Posted on 06/05/2014 5:23:56 PM PDT by kingattax
Of course it is a challenge for any modern national leader, to stand tomorrow on the beaches of Normandy and recall the greatest days and martial triumphs of World War II.
The comparison is obvious and embarrassing, between the giants and the pygmies: Churchill and Cameron, Hollande and de Gaulle, above all Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.
This week, however, at the D-Day Commemoration, Americas representative will be a man who has disappointed his nation and its allies as have few presidents in modern times.
In 2014, at least Britains prime minister and Frances president must bear responsibility only for their own countries.
But the President of the United States is the standard-bearer for the global cause of freedom, commander-in-chief of the principal might of the forces of democracy
This week, however, at the D-Day Commemoration, Americas representative will be a man who has disappointed his nation and its allies as have few presidents in modern times.
From the moment of his first inauguration in January 2009, he was expected to be a healer rather than a warrior. But nobody, not even his foremost Republican foes, believed that halfway through his second term of office, Obama would be giving the world a convincing impersonation of a marshmallow.
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not within a country mile
“We could have defeated Hitler without letting Stalin take everything instead.”
That wasn’t the plan. :)
Obama is a pygmy compared to James Buchanan.
OMG, a pygmy is also African. Liberals reading this will say, hey, it’s racist to call Obama a pygmy.. Just saying.........
FDR is the pigmy...Obama is the nats ass on the pigmy former president, FDR.
Someone called him a monkey with a hand grenade.
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