the ACLU, the MSM and Hollywood morons like Tim"chill-wind" Robbins, weren't too upset by the jackbooted Napolitano's declaration of war on conservatives. Suprise, suprise. Obama's civilian corps are filling their ranks rather nicely.

Truth Hurts| 4.16.09 @ 12:05PM

"Arrogant"...."haughty"

Isn't your real complaint that B. Obama is a black man who had the nerve to overcome his circumstances, get himself accepted to the best schools in the country, make himself a millionaire based on nothing but his own writing ability, and get himself elected to state and national office?

All without having a daddy constantly looking out for him and bailing him out, as did W?

There is no negro more uppity than this uppity negro, and I think that's what's bothering you.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 12:12PM

Truth says we're all racists. Let's take a poll. Anybody here would rather have Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or Condaleeza Rice for President rather than the socialist clown we have now?

It's unanimous, truthie-- your evil and stupid false accusations brand you for what you are-- the only real racist in the room.

rizvisa1| 4.16.09 @ 12:33PM

The issue is that we have leaders who go with public opinion. They are against abortion, and enact laws to abolish it as it is sin. When it comes to gay marriage, it is again sin but why not abolish the gay relationship. Bible is not in saying you cannot have gay marriage but its fine to be gay.

Kate| 4.16.09 @ 12:35PM

I say to you know it alls two words, "we won!!!

sooo... i'm a racist.| 4.16.09 @ 12:52PM

Heck, Leo, I'd take John McWhorter.
Frankly, little Mr. Truth Hurts, as I no longer care what your kind calls me.

Annie| 4.16.09 @ 12:55PM

Truth Hurts: So anybody who disagrees with Obama, his positions, his principles, and his actions is automatically a racist. How simple. How neat. How clearly demonstrative of why racism is still a problem in this country — because of such loosely slung, unfounded, knee-jerk reactions like yours, thrown out when you can't think of a reasoned argument and so resort to ad hominem attacks.

Louis Jenkins| 4.16.09 @ 1:21PM

Big Leo:

Truth says we're all racists. Let's take a poll. Anybody here would rather have Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or Condaleeza Rice for President rather than the socialist clown we have now?

Yes, yes, and yes.

Pecos Pete| 4.16.09 @ 1:30PM

Kate, can you tell me what it is exactly that you won?

Steve N| 4.16.09 @ 1:38PM

jack - I'll echo Craig Butler - the "Ted Baxter" crack is classic... And Big Leo - J.C. Watts, Clarence Thomas, even Michael Steele...

Jordan| 4.16.09 @ 1:48PM

Obama: There can only be one, 'One'.

Some people have argued that Obama does not want to use religion to further a political ideology. However, Obama did evoke the Sermon on the Mount, at this Georgetown appearance, to further his economic agenda. Although Obama failed to mention Jesus Christ by name for the Sermon on the Mount.

“There is a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells a story of two men…‘the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house…it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock,’” Obama said.

“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,” he added. “We must build our house upon a rock.”

The last statement is particularly ironic since building your house upon a ‘ROCK‘ means to build your house with Christ as the foundation. Obama decided to blot out the real foundation from the timeless parable.

See the hi-res pictures:
http://tinyurl.com/djtzgm

Joe| 4.16.09 @ 2:02PM

I was wondering when one of you racist "Truth Hurt" would bring his half blackness into the arguement. He did not great in college, or the state of Il and he did nothing in the Senate. And his books were arrogance, self serving and not what he promise the publisher. But he is sure going to do something as President. He is going to run our country into the ground both veribally and in his actions. There are plenty of great real black men who had to fight there way up and did it on there own we would rather have in the White house. So keep your lying racists comments to yourself.

L. Ross| 4.16.09 @ 2:07PM

Once again, I loved the Ted Baxter of American Politics line.

I too eagerly look forward to the next election cycle. These clowns have shown America their true face, and it ain't pretty. My biggest fear, however, is that the conservatives in this nation will continue to nominate non-starters like Bob Dole and John McCain. I don't know where our next Ronald Regan is, but I pray that we recognize him when we see him.

Truth Hurts| 4.16.09 @ 2:08PM

No...read more carefully.

I did not say that anyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist.

But I think we all know what is going on when we watch "demonstrators" at media corporate giant Fox News sponsored events like the tea parties saying that Obama is an "Arab," an "illegal alien," a "muslim," a "Kenyan."

And I think we all know what it means when he is described -- without any real supporting evidence being offered -- as being "haughty" and "arrogant."

This is dog-whistle political discourse; we all know it; I'm just saying it.

The wounded rage of lost-supremacy is eminating from right-wing discourse like I've never seen.

Of course few people come out and admit they are racist; of course they all have black friends they respect or political figures they admire; many may not even be aware of it. That doesn't mean it's not there. You think 400 years of slavery and apartheid just evaporated when Condeleeza Rice took her place in the Bush administration? Sorry, guys, it doesn't work like that.

Truth Hurts| 4.16.09 @ 2:15PM

Joe --

You're entitled to your opinion. You don't like Obama. O.K., fine.

However, you have some facts wrong.

1. Obama, with no "legacy" or privilege earned acceptance to two of the best schools in the country. At Harvard Law, he was president of the law review. I think I can assure you that took considerable talent and ability. (By the way, he achieved that honor by winning over conservatives on the Review.)

2. His first book was a best-seller before he came to national political prominence. Obama could have written a "victim" narrative, about how terrible it was to be a black man, or whatever. Instead, he wrote a book about accountability and the importance of taking responsibility for one's life. He wrote both of his books on his own; no ghost writers .

3. Obama was elected to the state legislature and the Senate and the presidency. If you think that does not account for achievement, you're an extremely arrogant person: millions of people have voted for the man in three different elections (to say nothing of primaries). I suppose you think your fellow citizens are a bunch of dupes. It must be wonderful to be so self-assured. You must be proud of your own intellectual accomplishments and success in public life. Some of us, however, aren't so successful and can at least appreciate the success of others when we see it.

Truthteller| 4.16.09 @ 2:27PM

T Hurts,

The thousands of people demonstrating with me in Ft. Lauderdale did so without corporate sponsorship at all. We didn't even have an organizing entity like MoveOn or ACORN.
Just plain Americans linked by our distrust of government. And our hatred of uppity negroes, of course.

Sara| 4.16.09 @ 2:30PM

Obama is an expert in radical, activist Black history. Summed up that means "we was slaves and we gonna get whitey and bring it all down!!!!"

Truthteller| 4.16.09 @ 2:35PM

T Hurts,

Obama got into Punaho in Hawaii through affirmative action.

He got into Occidental College through affirmative action.

He got into Columbia through affirmative action.

He still couldn't get into Harvard, even with affirmative action, until he larded his resume with the liberal equivalent of missionary work with Chicago communities.

He was elected to Law Review editor after rules were changed to help minority aspirants, and in an environment roiled by racial issues. He was older than the others, he had the right racial makeup, and he had the "street cred" of his Chicago work to boost his stature among his peers.

Bam! That's it. NY Times does an article, and he gets a fat book deal to write about race and the law. But he's too dumb, and years later he writes his....autobiography.

He was elected to the state legislature after hiring his Harvard Law crony to sue the other candidates and force them out of the race.

Yes, America is filled with a bunch of dupes. Take a look in the mirror.

Marc Jeric| 4.16.09 @ 2:45PM

They are in a hurry - they have only two years to assure themselves perpetual power. When they praise that empty suit, Abu Hussein from Kenya, as a genius (a pruduct of affirmative action if I ever saw one) they are really reaching. Well, he won, they say. A cretin could have won against that bipartisan wimp McCain. Are we going to a bipartisan partnership with that revolutionary marxist?

Warrior| 4.16.09 @ 2:48PM

Arrogant : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner. I would agree with "Truth" that the president by definition is not arrogant, or least it is arguable. In my opinion, by definition he would more aptly be described as a prevaricator, abuser of obfuscation and/or extremely pompous. I would also argue that race has nothing to do with these qualities.

1. Since he and/or his campaign never saw fit to release his college transcripts, we can draw loose opinions that he was the campus clown or even the square idiot. Only the release of these documents would clear up this argument.

2. His writings could be referred to as manifestos, again an arguable description.

3. He did carefully choose his alliances, offices and timings for his meteoric rise through the political ranks. His campaign was brilliantly ran without question. And unfortunately, yes many of the voters in our country are dupes, dullards and lemmings including such supposedly learned people as Christopher Buckley and Colin Powell. Many are clueless to the issues and can only regurgitate what they see on TV or hear on the radio. The country voted for change and for better or worse is getting it.

President Obama is truly an American success story, that fact can't be argued. This doesn't mean we have to agree with his ideology or believe that he is an ethical or well meaning man.

B. Johnson| 4.16.09 @ 2:49PM

Most of the powers that the Oval Office and Congress have have been delegated to them by the Constitution-ignoring MSM, not the Constitution as the Founders had intended.

jeffW| 4.16.09 @ 2:54PM

Tryth,
It's Obama's lying crooked, big goverment, Chicago politic half I hate. I don't know what color that half is so maybe you could tell me if I'm a racist or just hate ignorant "crackers". Get real, yes, the people arguing, calling him a muslim, Arab, Illegal Immigrant, Kenyan, whatever do weaken our argument with no proof to back up their words. Kind of like all the nuts that slammed George Bush without anything to back it up (Dan Rather). There are a few on this site that use those arguments but most people here are just against the direction he is taking us. We are against big goverment, increased spending, and higher taxes (don't even start with the tax breaks, when he lets W's expire it will wipe them out)

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 2:59PM

Sorry Truthie, Your finely tuned ear for racism is like your dog whistle--- only dogs can hear it. To you, racism is an invisible, pervasive, secret gas. Its practitioners use code words and are self-deluded-- they don't even know that they are racists. So there is no defense against your accusations. You have an airtight paranoid system.

This is the thinking of a paranoid, not a rational person. And it is morally contemptible.

Sara| 4.16.09 @ 3:10PM

T Hurts,

Before you call me a racist, I want you to know that my comment about Obama's understanding of history is backed up by Obama's twenty years attending the hate America and whitey "church" of Rev. Wright.

Obamamama| 4.16.09 @ 3:28PM

Those of my acolytes trolling around here, ahh, listen up, ya hear? Ahh, I admit I had help writing those bestsellers. My, ahh buddy Billy Ayers really wrote Dreams. He's the one who peppered them with allusions to the water, ahh the sea, like in his other writings. Ahh, I confess I can't even write my teleprompter scripts. Ahh, my, ahh buddy David Axelrod writes those, ahh, speeches. He also advised me to ahh, keep the ahh reverb on high to give my ahh, voice some extra ahh, resonance. Ya know...gravitas is what it's all about. Ahhhh...

Michele San Pietro| 4.16.09 @ 3:31PM

All Democratic presidents are arrogant. There is no remedy for this.

zoiram| 4.16.09 @ 3:47PM

Truth,
I agree 100%! These crazy, right-wingers cannot accept the fact that finally we have a President who can actually pronounce the word Nuclear the correct way! The fact that we have a very smart man in the White House and he's African-American is eating them! The man is doing a lot to get us out of this mess that Mr. Bush left behind and these crazy right-wingers refuse to help. Why? Could it be that they cannot accept the fact that they lost and that most of America wanted to see change.

Sara| 4.16.09 @ 3:56PM

Zoiram - will you please let Obama know there are not 57 states and also please tell him the world "privacy" is not "piracy." Thanks.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 3:57PM

Zoidberg says,
"The man is doing a lot to get us out of this mess that Mr. Bush left behind and these crazy right-wingers refuse to help." When I see a man digging a hole we'll all be stuck in, I'm not likely to help him. Isn't it ironic that the same people who went nuclear over Bush's deficits (which were steadily declining) now cheer on a four-times-greater deficit as a wonderful salvation for the country? And the same condemnation for you as for truthie-- calling people racist is a either a dishonest cheap shot or a delusion, unless you're referring to David Duke, Jeremiah Wright, or Al Sharpton.

Peter McGrath| 4.16.09 @ 4:13PM

It's not the arrogance of the CMC (Chief Moral Coward) that bothers me as much as his cynicism. He must know - from a simple review of the history of the 20th century - that Socialism has been an abject failure in every society which has adopted it. The poverty, misery, and degradation Socialism inflicts on all except an elite few is manifest.

Further, America has led the fight against the more virulent strains of socialism (Nazism, Fascism, Communism) and has done more for the benefit of mankind than any other nation in the history of the world.

Obama is not a fool. He knows the above to be objectively true. But he ignores the truth to pursue an agenda that is driven by his ego and lust for power. He is abetted by other hardened, leftist elites who pursue self-aggrandizement and personal power in the same way that Christians pursue personal salvation.

Obama - being as wet behind the ears as they come, and having been weaned politically by the likes of Alinskyites and victim mongers like Ayres and Wright - could never have been expected to stand up to the Pelosi-Reid-Schumer wing of the party.

Anyone who hoped otherwise was deluded.

Luckily, the bloom is coming off the rose. Americans are getting wise to this glib fast talker. His political capital is already being chipped away. It's only a matter of time before the teleprompter can no longer hide from the mainstream what a vocal minority can see already.

Pascal Zamprelli| 4.16.09 @ 4:17PM

America screws up royally, over and over and over again throughout history, and the President isn't allowed to admit it? You'd all rather he pretend America hasn't been arrogant and derisive in its foreign policy? When and where America has done wrong, he should and must say so. He's a statesman, not a cheerleader.

But you would rather he project the fantasy of American exceptionalism. The cliches must be accurate: the truth hurts and ignorance is bliss. Well here's another: the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

Thank god you finally have a President who can admit that America is not infallible.

zoiram| 4.16.09 @ 4:20PM

little leo,
Do you believe everything that Hannity, Crowley, the crying baby, Glenn Beck and the Lord himself, Rush Limbaugh? Bush's deficits were steadily declining? Good Lord man, he was given a surplus when he took over office and in less than two years, he wasted it and that meant that he doubled the deficit! Digging a hole that we'll be stuck in, nice phrase. I like the other one where you say that our children and grand-children will be paying all of his spending. Where were you when Mr. Bush was spending out of his mind? Did you raise an uproar? Did you organize a tea party? or did you praise the Lord that Bush was your President? You can't have it both ways, oh wait a minute, yes you can because you guys on the right are always right!!!

Michael| 4.16.09 @ 4:22PM

It seems that the only criticism that can be leveled at President Obama is that he is not a flag waving patriot. It appears that, unlike most Americans, he realises that America is fallable. That they have made mistakes and, in the case of Guantanamo Bay, comitted crimes.

I ask you this, was anything he said wrong? I mean in regards to historical context and not just because you think a President should only praise his country. And I do not mean his reference to the ending to World War II because that was clearly a figure of speech and too take it literally clearly shows that you aare grasphing at straws

Dave H| 4.16.09 @ 4:22PM

Just for the record: One becomes editor of any law school's Law Review by sucking up to the faculty and higher classmen who decide who gets the job next. It requires no managerial skill and is largely a ceremonial position, except he gets last decision on which articles and notes get published ("critical theory," aka Marxism, usu. gets preferences) and which don't. The actual work is usually done by others, e.g. notes editors, articles editors, managing editor, etc., staff members, etc.

The actual Law Review Editor position requires no talent except knowing which cheek to buss and when.

Warrior| 4.16.09 @ 4:22PM

zoiram, many keep mentioning just how smart the president is. I would argue that perception must play a part in this. After all, and only as an example, the village idiot could be looked at as a genius if someone were a total moron. If by chance those darned college transcripts arrive, maybe your statements could be proven. Alas, they must be stuck in the same cavern with John Kerry's complete military records.

Sara| 4.16.09 @ 4:24PM

Zamprelli - sure a US President can say what ever he wants in the US. But, only Carter and now Obama, has gone dissing their country and people to foreigners. This weakens Obama's hand in negotiations. Obama is operating in the past of a political campaign he already won, which means he is not cutting a valid path to the future for the US in foreign relations. As a radical activist Obama's teleprompter is real good at dissing the US. As an executive with zero experience, Obama is a bad negotiator on behalf of the US. You have to love the US to fight for it in face of foreigners who love their countries and fight for their people.

bbsnews| 4.16.09 @ 4:26PM

Reading this article and the comments, I now get a real sense of just how timely DHS's report about right-wing extremism really is in this country.

I haven't seen this many wingnuts out since 1994.

Karl| 4.16.09 @ 4:30PM

Kate,

You may have won the battle, but you WILL lose the war...

Pascal Zamprelli| 4.16.09 @ 4:47PM

Sara - as someone who lives outside the U.S., I really believe that admitting mistakes can only help the U.S. in its foreign policy. Honesty goes a long way toward building trust, which is the essential ingredient in any relationship, between people or between nations. America has done a lot of good in the world and still does, and foreigners know that. But unfortunately, when a U.S. leader willfully ignores the bad, people are less likely to consider the good.

Finally, with information having become unrestrained by national borders, a President who has a different message within the U.S. than the one he presents elsewhere would will very quickly be called out as a double-talking hypocrite.

I truly hope I didn't sound anti-American with my first post. (My father is American and I'm a dual US/Canadian citizen). It's just that for those of us on the outside, the America-can-do-no-wrong mindset is just so frustrating, because we sincerely believe it represents everything that is wrong about US foreign policy, and casts a shadow over everything that is right about it.

Jack Kincaid| 4.16.09 @ 4:47PM

The truth is always more complicated than just black-and-white. Like 90% of these comments are so absurdly one-sided it's hard to take them seriously.

The assumption that Obama got where he got because of affirmative action, for one. The assumption in Mr. Tyrell's piece that America is always right, and that it's weak to admit any wrongdoing, ever (try doing this yourself for awhile, and see if people will take you seriously).

Then there is a lot incredibly trivial criticism, like Obama grammar errors and factual errors. I dare anyone here to take every such mistake Obama ever made in his public life and stack them against George W. Bush and see who's got the taller stack. Oh, and double Obama's, to take into account that Bush was in the public eye for much longer. He is still at a fraction of Bush.

Now, before the hate starts spewing my way, let me say this. I think Obama has plenty of problems and has done many things wrong. Take the laughable tax issues of his top appointments. I even think the guy IS arrogant. But so was Bush. In any case I think some level of arrogance is needed to reach high office.

As for all the crazy stuff Obama has done in terms of government intervention, sure it worries me. I'm a Democrat and yet I believe in small government and fiscal discipline. Too bad the last 8 years saw an explosive growth in federal deficits and incredible increases in government power (executive branch especially).

But I do believe Obama has to do SOMETHING about the crisis we're in. His plan sounds a lot better than the Republican alternative -- stop all spending (which all economists think would prolong the pain) and lower taxes (I thought we did that for 8 years and yet look where we are?).

In any case I think being viciously spiteful of the president at the expense of factual accuracy is not helpful. I cringed when the left wing did it to Bush and oversimplified what he did right and wrong, and I cringe now at many of the comments here.

Peter McGrath| 4.16.09 @ 5:06PM

Dear Pascal -

You deride the "fantasy of American exceptionalism" but in doing so you ignore reality.

America is the best hope for the world.

Were it not for our great nation, Europe would have remained enslaved under vicious tyrannies responsible for the mass murder of whole populations (Nazism under Hitler, Communism under the USSR).

The world would not have a model of a working, free society which places capital and the means of production in the hands of individuals and groups of individuals working together (i.e., corporations).

Nations like Japan and Germany adopted our model and are now societies which contribute to the advancement of mankind and not to tyrannization.

Our capitalistic system, albeit imperfect, has produced the greatest practical advances in science, technology, and medicine that the world has ever seen.

Becuase of America, the world as a whole is experiencing personal wealth and freedom on a scale which was incomprehensible only 50 years ago.

Our country, despite having 5% of the world's population, contributes a whopping 30% to the world's economic output.

We didn't achieve this exceptionalism through government planning.

We did it through freedom. Free markets. Individual freedom. Creative individuals, working with others, meeting needs in the market.

Our CMC (Chief Moral Coward) has excelled at telling half-wits whatever it is they want to hear and getting their votes. But he's never met a payroll and is a demonstrated failure in the free market.

I will admit that our exceptionalism is not guaranteed (freedom is the exeption, worldwide, not the rule).

Hence, the revolt against what the CMC proposes. He will fail. America will succeed.

Warrior| 4.16.09 @ 5:15PM

Bravo Mr. Kincaid. It has taken two parties to dig a hole this deep.

Tim| 4.16.09 @ 5:52PM

Obama is a Kenyan who hid the fact he was foreign born very well and got himself elected.

But if he wasn't so anti American and Anti Organized religion and not such a transparent socialist lusting to control every aspect of our lives I wouldn't give a hoot where he was born.

But the fact that he got elected under false pretence and with the help of a corrupt Federally funded organization like Acorn who stole thousands of votes in key states and BS'd thousands of people and the fact that he was born in Kenya only adds to the reason why the average person wants this clown out of office ASAP.

His blackness is actually an insult to the millions of long suffering USA African Americans who deserve a better representative in the White House.

The real shame here is that when all the smoke clears and all the bongs are discarded, Obama will leave a stain that the American Blacks will have to live with and it is really not fair to them at all given their American history.

But this is what happens when a "Savior" is created by the biased media and Acorn and the other fringe Left-socialist Loones that could really care less for the plight of the American Blacks but only care for power and control for themselves.

Peter McGrath| 4.16.09 @ 5:53PM

Dear Warrior -

Indeed, the profligacy of both parties has dug the hole we now face.

The open question is whether to dig the hole to a depth where our economy and freedom lie in a comfortable new grave.

I would propose that we stop digging.

Somehow, we Americans can do without "free" healthcare. We can manage without doubling payouts to government school unions, and "spreading the wealth" to the other public sector unions nationwide.

We'll manage with fossil fuels, for the time being, until the market finds a solution to our energy needs. Somehow, raising taxes on energy doesn't seem particularly helpful at this juncture.

And, surely, we can get along without trillions in bail-outs to failed financial and insurance institutions.

Maybe a good start would be to close down Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac and get the federal government the hell out of the mortgage and real estate markets, now and forever.

We've got to start somewhere, don't we?

With the foxes in the henhouse, though, it looks like fixing the problem will have to wait, at least until November 2010.

John Curry| 4.16.09 @ 5:56PM

Wing Nut Tea Party! You guys are SCARY!

Gin789| 4.16.09 @ 5:57PM

Lets get all the facts straight. No one spends a million dollars to hide their records unless they are not legal. He did not write any of his books his friend Ayers did. He got into all those top notch schools because of affirmative action Someone big has been behind this piece of trash for a long time or else he would already have been exposed for the FRAUD he is.

Chatman| 4.16.09 @ 6:02PM

The empty, ideological criticisms leveled here dismiss the need to persuade Obama’s audience, which is not comprised of Americans. A President speaking to non-Americans is not supposed to repeat how great America is. His job is to make them want to cooperate with us. Humility and contrition are two effective ways to do this… saying “sorry” works well to heal frayed marriages and damaged international relations. What conservatives are so fond of characterizing a “liberal self-hate” is actually a comprehensive understanding of our history, untainted by self-aggrandizing jingoism. Understanding that we, as a nation, have not always behaved as well as we should is not self-hate; it’s meaningful self-reflection. Politicians willing to drop the façade of national infallibility earn their nation enormous respect in international circles. This is a fact little understood by reactionary but synthetic “patriots,” who seem to believe a President’s job overseas is to wear flag lapels and sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at every public address. We are no longer able to police the world unilaterally. Why not cajole the world into doing so by showing a little humility, rather than beating them over the head with meaningless truisms about American “freedom” and “democracy?”

I note that Tyrell has declined to cite or quote any of Obama’s speeches in Europe, which are hardly as “anti-American” as most conservative commentators claim.

Ders| 4.16.09 @ 6:09PM

Wow. You people are so, incredibly, unapologetically idiotic it's not even funny. Obama is overly zealous in his quest for foreign acceptance, and is far from perfect. But I assure you; he is vastly more intelligent than any of the moronic commenters here.

And to Dan H, whom I quote, "The actual Law Review Editor position requires no talent except knowing which cheek to buss and when. " It is clear to me that you, sir, are most likely not an attorney, and if you are, did not do well in law school. Thus the hatred for those who have done much better than you. Don't hate others because you don't want to admit to yourself that you're an unqualified, jealous zealot.

America needs to fight for it.| 4.16.09 @ 6:22PM

Starting a war for no reason, because you dont have to risk your own life.

George W Bush is about the worse form of life on planet earth. Death for profit for Arms dealers, and rich Bankers, who plays both sides.

Americans need not to wonder about who is responsible, but how to take control from the Jewish Bankers, who Bankrupted Europe before moving to America to destroy the richest country on earth.

The IMF the world Bank deliberately trap Countries into a never ending Debt. They have the Largest economy in the world, because Americans allowed it to happen.

The Federal Reserve is no more than the biggest criminal outfit in the History of the World.

You want your country back you have to fight for it. Americans have been busy fighting the wrong enemy. Leave the Arabs alone they will leave you alone.

Who is running your country is the problem and it's not Obama. Obama is trying not to get murdered by the people who killed JFK, and Lincoln, for doing what America needs to do now but you have to back the government, and fight for Independence all over again.

Student| 4.16.09 @ 6:23PM

Obama was only critiscizing bush and the republicans. I think jon Stewart really summed repubs patriot thing well when he said "they love this country they just hate half the people living in it"

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.16.09 @ 6:45PM

Calling conservatives a small minority is a misnomer. John McCain won 45% of the popular vote in the last election.

People were looking for change when they elected Barak Hussein Obama. I do believe a portion of them will help vote him out in 4 years. By then, they will have had enough time to extricate the 12 inch diameter screw from their posterior.

Todd| 4.16.09 @ 7:13PM

The leftist trolls are out on full force on this thread, they got their marching orders no doubt. Apparently Student has not learned to use spellcheck yet and thinks Jon Stewart is a legitimate source of news. We don't hate half the people living here, just really sick of the parasites of society and the useless tools like yourself.

Todd| 4.16.09 @ 7:17PM

Also sick of the politicians they vote for who trample all over the Constitution and destroy the limited Government Republic this nation was founded on of which Obama is the most prominent now along with Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, etc.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 7:35PM

Zoidberg, I was complaining when Bush was increasing the deficit, although every president has done so in time of war. Now that it's being done at four times the rate, I'm complaining four times as much. Unlike you, I am consistent.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 7:35PM

Zoidberg, I was complaining when Bush was increasing the deficit, although every president has done so in time of war. Now that it's being done at four times the rate, I'm complaining four times as much. Unlike you, I am consistent.

stmichrick| 4.16.09 @ 7:50PM

'Truth Hurts' once again demonstrates how poorly informed he is when he repeats the fiction that Fox News sponsored the tea parties. As if that would de-legitimize the message.

Bob Tyrell well enunciates the absurdity of Obama's European kiss-ups as liberal arrogance. I would take it a step further. It is wishful thinking. These countries, France and Germany, whose governments objected to W pursuing jihadists were taking money from Saddam at the time! And promptly were replaced by pro-American leadership in the persons of Merkel and Sarkozy!

When a 'clean and articulate' conservative leader emerges all this anti American posturing will be reversed.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 8:00PM

Zoidberg, I was complaining when Bush was increasing the deficit, although every president has done so in time of war. Now that it's being done at four times the rate, I'm complaining four times as much. Unlike you, I am consistent.

ozzie| 4.16.09 @ 8:12PM

As an Australian, living in Australia, who has a high regard for the US created by its founding fathers and built by its pioneers, it is obvious that Obama is the least American president the US has ever had.

In saying that, I am not referring to his birthplace, wherever that might be. I am referring to his lack of real knowledge of the country's history, lack of empathy with the ideals of its founders and the people who actually built the country, lack of understanding of the people who generate its wealth today (and no, that is not the government, nor its public servants), and no inherent respect and admiration for its military, which has been the source of freedom not just for the US but for much of the world.

As if that is not enough, the man has no knowledge of business, science or technology (an unfortunate and not uncommon consequence of choosing a lawyer as president).

Incidentally, how, given all of this, he can be deemed especially intelligent, is a mystery. It is an amazingly vacuous intelligence. The fact that some people believe they can divine this intelligence from his pronunciation (see zoiram) or his speeches, or his voice in delivering them, says an awful lot about their own intelligence and judgement, or lack thereof.

Any country whose national leader has the characteristics noted above is in a disastrous situation. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the US is so important to the world that a politically imploding US is a disaster for everyone.

Contrary to the assertions of some correspondents here, it is not the job of any national leader to "make them (other countries) want to cooperate with us". It is the job of a nation's leaders to defend the interests of their nation. Not the interests of the world, not the interests of a religion (and certainly not a religion that has minority status in their country). The job of the president of the US is to protect the interests of the US.

In some cases that means seeking cooperation, in other cases using force, and in other cases declining to accept claims or proposals from others (eg the corrupt UN or the EU bureaucracy). You can only get cooperation from countries where it is either in their interests or their disposition to cooperate.

The latter group includes countries like Australia, the UK, Canada and Israel, ie countries for which Obama clearly has little time (because their values are reasonably similar to those of the US that he repudiates).

Despite the puerile, undergraduate rubbish being promoted about humility (in very short supply in this White House) and "saying sorry", other countries choose to cooperate, or not, based on their judgements of their own self interest and how it will be served.

If they think that a trade agreement is in their interest, they will cooperate irrespective of whether they think you are humble or not. If they think they are likely to get clobbered by the US for following some policy, they will cooperate (see Libya's abandonment of its nuclear program after the invasion of Iraq by Bush II). If they think they can strengthen their own power and influence by building nuclear weapons without any serious cost or damage from the rest of the world, then they will do so (see Iran, North Korea). No amount of being humble (of which Obama is incapable, but seeks to act out by traducing his own country) or saying "sorry" will make one wit of difference.

Many, perhaps most, politicians are dishonest but at least many of them are competent in running their country. Obama raises dishonesty and hypocrisy to absurdly new heights, while surrounding himself with others equally incompetent in conducting the affairs of the nation, but competent in both the acceptable (political spin) and unacceptable (corrupt vote buying) arts of politics. Almost none of them has a clue about the real world - but they are let loose to try and deal with it.

Future generations will record this as a very strange period in the history of the United States, and one that had disastrous repercussions for the world as a whole, not just the US.

NterthaW| 4.16.09 @ 8:20PM

This article has absolutely zero substance to it. How many times does he have to repeat himself? The message of this article would have been more effectively communicated in a few sentences. And I don't even like Obama. But how is this ego-stroking, masturbatory article less arrogant than Obama?

Mikki| 4.16.09 @ 8:25PM

To all of you who think his statement "I won" is cool enough to repeat: Obamo only won because republicans and independents voted for him to teach the republicans a lesson. Right now they are having buyers remorse and so are a lot of democrats who voted for him. He will not win again. Americans are waking up to what his agenda is. Wait until all 30 million illegals are given amnesty and bring ten relatives of each to this country for the tax payers to support. Things will really start to happen then. Good luck to all of you who don't know your history as history is now starting to repeat its self. He has no experience to lead the country and all he does he talk about how bad Americans are. What kind of a leader is that?????

Alan Brooks| 4.16.09 @ 8:29PM

"America has to fight for it"
Daphne Kenward. You TAMPON-BRAINED bimbo.

SC Patriot| 4.16.09 @ 8:38PM

I think Obama finds the USA easy to revile...because he is NOT a Native Born Citizen...why else spend $Millions$ to hide your birth certificate, passport records, college transcripts....

He and the anti-freedom, anti-liberty, socialist scum he has brought into the White House are an insult to our nation and an embarassment before the world...and an encouragement to our enemies. This man is dangerous, very, very dangerous.

TJefferson| 4.16.09 @ 8:53PM

You're all missing the point. It's George W. Bussshhh's fault, all of it (unless it is good). He has taken possession of the Teleprompter, really, he has BO's birth certificate, and won't give it back. Have you seen Bussshhh in tv lately? No he is under deep cover controlling pBO.

Big Leo| 4.16.09 @ 9:25PM

Ozzie, great post
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you ozzie, who knows more about America and what it really is than most Americans.

Omilade| 4.16.09 @ 10:27PM

Your slip is showing, R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr.

Actually the only arrogant one is you....and the rest of these idiot supporters who've left comments on this board. So arrogant about this Western disaster that you can't even see the real picture. You are all arrogant, highly prejudiced and resistant to change. What do you really know, after all? Not a darn thing. All you do is conjecture about what you think you know, while continuing to divide this nation ideologically between Dems and Reps. Screw the division...the man is trying to fix a mess your completely uneducated Republican non-president Bush led this nation into. How's that for a lack of education? That fool can't even speak proper English. I grew up in the ghetto and can speak far more eloquently than that short-sighted retard can.

So unless you are planning to run for president in 2012, why don't you keep your biased and stupid opinions to yourself? You're not helping; you're just gossiping. Retard. Just because Obama sees things as they are and refuses to glorify this country's wrongdoings doesn't make him a bad president.

I hope you rot in hell for writing this and trying to turn people against THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THIS COUNTRY. Stupid bastards.

Thank you for your time,
Obama Supporter FOR LIFE

Michael| 4.16.09 @ 10:29PM

I would ask that anyone who thinks that "all" economists favor stimulus spending and that we "must" do something about the economy visit the websites of the economists who do not agree with those presumptions. Try Cafe Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises institute and George Reisman for starters.

Todd| 4.16.09 @ 10:31PM

I second Big Leo in congratulating Ozzie for a great post, one of the best I have had the pleasure of reading on this site.

Todd| 4.16.09 @ 10:35PM

Which was followed by one of the most hateful, ignorant posts I have come across by Omilade who probably works for Acorn. Maybe not quite as hateful and ignorant as Dave Mathews but very close.

Die Rechte Ecke| 4.16.09 @ 10:49PM

I don't know about all the trolls from the Kos - but I'm busy trying to learn how to speak "Austrian."
Obama says the Kangaroos there are huge.
Tschuss und Gruss Gott!

Donald Conner| 4.16.09 @ 10:49PM

Calling all communists, socialists, leftists, left-liberals, progressives, Obamaphiles, and dual-nationals!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!:

I'm only 63, and I have never seen, read, or heard of an American President bowing to anyone until Sheikh B. Hussein Obama bowed to the King of Wahabi Islamic Saudi Arabia, which I very clearly and unmistakeably saw him do on television. The stench of his obsequity was overpowering. Yes indeed, those childhood lessons do sink deep, and they did form his fundamental personality and belief stuctures. Frameworks which support and impel him to this very minute.

America is not exceptional? Why do so many die suffocated in shipping containers, drown at sea, and otherwise risk life and limb just to get here? Why do people who want to come here legally wait as long as 10 years and even longer? Why do we have 25 or more million illegal aliens here? If cultures are all equal, as many academicians and others claim, why do their members leave them and come here? What draws them to such a place as this? They must be insane. There can be no other reason. Can there?

Dual American-Canadian\Israeli\any country citizenship? B.S. Either you're an American or you're not; you cannot honestly serve Man and Mammon. Nor can you be loyal to two countries.
One or the other, but not both..

Sheikh Obama's intelligence? That is suspect. But we know he worked for one of Chicago's worst slumlords - Tony Rezko - as a lawyer, so that may indicate some modicum of intelligence.

However, it says far more about his moral compass, or rather lack thereof. How a "man of the 'people' " ("people" of elite institutions, I think he means) and "community organizer" (i.e. charity leech) could even tolerate being in the presence of a creature so wretched as Tony Rezko is beyond the ken of most people.

No doubt any "enlightened" leftist can rationalize that for we hoi polloi. Not explain. But rationalize? Yes. Particularly when the people who suffered the most from Rezko's criminal behavior were black, as Sheikh Obama identifies himself. It must be "understood". You'll find a rathole - you always do.

Racists are we? What do you think Barack was listening to for 20 years in Jeremiah Wright's unholy "church" besides "Goddamn America".? What other rascist, anti-American filth did he spew in Obama's ear for 20 YEARS?. What else did that sorry excuse who was a U.S. Marine whom The 4th Messiah claimed as his role model, mentor, and spiritual guide "teach" him?

I fervently prayed that Condoleeza Rice would run. She was and is still 100 times as qualified to be President as Obama, to say nothing of a vastly superior moral plane and a higher native intelligence. Far better looking than him or Bush too. "Sexist"? I am a man, and I can still see, even though I have been married to the same woman f0r 27 years. Beauty has no race or skin color to me.

His political history in Chicago is that he deeply admired Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers and other such scum. These two unrepentant murderers helped him begin his Illinois campaign, an effort he began in their home.

He's "not going to judge what they may have done 40 years ago"? Bombing the U.S. Capitol and "wishing we could have done more" are acceptable to him? They must be. Or he would have renounced them and their actions. There can be no sub-atomic particle splitting on those issues.

He knew who they were and what they had done. Or are we to believe that he taught Constitutional law at Harvard and yet didn't do his homework concerning people he founded his political aspirations on in his state Senate bid? That notion is sublimely incredible. Their words call for censure of the harshest kind, and their bombings cry out for lethal punishment.

He authored not one bill that passed in the Illinois Senate. He supported every bill that in any way would act to reduce access to firearms and ammunition and their use. He authored not one bill that passed in the U.S. Senate, where he continued his 100% support for any and all anti-firearms and ammuntion bills. Some understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the statements and intent of the Founding Fathers!

Two years in each body is his paltry political experience. A total of four years in which he accomplished absolutely nothing. Zip.Zero. Except his fawning overtures to the Kennedy-Kerry faction and that ilk.

Yes, you goofballs did win the Presidential elections. It is manifest that Sheikh Obama's world view is "Everything within the state. Nothing outside the state" (credit to Benito Mussolini ca. 1922) and that you glory in it. So be it.

If the rest of us did not have to suffer along with you, as you will, I would say: " you have what you wanted, you deserve it, you earned it, and now you're going to live with it ". However, it's not that simple. Many good, honest, decent, hard working people will be dragged down with you in that leaking, raggedy, rusty, worn out hulk you call "progressivism", (whatever that may be at any given moment).

The 4th Messiah's (Moses (?), Jesus, Mohammed (?); being in that order the first three) politics are not founded in the classical liberalism we once had in this country. They are founded in something ugly that has twisted his mind and soul.
Perhaps it's his abandonment by his alcoholic father. Or his mother's behavior after his father abandoned them.

We nearly had an extremely fortunate event occur some years ago. Nasty Bill Clinton got drunk in Florida, fell down some stairs, and sadly broke just his ankle. If only the "pragmatic" ubermenschen Sheik Obama will follow suit and break his neck, perhaps Biden will move slightly to the right of center-left, and America can begin to function again. Oh, if only!!

Read "Obamanation" by Joe Corsi, Jr. Then come back to make your case. Check the footnotes. He's documented everything that can be traced. Except Sheikh Barack Hussein Obama's birth certificate and passport and college transcripts. Sheikh Barack is extraordinarily negatively sensitive about those, isn't he? Do or did you ever wonder why? The rest of us have and still do. What is he hiding and why??

Misspellings? Mea culpa.

stmichrick| 4.16.09 @ 11:15PM

Wow.

Omilade's post set a new record for ignorance here; surpassing all the other trolls.

Was there a point submerged in all that venom?

Osamas Pajamas| 4.16.09 @ 11:55PM

Assume for a moment that OhBummer is our first African-American president rather than our first Arab-American president. He's so bad that he is also our last African-American president, and that's too bad, for there are black Americans far better qualified than OhBummer to be president.

Donald Conner| 4.16.09 @ 11:55PM

OZZIE from Australia: Good on ya'! Fair dinkum!! Drink a Foster's for me. A big un.

OMILADE: In that you present yourself as a linguist of the first order, and claim you speak so extraordinarily well, you suffer a remarkable paucity of words for such an apparently well educated man. I guess you are a man- your gender is not distinguishable by your name . If not, please accept my apologies.

Why don't you go back to the ghetto you came from and teach those who mumble their street talk incessantly in the misguided belief they are actually communicating. To educated people, it's just a misbegotten argot that only street animals and criminals can undertand. You would be accomplishing three wonderful things:1- educating your fellow citizens in the proper enunciation, spelling, and use of the English language, 2- you won't be tortured by reading things that are true and severely anger you, and 3- The Post's computer space and our time will not be wasted with the childish nonsense and gibberish you produce.

I know my mother and father, and am not a bastard, as I have his last name. Do you know your own?

I surely will rot in hell for some of the things I've done. I expect to see you there too, if your rabid rantings on this site are any indication of your personality and behavior.

Stupid? Please, you think too much of yourself. As Bruce Lee said in the movie "Enter the Dragon" when confronted by an obnoxious character: "Don't raise yourself."

If you had any cogent arguments you would have raised them instead of calling we who disagree with you "arrogant" and "stupid bastards."

Arrogant? No question about it. You certainly are. I'm sure people find you pleasant to be around. When you're asleep, anyway.

Richard Rendine| 4.17.09 @ 12:05AM

Oh, yea you are right the Democrats shatter precedent all the time as President Obama did in his criticism of some aspects of US life. And , of course in your logic, this is much more of a crime that Bush's shattering the common good inherent in American principles by the use of torture . Oh, excuse me that is "trivial" compared to your view of Obama's criticisms. Sounds like the attack made on Jimmy Carter on his malaise comment of many, many years ago, which shows how retro grade, trite and unoriginal your comments are.

BTW, I just returned from a trip to northern Italy and have some questions for you: How come Italians of all ages wear jeans and look elegant while Americans look so dowdy, how do the Italians keep their roads looking so good, no rusting bridges or broken guard rails, no sand and debris all over the roads, no potholes and their toll barriers all automatically controlled, or how efficient and clean their public transportation is. Of course, you can make those observations also, that is if you could see for yourself, but, of course, that is unlikely given that you have wrapped your self in the American flag.

pete the mediocre| 4.17.09 @ 1:17AM

Richard, why did you come back? I think it would be better for all concerned if you just moved over there permanently. No Potholes! Just imagine a superior culture like that!

Denise-Mary| 4.17.09 @ 1:46AM

"Leave the Arabs alone they will leave you alone. "

Uhmmm, I think Brigitte Gabriel might take issue with your remark. Not to mention about 5.3 million Israelis.

Have you read the Qur'an before posting your comment? Might want to do that. I have.

Jeremiah| 4.17.09 @ 1:49AM

Yes, Richard, your butt does look BIG in those jeans, fatso.

Denise-Mary| 4.17.09 @ 1:51AM

Truth Hurts -

Admit it - Napolitano hired you to post here, right?

Julia| 4.17.09 @ 1:53AM

If Obummer is so dang smart--why doesn't he release ANY of his school records? I don't recall hearing anything about his academic performance. I think he was a dummie--he was a cokehead, afterall. Bet his grades make George W. look like a genius. Ha ha.

MT| 4.17.09 @ 1:58AM

Truth Hurts is Jeremiah or Interloper--notice those trolls aren't here anymore? Out with the old, in with the new. The racist rant makes me think it could be Interloper, but it's smart like Jeremiah. Any ideas, people?

Lynne| 4.17.09 @ 2:02AM

Osamas Pajamas--if a strong Black Conservative ran for president (like the brilliant Thomas Sowell) I'd vote for him/her in a heartbeat. It's Obummer's ideology I detest.

chatman| 4.17.09 @ 2:34AM

@ Ozzie

“I am referring to his lack of real knowledge of the country's history, lack of empathy with the ideals of its founders and the people who actually built the country, lack of understanding of the people who generate its wealth today (and no, that is not the government, nor its public servants), and no inherent respect and admiration for its military, which has been the source of freedom not just for the US but for much of the world.”

On what basis do you base these claims of ignorance? Have you read his writings?

“Contrary to the assertions of some correspondents here, it is not the job of any national leader to "make them (other countries) want to cooperate with us". It is the job of a nation's leaders to defend the interests of their nation.”

And since when did reflexive unilateralism and unabashed jingoism abroad protect a great nation’s “interests?” In a world inhabited by nations other than the United States, does it not make sense to give potential partners reason and incentive to also work in favor of our interests? How would unapologetic red-white-and-blue chest thumping abroad serve to “protect” American “interests?” How does a little humility in Europe undermine our interests?

“In some cases that means seeking cooperation, in other cases using force, and in other cases declining to accept claims or proposals from others (eg the corrupt UN or the EU bureaucracy). You can only get cooperation from countries where it is either in their interests or their disposition to cooperate.”

So you propose either use of force or total disengagement with the world’s second largest economic force, a force almost equal to the size of the United States? You would reject collaboration with U.N., which represents the billions of people living in the rest of the world, because their interests do not always align with ours? What a provincial and arrogant worldview.

“The latter group includes countries like Australia, the UK, Canada and Israel, ie countries for which Obama clearly has little time. “

The collective populations of the countries you name (including your homeland) constitute less than a third of the U.S. population, in total. You would advocate continuing “work” with them, while ignoring the billions populating the rest of the world. As “intelligent” as that sounds, I would remind you that military aid and political support to Israel has not declined under the Obama administration.

“… other countries choose to cooperate, or not, based on their judgements of their own self interest and how it will be served.”

It’s a truism to say that nations act in a self interested way. But the test of a real leader is to persuade nations that their interests are aligned with ours. That is rarely achieved by the arrogance, disengagement, and (possible use of force) advocated in your tired screed.

“Future generations will record this as a very strange period in the history of the United States, and one that had disastrous repercussions for the world as a whole, not just the US.”

Quite a dark prediction there Nostradamus; of course, none of us will really know until it’s over, right?

Chatman| 4.17.09 @ 3:41AM

@ Ozzie:

I also found these statement of yours interesting...

"I am referring to his lack of real knowledge of the country's history, lack of empathy with the ideals of its founders and the people who actually built the country..."

Who are those people Ozzie? What should we know about them? While I am pretty sure that Obama has learned more about them through his service in government than either of us, I am curious to hear your understanding of what the "ideals of the people who built this country" were.

"...lack of understanding of the people who generate its wealth today (and no, that is not the government, nor its public servants)"

Wealth generation is not ethically neutral. As much as conservatives claim to reflexively detest government, many of you would be appalled by the practices embraced by industries of the 1900's (child labor, price fixing), and the industries of today (purchasing legislators and agencies through K-Street lobbyists). Would you argue that the Sherman Act preventing monopolies, or the Securities and Exchange Act or 1934 protecting the accuracy of information flowing to the markets, were exercises inhibiting the principled creation of wealth? Were they illegitimate obstacles to capitalism, founded on the flawed premise of protecting the public from the sharpest or contemporary business practices?

"...and no inherent respect and admiration for its military, which has been the source of freedom not just for the US but for much of the world."

Obama's wartime budget calls for amounts roughly equal to what Bush requested for the Afghan war, while the 4% increase in the Pentagon budget has been committed to equipping soldiers with better counterinsurgency capabilities. Substituting the F-22 with the F-35 does not represent a repudiation of the need for a strong military. Indeed, even as most commentators have praised Obama's deference to the military in the recent pirate hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia, reflexive ideologues like yourself continue to baselessly disparage Obama's commitment to the national defense. I would be curious to know on what facts you base these ill-conceived views?

I note in passing that your commitment to military expansion was not one shared by many of the founders of this nation. Indeed, it was the "big government" advocates of the time (federalists such as John Adams) who most strongly favored the chartering of a national army and navy. Hence, I ask you again... what is it that you think the founders of this nation collectively thought that Obama has failed to empathize with?

William| 4.17.09 @ 4:12AM

"Retard. Just because Obama sees things as they are and refuses to glorify this country's wrongdoings doesn't make him a bad president.

I hope you rot in hell for writing this and trying to turn people against THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THIS COUNTRY. Stupid bastards.

Thank you for your time,
Obama Supporter FOR LIFE "

Thank you Reverend Wright. You may now wipe the spittle off of your microphone and sit down.

Adam| 4.17.09 @ 4:55AM

1) Not for nothing, but a lot of Austrians - for whatever reason - consider their version of Deutsch to be 'Austrian.'

2) What, exactly, is wrong with saying Abu Ghraib was a disgrace to the United States of America? Are you arguing that they weren't, or are you arguing that we shouldn't talk about it?

3) There is plenty to criticize, foreign and domestic, without having to use generic Liberal strawmen, like Jimmy Carter. You're a man of gravitas. It says so right below your column.

Larry| 4.17.09 @ 7:19AM

Now our apologist President is in Mexico, blaming the USA for the Mexican drug and weapons problems, and our "failed immigration policies", which he of course...inheirited. If he truly believes that his strategy of attrition for everything that ails the world, is going to be viewed as anything but weakness, by foreign leaders, is sophistry.

Barneycide| 4.17.09 @ 1:14PM

I agree with Chatman. This article should really be titled, "The Anguish of Our Loss". Mr. Tyrrell, you have way too many credentials to not see how oddly unwilling you are to support your own, inflammatory rhetoric with actual evidence. Perhaps the only explanation is the still burning soreness of your party having lost so badly in November.

Chatman's points are all bull's-eyes, so there's no need to repeat them. A few observations of my own, then:

Your thesis begins with the hyperventilating claim that Obama has "shattered precedent" and the implication that this is necessarily a bad thing. "Precedent shattering" can be either a good or bad thing, yet you assume that the reader will just mindlessly follow your incomplete logic without pause for question. My hope is that the typical AS reader is more curious than you assume him/her to be.

My biggest question to you, though, is about a curious choice you then made. You used a seven sentence passage from Obama's Strasbourg speech to prop up the centerpiece of your complaint:

"Said our president: 'Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." Yes, he said "derisive," and he continued: "On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common."

Yet you only inclued FIVE of the sentences, cutting these two out of the very middle of the passage:
"But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad..."

In place of these two critical sentences, you wrote, "...and he continued..." as though the passage was one, seamless criticism of America as opposed to a simultaneous CALLING OUT of Europe (on European soil, no less) for blaming America in both a "casual" and "insidious" fashion. Doesn't this central point bring a second side to what you carefully presented as an uninterrupted, anti-American rant? So why go to the trouble of scrubbing those sentences out of said rant's midsection? The explanation is obvious: it weakens your argument! Never mind that the president presents fault as being owned by both America AND Europe (and clearly continues to do so with the final half of the quote which you included, but oddly did not comment on), you had a point to make. Too bad that the complete text of the speech does not support your point.

Mr. Tyrrell, this is careful and clever REMOVAL of context (it can't even be called "quoting out of context") is simply dishonest writing, and is below a man with your resume. Perhaps you are so eager to feed the reader who shares your disappointment that you decided a minor sleight-of-hand was harmless. My own opinion is that, coming from a man with as much access to receptive and persuadible eyeballs as you have, it is, instead, shameful.

Julia| 4.17.09 @ 2:37PM

I notice that Obummer was careful not to bow and scrape before the Mexican President. He only does that for Muslims.

Donald Conner| 4.17.09 @ 2:59PM

CHATMAN and ADAM: You two blither, piss, and moan about Abu Ghraib and so-called "torture". What went on there is SOP for SEALS, Special Forces, and Rangers in training. Cold and wet. Bright lights. Loud noises. Humiliation. Fear of drowning. Ya-da Ya-da Ya-da. What puerile slobber you dribble.

All child's play after you've witnessed real torture up close and personal.

Torture is listening to somebody you know scream in the dark until he dies. Seeing a fire. Being unable to help him. It's going half a click at dawn and finding him tied spread-eagle to a tree. With barbed wire wrapped around his neck and torso and arms and legs so tightly the wire itself has cut nearly an inch into him.

Seeing a bloody corpse which has been skinned in narrow strips like a rabbit. Ribbons of skin laying on the ground around him. From the top of his head to the soles of his feet. Every square inch of skin peeled off. Seeing the bare muscles themselves. Skinned alive by cutting slices all over his entire body and pulling them off with a pair of pliers.

They first built a fire between his legs before the skinned him. His testicles and penis were burned completely away. His inner thighs were totally roasted. That was the fire we could see. That's why he screamed so loud when the fired started.

So shut your wretched traps until you've seen something like that firsthand. Then you'll know what torture really is, because until then you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

CHATMAN: You may not be old enough to recognize how utterly worn out your own screed is. I've read the same type of "hope for change" featuring different names and places with same liberal fascist point of view and same useless proposals for nearly 45 years.

You are all going to create a utopia where everything is hunky-dory and there will be no evil. Not in this universe you won't.

Not as long as man is still human. There will always be wicked people who do evil things. It on the rest of us to slow them down, stop them, or kill them, If that's too hard for you to grasp then you are in serious, serious trouble.

Yes, Chatman, sometimes things are just that simple. No Ph.D. required. Just sanity. Sanity is reality. Reality is seeing things as they really are and acting appropriately. Collaborating with nations that would gladly destroy us if they only could is insanity. A loss of touch with reality.

North Korea has mastered the art of "Meaningful Negotations". Alternately lying and implicitly threatening South Korea and now Japan they have stymied us for years. Jabber jabber jabber. When they get their missiles to go intercontinental then we are going to have to either strike or fold.

Yes, let's collaborate with them. Tell them they can strike any place they want and we won't hit back because we're afraid we'll lose more people in yet another strike. Better yet, let's just pull down Old Glory and run up the flag of the "People's Republic of North Korea."

They should have been hit when there was a smaller price to pay. A terrible price to be sure, but less than now and much, much more in the future.

"Who were these people Ozzie?" Your English teachers served you well but your history teachers failed most abjectly. You would better spend your time reading the biographies and works of The Ancients of Rome and Greece, Locke, Mill, and the Founding Fathers. Then you wouldn't ask such a facetious (and stupid) question. Wise up!

BARNEYCIDE: "Chatmans points are all bullseyes"?? If he were shooting he couldn'hit the broadside of a barn at 2 feet with a sawed off shotgun. (I can hit the X Ring at 600 yards with my .300 Weatherby). What you mistake for bullseyes is just the ass end of donkey going away from you. Besides, most of us watched and heard Dear Leader Sheikh Obama speak. We know what was left out.

But that was not anywheres nearly as an egregious an act as the President of the United States of America unbelieveably and obsequiously BOWING to the King of Saudi Arabia, the home of Wahabi Islamofacsism and nearly all the terrorists who murdered almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11. !!!!! To my knowledge no American President has ever bowed to anybody, nor should they. We got rid of that idiocy as a result of our Revolutionary War. To see it return in the person of someone as absolutely unqualified to be President as Barack Hussein Obama is revolting. Disgusting, Sickening. Vile. Degrading. Putrid. Embarrassing.
Our enemies now know all they need to know about him. So do we. He's a puke and a punk.

Misspellings? Mea Culpa.

Barneycide| 4.17.09 @ 3:24PM

"Besides, most of us watched and heard Dear Leader Sheikh Obama speak." Oh? How do you know this? What data shows that "most of us" watched the entirety of his speech. Would you really be willing to be money that over 50% of Americans watched that entire presentation? Would that 50%+ also apply to Obama opponents? Your claim comes fast and furious, but you then drop it and run from it like a little girl.

"We know what was left out."
Okay, then what about what was left out? That Obama also spent time admonishing Europe for its failures as he did America is of no consequence to you. But wait - it is! Otherwise, you wouldn't be so anxious to move on to your next point. Methinks thou dost protest too much. You are long on emotional language, Donald, but shouting more and using big, angry, words does not improve your argument - it only makes you louder and more bombastic.

Trail| 4.17.09 @ 6:18PM

Any POTUS who bows and scrapes to a Muslim is no president of mine. Shame on him!

MT| 4.17.09 @ 6:20PM

Ouch!

mt| 4.17.09 @ 6:20PM

Ouch!

MT| 4.17.09 @ 6:21PM

Ouch!

Smitty| 4.17.09 @ 6:22PM

Ouch!

MT| 4.17.09 @ 6:23PM

Ouch!

MT| 4.17.09 @ 6:24PM

Ouch!

Donld Conner| 4.17.09 @ 7:03PM

BARNEYCIDE: (Is that like suicide or homcide or is it your surname or first name or nom de plume?)

I ought to have clarified that first point. I would think that a large percentage of those who read The Spectator watched him. I watched as much as was presented on CNN and FOX.

I did hear him very gently chide our vaunted "allies" who have contributed so much to our "common cause" in the last 50 years (England excluded). They may be helpful under the table and behind the counter at times.

Yet there comes a point when it's time to put boots on the ground, pick a point, atttack it, take it, and move on to the next one. Just the Brit's, Aussies, Canucks, and Koreans, and a very, very few others have pulled any weight at all. It surprised me, as a matter of fact, that he did so at all. Cynic that I admittedly am, I put that part down to the "for public consumption" portion. His real ire is and always will be directed at America.

What you call "loud" "bombastic", "shoutng", and "emotional language" are just things you don't want to hear at all Of course they sound that way to you, poor thing. Especially when they strike at the marrow of the matter.

Your "Historic Figure" has exposed much more of himself than intended. That "not a bow" bow should set off alarm bells for anybody that has two brain cells that will work together. I am certain that is raising a good deal of anxiety in all true believers of the "Hope and Change" portion of the body politic.

In fact I'll bet it raised cinsiderable anxiety for even the dull normals on the left, let alone the high functioning like yourself. Unless you're in total denial, that is. I think it's called "cognitive dissonance". Lenin called it the "willing suspension of disbelief", or at least that's the attribution.

"Protest too much"? Knowing his history, shabby as he made it? Rezko, Wright, et. al.? Witholding his birth certificate, college records, passport? This is the behavior of a person with something to hide.

Just as "The War Hero" John F. Kerrey has kept his military and other records concealed from public. If it wasn't for Joe Corsi we'd know very little about about Obama, and only what "JFK" wanted us to know.

You may negatively criticize my reiteration of certain points. That will not change them, make them go away, or be any less truthful.

lila| 4.17.09 @ 9:14PM

I can't figure out why liberals are so angry and unhappy all the time, whether they win or lose. They are never happy. even now, their guy won and they are still crazy with anger.

Angel| 4.17.09 @ 11:23PM

Lila, liberalism is a mental illness--can't you see it? I sure as hell can--they are flat-out nuts. The inmates are running the asylum; God help us.

ruth| 4.17.09 @ 11:29PM

Mr. Conner; thank you for your service, and I am so very, very sorry that you have to live with those haunting memories. Your post broke my heart. God bless you and keep you, Sir.

Elazarus| 4.18.09 @ 1:11AM

What a great article and a great thread.

We have Ted Baxster as the leader of the free world who, instead of voicing "present" chooses to denigrate our country to the EU, Nato, Turkey, Mexico and I am sure something will be close to this in Triniday and Tobago.

Since we have done EVERYTHING wrong for so many years, anything Mr. Obama (D- Kenya) does will seem like a step forward.

I guess Chairman Maobama was right (err, left correct but not right)....We are the One we have been waiting for.

I feel like we had Carter in Stereo and now Obama (D-Kenya) in Hi Def. I know that Michelle my belle with be proud of some country.

Our biggest problem is that we do not have a person and/or a party to go up against this Saul Alinsky "Rules For Radicals" playbook. Well, we better find someone before the put the seal of death on Congress and we never get out of it.

The minds in the thread could be the backbone of a new wave of intelligent individuals not "beholden" to the rule makers.

Thank you

BlueDogTexan| 4.18.09 @ 3:17AM

It is so amusing to see this group of teabaggers talking of socialism, fascism and black helicopters. The right has truly gone off the deep end.

William| 4.18.09 @ 11:16AM

"I can't figure out why liberals are so angry and unhappy all the time, whether they win or lose. They are never happy. even now, their guy won and they are still crazy with anger. "

Lila, I think at heart they realize their own inadequacies, and resent those who are whole.

il Condor| 4.18.09 @ 12:40PM

"Lila, I think at heart they realize their own inadequacies, and resent those who are whole."

Light the AromaTherapy candles, liberal brethren: we've won! The conservatives have gone all new-age psycho-babble! Crystals, anyone?

Frank Carter| 4.18.09 @ 1:46PM

He was elected under affirmative action because it was "time" for a black president. Actually he was elected by default. The media abandoned Hillary. The country hated Bush and Republicans..so who was left......Pres. Obortion, our default president.

il Condor| 4.18.09 @ 1:48PM

You guys should try Devil Worship; hell, it's worked for us liberals!

Smitty| 4.18.09 @ 1:50PM

TEA PARTY, WASHINGTON, DC--July 4, 2009!!

Chief| 4.18.09 @ 1:55PM

Sure, BD Texan--conspiracy nuts like you liberal freaks who still think George W was responsible for 9/11. Talk about tin-foil hat time. Loons.

It's raining inside| 4.18.09 @ 3:54PM

Lazarous is back from the dead, woken up by a Jewish banker.

The Graduate| 4.18.09 @ 5:01PM

I get so sick of people complaining, everybody has an opinion, if you were all so smart then why are you the president... I thought so, not so smart afterall.. Spend your time coming up with solutions to get this country back on track instead of whining.

To God be the Glory!!!!!!

Drew| 4.18.09 @ 5:20PM

Why is it that when a Democrat is critical of Republican jingoism, they are called Anti-American? Then I would say you are all Anti-American because you do nothing but piss and moan about the fact that your failed policies are being thrown out, and people are not afraid to be critical of them! If the liberal plans are so bad, quit crying about it and put together a better plan! You conservative pansies do nothing but whine when you don't get your way! Grow up!

Angel| 4.18.09 @ 6:30PM

C'mon, liberals: Truth to Power-- screamed and ranted ad nauseam by liberal losers like you everywhere/Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism--Hillary Clinton/No Justice No Peace--another fascist liberal fave/and last but not least--FREEDOM OF SPEECH!! Get used to it, stupid losers and get over yourselves. We're here, we're sincere--you've got everything to fear! July 4 TEA PARTY, WASHINGTON DC.

fullmooner| 4.19.09 @ 12:24AM

iPod for the Queen? My 15 year old grandson has an iPod - saved the money he got for feeding cats for vacationing neighbors. in order to buy it.

As for the prime minister's gift - I could have told him they wouldn't work. I once ordered a video tape of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" from an outfit in Great Britain. Totally scrambled mess.

The minute he walked in the room - I could tell he was a real big spender. (On himself.)

Glad I 'm not on Obama's Christmas list.

MT| 4.19.09 @ 12:50AM

Forget Obama's Christmas list--it's his terrorist watch list you don't want to be on!

Larry| 4.20.09 @ 11:11AM

Maybe his problems stem from the influence of his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9563

A. Witness| 4.20.09 @ 1:56PM

The problem is not John Sullivan or any elected Senator. They are all just a product of a nation of Hypocrites. He like 99% of the politicians in our great nation have been reared by irresponsible parents.We the people of America have allowed small ungodly satanic agencies like the ACLU, to thrive and infect the mentality of our nation to accept their evil agendas. Acceptance to all that is unholy is an abomination to our Creator, and because we all know better, we are without excuse, and are now suffering the consequences of our ways. Oh yes, we can now rant and rave and perhaps even blame our Creator for the great tribulation our nation is now just beginning to suffer, but we only have ourselves to blame.Evil thrives and multiplies when good men do nothing to stop it, and that has been our warning now for thousands of years,but we paid no heed even though huge red flags were waving in our faces, by those we allowed to govern us in Washington for decades. We have become drunk with material wealth and possessions beyond belief, and through our own arrogance we have believed that we have accomplished all that America has by our own abilities and intelligence. Even now a man who's name should be spelled "A damn Insane Abomination" sits in the seat of our fate as president of our nation, a nation that has stepped back in time to repeat the fate of Sodom and Go-mora.How ironic is that!. A nation that has polluted the minds of its young and steered them away from their creator and down the road to the lake of fire and the possible destruction of their souls. Now as I listen day after day to the same rhetoric KRMG and the very few other media stations who spew out the truth of the on coming disaster about to engulf our nation. I wonder in amazement, of the power of our adversary who's name used to be the most honored, and image the most beautiful in all of our Creators realm,until corruption, tyranny and anarchy was found in him.what a corelation it also is to our country. As I say goodbye for now, you too can say goodbye to the America you once knew from your youth, for you are a nation now unprotected from God's legions of Angels until His Son returns to put everything back in its rightful and godly order, including His most awesome creation mans mind that has gone astray,and is invisibly stamped "OUT OF ORDER" for it is much to small to wonder off by itself.

Smorgasbord| 4.21.09 @ 12:09AM

OBAMA WANTS TO BE KING

All of the conservative blogs seem surprised when Obama does something that will heart the USA.  You either haven't figured out, or have forgotten, Obama does not want the USA to succeed.  If nothing else will convince you of this, him wanting a civilian police force UNDER HIS CONTROL that has as many members as the military, and funded equal to the military, should convince you he wants to take over the country.  What did Adolph Hitler call his civilian police force?  Obama can't activate the Nation Guard, governors have to do that.  With his civilian police force that is as strong as the military he could easily take over the country.

I honestly believe Obama wants to be King, not president.  He knows he can't be king in a republic (we are not a democracy), so he is aligning himself with those who will help make him king.  Since a person can only be king in a dictatorship, Obama is friends of dictatorships since he wants to have one of his own. Using this logic it is easy to see why he wants to be friends with Venezuela and Cuba.

He bowed to the Saudi King because the king is like the Godfather to Obama.  You only bow down to those you are in allegiance to.  In that simple act Obama showed the world who he is subject to, and who he honors the most.

I think Obama's plan is to turn the USA over to other countries, and he figures he will be crowned king over it, or a part of it.  Now I understand why he couldn't keep from laughing during his 60 Minutes interview.  He knows they are helping him become king, and he will be ruling over them as their king some day.

Richard H. Davis| 4.22.09 @ 7:08PM

I think that it's probably because Obama is an ignorant communist. As you said today on Hardball, Reagan had pretty much everything right and Obama is doing pretty much everything wrong.

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