Posted on 04/08/2009 9:19:50 AM PDT by Plutarch
AFTER Barack Obama’s first long jaunt abroad as president, Americans are in two minds. Some are delighted that so many foreigners love him. Others fret, like Machiavelli, that it is often better to be feared than loved, and that the people who ought to fear America don’t take Mr Obama seriously.
...North Korea, which has already made at least one illegal nuclear bomb, fired a test missile over Japan.
Though the missile crashed into the sea, many Republicans think it illuminated Mr Obama’s naiveté. The problem is not the great powers with nuclear stockpiles, they say, but rogue regimes such as North Korea and Iran. Hawks scoff that Mr Obama approaches such rogues with fine words but no stick. He promises that North Korea’s treaty-breaking will have consequences, but so far these have consisted mostly of ineffectual scolding.
The conservative critique of Mr Obama is that he is Jimmy Carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving. While he pursues talks with Iran, Republicans fret, Iran’s leaders chuckle behind their beards and carry on enriching uranium. For many conservatives, the defining image of Mr Obama’s European tour was not the adoring crowds but the way America’s new president bowed before the king of Saudi Arabia. Bloggers juxtaposed his cursory nod to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth with the deep bow he gave to the dictatorial ruler of a far less reliable ally.
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Some call it bowing, I call it submitting.
This is Obamas Mission Accomplished moment
Never, ever, ever, ever......EVER...bow.
The Lord Barack is my shepherd, I shall always want
He maketh me to lie down under bridges
He leadeth me besides the still factories
He leadeth me in the path of destruction for Democrats’s sake
Yea, though I walk through the valley of dispair, I fear every evil for he is with me!
His policies and diplomacies, they frighten me
He prepareth a reduction in my salary
And in the presence of my enemies, he annoiteth my small income with taxes.
My debt runneth over,
Surely badness and misery shall follow all the days of my life.
And I shall live in his house of socialism forever!
The lying Obama people are actually saying he isn’t bowing, but “double shaking” the hand of a much smaller guy standing next to the King. Of course, there is no such person there.
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
I really don’t like seeing that lovely psalm desecrated.
Some may “love” him.
Nobody who matters takes him seriously.
OMG the Economist even comments negatively on our Genuflecting Ghadist. The MSM is seeing the lockstep as making them look pretty stupid.
Perhaps he was bowing as a way to thank him for the money he raised and sent for his Presidential Campaign... since much of the money is unaccounted for, I would suspect he may have been a contributor.
I can't claim credit as it was first penned by Sara Liskey of Elkton, Pa., in 1938 to criticize the FDR New Deal...I thought it appropriate to substitute Lord Obama.
Prez. 0
Bowed Low
To a Saudi King.
A U.S. Citizen
No-No!
I honestly don’t think it was planned. The child from Indonesia saw the head gear and dress of an Arab whose country holds Mecca and Medina, the ‘holy’ places of Muhammadanism. And his reflex was to genuflect. (In the same manner as a Catholic genuflects to the Vicar of Christ, the Pope, and to the Eucharist.) I don’t think he could have stopped the genuflection if he’d been cognizant of it.
And yes, it will be the defining moment of 0bama’s short presidency. I expect he’s going to revert to Muhammadanism in the near future. He had an ‘enlightening’ experience at the G-20.
Can’t think of a better reason to investigate his birth certificate... allegiance owed... not to the USA.
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