Just like the little show that Dubya Bush put on with the megaphone at Ground Zero at the Twin Towers, just like the demonstrations of support around the world for the people who died in the towers, just like the twin blue beams of light that rose from the ground where the towers stood -- if I have to explain to you the value of those symbolic gestures, then I feel sorry for you.
Well, the politicians marching arm-in-arm was pretty much like that. It's symbolic, and it showed courage in the face of evil, because it was risky taking that little walk. No, it didn't kill a single damn Muslim terrorist, but it showed spirit of solidarity, however fleeting, between a lot of countries that normally don't have much nice to say about each other. It put "principle" -- freedom of speech -- above politics.
That, Sir, was the value of that parade.
And dammit, America should have been LEADING that parade, not ignoring it. WTF would the Founders of this Great Nation be doing, if not proudly leading that parade?
Our President, our Vice President, and our Secretary of State, should be ashamed to show their damned faces. They have disgraced us all.
Well said. The only good that Obama didn’t go is that he utterly has no sense of how to act at such venues. Guaranteed he would be making a ass of himself again, grinning, waving, and taking selfies.
And I mean that in all seriousness. He’s a national embarrassment.
As I said a couple of times yesterday, I think it's a safe bet that Ronald Reagan wouldn't have been caught dead marching with a group of world leaders at a political rally like that in France.
The only purpose of that rally was to score political points for leftist leaders in European governments. That's why Maxim Le Pen, the leader of France's right-wing nationalist party, was excluded from the event. Quite frankly, that's the one reason why I was surprised Obama didn't attend.
Great diatribe, spot on.
Well said.