Another shabby day for the marshmallow President: As his Taliban hostage swap sours, why Obama is a

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 5, 2014 | Max Hastings

[C19fan]

Of course it is a challenge for any modern national leader, to stand tomorrow on the beaches of Normandy and recall the greatest days and martial triumphs of World War II.

The comparison is obvious and embarrassing, between the giants and the pygmies: Churchill and Cameron, Hollande and de Gaulle, above all Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.

In 2014, at least Britain’s prime minister and France’s president must bear responsibility only for their own countries.

But the President of the United States is the standard-bearer for the global cause of freedom, commander-in-chief of the principal might of the forces of democracy.

[C19fan]

Mr. Hastings, a great military history author, was a big Obama backer. Looks like he has finally realized what a phony he is.

[tgusa]

Yeah, but he call 0bama a pygmy. So he must be a RASIS.

[workerbee]

the black comedy of his Administration’s exchange of five top-rank Taliban prisoners

Yep, clearly rasis.

He also continues to give this illegal Muslim POS a bunch of free passes: "lapse of judgment", "deeply uncertain about where he and the U.S. should go", "Who let the president get photographed with the Bergdahls?"

BARF

[Biggirl]

....Oh that old, beatup, worn out race card is now coming back DECLINED.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have several of Max Hastings’ books.
He's a superb writer.

[Rennes Templar]

“That is nonetheless where we have got to, with the black comedy of his Administration’s exchange of five top-rank Taliban prisoners...”

There’s a double meaning there...

[Veto!]

But nobody, not even his foremost Republican foes, believed that halfway through his second term of office, Obama would be giving the world a convincing impersonation of a marshmallow.

Excuse me, Mr. Hastings, many Americans saw the very obvious marshmallow man in Obama from the get go.

[TigersEye]

marshmallow President

Respected around the world! /s

[jmacusa]

Hastings is a notorious America-basher.

[jmacusa]

When he sticks to the facts. I read his “D-Day. The Battle For Normandy’’, well researched I’ll say that.

[jmacusa]

An excellent example of this Limey’s attitude towards average Americans.

[TigersEye]

LOL Go back and check FR posts in 2008, Hastings. There were hundreds of us who pegged him as the marshmallow man.

[Ancesthntr]

Franklin Roosevelt was a giant? Maybe a giant pustule on America’s rear end, but that’s about it.

[hal ogen]

All LIB/DIM “heroes” are criminals.

[Billthedrill]

“An old, blind, mad, despised and dying King...” Great story.

[1010RD]

Worth posting the whole thing given America’s situation.

ENGLAND IN 1819

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,—
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring,—
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,—
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,—
An army which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,—
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless, a book sealed,—
A Senate—Time’s worst statute unrepealed,—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst to illumine our tempestuous day.

[Billthedrill]

Yep. That’s the one. :-)

[wetgundog]

pygmie excellent description of our Kenyan P.O.S.

[Political Junkie Too]

A toasted marshmallow President?

What is that? Brown on the outside, white on the inside?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ