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Barack Obama should stop apologising for America
Telegraph ^ | June 03, 2009 | Nile Gardiner

Posted on 06/04/2009 5:41:35 AM PDT by RobinMasters

It is time for President Obama to recognise that his strategy is weakening his country and making the United States more vulnerable to attack, says Nile Gardiner.

No leader in American history has gone to greater lengths than Barack Obama to make amends for his own country. From condemnation of American “arrogance” in a speech in Strasbourg to acknowledging U.S. “mistakes” before millions of Muslims on Arab television, Obama has rarely missed an opportunity to apologise for the actions of the American people.

President Obama has elevated the art of national self-loathing to new heights, and seems to delight in prostrating the most powerful nation on the face of the earth before its critics and rivals, especially on foreign soil. The Obama worldview revolves around the central premise that the United States must be humble and “engage” and work with its enemies through the application of “smart power”. There is nothing smart, however, in appeasing rogue states such as North Korea or Iran.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologytour; appeasement; bho; bho44; blameamericafirst; bo; crushislam; democrats; dhimmicrats; fubo; islam; islamicagenda; obama; surrendercrat
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To: TNCMAXQ

The first essential thing that should be done is a total boycott of the liberal sources of “news”. That is the only way they will change.


21 posted on 06/04/2009 6:13:36 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: jersey117
Why does the American press fail to see the light?

The MSM hates America too. Or, rather, thinks it does.

This is a characteristic of all too many intellectuals... a sneering contempt for the society whose prosperity and innovation made it possible for them to earn a substantial living using their minds rather than a subsistence living using their hands.

22 posted on 06/04/2009 6:15:04 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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To: popdonnelly
The first essential thing that should be done is a total boycott of the liberal sources of “news”. That is the only way they will change.

You got it. Boycott the msm and their supporters. The way to get their attention is through their pocketbook. Money talks.

23 posted on 06/04/2009 6:20:14 AM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: RobinMasters
Good article by Gardiner but he made one mistake. He said Obama needs to change his strategy since his tactic of apologizing and criticizing America is making America weaker. In other words, he's assuming that Obama isn't trying to make America weaker, and is doing so only by accident or stupidity (i.e., a mistaken strategy). That's a mistake on Gardiner's part. Obama knows exactly what he's doing when he humiliates our nation abroad.
24 posted on 06/04/2009 6:24:45 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (REALLY & TRULY updated!).)
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To: RobinMasters

Since he can’t play the race card anymore, he only has the ‘US guilt’ card! If he actually had something to do besides mugging in front of a camera or going to lunch... maybe he’d quit it!


25 posted on 06/04/2009 6:47:19 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: RobinMasters

He’s not my president so he does not speak for me or anyone I know directly. Besides, he’s lying to them as well. He’ll dump his muslim brothers quickly and without comment if it serves him politically. Then again, that is really one of the definitions of being a muslim.


26 posted on 06/04/2009 6:51:11 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

I wonder if this arsehole will apologize for our DEAD in NORMANDY when he is in France...will he bob his narcissistic head and sadden his blue lips and ponder the great selfishness of AMERICANS who gave their LIVES so that Europe could be RID OF A MASS MURDERER who HATED THE JEWISH?


27 posted on 06/04/2009 7:05:55 AM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: truthandlife

“He wants to be the “world’s leader” not POTUS. He will sacrifice this country to do that.”

If he isn’t “The Beast” he’s certainly arranging everything well for the beast’s arrival and inaugeration.


28 posted on 06/04/2009 7:08:54 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Big Horn

“You got it. Boycott the msm”

You mean somebody is still watching The Comrades’ Bull____ Session, National Batch of Communists, or Communist News Network? Oops - forgot All Bad Comrades.


29 posted on 06/04/2009 7:13:13 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: freespirited

The MSM hates America too

Items the MSM LOATHES about America:

1) Patriotism
2) Rugged Individualism
3) Belief in Christianity
4) Conservative ‘people of color’
5) American Innovation
6) Reliance on self not state
7) Freedom of Movement
8) person property
9) Traditional Marriage
10) Pro military

The list could be endless


30 posted on 06/04/2009 7:58:21 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: RobinMasters

Gardiner’s comments were picked up by WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes. Sykes interviewed him on am 620 during his morning show 6/4 and has Gardiner’s review posted in bis blog linked in the WTMJam 620 stations website. WTMJ is also linked here
http://www.theusmat.com/


31 posted on 06/04/2009 8:03:26 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (We don't need no stinkin video clips unrelated to the subject)
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To: RobinMasters

...he’s not going to stop simply because you ask him nicely.


32 posted on 06/04/2009 8:33:36 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Socialism is the worst kind of Pollution.)
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To: RobinMasters

He is his mother’s child. She said that Americans were not ‘her people.’ So he carries on the tradition.

What does anyone expect? They elected the son of a US-hater and they got a US-hater.


33 posted on 06/04/2009 11:36:36 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
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