If I thought that Obama could go without playing the blame game, as he has on every other foreign trip, it might be OK. I could easily imagine George Bush going and genuinely showing his sympathy for those who died there, without apologizing for what was necessary at the time to avoid even greater loss of life—Japanese as well as Amerian.
But Obama is incapable of empathizing with anyone else. It’s all about how much he loves himself and how much he blames America. He couldn’t care less about the Japanese who died there, any more than he cared about the dead at Arlington Cemetery.
It’s him. He has a chip on his shoulder. Most likely resentment at the grandparents and his strange upbringing. Never misses a chance in this blame game. America gets attacked - “let’s not rush to conclusions.” Berlin Wall - he won’t go to honor to homor America’s, JFK’s, and Reagan’s legacy in defending freedom during the Cold War.
Hiroshima - well, now THERE’s an opportunity to apologize and blame.