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1. Will:

I hope you write this stuff to stir people up and not because you’re naive/dumb enough to believe it. I feel bad for having given you advertising revenue, so hopefully insulting you makes up for it.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:14 am 2. Jim Lyons:

Soeren Kern? And you would be…..who? Senior blah blah in Spain’s blah blah? Not impressed.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:14 am 3. drew3000:

These weren’t the G20 or Nato speeches that I saw. The U.S. president is still suggesting that the United States has the global primacy to lead all other countries. The problem is, that the other countries are starting to see through this, and that blindly going along with some econoic policies, unquestionably, leads to turning over too much power to corrupt bankers, driving down economic competition and driving up unemployment and leaving more people unable to buy a home or start a business.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:15 am 4. Rose:

Wow… you so didn’t get what Obama said or did. Like McCain, you totally miss the point. The way you restore credibility after someone like Bush has flushed America’s reputation and integritude down the toilet is to show that ALL Americans are not braying fascist jackasses like Bush, Cheney and their ilk/followers. A real man acknowledges the OTHER side of every issue and is not weaker for doing so, but stronger. You can only win an argument by having a discussion, not farting out your face like Bush could only muster. For some reason, idiots like Sean Hannity either completely lie by omitting the context for what Dems say or do, or else they’re just too ignorant to understand sophisticated positioning. You really can’t stick a pitchfork in a pond and catch the moon. God we’re lucky Obama’s president and we can stop holding our breath for the next Bush fiasco. The clown has been sent packing back to the sticks he blew out of.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:21 am 5. Jim Reed:

Mr. Kern, this is above your pay grade. It’s called leading with the strength of assurance. Stick around pal, and watch things improve.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:33 am 6. view from afar:

So what, what the US President is suggesting, Europeans aren’t interested in a powerful US, they want to prove that socialism is working, and that capitalism is dead. Which is what the author is stating in this blog, and as I live in France, I think that Mr Kern has pretty much summed up the attitude of Europe. Sarkozy didn’t really like Obama, and now has realized that he should be able to, like Degaulle, lead the bright young American President around by the nose.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:40 am 7. Roger Godby:

I think Will is in the pocket of Big Bailout.

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:21 am 8. Juan from Seville:

Kern’s analysis is definitely in line with how Obama’s trip is being perceived in Europe. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans seem to have their head in the sand. Wake up before it’s too late.

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:27 am 9. Spinoneone:

If any of you believe that European bankers don’t stay awake nights trying to figure out how to get around Europe’s stultifying regulations you truly have your heads in the sand. The EU’s small businesspeople work overtime to keep their income off the books so that taxes don’t take 80 percent of it. That situation is coming here, all too soon. The EU’s economic and business policies do drive down competition and drive up unemployment by making the hiring of permanent staff very expensive and completely inflexible. “Once hired, never fired” is a standard EU work rule. Unions are ubiquitous. Less than half of housing is owner occupied because most people never get to save enough for a down payment. drew3000 should do some reading on how business works in the EU before singing its praises.

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:37 am 10. Beate Schmidt:

Welcome!Not only America and Israel but also Europe is under the bus now!Not the nicest place to meet but the place more and more people will find themselves in this wonderful new times of Hope.Now the great leader forced Anders Fogh Rasmunssen to apologize for his steadfastness during the struggle about the Mohamed caricatures.Rasmussen is on of the few european politicans who do no submit to islam. He also was a good partner or the USA in the whar on terror.So Obama had his personal revenge against a former Bush allie,he outwittet Merkel and Sarkozy, who are not in his basket, and presentet himself as the wonderful new friend of islamists.He also made a fine statement about what the freedom of the press is worth for him.He must have had a great day.

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:40 am 11. paul brown:

Jim Lyons? And you would be … an Obamabot?

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/jameslyons

Apr 6, 2009 - 4:02 am 12. Bob:

One article linked to in Mr. Kern’s piece explains: “…he (Obama) sought to use the mea culpa as leverage to alter European views of America and secure more troops for the war in Afghanistan.” If this statement is true, then his “apology” for his own country yielded no positive results, as the Europeans have committed NO new troops to the Afghan struggle. Meanwhile, the French celebrate Obama throwing capitalism under the bus, and America signing on to the economically disastrous notion that we can “fight global climate change” by adopting cap and trade or other burdensome taxes/regulations. The article does not mention that Obama went on to suggest that we get rid of all nuclear weapons, when we haven’t and don’t plan to do anything meaningful to stop nuclear development in North Korea and Iran (not counting a strongly worded UN letter of condemnation that neither Russia nor China will agree to).

American “arrogance” amounted to taking action against Saddam Hussein after he had ignored and/or violated 18 UN resolutions. Even then, we did not act unilaterally but with a coalition of allies – those few countries that believe foreign policy is not just hot air. Now that Bush is gone, Obama and his European admirers can go back to the hot air policies of the past – hot air is all he’s got to offer, no matter how much he is worshiped on either side of the Atlantic.

Apr 6, 2009 - 4:07 am 13. Bob Simon:

a very perceptive essay, a great read

Apr 6, 2009 - 4:37 am 14. mishu:

Will, Rose and Jim Lyons are plants hired by Soros to monitor PJM and write his canned responses.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:01 am 15. venividivici:

What’s striking about Obama’s diplomacy, however, has been his willingness to embrace the priorities of European governments, Russia and China while playing down — or setting aside altogether — principal American concerns.

“Striking”? More like disgraceful.

Following Europe’s “lead” on anything now would be like a start-up car company following GM’s “lead” on how to succeed in the car business.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:17 am 16. HalifaxCB:

Good article. Obama’s behaviour in Europe was sad, laughable, and a little scary, all at the same time. Sad and laughable can be summed up completely in his deep kowtow to the Saudi royalty – one of the most oppressive regimes on earth; a little scary given how quickly he is willing to turn his back on the spirit of America in order to satisfy his addiction to public adulation (a la his speech in Prague).

We’ve sen this before – a shallow and incompetent thinker rising to a position of power on the gift of gab, offering slick but unrealizable answers to other people’s troubles; and it always ends in tragedy, or farce. The only thing really to look forward to is that it does, eventually, end.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:27 am 17. David Thomson:

The world community does not respect Barack Obama. And this situation will only worsen over time. The United States will now become the punching bag of the European elites and petty despots. Oh well, we are going to have to suck it up. Obama does not leave office for roughly another 46 months. Elections have consequences. The American people are going to suffer greatly for their foolishness of voting for a man possessing such a weak resume merely to prove that they are not racists. They may have been well meaning—but that doesn’t change the cruel reality that Obama is not ready for prime time.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:28 am 18. Stewart:

I just luves Obama. He the best. So smart. So Hansome. So wonderful. Did you see him at the beach? Who would’nt vote for that???

He so smart. Amerika sucks and he the first president to say so. I hope he wrecks this country to save it from the evil conservatives.

I love Barrak. He my man. Anybody say not, I hope Barrak gets after you and whoops yo a$$.

Hey dummys, what about this? Country out of money. Barrak gives money to the poor. What wrong with that??

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:35 am 19. HardHeadedWoman:

After reading most of the comments I had to check to make sure I hadn’t somehow arrived at the Huffington Post.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:51 am 20. venividivici:

A real man acknowledges the OTHER side of every issue and is not weaker for doing so, but stronger.

A real man also tells others when they are wrong to take the other side of an issue, so your point is moot.

Apr 6, 2009 - 5:52 am 21. JHM:

I daresay the good folks at Wombschool Normal University will be pleased to find that they have wannabe disciples as far afield as Spain, but . . . .

. . . but wombscholarship as an export product raises difficulties.

Señorito y Nuevocompañero S. de Kern obviously wants to preach the Gospel accordin’ to Wingnut City, but alas! he fails to make proper allowances. Selfocentric chauvinizin’ in the WC or EiB vein logically requires him to be pleased rather than distressed when the Old Euros win a round or two. Should he actually defect to the holy Homeland™, then he could cheer when Dr. Limbaugh cheers and hissss when Dr. Limbaugh hisssssssssses, but as things appear to stand, he ought to be doin’ the exact contrary.

To set up to be a groupie to other folks’ selfishness and narcissism is pretty contemptible from every viewpoint in sight. It will not, I expect, obtain for Neocomrade S. Kern even that very moderate quantity of approval that militant extremist Republicans extend to the likes of Mr. Justice Thomas and Herr Prof. Dr. F. al-‘Ajamí of the Johns Hopkins University: for an Old Euro to play the “We’re pretty awful, but we are not ALL like that! You can trust me, because I am not like the others!” card without emigratin’ is a serious misjudgment. Nobody at WNU and Rio Limbaugh gives a hoot what *any* mere ’no-count foreigners think: support of wombscholarship and the Party of Grant and Hoover and Goldwater and Atwater from that quarter is no better than cultivated despite would have been.

Perhaps on Airstrip One that generalisation may be relaxed a little: Baron Thatcheress, for instance, could probably pass for a denizen of Rio Limbaugh if his papers were not scrutinised too minutely. But for a Madrileño to expect to sneak by is only silly.

Happy days.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:17 am 22. savage24:

I see that there is still a lot of “useful idiots” out there. Keep up the good work, have no trust in this sorry excuse of a president. Socialist in chief not commander in chief.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:26 am 23. kenny komodo:

Another great day for Obambi. Another bad day for America. Hmmm…wonder whose boots Obambi can lick next??

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:36 am 24. arhooley:

Rose, I have the feeling this is going to be a colossal waste of time, but please answer me this simple set of questions: What is “the issue” and what are the “two sides” of it?

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:36 am 25. misanthropicus:

Soetoro’s “diplomatic philosophy puts the interests of other countries ahead of those of the United States.”

Soeren, why do you water down this miserable situation?
If Soetoro has any “diplomatic philosophy”, that is strictly aimed at his self-preservation and has no philosophical components to it whatsoever other than Soetoro’s (and his teprompter’s) best place under the sun.

As far as United States’ interests, what we expect from a president who started his electoral career with “God damn America” as cri de guerre, blessed by Bill Ayers, supported by MoveOnOrg “General Petraeus Betray Us”, and so on and so forth?

All along during the European trip Soetoro apologized for being an American (incorrent statement anyway, because, as we all know he IS NOT AN AMERICAN ELIGIBLE FOR THE JOB), criminal country known for her arrogance, greed and venality.

Soetoro proved that he is a Manchurian candidate/ president indeed – at the cue, he does whatever his handlers want him to do, and nothing good for America there.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:41 am 26. Joe C.:

Obama is now the “Pet President” of Europe and Asia. They let him prance at their Westminster-type events, but no one really takes him seriously. With a nice pat on the head, they can get him to say and do any tricks that they want.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:46 am 27. Robert:

An excellent analysis of Comrade Barry’s trip. It’s unfortunate that arrogant elitists such as Rose, Will, Kern and others on this board are so blinded by ideology that they won’t admit that Obama got played in Europe and came away empty handed. To the detriment of the U.S. and most of the world, he is a true-blue Europhile and won’t be satisfied until he has dragged us down to that sorry state of affairs. As Mr. Friedman and Mr. Zakaria alluded to in their columns today, Obama projects not Kennedy nor Roosevelt, but James Earl Carter…weak, patronizing and equivocating, to the detriment of the country he swore to protect. 2010 (and 2012) can’t get here fast enough.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:48 am 28. Avagadro602:

I love the comments from Rose. It shows what too much KOS and Move On can do to your brain.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:55 am 29. LynnS:

I read someone called him the Dixie Chicks President and I thought it was fitting. It was like he was the final voice of the book I saw in Books A Million a few years ago with photos of people who’s caption read “I’m sorry”.

That was of course, the apology to the world for electing George Bush for President.

Obama had to make it a formal apology.

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:56 am 30. The Shadow:

What nonsense!

Apr 6, 2009 - 6:56 am 31. Bear:

The first few posters clearly have never negotiated anything in their lifetimes. Obama is just sucking up, which doesn’t accomplish much.

Apr 6, 2009 - 7:17 am 32. John D:

My Grandfather was one of those arrogant American bastards on Omaha Beach.

Apr 6, 2009 - 7:33 am 33. nahom:

You are so good coming to a conclusion or may be I should say jumping into a conclusion. I know it is not in our culture to apologize for deed we have done. The Native Americans, African Americans, Irish Americans etc can be used as a historical reference of what America needed to apologize for its deed to its own citizens. Don’t even go that far back in history and look into the Iraq situation. And if your analysis in life is not to say the truth but be firm and not to consider other countries as equal well you can thank the last president. He used all the ammunition we had to remain the super power and we find ourselves in this situation. It is obvious we are weaker than we were before but in order to be superpower again we need to be systematic and smart about it. Not arrogant and stupid like some of the comments. If arrogance meant power, then we would not have seen all the great empires of the world in history come to an end.

Apr 6, 2009 - 7:37 am 34. Tony R:

What did you guys think was going to happen when you voted in a wet socialist amateur as your president? Did you think the rest of the world leaders would give him a year or two to get his feet under the table before getting into some real politics?

You cannot blame the Euro leaders, nor the Chinese, nor the Russians for taking advantage of him….they at least are doing their jobs as hard-nosed politicians. To think otherwise is pure naiviety.

As Bush once tried to say “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”….if you guys re-elect Obama in 4 years time you will have consciously voted to flush your nation down the toilet and you will have no-one to blame but yourselves.

Apr 6, 2009 - 7:51 am 35. The Historian:

CHICAGO ON THE POTOMAC
Thugs in the White House.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-house-chicago-east.html

Apr 6, 2009 - 7:57 am 36. Marie Claude:

Obama obliged by stroking Sarkozy’s famously huge ego. Obama said Sarkozy was “courageous on so many fronts, it’s hard to keep up” and praised him for displaying “initiative, imagination, creativity” in tackling difficult problems.

normal, he is a small person ! do you know that the kind of persons have to speak loudlier to be remarked ? (so was Napoleon, but I still can remember that, you, and the alikes supported Sarko’s candidature to our presidenty ! and sorry, he is French, not one product of your state department !)
I am in use to hear or read from my american fellas, that whatever it is said or made by France is “arrogance” LMAO

Though I agree he is a bit of an hyper-active person, that he talks a lot more than he can handle, isn’t it that all the politicians are doing now ? media representation and self promotion ! sure he is no de Gaulle, I regret him so much in these gloomy times ! but Sarko also has this quality to make his collegues react, when some emergencies need that they decide something.

Sarkozy replied with Gallic generosity by announcing that he was prepared to make a big sacrifice: France would agree to take one single detainee from Guantánamo Bay as soon as the terrorist detention camp is shut down, which may be never. “We can’t condemn the United States because they have that camp and then wash our hands of it once they close it. That’s not what being allies is about,” Sarkozy declared. In the same breath, Sarkozy announced that France would not be sending any more combat troops to help NATO allies in Afghanistan.

umm, the detainee is of Algerian origin, and you know how french secret services are eager to question him about his terrorist connections, yes, the Algerians are our priority, sorry not the other nationalities, that speak english !

Normal that Sarko said he wouldn’t send more troops, we already added 700 special forces guis last year, plus we are sending 150 gendarmes to train Afghani policemen, in regard of the options that have been decided for Afghanistan. Seems that this is the real lack ! Militaries are not ment to control a population, but to fight enemis militaty targets, and these can’t be fought in urban aeras with their means, then too many casualties, yet Pakistan borders are the preocupating, if not Pakistan ! Though deciding to fight Pakistan jihadism must be an extensive decision, that hasn’t yet found its objective definition, call a spade a spade, who is going to make it the first !

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:09 am 37. Ian Thorpe:

An Obama fan in Britain gave the game away during the run up to G20 when he said “Their task is not just to grsate a global economy but a global culture.”

Now who could be the shadoewy figures behind Obama who are pushing that agenda?

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:15 am 38. LynnS:

#33 nahom:

You forget that although millions of people did not vote for President Bush, millions of people did. Some may still feel that the first elections was stolen but can’t deny the second.

President Obama can’t seem to stand on his own two feet without being propped up by the administration before him. He can’t seem to speak for himself unless he insinuates that the last eight years were the cause of many ills in the world.

He has got to stop apologizing for eight years of a United States President who was elected by a majority of Americans. He looks stupid and uncertain and plays to those who like the United States to be subservient and be at their beck and call when THEY say the time is right and THEY say the action is just.

Many Americans left those same countries not because they were getting too much of a good thing, but because these very countries, who criticize us the most, didn’t want us, didn’t need us, and considered us excess baggage and prime candidates to set up the ‘New World’ that they laid claim to.

We’ll we did and than that pesky idea of ruling ourselves came along and suddenly it seemed worth fighting for and many died for it. Now we rule ourselves imperfectly of course.

Our President doesn’t need to go to foreign countries and apologize for us. He insulted us and told the world that they were right all along and this arrogant, pushy country deserves condemnation and deserves their blame and deserves their distaste. On top of that he presented himself as the one who will fix everything that THEY say is wrong with us. He took the beam out of their eyes, and shoved and shoved it into ours so we not only are being judged by them but also taking away any judgment they deserve.

He is also insulting us by saying he is the only thing holding the pitchforks back from failed businesses, as if we are an unruly mob that only he can control.

He is arrogant and the people around him are arrogant and I am angry that he had the audacity to present us the world as a country that should formally apologize to them. If that is why you elected him, and if that is what you wanted him to do, so be it. I do not think he should and I will voice my opinion and come to my conclusions.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:16 am 39. AThinkingPerson:

I’d really like to apologize to the world for our great country stumbling long enough to elect Obama. We got complacent and have let the uneducated, illiterate, unthinking masses put a socialist minion into office. I only hope we can redeem ourselves in 2012. Hold on to your folding money until then and stash a copy of the Constitution in a vault somewhere because it’s going to be unrecognizable after Obama and his ilk are done with it.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:17 am 40. Sin Tax:

If all else fails obambi can always smoke a big fatty and giggle his way through a crisis.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:28 am 41. Paul -Indiana:

auf wiedersehen, formerly ‘Heil Hitler.
The euro-weinies never seem to remember, do they?

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:32 am 42. Outraged:

“My Grandfather was one of those arrogant American bastards on Omaha Beach.”

That arrogant bastard! How dare he trade shots with the Germans! Nothing a Summit Meeting couldn’t solve.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:34 am 43. Professor Guvinoff:

I’m so sorry to agree with Mr. Kern…

Are you getting the impression that his post attracts the very same kind of hate that was directed a Sarah Palin a few months ago?

The louder the Obamanistas protest, the more valid the point.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:54 am 44. Robert Maldonado:

Why do we need to be like the republicans who always find ways to divide not only America but the rest of the world. We need them just as much they need us. It’s a global world and we should rethink about our ideals of greed and selfishness.

Apr 6, 2009 - 9:35 am 45. jerryofva:

Here are some observations about the President in Europe.

With the exception of Spain, the United States has the most left wing government in the industrialized world. Obama is a Leninist in his heart even as he understands that Leninism is dead. Everything else follows from that.

He views the Jihadists as the new “vanguard” of the anti-capitalist coalition and will seek an accommodation with so-called moderate Islam.

He thinks that he has forged a new grand socialist alliance with Russia, which he thinks is still the Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China. His intellectual foundation is so shallow that he doesn’t understand that neither country is socialist anymore. Putin may be an archetypal Russian autocrat but he rejects the socialist collective and China traded Lenin for Mussolini 30 years ago. Both nations are ready to exploit his ignorance.

Apr 6, 2009 - 9:54 am 46. Valerie:

I see someone let the daily kos crowd out of their cages….lol…..

Apr 6, 2009 - 10:00 am 47. LynnS:

#44 Robert Maldonado:

There’s divisions in the world? What? Since when?

“We need them just as much they need us.”

Yea, they need us to be subservient, and we need them to tell us what to do, when to do it.

That’s according to them and perhaps the new President who by the way was elected to be the President of THIS country and no other.

Oh, and tell him were not a bunch of angry uncontrollable peasants with pitch forks. He of course knows that but likes the picture in his head.

Apr 6, 2009 - 10:30 am 48. RW:

Very insightful article and a fine summation of the realities on the ground. My only question is where the author is reporting from as the media has done little to nothing about analyzing the reality and outcome from the G-20 meeting. It’s all superficial gloss and even the rioting was inadequately covered. It’s simply amazing how far they will twist reality so the American people think that Europe’s rejection of America in Afghanistan and beyond is somehow a great victory for our nation.

As for the work in this article, bravo! Thank you and keep up the good work. Many of us are starving to know the real details of policy both here and abroad. Excellent analysis.

Apr 6, 2009 - 10:33 am 49. BC:

It is nice to try to get ‘along’ with the bullies. But, when is the TOTUS going to figure out that this is not a rosy world and there are people out there that are laughing hard and KNOW this is the time to strike.
I am sick of hearing people saying we are greedy and should apologize. For what do we owe an apology? We defend out country (who by the way, used to be the country who accepted the MOST immigrants). It boggles my mind when I hear a someone from outside the USA insult our country. Chances are someone in their family LIVES here! We are no longer the America the melting pot. We are so divirsified and mixed, it is ridiculous to even think of racism. (Except in the Dems mind, who bring it up…ALL THE TIME)!
I would really like to know what the world really thinks of TOTUS. I think it is all crap we are hearing from MSM.
Along with the people who voted for the TOTUS, the world who idolizes him will rue the day…
God Bless America!
I refuse to be ashamed for some made up thing by the liberals….and when their time comes; I will feel for them. Bless one and all!

Apr 6, 2009 - 10:48 am 50. Chris:

44. Robert Maldonado (wrote):

Why do we need to be like the republicans who always find ways to divide not only America but the rest of the world. We need them just as much they need us. It’s a global world and we should rethink about our ideals of greed and selfishness.
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What we need are critical thinking Americans…not Republicans or Democrats. What we need are government officials that uphold the Constitution and fight for American sovereignty. While there are Americans that are selfish, the road that Obama is leading us down is a road to slavery…plain and simple! If you want to be controlled by the state, move to Russia or China…I hear they love telling you what to do and think! As for me, I think I can make up my own mind as to what to think, do, say, eat, drink, inhale, feel, etc! I don’t need this administration doing it for me! Bush and Obama = THE SAME = WRONG!!!!

Apr 6, 2009 - 11:00 am 51. karlstro1:

What is this President doing to USA. Never in history has this nation stood before other nations and kissed their weak a–es and apologize for what our country has fought for in the name of individual freedom!

Apr 6, 2009 - 11:45 am 52. Mike J.:

karlstro1:“Never in history has this nation stood before other nations and kissed their weak a–es and apologize for what our country has fought for in the name of individual freedom!”

The thing is, he didn’t apologize for our country. There’s nothing wrong with our country. He apologized for the criminals who disgraced and perverted our country for the last eight years, the same way you might apologize to a neighbor on behalf of an idiotic cousin to whom you lent your car, after that cousin went and crashed your car into your neighbor’s fence and hit his dog. Obviously the idiot cousin is not going to apologize, because he doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself and is completely without any sense of responsibility. So of course, you would be the bigger person in that situation and apologize on behalf of your stupid cousin, right?

It was essentially president Obama’s way of communicating to our allies that they can rest just a little bit easier knowing that the uneducated, violence-worshipping, bible-thumping, evolution denying, torturing, lying, wiretapping, racist fringe of America is no longer in control.

Apr 6, 2009 - 12:10 pm 53. ricpic:

Obama has no visceral connection to our country. He is the true new man: no heart, no love, no loyalty.

Apr 6, 2009 - 12:31 pm 54. Bear:

Mike J. come up with a better analogy. One that resembles your argument. How is your cousin anyway?

Apr 6, 2009 - 12:36 pm 55. jerryofva:

Mike J:

You are an idiot. Britain, France, Italy and Germany all elected pro-American, pro-Bush governments in the last eight years. So did South Korea, Japan and Canada. The Indian government has consistantly supported Bush polices and even the leftwing Australian Prime Minister is pro-American. You obviously missed the news that Obama is going follow those same “crimminal” policies carried by the former adminstration.

It’s funny how you Obamistas like calling Bush criminal when the Democratic Pary itself is little more then a criminal conspiracy.

Apr 6, 2009 - 12:41 pm 56. LynnS:

#52 Mike J.:

No, I’m afraid he apologized for the country just as his preacher said God damn America. Not God damn some of America, or God damn liars, or God damn torturers, or God damn the uneducated, or God damn violence worshipers, or God damn bible thumpers, or God damn evolution deniers, or God damn wiretaps, or God damn racists.

Obama apologized for America just like his preacher asked God to damn America.

He done good. You should be happy. But your not. Funny.

Apr 6, 2009 - 12:57 pm 57. AThinkingPerson:

Mike J. has conveniently forgotten that our new POTUS is a Chicago-thug style politician who won the election thanks to a shady at best group, ACORN, and has filled his cabinet with tax-cheats. Funny how people like Mike J. always forget that. Glad the rest of us haven’t forgotten.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:08 pm 58. David P:

American policies are subject to diplomatic experiments based on the content of theories coughed up by academics whose salaries and alternative views have been financed by the Saudi’s.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:12 pm 59. Mike J.:

Really, Jerryofva?

Remember Watergate and Nixon resigning in disgrace?

Remember how many members of the Bush team had to resign in disgrace over the past 8 years? I’ll refresh your memory, moron: 42 That’s a pretty substantial list! You can have a look for yourelf right here:
http://thedcshuffle.com/2009/02/11/complete-bush-appointee-resignation-scorecard/

At least six of them are serving jail time.

Yeah, let’s talk about a party of criminal conspirators, idiot.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:17 pm 60. Mike J.:

LynnS: “No, I’m afraid he apologized for the country just as his preacher said God damn America. Not God damn some of America, or God damn liars, or God damn torturers, or God damn the uneducated, or God damn violence worshipers, or God damn bible thumpers, or God damn evolution deniers, or God damn wiretaps, or God damn racists.”

Well, I’d like to think that he was referring specifically to you.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:21 pm 61. Oscar the Grump:

Folks I know this has nothing to do with diplomacy; but did you hear that our secretary of defense is cutting back on military spending. He is canceling most new weapons programs. This includes the F22 Raptor, the worlds most advanced fighter plane (which is currently being copied by the Russians and Chinese). We don’t need it. He is also dropping the anti-missile system designed to protect us from rogue states such as Iran and Korea. We don’t need it. We don’t need any new tanks, ships (unless they are small costal vessels). I wonder what he plans to mothball, maybe the carriers, nuclear submarines, B1 bombers, B2 bombers. Be ready to fight the next war with canoes and slingshots.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:32 pm 62. LynnS:

#60 Mike J.

“Well, I’d like to think that he was referring specifically to you.”

Heh, Heh, Heh, very astute of you. He was being courteous and didn’t want to embarrass me so instead he threw all Americans under the bus (well except for himself).

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:53 pm 63. HalifaxCB:

Chris @50 – I tend to agree, but have to add that when over 60% of Americans cannot even name the three branches of gov’t, maybe a little more than just critical thinking is needed. Maybe it’s time to pass a civics test- say something along the lines of:

1) recite the declaration of Independence, or
2) recite the Preamble, or
3) list the Bill of Rights, or
4) name 10 (any 10) presidents

in order to vote. I’d go for requiring all 4, but given that most couldn’t even give the number of articles in the BoR, I know it won’t happen in my lifetime. I guess a lot of that education folks missed during the growth of leftist educational models is now going to be acquired in the school of hard knocks….

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:55 pm 64. HalifaxCB:

bear @31 – I think most of them are still negotiating their allowances.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:57 pm 65. AThinkingPerson:

#61 Oscar the Grump… I did hear about that and it’s disturbing to say the least. All the Democrats stand around scratching their thick skulls and still cannot figure out why people (from both sides and all walks of life) are buying weapons. Could it be because we have a pacifist President perhaps?

Taking over the private sector and now disarming the military? It seems he’s got a master plan (for what is the question).

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:57 pm 66. AThinkingPerson:

Mike J… Contrary to what your liberal professors have taught you…

Having an opinion does NOT equal racism. It would behoove you to remember that for future reference. When liberals throw that term around so recklessly, it loses its meaning.

Apr 6, 2009 - 1:59 pm 67. Reality Check:

Ah, yes another anti-Obama blithering idiot blocker who will invent falsehood to criticize President Obama. I sure seems to stir up the right winger droolers, who are pining away for another near-dictatorial dolt to finish up the job of destroying America. It sure seems to work here. I for one am glad that our president is on the road trying to heal all the rifts created by Cheney/Bush team of cretinous morons.

And where, oh where did some of you get the idea that Barack Obama is a pacifist? Rush Limbaugh? Ann Coulter? Or some other neo-con wind bag, who is making a fortune out of exploiting your self-imposed ignorance? Oh that’s right, forgive me. I forgot the PNAC credo: if you aren’t making demands that the rest of the world get down on their knees and kiss you big, fat American ass, you’re blowing the hell out of innocent women and children for things their government never did and justifying it all with manufactured intelligence. And if someone doesn’t subscribe to this idea of world domination, then they are a pacifist, who loves our enemies and hates America. There’s an old saying that stupid people don’t know they are stupid. The last eight years have shown us this is a truism.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:33 pm 68. AThinkingPerson:

Where did I get the idea that Obamaprompter was a pacifist? He is the definition…

Main Entry:
pac·i·fist Listen to the pronunciation of pacifist
Pronunciation:
\ˈpa-sə-fist\
Variant(s):
or pac·i·fis·tic Listen to the pronunciation of pacifistic \ˌpa-sə-ˈfis-tik\
Function:
adjective
Date:
1908

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of pacifism or pacifists 2 : strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war
— pac·i·fis·ti·cal·ly Listen to the pronunciation of pacifistically \ˌpa-sə-ˈfis-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

I am amused to note that liberals posting here (including yourself) are getting more and more hateful and venomous. I am guessing it’s because Dear Leader is turning out to be exactly what we thought he was (here a hint for you “reality check”…it’s not good). Put your fangs back in your head and realize that some of us are intelligent enough to form our own opinions outside of Rush and Coulter and Hannity. Can you claim the same or is there a Huffington poster on the inside of your locker? Just asking.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:45 pm 69. Oscar the Grump:

Reality Check
Exactly what innocent women and children have we blown up? Please explain this to us stupid people.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:46 pm 70. Cybergeezer:

My Apology for Obama!
This DUMB BOY is going around the world apologizing for the U.S.!!!!!
As a natural born U.S. citizen, retired U.S. Government Employee, and enlisted veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces during the Viet Nam era,

LET ME APOLOGIZE FOR OUR PATHETIC, INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT.

He may be President of the U.S., BUT HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT AND DOES NOT REPRESENT ME!!!!!
I did not vote for him, and if he fails, the U.S. is better off.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:46 pm 71. mohammed:

George Bush and Cheney sure did put America’s interest first and it sure did get America very far indeed. duhhhhhhh

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:47 pm 72. Steve in AZ:

Looks like the BDS’ers have run out of their Rx again…

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:50 pm 73. JED:

In the Monroe Docterine we had the right to defend our waters.
In the Bush Docterine we had the right to defend ourselves before we were attacked.
In the Obama Docterine, we can not give away our wealth, honor, and security fast enough.

Apr 6, 2009 - 2:57 pm 74. AThinkingPerson:

High five Cybergeezer!

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:00 pm 75. Delia:

Take another bow and scrape, Mr. Prezzy [we won't tell anyone you're really a muslim]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY

I’m not even going to mention M0bama’s touching the Queen. Oops. -Guess I just did! ANYWAY…

Meanwhile, the world laughs at us and our ego maniac, giggle-tard in charge of the USA.

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:22 pm 76. AtheistConservative:

The other word that liberals throw around all the time without knowing the meaning of: fascism:

“A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”

So let’s see: One nation under Obama; the Fairness Doctrine & Pelosi stifling Republican input; government takeover of banks & private business, including firing CEOs you don’t like; the Serve Corps; and “average white people”.

As always the liberals use the strawman of fascism to elect us a real fascist. Thanks, morons!

Apr 6, 2009 - 3:40 pm 77. venividivici:

Reality Check:

Ah, yes another anti-Obama blithering idiot blocker who will invent falsehood to criticize President Obama.

If you’re referring to the article, what in it was false? Your whole comment is just a rant with no substance.

Apr 6, 2009 - 4:54 pm 78. Oscar the Grump:

mohammed
I really hate to pick on you but, “Remember we are not at war with Islam.”
I’m quoting Obama today.

Why is Islam at war with us?

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:16 pm 79. Dave (the usual Dave..not the arogant leftist posting above):

Pew (NOT a conservative leaning organization) told the awful truth of this administration today. It is simply the most divisive administration in modern history.

All the lefty astro-trurfing in the world (as seen in today’s lefty invasion of pajamasmedia) will not cover up the failure that is the Obama administration.

Democrats are simply about destroying the things that have made this country strong and the backlash coming is going to be a real monster. I am actually concerned that the backlash is going to go too far. Hopefully it will stop with just a return of adults to power.

Apr 6, 2009 - 8:37 pm 80. Oscar the Grump:

mohammed
How good would you rate Obama up till now? And, on what basis would you rate him?

Apr 6, 2009 - 9:00 pm 81. California Dreamer:

Today’s free update from Stratfor was excellent. I recommend people enroll just for the freebie. The gist of it was:

-Europe’s largest economy, Germany, was dead set against any of Obama’s requests because they are worried about a Russian natural gas embargo if they go along. BO also has nothing to negotiate with once he takes withholding the $100B from the IMF off the table and his handlers explained that a couple weeks ago. We taxpayers “stimulate” the US economy and Germany ships more goods to us. So….

-He gets the photo ops in Europe, drops off an iPod and skips on to Turkey where the real negotiating can happen. The deal is vocal support for Turkish EU membership (not popular in Old Europe) and continued U.S. avoidance of the Armenian genocide issue in return for help with South Ossetia and Abkhazia and Turkey owning up to the Armenian issue on their own. Probably a fair deal especially if BO can keep the Kurds from taking a beating later (my view, not Stratfor’s).

Stratfor doesn’t mention it, but there is probably some cold hard cash to go along and they do mention the boost to Turkey’s NATO status. I don’t do all of the chess moves justice here, but take it for what it’s worth and go read it yourself.

Apr 6, 2009 - 9:53 pm 82. LynnS:

#81. California Dreamer

And of course the final turn on the Turkey Burger, another bow to Islam. There he’s finished. Apologizes to the World and bowing to Islam. Again I say, everything old becomes new again.

Apr 7, 2009 - 5:39 am 83. jerryofva:

Mike J:

Oh please not Watergate its so old hat. Besides Scooter Libby how many Bush officials were indited? I believe the answer is zero. And Scooter was indicted for poliical reasons as no real crime was committed and the actual leaker, Richard Armitage got off scott free.

On the other hand the Democrats are on the take from Wall street and use a criminal organization (ACORN) to steal votes. Our esteemed President was on the take from both Fannie Mae and AIG while the folks like Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and Charlie Rangel took and continue to take payoffs from the bankers.

You certainly are an idiot if you want to walk down this path.

Apr 7, 2009 - 6:02 am 84. Aye Chihuahua:

Yep. After 8 years of pounding it over everyone’s heads that they’re either with America or against her, and seeing troublesome signs that many of our most cherished allies are getting tired of that pounding and maybe they’ll just go ahead and be against us, well, it’s not exactly easy convincing them all that it’s their own idea to be our bestest friends again. To do that, sometimes you gotta fake out the rightwing rubes. C’est la vie.

Apr 7, 2009 - 9:42 am 85. LynnS:

After 7 years of the War in Iraq, the current Administration is finally able to fight the righteous fight in Afghanistan and President Obama will lead an international force to finally rid the world . . .

Hey, wait a minute, nobody wants to fight alongside the United States in Afghanistan? But that is the righteous War! Hey everybody come on let’s go!

Oops!

Apr 7, 2009 - 10:01 am 86. deguello:

#1 WILL:PLEASE GET YOUR VD TREATED!

Apr 7, 2009 - 10:28 am 87. Pat J:

69. Oscar the Grump:

Reality Check
Exactly what innocent women and children have we blown up? Please explain this to us stupid people.
—————————-
How about the thousands of innocent Iraqis who would be alive today if we hadn’t invaded their country?

Apr 7, 2009 - 1:10 pm 88. deguello:

84 AYE BITCH: You definitely proved that your brain is the size of a chihuahuas!c’est tipique des gauchistes arrieres!

Apr 7, 2009 - 2:09 pm 89. deguello:

#84AYE CHIHUAHUA Appropriate moniker;you certainly proved that your brain is the size of a chihuahua;Ces’t typique des gauchistes arrieres!

Apr 7, 2009 - 2:17 pm 90. deguello:

67REALITY CHECK: Reality checked out of your mind years ago. Was it the drugs or the VD? Obama is dumb,appeasing clown,totally out of his depth in a dangerous world:how does he respond to the North Korean psycho’s missile launch? He announces we are cutting expenditures on missile defense. What did he get for lickspittling the euros and belittling his country?A French promise to accept 1 Gitmo thug.Troops to help us in Afghanistan? 0.BTW:How does a man graduate from Harvard law school without knowing that in Austria they speak German.Oh, I forgot: affirmative action.

Apr 7, 2009 - 7:18 pm 91. Marie Claude:

“A French promise to accept 1 Gitmo thug.”
not a promse a certainty, cuz this Gitmo is of Algerian origin, and ya know how we care of algerian terrorists !

Apr 8, 2009 - 6:39 am 92. drew3000:

Spinoneone, I’m from the US, live in the UK and have family in the US, UK and Europe, and it’s the US and UK where most people seem to be worrying about their houses, health care and income. Far from limiting competition, I’ve seen how easy it is for people to both become employed, stay employed and start their own business. It’s the hard, quick and incredibly proficient work that I find in Europe that leads me to continue contracting out work there. Do some reading, but also get some living in here and there.

Apr 8, 2009 - 7:24 am 93. deguello:

#91Marie Claude o the French really take care of Algerian terrorists? Good for them if they do,but they’ll be incurring the wrath of our marxoid, mental midget of a president.Regards!

Apr 8, 2009 - 10:39 am 94. Marie Claude:

chère Deguello, don’t you know that we had a harch war with them since a long time ago. Now Algerian terrorists were implied in most of the terrorist attacks we had on our soil, the last were in the nineties

Apr 8, 2009 - 10:57 am 95. Dave Surls:

“I forgot the PNAC credo: if you aren’t making demands that the rest of the world get down on their knees and kiss you big, fat American ass, you’re blowing the hell out of innocent women and children for things their government never did…”

Sure, pal. Liberal Democrats Roosevelt and Truman killed more innocent women and children in one day, on the days that they fire-bombed Tokyo and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, than have been killed in all the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. A lot more.

So, you can spare me that crap. When it comes to slaughtering women and children you scumbag liberals wrote the book.

Apr 9, 2009 - 12:06 am 96. elvis:

The prez is running around Europe on the apology tour, comes back and disses America in front of wounded troops at Walter Reed Hospital…. and now the serial LIAR and the VP and Buffon-in-Chief comes out of his hole.

Apr 9, 2009 - 8:47 pm 97. deguello:

#94 Marie Claude: Of course I do;read Alistair Horne’s excellent book on it(A Savage Warof Peace. However,given France’s general record of appeasing moslems, and continued importation of algerians into the banlieues,why do they bother?You will not be able to secure your country without ending moslem immigration,any more than we Americans can secure ours without ending mexican illegal immigration. Unfortunately, our treasonous globalist elites need to be dealt with before our respective countries can become secure.

Apr 10, 2009 - 10:05 am 98. deguello:

#95 DAVE SURLS: Well done;only I would like to add the millions slaughtered by various communist regimes,with whom libtards like “REALITY” CHECK sympathize.

Apr 10, 2009 - 10:15 am 99. chucky:

If anyone has an ear let them hear! When the end comes for Mr. Obamanation. When he stands before the Alpha and Omega and tries to explain how he wasnt paid enough salary to save the innocent lives. (He was paid enough to take them though……..through his policies.) He even extended our dollars to other contries to do the same.
Shame on him! Shame on you who voted for him! Shame on us for not trying to stop them!
If anyone has an ear……..listen to their crys. If anyone has a voice……..speak up for the little ones. If anyone has a heart……..change it for life!

Apr 13, 2009 - 10:41 pm 100. Gentleman Runner:

Shadow you’re an idiot!

Apr 17, 2009 - 5:44 pm 101. Gentleman Runner:

Nahom;

You’re an idiot! America maybe boisterous sometimes, but we hardly an arrogant empire. We have always believed in fair trade and equal competiton. The American —er Pardon Native American were killing themselves before and dumb white Social disease ridden, Viking our Spaniard stepped from these stinking “Rag-Haulers”. Or as for Slavery and African Americans It was actually an African and “hello, A Saudi Arabian adventure. And many Islamic countries still have it. Look at what they do to there woman. Yes, the salt of the earth, The pillars and mere foundations of all soicietis. History has seen many female heroines fight to preserve all aspects of any society namely the young and the innocent. Men like Pol-Pat, Stalin, Hitler destroy. As for the Irish, I am Irish/Catholic and Native American. And you know what the Irish were trreated pretty good when they came over here. Opposed to living back in Ireland where they were abused by other Europeans. One of these Days You Are Going to realize that the Bush Administration did not Torture anyone. And It’s Going to be a very disheartening and rude wakening for you. God I feel Sorry for you! Go live in France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Apr 17, 2009 - 6:01 pm

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