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The Current Crisis
The Prophet’s Wanderlust
There is something curious about the frenetic pace of the 44th president’s foreign trips this month.
WASHINGTON — Stop the presses! Finally, after half a century of staunch disagreement with Dr. Fidel Castro, I see that the Cuban dictator has rendered a judgment with which I heartily agree. Responding to the Prophet Obama’s friendly conversation with his brother Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas in steamy Port-of-Spain, Fidel, in the words of Associated Press, “blasted the new U.S. President for showing signs of ‘superficiality.’” After all the Hollywood stars Fidel has hosted on his island paradise, you can rest assured that Fidel is a connoisseur of superficiality.
Fidel apparently was angered by the Prophet’s response to President Raul Castro’s offer of Cuban diplomats to convene with their American counterparts and discuss todo. That is Spanish for everything. Pardon my swanking, but while at the Summit the Prophet did some swanking with his bilingualism too. He called Hugo Chavez, another Latin American dictator, “mi amigo” with near perfect accentuation.
President Castro had mentioned human rights, press freedoms, and political prisoners as topics for discussion, and our President in his innocence thought Castro was talking about…well, political prisoners, for instance the prominent opposition leaders who were imprisoned six years ago, many of whom still suffer in Cuba’s ghastly hellholes. He also mentioned the Cuban government’s larcenous policy of taxing the money that Cubans abroad send back to their families. That really irked Fidel, whose denunciation of our President could put him in bad odor with his Hollywood fans. Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, and the rest have had warm relations with Fidel over the years. The political awareness and activism of our actors and actresses goes back generations to the selfless political engagement of the late John Wilkes Booth. Always, our actors are passionate about their beliefs.
There is something curious about the frenetic pace of the 44th president’s foreign trips this month. Not since the summer of 1998 has an American president made so many dashes abroad. Have any of the sleuths in the Washington press corps checked on President Obama’s relations with his interns? I josh, but his energetic globetrotting is unusual, given his obligations at home. Here we are struggling with recession and a sour banking system. The Prophet adds to them the most colossal domestic package since the New Deal, whereupon he hastens off to Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Mexico. Increasingly, it appears that the Prophet Obama is not so much conducting a presidency as a world tour. He left for London on April 2, hit Strasbourg and Baden-Baden, Prague, Istanbul, and Iraq; and returned early on April 8. Eight days later he went off to Mexico, then Trinidad, returning to his empty White House on April 19. What will be next for our restless president, Disneyland?
As I mentioned last week, to hear this president run down America, you would think it was a failed state until he was transformed from junior senator of Illinois to president of the United States. He has surpassed Jimmy Carter’s precedent of being the first ex-president to criticize while on foreign soil a sitting president. President Obama has become the first sitting American president to criticize America while on foreign soil, and he does it with the practiced zeal of a person who has been feeding on anti-American myths for years.
During his visit with President Chavez, President Obama received from his new amigo a copy of the virulently anti-American book, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. As the book, abounding with exaggeration and arrant falsehoods, appeared in 1971, I would not be surprised if the president already had a copy. Doubtless he heard similar anti-American canards during his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American rants. Certainly our president’s friend Bill Ayers, alumnus of the Weather Underground, believes every word in Open Veins. Its anti-Americanism was at the heart of the New Left back in the days of the Cold War. Its thesis is that Europe and America have exploited Latin America for centuries, leaving it impoverished and governed by corrupt leaders.
Now, of course, Latin America has such democratic exemplars as presidents Chavez and Castro. There are also Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and Bolivia’s Evo Morales. So maybe good government is at hand for Latin America. Possibly it is only a matter of time before these political geniuses return Latin America to the glory of the Incas and the Aztecs. Perhaps President Obama, too, can succeed in bringing civilization to America. Meanwhile, think of all the frequent-flyer miles he is accumulating.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Appleby| 4.23.09 @ 6:49AM
Naturally he is fleeing to rack up a chance to see all the countries he could not even locate on a map -- judging by his behaviour in all those places -- until he was made Puppet in Chief. Once he is booted out of office, he will never be able to help himself to free goodies like these again.
You can take the Community Organizer out of the hood, but clearly you cannot take the hood outa the CO.
Robert Rosencrans| 4.23.09 @ 7:08AM
Perhaps a trip on the space shuttle to buddy up to other evil aliens?
Becky| 4.23.09 @ 7:18AM
I guess we should have had a clue on how he "manages" a crisis when he kept campaigning in the midst of the financial meltdown last fall, and ridiculed McCain for thinking it was so serious you actually needed to show up at the office. He's multi-tasking don't you know. It only looks like he's living life large, on his "I won the lottery" tour.
Pingback| 4.23.09 @ 7:28AM
The Prophet’s Wanderlust links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
JamesJ| 4.23.09 @ 7:36AM
I see the unemployed are up early today. And of course, with no comment of any substance
Pecos Pete| 4.23.09 @ 7:40AM
We ain't seen nothing yet. The next few weeks hold much promise for more Obamamania. With the right-wing identified as potential terrorists by Obama's DHS, we can expect something on gun control, radio control and hiding of religious symbols where The One speaks.
Deborah D | 4.23.09 @ 8:28AM
Well, Mr. Tyrrell, since he doesn't like his own country very much, I'd say our president is escaping the oppression of America as often as he can...on America's dime, of course.
Turk| 4.23.09 @ 8:33AM
I Pose the following questions to our returning Leftist America hater:
1. Where were you schooled(or was it in our magnificent govt school system ala NEA)
2. What is your profession(or do you just swill the public teat)
3.Where do you reside? House or Rent Control apt?
4.Are you married? Children?Is spouse male female or other?
5. Ever seen military service?
I ask all of the above to help us all to understand what combines to produce human excrement like you .--------------- Oh I forgot; how did you celebrate lenins b -day yesterday?
Chery| 4.23.09 @ 8:59AM
When the POTUS said in an exchange with Republicans over the porkulus package, "I won," I realized that we had a 2nd grader in the White House. That same 2nd grader is running the country.
Expect him to leave the WH often for the Chucky Cheeses of the world.
P. Aaron| 4.23.09 @ 9:05AM
Once again MR. Mathews has emerged, opened his mouth and removed all doubt to any assumption that he is intellectually vapid, lacking of verbal skills and probably does not get invitied to even dull parties where the good looking girls are.
Dave, you are a boorish dud. A castrati-extraordinaire. You probably have single-digit number for your account at Hillary's lock box.
George Soros (Obama's Handler)| 4.23.09 @ 9:05AM
My Obambi goes where I tell him.
He does nothingk vithout my express permission.
Joe Biden| 4.23.09 @ 9:18AM
My plan is working perfectly.
As long as Jim (Zogby) and Scott (Rassmussen) keep over-sampling Democrats by 10% or more, he'll keep believing he's popular.
Then wham----we get hit by a man-caused disaster that Newbiepolitano couldn't have detected if they e-mailed the buffoon.
Down go the polls (he'll be at 40% by summer anyway in a true poll)---forced to resign, new hair plugs and I'm President!!
This is easier than stealing someone else' s speech.
Chuck| 4.23.09 @ 9:21AM
I see from the comments that good ol' David Mathews is back in peeing contest mode, and that some are foolishly playing along. Well, whatever waters your plant.
Mattled| 4.23.09 @ 9:23AM
P. Aaron,
I think it's pretty much been discovered that David Mathews is really Desiree or Donna Mathews.
Read the responses-----it's like a MySpace rant over and over and over and over.....zzzzzzzzz.
owyheewine| 4.23.09 @ 9:35AM
Anyone but me have the thought that those whispered encounters between the prophet and Chavez were actually coaching sessions on government power grabs?
Nigel Assam| 4.23.09 @ 10:03AM
As a Trinidadian who has been living in the U.S. since a teenager and for over twenty years now, I've kept up with happenings back in Trinidad. I'm a conservative to the bone, having been a bit of a liberal in early twenties, but experience changes one.
It was very disheartening, to say the least, or rather disturbing to see BO's handshake with Chavez (3 times!) but it was not a surprise. Chavez is a constant threat in the region and with Trinidad only ten miles off the coast of Venezuela, and with the ongoing argument about fishing rights in the Gulf of Paria, he's been nothing but an irritation. The government of Trinidad and Tobago has been hesitant to take a strong stance, while not conceding to him (we have our own oil and natural gas resources).
When Bush was in office, a few years ago (in 2006 I think it was) I read an NRO article that cautioned about the lack of more of a U.S. presence in the region, what with China trying to expand their influence and the growing Leftist rule in South America, even dealings with Islamic terrorists on the continent.
Trinidad has experienced a very cordial, even successful relationship with the United States over the years; its economy is the leading economy in the Caribbean; yet I fear that BO's administration will harm what progress and safety in the region that could be had, with his cozying up to Chavez. Unfortunately, I don't think the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean nations will resist BO. In the run up to last year's presidential elections, a percentage of (I do not know how large) Trinidadians were supporting him (even those living here in the U.S.) and it was useless trying to convince them otherwise.
I hope your readers do not think that all Trinidadians here and back in Trinidad were elated for BO's visit.
Wonder if he drank some of our fine rum?
Anthony| 4.23.09 @ 10:05AM
Bob: Our leader is the first citizen of the world and fancies himself as the 1st ruler of the world, so it's natural that he would want to inspect his various kingdoms. Besides, he's bored with all his American sycophants, he needs...more.
However, unlike the fawning and utterly pathetic American MSM, it appears world "leaders" like the Castro thugs, Ortega and the odious Chavez, as well as the French President, who jokes about "The One" walking on water to Normandy Beach, aren't buying into bowing to Obama.
Now that "The One" has dismantled our intelligence apparatus, once again, al Qaeda is poised to strike again, "The One" will need a safe place abroad to weather the storm.
Nigel Assam| 4.23.09 @ 10:05AM
As a Trinidadian who has been living in the U.S. since a teenager and for over twenty years now, I've kept up with happenings back in Trinidad. I'm a conservative to the bone, having been a bit of a liberal in early twenties, but experience changes one.
It was very disheartening, to say the least, or rather disturbing to see BO's handshake with Chavez (3 times!) but it was not a surprise. Chavez is a constant threat in the region and with Trinidad only ten miles off the coast of Venezuela, and with the ongoing argument about fishing rights in the Gulf of Paria, he's been nothing but an irritation. The government of Trinidad and Tobago has been hesitant to take a strong stance, while not conceding to him (we have our own oil and natural gas resources).
When Bush was in office, a few years ago (in 2006 I think it was) I read an NRO article that cautioned about the lack of more of a U.S. presence in the region, what with China trying to expand their influence and the growing Leftist rule in South America, even dealings with Islamic terrorists on the continent.
Trinidad has experienced a very cordial, even successful relationship with the United States over the years; its economy is the leading economy in the Caribbean; yet I fear that BO's administration will harm what progress and safety in the region that could be had, with his cozying up to Chavez. Unfortunately, I don't think the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean nations will resist BO. In the run up to last year's presidential elections, a percentage of (I do not know how large) Trinidadians were supporting him (even those living here in the U.S.) and it was useless trying to convince them otherwise.
I hope your readers do not think that all Trinidadians here and back in Trinidad were elated for BO's visit.
Wonder if he drank some of our fine rum?
Nigel Assam| 4.23.09 @ 10:06AM
As a Trinidadian who has been living in the U.S. since a teenager and for over twenty years now, I've kept up with happenings back in Trinidad. I'm a conservative to the bone, having been a bit of a liberal in early twenties, but experience changes one.
It was very disheartening, to say the least, or rather disturbing to see BO's handshake with Chavez (3 times!) but it was not a surprise. Chavez is a constant threat in the region and with Trinidad only ten miles off the coast of Venezuela, and with the ongoing argument about fishing rights in the Gulf of Paria, he's been nothing but an irritation. The government of Trinidad and Tobago has been hesitant to take a strong stance, while not conceding to him (we have our own oil and natural gas resources).
When Bush was in office, a few years ago (in 2006 I think it was) I read an NRO article that cautioned about the lack of more of a U.S. presence in the region, what with China trying to expand their influence and the growing Leftist rule in South America, even dealings with Islamic terrorists on the continent.
Trinidad has experienced a very cordial, even successful relationship with the United States over the years; its economy is the leading economy in the Caribbean; yet I fear that BO's administration will harm what progress and safety in the region that could be had, with his cozying up to Chavez. Unfortunately, I don't think the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean nations will resist BO. In the run up to last year's presidential elections, a percentage of (I do not know how large) Trinidadians were supporting him (even those living here in the U.S.) and it was useless trying to convince them otherwise.
I hope your readers do not think that all Trinidadians here and back in Trinidad were elated for BO's visit.
Wonder if he drank some of our fine rum?
Paul Crowley| 4.23.09 @ 10:14AM
What do these internet-website dailys like “The American Spectator” and others like it DO for a living?
I know how the newspapers work(ed): They sold column space. They raised revenues by advertising.
Back as far as “La Press” in France in 1830.
And the newspapers developed the different sections: Serial stories, news stories, what became dubbed “human interest” stories, sports sections, business sections, obituaries, obituaries notices, political essays (the “op-ed” today). . .
Now these internet-website dailys are JUST political essays (the “op-ed”).
But what do these new internet-website dailys do to raise revenue? How are the salaries paid?
How do these things work?
Loulou| 4.23.09 @ 10:35AM
Does Obama have a valid US Passport for all this frenetic travel?
Obama is not even a citizen of the US but he IS a citizen of the world.
Domenico Luigi| 4.23.09 @ 10:35AM
Actually...Well...When the Europeans came to find the Mayas and Incas killing young virgin girls to eat their hearts they must have thought: What a waste!
Mayas and Incas had already exterminate themselves and the Europeans saved what was left giving them on top a language and a Religion. It is time we stop trying to convince people of this and stop all the criminals (from Fidel to Chavez to Ortega to Morales) to justify their psychological incapacities with stupid arguments.It's time to wake up and send them to jail and get on with life.
bobc| 4.23.09 @ 10:41AM
Since Obama won (via acorn), I still see the far left being very angry. They cannot enter a debate without calling the other, unflattering names.
So why are they so angry about now?
I would bet, not many of them know that George Soros is building his vision of our government, not Obama!
But what is worse, is that they don't care!
Our Forefathers set forth what this country was to be, and if the far left doesn't like it, and prefer the way of Venezuela or Cuba, they should move there, not change our country to what they envision.
Our Forefathers had much more intelligence and common sense than these far lefties do, as well as many of our politicians....our government has gotten too big for it's britches, they need to get out of our everyday lives, and out of our pockets.
Tim| 4.23.09 @ 10:44AM
The sad thing is that after Obama, normal folks with normal confidence, will be pegged with Obama arrogance syndrome.
His upward tilt of his nose and chin and head whenever he poses makes the British look humble
and meek.
Hey, but if you just got away with the scam of the century you would look like that as well.
Peter McGrath| 4.23.09 @ 11:10AM
The biggest hoot coming from the CMC (Chief Moral Coward) was during the recent tete a tete with Latin American thug dictators.
Daniel Ortega (accused pedophile and confirmed tyrant) went on a 50 minute rant against the "terroristic" United States.
Our CMC's lame response:
"I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old."
Wow, now that's a resolute defense of our nation. Thank goodness, Ortega was kind enough not to implicate the CMC in America's imperialist past. More importantly, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that neither Ortega, nor "mi amigo" Chavez, ended up hurting the CMC's feewings.
Do you now understand? His grandstand world tour was not about America or American interests abroad, it was about the CMC, his interests, his agenda, and (especially) his obsequious pandering for approval.
Naturally, a leftist clown like the CMC couldn't be expected to defend America. Really, it's better for everyone that he nodded his head politely and took notes while liars and depots blamed America for all evil, known and unknown.
After all, the Alinskyite poltroom basically agrees with Ortega and Chavez when it comes to America's past sins and, politically, he's closer to them than Reagan, or any other prior POTUS.
Maybe Chavez will send the CMC a bust of Che, to replace the bust of Churchill - which the CMC inisted be removed from the White House and returned to the UK.
Luke Weyland| 4.23.09 @ 11:10AM
Neither Cuba nor Nicaragua are about to invade USA. But is the United States about to invade its southern neighbours yet again? I hope not. Obama says no. But will his administration continue to interfere in otherways that they don't like? You can bet on it.
Other Tim| 4.23.09 @ 11:16AM
He does that head tilt to hide his mole (I think). It does evoke Il Duce.
As for his travels, he loves adoring crowds. In DC people are always asking him for things and expecting results, especially other Dems. No wonder he prefers the Party Plane.
Other Tim| 4.23.09 @ 11:22AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw&feature=related
Peter McGrath| 4.23.09 @ 11:24AM
The biggest hoot coming from the CMC (Chief Moral Coward) was during the recent tete a tete with Latin American thug dictators.
Daniel Ortega (accused pedophile and confirmed tyrant) went on a 50 minute rant against the "terroristic" United States.
Our CMC's lame response:
"I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old."
Wow, now that's a resolute defense of our nation. Thank goodness, Ortega was kind enough not to implicate the CMC in America's imperialist past. More importantly, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that neither Ortega, nor "mi amigo" Chavez, ended up hurting the CMC's feewings.
Do you now understand? His grandstand world tour was not about America or American interests abroad, it was about the CMC, his interests, his agenda, and (especially) his obsequious pandering for approval.
Naturally, a leftist clown like the CMC couldn't be expected to defend America. Really, it's better for everyone that he nodded his head politely and took notes while liars and despots blamed America for all evil, known and unknown.
After all, the Alinskyite poltroon basically agrees with Ortega and Chavez when it comes to America's past sins and, politically, he's closer to them than Reagan, or any other prior POTUS.
Maybe Chavez will send the CMC a bust of Che, to replace the bust of Churchill - which the CMC inisted be removed from the White House and returned to the UK.
Bill| 4.23.09 @ 11:30AM
Dave... glad you made it here this morning. My wife is laughing her head off at your comments. Not only does she think you have lost it but that you would be a woman's nightmare.
Enjoy you life.. oh she says this is your life and at that I laughed.. we do enjoy our morning coffee together
Marc Jeric| 4.23.09 @ 12:51PM
Imagine the present German chancellor saying, when asked to pay reparations to surviving Jews for Nazi attrocities, the following: " You cannot ask me to give you money for something that happened when I was 3 months old." Obama's close friendship and pollitical collaboration with the domestic terrorist Ayers provoked a similar response. Methinks Obama is actually a functional idiot for thinking such anwers are clever.
JP| 4.23.09 @ 12:59PM
"What do these internet-website dailys like “The American Spectator” and others like it DO for a living?
I know how the newspapers work(ed): They sold column space. They raised revenues by advertising."
Paul Crowley,
I suppose you posted that without a hint of irony. And who said American Spectator was a newspaper? Believe it or not, American Spectator has been around since the LBJ era. It never was a newspaper, but a conservative magazine that featured analysis, essays, and opinions. It is telling that people like you cannot tell the difference between news, analysis, and opinion. And please, who reads the obits anymore? or the local news reports coming from urban town councils filled with crooks, graft, and the insane? Can you imagine anything of vital import coming out of the city councils of Chicago ro Detriot?
BTW, both the print and online editions of AmerSpec sell advertising.
Gill O’Teen| 4.23.09 @ 1:10PM
Paul Crowley, Just like newspapers back in the goodle Days, internet sites such as ‘American Spectator’ sell advertising. Their rates are probably based on how many people view their pages daily. This is similar to how most media such as newspapers, television, radio and Drudge earn their keep. If you scroll around, you’ll note that there are ads here. American Spectator’s website also plugs subscriptions to their excellent magazine. This is goodle Capitalism at work, a quant old fashioned business model that actually works. Nonetheless, because its basics have not changed since Adam Smith wrote "The Wealth of Nations" back around 1776, many on the left believe it and other archaic ideas that emerged in this country back then are simply old-fashioned and should be replaced with ideas aimed at solving the unique problems we are facing today such as obumanomics.
As an aside, ‘goodle’ is a contraction for ‘good and old’. It was invented by the late bluegrass icon John Hartford, best known for composing the country music song “Gentle on My Mind” which made Glenn Campbell lots of 1967 dollars. “Back in the Goodle Days” is a song title from Hartford’s 1971 album “Aereo-Plain".
Gill O'Teen| 4.23.09 @ 1:24PM
JP, Sorry. Did not mean to step on your journalistic toes. I neglected to hit 'F5" before submitting my previous comment.
I Conner Klast| 4.23.09 @ 1:37PM
Someone owes the New Yorker magazine an apology. At least that CARTOON showed Mr Obama having a solidarity fist pump with a radical american, his wife, on US soil, the Oval Office. Obama/Chavez 2012
jim rice| 4.23.09 @ 2:02PM
This is kind of a pointless article isn't it?
You're angry that the President is mending or building relationships with as many people as possible just b/c you don't like the ideas of some of the people with whom he is building those relationships?
I'd vote Obama / Chavez in 2012.
Ed| 4.23.09 @ 2:36PM
To Paul Crowley;
Spectator.org is the online version of The American Spectator, which has been a paper magazine for almost 4 decades. I can't speak for TAS's finances (note the .org URL), but they have been around for a long time.
Todd| 4.23.09 @ 2:37PM
Are you the Jim Rice that was recently voted in the Baseball Hall of Fame or are you the Jim Rice who is a high school drop-out and now works for Acorn? I am guessing the latter. Thanks for the hilarious comment that you would vote for Obama/Chavez in 2012, kind of made my day.
Howard| 4.23.09 @ 4:16PM
I'm surprised that Bob Tyrrell is surprised by Obama's actions. After all this guy voted "present" a thousand times as a state Senator. And his distinguished US Senate career was marked by relentless campaigning for the presidency. Moss will not grow on this rolling stone. He reminds me a lot of our Governor in Massachusetts, Deval Patrick. A true flim flam man. All light and no mass. Except for his race, what does Obama bring to the table that qualifies him to be President? Answer: Nothing.
Pete| 4.23.09 @ 6:09PM
It should be clear to Mathews, Obamas agenda. His hatred for other opinions, other than his own, conflicts his love for Obama and would totally run off the cliff with his other Lemmings if told to do so, irregardless of whats right. He's never worn a uniform and doesn't care who has. I put my two purple hearts in my Mothers casket because she believed in me. Mathews, put your sword down and be with us Americans. Do you love your country? If not, please keep up your continued disgust with all that "we" love and you twist for your own political Obama agenda.
Bush was a jet fighter pilot with the Air National Guard and his father a decorated fighter pilot in WWII.
Obama's brother lives in a mud hut in Kenya. Barack's new puppy probably eats better than him.
And Dave Mathews has his own agenda to discredit or ridicule any/all who disagree with any/all his opinions?? An Obama soldier!
I bet he doesn't allow the "Pledge of Alligiance"
in his world and doesn't remove his ballcap when the "Star Spangled Banner" is played because of his hatred for America.
stmichrick| 4.23.09 @ 6:59PM
I suppose we need to go through this exercise of 'change we can believe in' with regard to offering a new 'face' to our adversaries.
My concern is, at what point do we assess that this is just window dressing in that there is no tangible benefit to of all this apologia? Jimma Carter thought he would present a moral example to the Soviets only (for us) to realize that it encouraged their belligerence. What is the expected reward for Obama?
Michael Tomlinson| 4.23.09 @ 7:29PM
Isn't it a political rule of thumb that Presidents in trouble and seeing their poll numbers taking a dive seek to escape reality by making trips overseas?
I think BO is facing a cruel reality -- he's the first US "President" to see his poll numbers sink below 60% in his first 100 days. Hoping to make himself relevant he's seeking the praise of the typical Democrat foreign allies -- dictators and tyrants.
Pete| 4.23.09 @ 8:28PM
Barney Frank for President!!!! In God We Trust.
Pete| 4.23.09 @ 8:34PM
Bawney Fwank f ' Pwesident!!!! In Gawd we Twust.
Pete| 4.23.09 @ 8:45PM
Hey Mathews, Fidel thinks Obama stinks. He can smell a rat. Why can't you??
ACORNS don't fall far from the tree.
Bill Clinton| 4.23.09 @ 10:49PM
Jim Rice
I remember many things in my life. Being in the navy, my first love I could go on. But I want you to remember this. If I ever have the chance to put my foot up your a&&, I will not hesitate. Why couldn't you be on the fantail with me in the Indie, Oh well, hope that you die tomorrow. thanks dude. socialist scum fool. Go to your Master, go fresh meat. Follow your Master,,,He is the ONE now go.
Bill Clinton| 4.23.09 @ 10:49PM
How long does it take?
Osamas Pajamas | 4.24.09 @ 12:49AM
So how many of these destinations have extradition treaties with USA, in case OhBummer finds it necessary to hijack a plane and get outa town?
William| 4.24.09 @ 4:44AM
Great article, fugly photo. What a comically ugly man - on the outside I mean. He looks like a hatchet fish wearing artificial ears.
The inside looks worse. Sort of a flaccid Jeremiah Wright dripping lubricants.
Pingback| 4.24.09 @ 5:12AM
Fidel: Obama is ‘Superficial’ « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
ds80| 4.24.09 @ 5:58PM
The photo at the top of the story says it all. Obama: "I'm just soooo above you all"
Obama: the first sitting American president to criticize America while on foreign soil.
Mike M| 4.25.09 @ 8:18AM
I think you meant to write "Disney Land Tokyo."
Jeff Anderson | 4.26.09 @ 6:55AM
"Have any of the sleuths in the Washington press corps checked on President Obama's relations with his interns?" - or Nancy Pelosi? ha!
gogol| 4.26.09 @ 11:38PM
Obama wants to be the Rick Steves of presidents.
gene hauber| 4.27.09 @ 5:51PM
WHY ARE WE SO HESITANT TO KILL OUR ENEMIES LIKE OBAMA??
GIVE ME A BREAK!!
HE HATES AMERICA.
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sdone | 6.23.09 @ 3:04AM
WHY ARE WE SO HESITANT TO KILL OUR ENEMIES LIKE OBAMA??
GIVE ME A BREAK!!
HE HATES AMERICA.
liona1 | 6.23.09 @ 3:05AM
I think you meant to write "Disney Land Tokyo."
sarmad | 6.23.09 @ 3:06AM
Obama: the first sitting American president to criticize America while on foreign soil.