Posted on 12/14/2013 5:44:03 PM PST by Innovative
Barack Obama's address at Nelson Mandela's memorial service was deemed a triumph, writes Peter Foster. But back home people are mainly listing his failures.
Back home, however, such adoration is harder and harder to come by. Perhaps that is why Mr Obama rises so brilliantly to the away crowd, conscious that the home fans are disillusioned with a management style that has put so little into the political trophy cabinet.
He is barely a year into his second term, but Mr Obama is fast becoming like Baroness Thatcher or Mikhail Gorbachev, who were lionised on the international stage but, perplexingly to foreigners, more and more widely reviled at home.
The disaffection at home is no longer confined to the American Right that reviled him from the start. One poll last week showed Mr Obama's approval ratings at 38 per cent, a record low - the point where the president himself becomes the problem, instead of being the guy with a bully pulpit who can solve them.
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Success? It was a freak show.
That was a success?
Maybe we can give Obama to South Africa.
but of course! was there ever any doubt it would be?
Talking about himself?
and Putin craps him out after breakfast
The Deaf Folks found it rather incomprehensible, i heard>
News Flash, Part 2: Bambi’s international achievements are non-existent as well.
RLTW
What success?
they said on the radio the signer had a schizo fit and just signed rock lobster and donkey over and over
Indeed. It was a freak show of demoralizing US liberl loser black colonization of Africa. Poor Africans....
Wow...the definition of success sure got lowered...
Make a decent 17 minute speech praising a fellow traveler marxist...and took a selfie with some hottie blond....
Pretending he's not totally homo by flirting and making an ass of himself with the blond chick from Denmark..........Just guessing.
He was successful in operating a cell phone camera. However he looked like a moron doing it.
And he was hallucinating at the time too!
Everywhere black folks are in charge things go to hell. Please give me a counter example. I am desperately looking.
What the hell “success” is this clown talking about? Some of these idiots just can’t help making fools of themselves for their “messiah”.
Well, he wasn't assaulted by the schizophrenic murderer standing two feet away from him pretending to give sign language. I guess that's good.
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