Posted on 11/11/2010 1:57:08 PM PST by libstripper
Seoul - US President Barack Obama seemed tired and irritable on Thursday as he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Seoul.
For her own part, Merkel appeared tense - the summit is the first time the two have found themselves on opposing sides, though relations between Berlin and Washington have been under strain for some time.
This was not aided by Merkel's swift rejection on the summit's first day of a US idea to limit the size of a country's trade deficit or surplus.
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Plus she’s smart - and he’s not. And everybody knows it.
The so-called "progressives," like the president, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of America's 200-year experiment in liberty.
With all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, they seem to fit into a category described in T.S. Eliot's essay on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution, enjoyed by previous generations, and honored by the magnificent sacrifices of of brave soldiers and leaders of the past.
Don’t do what I do. Do what I say. = Obama/Pelosi/Reid/Bernake
Of course BHO doesn’t like Merkel. Germany is generally, a white, Western European nation.
BHO hates that.
Wow! If looks could kill. Ol’ Purple Lips is looking goofier than ever, IMHO.
...still can’t believe that America elected this idiot
Good grief, the doofus bites his nails.
yeah, so much worse than o bowing to literally countless heads of states (and not so head of states)
Isn’t purple lips a sign of not enough oxygen to the brain?
Gee thanks.
Those droopy eye-lids tell me that he is either tired (most likely) or...um...uhhh...chemically mellow.
I don’t know about him, but it’s clear she’s not feeling the love.
! thought these lyrics should accompany this picture of Zero!
“If you wanna hang out you’ve got to take her out; cocaine.
If you wanna get down, down on the ground; cocaine.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; cocaine.
When your day is done and you wanna run; cocaine.
If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues; cocaine.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; cocaine.
If your thing is gone and you wanna ride on; cocaine.
Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back; cocaine.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; cocaine.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; cocaine.”
That f’er looks completely HIGH.
Anyone read palms? You can see his life line and I do not know the other ones.
NOTE TO SELF: never touch icy teutonic middle-aged female physicists who grew up in East Germany.
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