Barack Obama: The rabbit in North Korea's headlights,is Jimmy Carter II... (Be very afraid)

Telegraph UK ^ | Apr 6, 2009 | Gerald Warner

[IrishMike]

"Obama calls for action on North Korea" reported today's headlines - which is much like a chief constable demanding something should be done about crime. If the President of the United States cannot bring the Pyongyang regime to heel, who does he expect to perform this task? It appears that, along with the bust of Churchill, Harry S Truman's maxim "The buck stops here" has also been banished from the Oval Office.

What was the point of America deploying two missile-killing destroyers, the USS McCain and the USS Chafee, in Japanese waters, only to spectate as Kim Jong-il's Taepodong-2 missile took off? US military sources have made much of the fact that the missile failed to launch a satellite into space or to achieve its stage three flight. That is like being complacent because Iran has not yet quite completed its nuclear armaments programme. It is the unimpeded process of pursuing nuclear weaponry that is threatening. No wonder West Coast Americans feel insecure.

Overnight, posturing and sabre-rattling, formerly the province of Kim, has become the role of America and its allies. Such chest-thumping followed by inaction is deadly dangerous. Do the names Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia not ring any bells? Ironically, Barack Obama was in Prague - the ultimate monument to appeasement - when he heard the news of the North Korean launch. Incredibly, he went on to deliver another turgid oration on the need to scrap nuclear weapons. That must have given them a good laugh in Pyongyang.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ha! The UK Telegraph is hittin’ ‘em out of the ballpark as of late!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Brits absolutely nail it. While America goes round in a fog.

[Veto!]

Most excellent. Thanks. The Rabbit in the Headlights. LOL

Wish I knew how to photoshop this image:

[junta]

Never disgrace a lab by comparing it to the girly boyz of the Obama cult.

[Izzy Dunne]

Anybody else notice that the negative press stories about O'bama are seemingly ALL coming out of foreign papers?

The American press can't be bothered, it seems.

[SunkenCiv]

"Obama calls for action on North Korea" reported today's headlines - which is much like a chief constable demanding something should be done about crime. If the President of the United States cannot bring the Pyongyang regime to heel, who does he expect to perform this task? It appears that, along with the bust of Churchill, Harry S Truman's maxim "The buck stops here" has also been banished from the Oval Office.

Wow. Kick ass and take names!

[Dick Bachert]

[bamahead]

How dare the Telegraph criticize THE ONE!

Obama can’t be expected to be tough on these international issues...he’s got to focus his toughness on trying to disarm his own subjects.

Priorites, Comrades...

[Frantzie]

Agreed.

Thank goodness for the Uk Telegraph owned by the Barclay brothers who are supposedly Scottish Catholics.

A large part of the news media is now financed by the Saudis who own MANY politcians around the world and have bought elections including recent elections.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

"I think most of you know that the President has been on something of a strange journey, today.... ABC’s Ann Compton was with him all day and told, talked all day about the struggle between the security and the political apparatus whether the President would get back to Washington. Well, the President is back in Washington now and there has been no time in his presidency, and there may never be a time like this again, when it has been so important what he says to the country because I think we all know at moments like this the country looks to the President of the United States for understanding, for, for knitting the country together. And some Presidents do it brilliantly and some do not." - Canadian citizen Peter Jennings on 9/11 (you may say that he became an American citizen after 20 years reporting news in this country but he did it so he could vote against Bush, he maintained that he held DUAL citizenship and was still proud to be a Canadian).

[rfp1234]

Who’s that sitting across from the Beast? Hugh Rodham?

[a fool in paradise]

Hillary.

This is an “important meeting”. At a picnic table.

[Grampa Dave]

This great. I'm glad my iced tea was not in my hands nor in my mouth when I saw this:

[Grampa Dave]

This great. I'm glad my iced tea was not in my hands nor in my mouth when I saw this:

[mojitojoe]

“Obama’s PR team is trying to depict him as firm because he still intends to implement the European missile defence shield. Yes; but how long before Vladimir Putin sells him another pup to join the one in the White House? The word has gone round the hard-faced power freaks of the geopolitical demi-monde that here is a US president who makes taking candy from a baby look challenging. Jimmy Carter is back. Be very afraid.”

[PhilDragoo]

[potlatch]

Forgot I had this one!

[devolve]

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Excellente potlatch!