Our very own version of Iddi Amin lives in OUR Whitehouse.
Posted on 11/22/2009 2:57:06 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Barack Obama's first visit to Asia since his inauguration was one of the most disappointing trips by any U.S. president to the region in decades, especially given media-generated expectations that "Obamamania" would make it yet another triumphal progression. It was a journey of startlingly few concrete accomplishments, demonstrable proof that neither personal popularity nor media deference really means much in the hard world of international affairs.
The contrast between Asia's reception for Obama and Europe's is significant. Although considered a global phenomenon, Obamamania's real center is Europe. There, Mr. Obama reigns as a "post-American" president, a multilateralist carbon copy of a European social democrat. Asians operate under no such illusions, notwithstanding the "Oba-Mao" T shirts briefly on sale in China. ...
What the president lacked in popular adulation, however, he more than made up for in self-adulation. In Asia, he labeled himself "America's first Pacific president," ignoring over a century of contrary evidence. The Pacific has been important to America since the Empress of China became the first trading ship from the newly independent country to reach the Far East in 1784. Theodore Roosevelt created a new Pacific country (Panama) and started construction on the Panama Canal to ensure that America's navy could move rapidly from its traditional Atlantic bases to meet Pacific challenges. William Howard Taft did not merely live on Pacific islands as a boy, like Obama, but actually governed several thousand of them as Governor-General of the Philippines in 1901-1903. Dwight Eisenhower served in Manila from 1935 to 1939, and five other presidents wore their country's uniform in the Pacific theater during World War II—two of whom, John F. Kennedy and George H.W. Bush, very nearly perished in the effort.
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Let me clarify; the idiots who watch are solidly in the 30%. It's the idiots who work there that make up the 18%.
So not only is he the first half-black President, but he is also the first Pacific President. Wow, why didn’t the media tell me that? And I thought that his “historic” election was all about race and not what region the person was born in.
(Sarc.)
Not to mention that he is the first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize based on “hope” and “change”.
IMPEACH THE LONG LEGGED MACK DADDY!!!
WHY did Obama vote no to health care reform as a senator?
He is an inexperienced traitor. Just like Hasan. He sucked at his job too.
The beta dog comes home with his tail between his legs.
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I guess CA (Richard Nixon) is not on the Pacific.
The first Psychotic president. More like it.
How about a picture of him bending over(a most comfortable position for him)...with his head in a toilet bowl..and his BIG ears at toilet seat level...that would be “in way over his head.”
When he prostrated himself before the emperor of Japan, he told the world that he is no higher in status than the person who cleans the toilets at the royal palace.
Barry is a laughing stock to all except the European socialists.
They had a beer in the Rose Garden.
Clinton never wore a uniform.
How about President Andrew Johnson, Sewards folly Alaska?
Our very own version of Iddi Amin lives in OUR Whitehouse.
Zero may be the first Kenyan president - he’s not saying either way, but Richard M. Nixon was the first Pacific president being born in California which borders the Pacific Ocean, as Hawaii also does.
Skewed polls...
What a difference it would be if Sarah Palin were President. No doubt she would get a positive reaction from Asia.
Over dinner last weekend - a “first date” (and last) with this guy - I asked a “forbidden” first date question, and his answer: “I voted for Barack Obama and I think he’s a fine president. I think he’s doing a great job, blah blah blah....” . Well, that did it. I refuse to go out with STUPID people.
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