Obama is a pygmy compared with the wartime leader Roosevelt

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 5 June 2014 | MAX HASTINGS

[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, America’s representative will be a man who has disappointed his nation and its allies as have few presidents in modern times.

In 2014, at least Britain’s prime minister and France’s 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, America’s 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.

[kingattax]

not within a country mile

[dljordan]

“We could have defeated Hitler without letting Stalin take everything instead.”

That wasn’t the plan. :)

[stevem]

Obama is a pygmy compared to James Buchanan.

[Dilbert San Diego]

OMG, a pygmy is also African. Liberals reading this will say, hey, it’s racist to call Obama a pygmy.. Just saying.........

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

FDR is the pigmy...Obama is the nats ass on the pigmy former president, FDR.

[Enterprise]

"Why not just go ahead and call him a monkey? "

Someone called him a monkey with a hand grenade.