[BREAKING] JAPAN MAINSTREAM "NIKKEI" NEWS CALLS OBAMA CANCELLING ASIA TRIP (VIA TWITTER) "INSULTING"

Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo (Original in Japanese) ^ | 14 March 2010 | AmericanInTokyo

[thecodont]

They’d eventually find out that Obama despises Asians ~ something from his childhood no doubt.

Hints of that showed up in the leaked Indonesian blog postings we saw here recently.

[Wuli]

Back on Superbowl Sunday, I remarked to a friend of mine, in response to his statement that “the world had a better image of the U.S. with Obama”, that my friend needed to get his mind out of the mental prison of the major U.S. media outlets, because that image had been largely manufactured by them, while the facts of what Obama was doing and would do was already undermining that sales job.

[Sarah-bot]

I am so upset that I missed this thread because it offers such an opportunity to lampoon Obama. The funny thing is that Obama brought tweezers to a chopstick fight.

[Diggity]

What do Indonesians think about Japan?

[Islander2]

"Thanks for the comments. My work is done here (for today)! Over and OUT!! ;-) お休み。。。。" Honma ni arigataku zonjiru sooro.

[Sarah-bot]

Sorry for the additional post, but this is to rich:

I am so upset that I missed this thread because it offers such an opportunity to lampoon Obama. The funny thing is that Obama brought tweezers to a chopstick fight.

[Sarah-bot]

If that is not funny your funny bone is dead.

[Tailback]

I’m reminded of a previous post of yours in which you said (I’m paraphrasing) “The Japanese WILL get even for the shafting of Toyota”.

This looks like it may be the beginning of that ‘getting even’ campaign.

[Tennessee Nana]

JAPAN MAINSTREAM “NIKKEI” NEWS CALLS OBAMA CANCELLING ASIA TRIP (VIA TWITTER) “INSULTING”
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Is this the first time that Barry has insulted you ???

(Other than bowing to your emperor)

Barry insults us every day...

Twice an hour when he’s awake...

and when he’s asleep he’s dreamin up new ways to “insult” us ..

[justsaynomore]

"It’s that same kind of misguided thinking that is seen throughout the Administration’s foreign policy decisions. Our President spent a year reaching out to hostile regimes, writing personal letters to dangerous dictators, and apologizing for America. And what do we have to show for that? Here’s what we have to show. North Korea tested nuclear weapons and longer range ballistic missiles. Israel, a friend and a critical ally, now question[s] the strength of our supports. Plans for a missile defense system in Europe? They’ve been scrapped. Relations with China and Russia are no better. And relations with Japan -- that key Asian ally -- they’re in the worse shape in years." - Sarah Palin, Keynote Speech, The Inaugural Tea Party Convention

[Thunder90]

0 can’t seem to make time for our allies, instead he makes time to visit our enemies during a Soviet throwback parade.

[Brugmansian]

Hope how this was viewed in Japan and elsewhere makes the English media. Anyone see it, please post. I want to smash it in the face of some liberals.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Did you see today’s WSJ story about the $100 million loan Japan supposedly made to the US in 1969 in exchange for giving up Okinawa ?

[Jemian]

I just got up. Let me get this straight. Caligula will not be coming to Indonesia or any Asia country right now?

Good.

[CaliforniaCon]

RE: “First, that idiotic Obama Imperial “bow” four months ago in Tokyo, now another abject slap across the face of critical Asia by official Washington D.C. (Obama Administration) by a bunch of absolutely useless and hopeless international, diplomatic OAFS.
The Japanese story (per link) is short but actually good. Slams Gibbs and their attitude, and also then, humorously so, gets into good detail for the Japanese people about Obama not being so wildly popular in the United States anymore.

No joke, this is the closing paragraph, written as if they are breaking the news to the Japanese slowly somehow that Icarus has fallen from the sky...which will surprise so many Japanese as they had this Obama out as a God for many months on end both in mainstream Japanese press and mainstream foreign press on which the Japan press often uncritically fed.

Folks, you cannot make this stuff up. They even mention right in the end that Barack Obama now seems to be avoiding the American Press, even more vigorously so than his predecessor, George W. Bush - due to Obama’s plummeting public support. (Paraphrasing synopsis-wise in English from the original Japanese)”

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Now I’m really ticked off — think I’ll go buy a new Toyota in support of our friends, the Japanese. My old one is 2003; time for another though nothing wrong with the ‘03!

[I still care]

The press is still pushing the fiction that Obama is “mending” our damaged foreign reputation (the evil BUSH doncha’ know.)

If people don’t read the foreign press they think Obama is doing wonderful overseas.

Freepers and people who truly educate themselves on these matters are seeing the truth, Obama is a foreign relations disaster. His gaffes have already outnumbered Bush’s who actually had quite good relations with a number of countries.

So far he (and Congress) has severely damaged our relations with:

England
Poland and other Eastern European countries
Columbia
Israel
Japan
Turkey

He’s also done a job on

France
Germany
China
Norway

Any other countries people want to add, go ahead.

[CaliforniaCon]

RE: “And the countries who are not insulted are just amused by how far we have fallen.

Reagan was not perfect, but he commanded respect. This guy just invites ridicule.”

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NO POTUS has been perfect; but this one is so flawed it’s impossible to list everything here!

[Jemian]

The guy kicking may be moslem. But he looks to be from the Papua province. Most Papuans are Christian.

[GATOR NAVY]

When Obama was elected, Europe fawned all over him. Lately, they haven’t. I think they figured out what a fraud he is.

I wouldn't be jumping up and down about that. They think he's a fraud because he's not genuinely leftist enough, not because he has the reverse Midas touch (everything he touches turns to sh*t).

[Kathy in Alaska]

I expected no less of this group so the Japanese should not be surprised either, but I’m glad they are calling them out on it.

My exact thoughts....why would anyone in the world think anything different. Again and again and again he reiterates his tin ear and oafishness. I hope and pray the Japanese citizens, as well as their government, know that this is not the attitude of all Americans, that someday the oaf will be gone and decorum returned to the White House.