Posted on 04/07/2009 6:51:10 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Obama: yet another sorry Democratic president
April 7, 2009
By Michael M. Bates
Watching Barack Obama this past week was painful. The new president went out of his way to display his fresh style of leadership. It won rave reviews from many foreigners, the mainstream media and others who hold the United States in contempt.
A key component to Obama's approach is apologetically groveling. The United Kingdom's Telegraph reported:
President Barack Obama has offered an apology for the Bush era, declaring that America had 'shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive' towards its allies. President Obama said the US had 'failed to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.'
His speech in Strasbourg went further than any United States president in history in criticising his own country's action while standing on foreign soil.
Now a man who brought along an entourage of 500 people and 12 teleprompters, a guy who gave his acceptance speech in the midst of a temple façade, knows more than a little about arrogance. So he goes overseas and knocks his own country.
Even The Washington Post took note of how penitential Obama sounded:
Obama's deferential approach was manifest in his public statements, which described shrinking U.S. influence as a positive development. At times the president sounded almost apologetic about past American primacy.
Expressing regrets about America is something that apparently comes easily to Obama. Certainly he's had enough experience in apologizing for his own fumbles.
He said he was sorry for comparing his bowling prowess to the Special Olympics. He had to call Nancy Reagan and apologize for saying she held séances in the White House. Last May, he told a local TV reporter he was sorry for calling her "sweetie."
The following month two Muslim women wearing headscarves weren't allowed to sit behind candidate Obama at a campaign rally. Of course, he called them to express regret for the incident.
In 2007, he claimed we "have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted." That elicited Obama contrition. The candidate had to apologize to his Democratic primary opponent for a staff memo referring to "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)."
Obama's penchant for apologizing is a Democratic presidential tradition. He's well on his way to matching Apologizin' Bill Clinton.
You'll remember that Bill apologized for slavery in Africa: "European-Americans received the fruits of the slave trade and we were wrong in that." In Rwanda, he apologized for not doing anything earlier in his administration when massacres killed more than 700,000 Hutus and Tutsis.
In Guatemala, he said said he was sorry about America's support of military and intelligence units in our fight against Communism in the region. At home he apologized to black World War II veterans who didn't receive the decorations to which they were entitled. He apologized to the survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
The president who gave phone sex a bad name had these words for his contributors when the scandal could no longer be hidden:
"I've done my best to be your friend, but I also let you down and I let my family down and I let this country down." Clinton even managed to apologize for an apology. After admitting in a speech that he'd "raised your taxes too much," he caught heat from Congressional Democrats and decided hiking taxes had been the right thing to do:
So, if I said anything which can be read in any other way, then I should not have said that. And I certainly did not mean to do that, and I accept responsibility for it, because I am very, very proud of what I did.
No doubt, Clinton was proud of raising taxes. But in terms of spending other people's money, he's a miser next to the current president. And we'll not hear any apologies for that from Obama.
He prefers to do his sniveling overseas.
© Michael M. Bates
I’m so sick of this guy. Have been since long before the election.
But giving DVD's and an iPod and $50,000.00 to Italy as apposed to 900Million to Gaza is not derisive to our allies? WTF
Would somebody please advise me as to just what is so “democratic” about this occupant of OUR White House or the party that he is a member of? I just don’t see it.
And the beat goes on...
Obama:
1. Familial background: muslim
2. The “oopsie” with Stephanopolous (”my muslim faith”)
3. The “gaffe” of “57 states”
4. First post-inaugural media interview: Al-Arabiya.
5. First foreign leader contact: Mohammed Abbas, PA
6. Closing GITMO
7. Says we are “not winning” (read: LOSING) in Afghanistan
8. Says we should talk without preconditions to Iran
9. Sends essentially surrender-themed video to Iran
10. Plans within months to give a speech in a muslim capital.
11. Plans to free GITMO detainees on our streets WITH WELFARE ASSISTANCE!!!
12. Seeks to add a significant number of muslims to high-level governmental positions.
13. Plans to hire Harold Koh, who believes sharia law should apply to disputes in U.S. courts.
14. Bows instinctively like a “good muslim” to Saudi King Abdullah.
15. Says the U.S. is not, “nor will ever be” at war with islam.
and now #16 — Sells out the USA as arrogant toward muslims during the (formerly named) War on Terror
Ping to your work....
Whoops — needed to add one:
And the beat goes on...
Obama:
1. Familial background: muslim
2. The “oopsie” with Stephanopolous (”my muslim faith”)
3. The “gaffe” of “57 states”
4. First post-inaugural media interview: Al-Arabiya.
5. First foreign leader contact: Mohammed Abbas, PA
6. Commits USA to $900 million to “rebuild Gaza” (AKA aid to HAMAS)
7. Closing GITMO
8. Says we are “not winning” (read: LOSING) in Afghanistan
9. Says we should talk without preconditions to Iran
10. Sends essentially surrender-themed video to Iran
11. Plans within months to give a speech in a muslim capital.
12. Plans to free GITMO detainees on our streets WITH WELFARE ASSISTANCE!!!
13. Seeks to add a significant number of muslims to high-level governmental positions.
14. Plans to hire Harold Koh, who believes sharia law should apply to disputes in U.S. courts.
15. Bows instinctively like a “good muslim” to Saudi King Abdullah.
16. Says the U.S. is not, “nor will ever be” at war with islam.
and now #17 — Sells out the USA as arrogant toward muslims during the (formerly named) War on Terror.
I don’t know why anyone should be surprised. zerO is an America-hater just like his fellow-traveler academians Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ward Churchill, et.al.
When have the Democrats ever had a decent president? I know there are those who will say FDR, but he was only good at letting the masses believe he was a good president.
Maybe Harry Truman, but I don’t think not being as bad as other Democratic presidents earns you the title of being a decent president.
Name one. If we were "arrogant," it wasn't toward our allies. And, as my high school football coach used to say, there's a difference between excellence and arrogance. When you're good, you don't have to apologize for it.
President Obama said the US had 'failed to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.'
What role would that be? In technology? Commerce? Defense? Space exploration? Just where is it that this myth of European leadership is supposed to be manifest in the last century or so? And even before that, all the ills that the US gets blamed for tended to originate in Europe, not here.
So spare me the Eurocentric definition of cultural hegemony. We value our true allies and reject the cowardly others. And we owe our dominance to our own spirit, not something inherited from a bunch of dissipated, angst-ridden boors.
Another sorry Democrat? Obama has raised “sorry” to new heights! He has retired to trophy for all time.
Their leading role in the world in incubating, then either accepting or appeasing facism, marxism, and socialism.
No doubt that's what Barack meant. /s
If apology is just a tactic that Obama tried to muster support for Afghanistan from the European allies (and it did not work)... we should wonder how he will respond to this failure. After bowing and groveling would Obama then go to the other extreme and appear indignant and contemptuous that haughty Europe denied him his requests? Will it be a bipolar ride with this president? Time will tell.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism", they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
Good post, and true.
Don’t forget about the “10,000” people that died in the Kansas tornado.
Barak Obama: Worst president ever. (Jimmy Carter is ecstatic to be losing that title.)
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