He didn't bow. He curtsied.
69 posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 10:50:18 AM by a fool in paradise
Posted on 04/10/2009 9:40:12 AM PDT by kellynla
The traveling, never-ending campaign road show came home this week. POTUS is back in Washington from his “I like you-you like me,” excellent adventure in Europe and “surprise” trip to Baghdad. It was nice of Obama to thank the troops. He should have bowed to them instead of King Abdullah.
Members of the O-Team, recovering from late-night teleprompter edits, grand parties and jet-lag now deny that the apparently obsequious gesture to the Saudi king was really a “bow.” Perhaps it would be better described as a “curtsey.”
Whatever it was, the Arab press applauded the moment as servile -- and in keeping with the administration’s “apologize for America first” message. Given what else happened this week, the incident may turn out to be as trivial as giving the Queen of England a Chinese-made i-Pod as a gift from the American people.
While Obama was basking in the adulation of carefully selected Euro-crowds, and genuflecting to foreign potentates (or simply “bending, because he is so tall”), other really bad things were happening. The North Koreans defied his warnings of “severe consequences” and test-launched a long-range Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. In Tehran, the ayatollahs ignored his utopian plea for “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” and claim to have turned on 7,000 more centrifuges to refine Uranium. Somali pirates “dissed” his “deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world” and hijacked an American-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
The O-Team was so exercised over the first piracy of an American-flagged merchant vessel since 1866 that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fired off a full rhetorical volley. While the crew was busy re-taking their ship, she said that “We’re deeply concerned” and “following it closely” and “the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.”
More telling than the vacuous hot air blowing from London, Prague, Ankara, Baghdad and Washington was the defense budget presented this week. It assures adversaries and allies alike that we will be unprepared to fight a serious adversary in the future. Hollow talk, empty oratory and impossible dreams are now commonplace in American politics, but the O-Team’s Euro-Expedition may have set a new foreign fantasy record. Actions speak louder than words -- no matter how flowery the rhetoric.
In Prague, Czech Republic, Obama’s speech-writers dropped into the teleprompter a last-minute observation that “Just this morning…North Korea broke the rules once again by testing a rocket that could be used for long range missiles.” He then noted that “[t]his provocation underscores the need for action -- not just this afternoon at the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons.”
Perhaps if they had more time, his wordsmiths wouldn’t have included the pivotal words “once again” to remind us that nothing the U.N. Security Council has done to date has in any way deterred the North Koreans from doing whatever they please about building nuclear weapons or ICBMs. Obama might as well have mentioned that you can’t say the word “unproductive” without using U.N.
Genocidal despots -- like those ruling in Pyongyang and Tehran -- have never cowered in fear of a non-binding U.N. Security Council resolution because they know that the U.N. has raised irrelevance to a new art form. They do, however, pay attention to reality -- like what we’re buying to defend ourselves.
Unfortunately, less than 24 hours after Obama described the North Korean “provocation” and Iran’s “dangerous pursuit of nuclear weapons,” his defense budget revealed how seriously he takes those and other threats. The O-Team intends to reduce our ability to project power overseas and to protect the American people from nuclear attack.
If the Obama defense budget is approved as submitted, we will increase spending on protecting our troops ashore and fleet at sea from attack by ballistic missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction, but cut homeland ballistic missile defense by $1.4 billion. We will increase the number of small “littoral support ships,” but reduce our ability to project power from the sea by cutting our carrier fleet from twelve to ten battle groups. We will not modernize ground combat mobility for the Army and the Marines, and POTUS will have to wait a few more years for a new helicopter.
Thankfully the new budget does include much-needed funding for housing and facilities vital to our war-fighters and their families. It also purchases more unmanned aerial vehicles and future F-35 multi-mission aircraft than originally contemplated -- but cuts the production line for the already proven F-22.
Taken together -- the towering teleprompter talk and the hard realities of what Obama is willing to spend on defense -- we had better pray that he is right. But then, this is Easter season -- and a good time to pray.
Maybe it’s just a man crush type thing ?
There were the rumors about Barry when he had a little too much blow... he could go either way !
Just sayin’
“as trivial as giving the Queen of England a Chinese-made i-Pod as a gift “
He and the missus wanted to give the Queen a pair of Air Jordans, but they didn’t know her size, so they settled on the other ghetto-approved gift, an iPod.
At least we wouldn't have a weak kneed, quisling POTUS who thinks that TALKING eloquently, yet forcefully is EQUAL to actually doing something.
I like curtsey. Its much more fitting a homo Muslim dopehead product of affirmative action.
I heard they wanted to give here one of those clocks on a gold necklace like Flavor Flav wears. That and maybe a Pimp-Cup...(forgive me for that Lord).
He caved.
He didn't bow. He curtsied.
69 posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 10:50:18 AM by a fool in paradise
Ditto we saw the film.......best 4 years of my life wuz third grade and I still understood that POS was bowing and laying a lip lock on King Boo Boo’s knuckle !
Doom on him !
Yes he did. It was reflexive.
He bowed all right and the doom is on us. I fear the worst is yet to come.
All foreign aid stops on day one shy of proven allies. Funding of all national labs and NASA etc stops until they come up with viagra ummm 100 mpg lite truck and passenger cars. Build the wall, man it for controlled entry and exit on north and south borders. Round up all illegals from blue eyed blond Bosnians to barrio bangers and deport them and their anchor babies. Build 1 new nuclear power plant per 1 million of the US population and change house side of congress to 2 reps per state just as senate side is numbered.
Restore death penalty for all acts of murder.
Promote a simple rule for polidiots ! Vote on their record, never their promises.
Thus BHO should never have been elected and nor should I based on even what I consider to be good promises I would do everything I could to keep if elected. My PAC site is SendSQUANOSaPENNY.COM if you care to donate......< /sarcasm>
Obama bowed to a Muslim.
The so-called President is a pthological liar.
“I like curtsey. Its much more fitting a homo Muslim dopehead product of affirmative action.”
Succinct, accurate, well written.
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