Posted on 04/26/2016 5:36:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post reports that President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are “soul mates.” Why? Because Obama “disdains. . .needy, showboating allies and [Merkel] is neither.”
That’s hilarious. Who on the world stage is more of a showboater than Barack Obama — he of the speech in front of Greek columns, the shockingly pretentious Cairo lecture to Muslims, and the receding ocean tides? Obama’s “disdain” for “showboating” suggests that he’s self-delusional, self-hating, or both.
Now that we know how Obama views America’s allies (other than Merkel), it might be instructive to ask how America’s allies view Obama. Jaffe (along with the Post’s Griff Witte) has the answer to that one too. Many view him warily.
In the Post’s telling, however, that’s mostly the fault of America’s allies, not Obama. It seems that Obama’s “cold eyed view of [the] allies” and his “cerebral, dispassionate approach” has been off-putting. In short, he’s too smart and too cool for the rest of the world’s leaders (other than Merkel), many of whom, in Obama’s estimation, are “out of their mind.”
The Post must be kidding. The contempt in which Obama is held in the Middle East isn’t about his allegedly cerebral approach. It’s down, first, to his tilt to Iran, which culminated in a nuclear deal that’s unacceptable to most of the nations in the region. It’s down, second, to his failure to deal with the rise of ISIS.
Tell me what is so “cerebral” about dismissing ISIS as “the jayvee.”
Obama’s problems with many of Europe’s leaders are also the result of his policy decisions, coupled with his arrogance. They are only marginally less turned off by American weakness and disengagement than their Middle Eastern counterparts.
Early on, Obama sold out Poland and the Czech Republic by scrapping a planned missile defense system. Early on, he thumbed his nose at Great Britain. Later, he blamed the debacle in Libya on David Cameron.
Furthermore, European leaders surely understand that Obama bears considerable responsibility for the rise in terrorism and the current refugee crisis that afflict Europe. If Obama had acted more decisively in Syria and had not pulled the U.S. out of Iraq, ISIS would not have become a power capable of attracting, inspiring, and training so many terrorists, and Syria might not have deteriorated to the point that millions of Syrians want to flee.
No wonder Angela Merkel is now Obama’s lone soul mate among world leaders. No wonder Merkel is facing what the Post’s Jaffe calls “unprecedented pressure” domestically.
Yeah but he’s sooo presidential.
I think he’s a dick.
I’d like to hear Putin’s uncensored opinion of Obama.
He IS cool, to females. Brooding females who place ‘swagger’ as more important than a nuke lobbed into their neighborhood by Kim Jung Un.
Both hussein and merkel are piles of dung intent on destroying 2 great countries because they represent strong Christian societies...in the old days, they would be hung from the nearest tree and left to rot............
He’s like the rich kid who thinks he’s liked and doesn’t realize that the other kids are only there for the chips and drinks that he bought.
A pissant that was told all his life that “he is somebody” and he believes it. We might as well have put Al sharpton or jesse jerkson in the white hut same irrelevant despicable humans
He’s completely non-threatening to post-feminist safe space-dwelling womyn.
Putin once described Obama as " a monkey with a hand grenade."
It must have been a real "cerebral, dispassionate" monkey though.
Upon the world stage, a dick the size of a grain of sand. Har!
I’d pay money for that album. CIA employees probably have those recordings and have sound-clips loaded onto their computers. Windows pop-ups have Putin saying things like, “Little Mary can’t find his golf balls or his real ones,” and, “If I looked like that on a bike, I’d kick my own @$$.”
Could be worse, Cruz might have been POTUS, the world leaders would REALLY have had a field day with Cruz!
Swagger? Please, he’s been long outed as the ultimate Beta Male. Hell, I’d call him a Delta male.
World leaders would be correct on this and Obama would be wrong as usual.
However I have little sympathy for the rest of the world; they wanted him and encouraged his election. So now they realize he is weak and arrogant? I saw through the phoney columns and halos from the beginning when they were all swooning in adoration. Took them long enough.
We all knew he would be great by the crease in his pants..../ S
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