Regrets only

The American Thinker ^ | April 09, 2009 | Mike Bates

[Scanian]

Watching Barack Obama this past week was painful. The new president went out of his way to apologize for America's flaws. His groveling won rave reviews from some foreigners, the American mainstream media, and others who hold the United States in contempt. A key component to Obama's approach was apologetically groveling.

Expressing regrets about America is something that apparently comes easily to Obama. Certainly he's had enough experience in apologizing for his own fumbles.

He said he was sorry for comparing his bowling prowess to the Special Olympics. He had to call Nancy Reagan and apologize for saying she held séances in the White House. Last May, he told a local TV reporter he was sorry for calling her "sweetie."

The following month two Muslim women wearing headscarves weren't allowed to sit behind candidate Obama at a campaign rally. Of course, he called them to express regret for the incident.

In 2007, he claimed we "have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted." That elicited Obama contrition. The candidate had to apologize to his Democratic primary opponent for a staff memo referring to "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)."

Obama's penchant for apologizing is a Democratic presidential tradition. He's well on his way to matching or even surpassing Bill Clinton.

You'll remember that Clinton apologized for slavery in Africa: "European-Americans received the fruits of the slave trade and we were wrong in that." In Rwanda, he apologized for not doing anything earlier in his administration when massacres killed more than 700,000 Hutus and Tutsis

[GeronL]

there is an article about Venezuela from January on an apparently liberal website, judging by the comments... but it is very interesting to say the least.

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/722/full

[GeronL]

bump

btw

[Canedawg]

“His groveling won rave reviews from some foreigners, the American mainstream media, and others who hold the United States in contempt.”
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So contrary to reality, the masses of sheeple got a typically positive spin of his mea culpa tour?

[FrogMom]

Thanks for that link.

The comments were very revealing.

Struggling countries crave a middle class while BO would do away with ours.

One comment said that there were food shortages because the poor could afford it for the first time. I find that disingenuous, like the “poor” in this country, who have color TVs and cars, but cry about oppression.

After the revolution, the modified constitution should outlaw welfare from the government.

[GeronL]

I am not sure how that got into a leftwing publication. Venezuela could become Zimbabwe very fast.

[bert]

.....European-Americans received the fruits of the slave trade and we were wrong in that......

Obama will be apologizing for his slaver African ancestors in Kenya.

[FrogMom]

Many of the comments are anti-Chavez.