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Charles Krauthammer: It's Your Country Too, Mr. President
Washington Post ^

Posted on 04/09/2009 11:26:25 PM PDT by Chet 99

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I'm not against gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. Obama was in a giving mood throughout Europe. While Gordon Brown was trying to make his American DVDs work and the queen was rocking to her new iPod, the rest of Europe was enjoying a more fulsome Obama gift.

Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.

And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country? He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans. He was rudely rebuffed.

He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe. He got nothing.

From Russia, he got no help on Iran. From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: appeasement; bho44; krauthammer; obama
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It sure does. And America is going to be his Jerry Springer Show.


21 posted on 04/10/2009 1:25:04 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Chet 99
Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.

Did he miss anything? This guy - Hussein Obama - is not only stupid, he's dangerous.

22 posted on 04/10/2009 1:29:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: TigersEye

Doesn’t seem to like the Christian moral tradition at the foundation of American culture either.


23 posted on 04/10/2009 1:52:21 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Chet 99; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
It is passing strange for a world leader to celebrate his own country's decline.

Hint: "His own country" is KENYA.

24 posted on 04/10/2009 2:15:12 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

>>>I was wondering...have we ever done anything good for anyone? Have we ever helped with hurricane or tsunami relief...aids prevention..the overthrough of dictators...rebuilding industry of anyone who was destroyed by war...provided a culture of democracy..provided an example of equality or of a justice based on the rule of law...<<<

America to the world: “You’re welcome!”


25 posted on 04/10/2009 2:53:01 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Chet 99

What did 0bama give the Turkish leader?


26 posted on 04/10/2009 3:43:53 AM PDT by combat_boots (The answer to 1984 is 1776)
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To: combat_boots
What did 0bama give the Turkish leader?

Certainly not membership in the EU.

27 posted on 04/10/2009 3:47:31 AM PDT by chargers fan (Bring on Next Year!)
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To: Chet 99

Carter was never a cult-like messianic figure. I lived in New York and even Democrats thought he was a bit off out of the gate, but any Democrat seemed preferrable to the demonized Nixon. He made a total hash of the economy and foreign relations. The Iran hostage crisis was the toxic icing on a repulsive cake.


28 posted on 04/10/2009 3:56:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Patriot Hooligan

Truman saved far more Japanese lives than Hirohito ever did.


29 posted on 04/10/2009 3:58:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Chet 99

ping


30 posted on 04/10/2009 3:59:31 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: combat_boots
What did 0bama give the Turkish leader?

zer0bama gave his usual, thoughtful gift.


31 posted on 04/10/2009 4:01:07 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: TigersEye

It is not just the duty of a Muslim individual to do jihad, it is the duty of the Muslim head of state. According to sharia books and mainstream Islam, the definition of jihad is “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion.”

Top Six Reasons HBO is a muslim:

1 - HBO won’t keep a dog even after he promised his kids he would get one

2 - He doesn’t celebrate Christmas

3 - He can’t find a ‘church’ like the one he attended in Chicago - the Rev Wright is an ex-muslim. And since there is no such thing as an ex muslim - the rev Wrights church served the purpose of providing ‘cover’ for ex-muslims needing to look like christians -wink wink, nod nod.

4 - HBO bowed to the Saudi King. And HBO laughed in the face of Gordon Brown and the Queen. Muslims have no respect for the English people and signs of disrespect increased his bona fides with the muslim onwatchers.

5- HBO is happy to stand back and watch servicemen die since that is their function - according to the muslim jihad mentality. And as the jihadist in chief - destruction of our miltary (its dismemberment and demoralization) are the prime directive.

6- The only person that was close to a father figure for HBO was his stepfather Sotoero in Indonesia where HBO attended a Muslim blab school. HBO is still looking for a father figure and bowed to the Arab warloard in hopes of some such recognition.


32 posted on 04/10/2009 4:01:30 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

“Some of that came out in his Philadelphia speech when he threw granny under the bus.”

Ah . . . and then obama compared the Queen of England to his grandmother, except that she lives in a much bigger house (according to Gibbs). He’s got a problem with white people, which is half of his genetic make-up. He must really hate his mother, which he is projecting onto the “white” world.

obama is so not up to the job. He should be seeing a psychiatrist. A good psychiatrist like Charles Krauthammer.


33 posted on 04/10/2009 4:09:39 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: TigersEye

“There might be a little abandonment issue there.”

You think?!

He is one effed up individual.


34 posted on 04/10/2009 4:11:55 AM PDT by Canedawg (Obowma didnt bow, He did not have bow with that prince. Sincerely, TOTUS)
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To: Reagan Man

He IS the best. My favorite commentator, hands down.


35 posted on 04/10/2009 4:31:41 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: x_plus_one
As long as we are surmising here, let me add another one.
Two different posters on FR mentioned that 1)his sister in England asked how we liked having a muslim pres__ent, because everyone there knew he was a muslim. 2)Somebody that deals with African gov. officials and business leaders mentioned that he has been told that everyone in Africia knows that he is muslim. Therefore; I wonder if the big crowds that he draws in Europe are mostly muslims.
36 posted on 04/10/2009 4:43:58 AM PDT by patj
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To: Canedawg

Seeing and hearing and living what Obama is doing to this nation is depressing. To add to the depression, he has a used car salesman (sorry car salesmen) lying blabbermouth as his VP. Can it get any worse? Sadly, yes.


37 posted on 04/10/2009 4:48:17 AM PDT by doosee
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To: Chet 99

One year from now we will discover if Obama truly has the intelligence to become wiser and reject all his pre-president leftist theories about how the world works or if his predetermined, leftist-indoctrinated mind is truly beyond educating. I fear for the latter.


38 posted on 04/10/2009 4:54:10 AM PDT by driftless2 (four)
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To: Chet 99

Hey Chas.....No it isn’t.....Obama has dual loyalties....the Muslim/Black world is his FIRST Loyalty....White America is his second and very easy to want to defeat.


39 posted on 04/10/2009 5:41:19 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Chet 99

Obama is Jimmy Carter....only in COLOR!


40 posted on 04/10/2009 5:42:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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