Newt gives Obama an F on the Grand Tour
posted at 2:14 pm on April 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The Barack Obama administration wants to paint the tour of Europe as a rousing public-relations success, but as Newt Gingrich points out, that’s not the reason Presidents travel. Greta van Susteren refers to the trip as Obama’s “semester abroad,” getting a chuckle from Newt, but Gingrich says this could have value as a learning experience. Greg Hengler has the video at Townhall:
Newt’s not alone in this analysis. Jackson Diehl wrote much the same thing for the Washington Post in the middle of the trip. Diehl objected to Obama’s abandonment of the American agenda from the start, and wondered when Obama was going to act on behalf of the US rather than simply acquiesce to everyone else.
Gingrich makes a good point here. Two previous presidents had similarly rocky starts. John Kennedy realized how badly he’d bungled and improved later. Jimmy Carter remained convinced of his own brilliance and continued to bungle foreign policy; in fact, Carter has never changed an iota in almost 30 years since Ronald Reagan replaced him. These experiences can be object lessons for a president, assuming they don’t believe their own press and acknowledge their failings.
Which one describes Obama? I know he’d prefer to think of himself as a new JFK, but somehow, I don’t see him acknowledging failures. I’m betting Carter, especially since they have remarkably similar outlooks on foreign policy. JFK would never have appeared in France — a country thousands of Americans died to liberate — to apologize for American arrogance.
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The Rainbow Tour never ends well.
Read the entry I linked to. It’s stunningly similar. Just replace “Swiss Bank account” with IMF.
lorien1973 on April 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM
echo chamber
sesquipedalian on April 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM
You know, Beck had a letter writing initiative to Gordon Brown after Obama fumbled the ball on his visit.
Maybe we Americans should send letters to Europe, stating that the bumbling ass and totus do not speak for us. We do not apologize. We expect praise for saving their bacon years ago and continuing to protect their yellow asses.
Hmmmmmm….
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Well the Queen of England did get a nice new iPod, so it wasn’t a total waste.
rbj on April 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM
The Legend™ has already been made, the favorable history book recollections already written, there is no way Ogabe is going to abandon it all now by admitting failure.
Ogabe will trudge on, convinced at all times that he is right and it’s only the failings others which stand in the way of his perfection.
Bishop on April 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM
AS a child i once put my finger in an electrical outlet and got a good shock. 15 years later i was working in a pump house and got another good shock from a frayed electrical line.
As a child, i learned not to put my finger in the outlet. As a teenager i learned to check the wiring before i work on something.
Mistakes are an important form of learning. But only if the shock is big enough to make you learn. I doubt the shock will be big enough from this trip to force him to learn. Maybe, just maybe, if there is enough backlash he might feel the sting.
Yngmarine on April 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Like I said on another thread, Bambi got “Versailled” on his World Tour. The Euros, Russians, Chinese, Saudis, and everyone else did to him the same thing Lloyd George and Clemenceau did to Wilson: they sweet talked him, flattered him, made all sorts of promises, and screwed him over. The big difference, Wilson didn’t bow to a Saudi king!
Why oh why did Bambi have to come back? I’d have taken up a collection so that he could stay in the workers’ paradise of his choice–along with Plugs, Dingy Harry, Crazy Nancy, and any trolls here…
Matt Helm on April 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Young punk on an old bloc.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Dumb
Obama to engage in direct talks with Iran.
lorien1973 on April 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM
I don’t know. I think the Treason Tour was wildly successful. I’ve never seen anyone treat the US worse while abroad. Latin American revolutionaries are boiling with jealousy.
Third world status isn’t that far away. Just a little more pressure on the financial system … and we could be right there! It’s a new day.
progressoverpeace on April 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM
You shouldn’t be so hard on yourself. I’m sure that some time in your past, you’ve had an independant thought.
MarkTheGreat on April 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Don’t care about anything this poser has to say. Lost what little respect I ever had for him when he did a TV spot with Nancy Pelosi on “Global Warming.” Nothing he has to say now or ever again can have any relevance. He has shown time and time again how little character he has. It time to put people like him out to pasture, or better yet in a museum. Wish people would stop giving him a pulpit to spew his nonsense from. He is part of the problem (RINOs reaching across the isle), not part of the solution.
Tommy_G on April 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Wow, that’s pretty profound. I can see why you get “comment of the day” honors.
If you want to go down the Real American road of thinking that them there Euro-peans owe us you should consider that if it wasn’t for France, there would be no America.
Consider it over a nice plate of Freedom Fries.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM
That destroyed his standing as a conservative leader, but he can still be a pundit, that is a lower standard.
zmdavid on April 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes this administration is like watching a B movie where the audience sees the monster rising up and wants to scream to warn the character. For all his supposed intelligence Obama seems no more introspective than a 2 year old. Thus we see the monster is the Carter Adminsistration II: Return of the Zombies.
msmveritas on April 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM
You like me! They really like me!
Foreign policy as a popularity contest is bound to do great things for our country.
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Great line Ed:
“JFK would never have appeared in France — a country thousands of Americans died to liberate — to apologize for American arrogance.”
therightscoop on April 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM
lorien1973 beat me to it!
This trip was nothing but a reward for the Democratic base, so they could be ecstatic about Obama again and wallow in their own hatred of America. For the rest of us, it was a miserable failure.
rockmom on April 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Go to hell, Deb.
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Amen to that Ed. When I heard Obama make the comments he made, I had a chill thinking about all of the soldiers that fought to liberate France.
It’s sad, because once again, it seems that people don’t know their history (or remember those that died FOR their history).
Apparently, Obama doesn’t seem to remember history as well. I wonder if any of the WW II veterans had the same reaction.
HarryStar on April 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Democrat politicians rule by opinion polls. They don’t care about things like getting stuff done. They only care about appearances.
Speedwagon82 on April 8, 2009 at 2:31 PM
fixed it for ya…
Romeo13 on April 8, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Can one make a mistake if they have been affirmative actioned their whole life?
jukin on April 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Should have posted this clip to. It’s how I see Obama every time I hear him speak….
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM
+
the_nile on April 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Sheesh. Try to compliment your pithy insights and all I get is abuse. I say again, it’s not easy to earn “Comment of the Day” honors on a top tier blog like that one!
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM
This from 2 idiots that has swilled the O’bunghole koolaid about 90% of firearms found in Mexico Cartels being from the U.S. when the FACT is 63 of 31,311 firearms were from the U.S.?
When are Newt and Greta going to own up that they got drunk at the O’bunghole propaganda mixer?
nelsonknows on April 8, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Didn’t I tell you to go to hell, Deb?
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Well, if there were no America then there wouldn’t be any France now (much more recent history than what you cite). So your logic doesn’t help you much there.
The point is, at the very least we should not be genuflecting to France as inferior and worthly of their scorn. When we’ve certainly helped them in the recent past far more than they’ve helped us.
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 2:43 PM
If you want to go down the Real American road of thinking that them there Euro-peans owe us you should consider that if it wasn’t for France, there would be no America.
Link. Search all day, you won’t find one.
BTW, can we all call you “Idiot” from now on since you visited Manly’s site after first declaring that anyone who does so is an idiot?
Bishop on April 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Jeez Newt, did you FORGET that Clinton admin officials wiretapped your phone calls in 1997 then gave the tapes to Jim McDermott and the N.Y. SLIMES or are you too stupid to ever learn. I thought elephants never forget…oops I guess RINOs do.
nelsonknows on April 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Barry is not intelligent.
Everything he does makes sense in that context.
Dumb as a stump!!!
omnipotent on April 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
…while also sharply criticizing European anti-Americanism.
crr6 on April 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
If you want to go down the Real American road of thinking that them there Euro-peans owe us you should consider that if it wasn’t for France, there would be no America.
Consider it over a nice plate of Freedom Fries.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Are you referring to the French in the late 1700′s? OMG. The Fwench of today are nothing like they were then. If they were, Hitler would have never been able to walk into Paris and we wouldn’t be providing their military for them. You need a better schtick little debbie.
JAM on April 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM
This is not the France we knew. Dont try to rewrite history. They should thank their lucky stars that America inspired them to have their own revolution.
canditaylor68 on April 8, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Don’t you get it? Obama allowed them to bask in his historic Obama-ness. To meet him, shake his hand, have a meeting with him, a picture taken with him. Get a close up and personal view of how HIP SLICK AND COOL he is. He is all knowing and seeing. It ultimately “is” going to be what he/MSM tells us it is.
Now the rest of the world can see what we put up with on a daily basis. They can scratch their heads and wonder why it does not quite make sense.
“IF OBAMA CAN LEARN” – I doubt that seriously.
torrejranne on April 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM
…while also sharply criticizing European anti-Americanism.
crr6 on April 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Yah, hoo boy, “sharp” criticism. “America sucks and we’re too arrogant; you guys should quit hating us so much because we’re sorry and want to be more like you.”
Bishop on April 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Excuse me – I forget to mention – Michelle Obama got to showcase her J Crew wardrobe.
torrejranne on April 8, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Well the Queen of England did get a nice new iPod, so it wasn’t a total waste.
rbj on April 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM
ROFL!!! Thanks for the laugh! LOL I keep getting this visual of the Queen at her desk, with head phones in, singing….my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. LOL
capejasmine on April 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM
That’s about the time history stopped for you, isn’t it.
AubieJon on April 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM
How do the people sleep at night that supported this appeasing, apologetic fraud? Do they see themselves as “cool” or en vogue somehow? How self deluded does one have to be not to see him for what he is? Ogabe is ultra naive. Combo that with his off-the-charts narcissism & secretive nature & he gives me nightmares.
Ris4victory on April 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM
I’m sure Obama has no doubt in his own mind that he did SPECTACULARLY! Too bad he’s unaware of his own arrogance.
GarandFan on April 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM
That France was overthrown by the citizenry and became a socialist nation that the US has been saving and protecting since. Maybe you should have paid attention in school.
thomasaur on April 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM
F-
soulsirkus on April 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Link to where he said that please. Search all day, you won’t find one.
Seriously though, is your idea of diplomacy visiting some of our closest allies abroad and then patronizing them? Real effective. President Obama tactfully admitted some of our faults, which made his later criticism of European Anti-Americanism much more well-received.
crr6 on April 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Nailed it.
Loxodonta on April 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
The French middle and working classes of the 18th century were a lot smarter and braver than in Present Day.
Speedwagon82 on April 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Yep.
Marcus on April 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Considering that the Present Day GOP now consists largely of tired old men I will accept your first hand observations at face value. I stand corrected.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
And how many American soldiers are buried at Normandy?
Knucklehead on April 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Don’t get me wrong: I am the last person in the world to accuse Barak Obama of being too gosh-darned knowledgeable.
But as much as I’d like for him to finally learn something new, I don’t how it will help anything for Obama to spend this part of his life the way he spent most of his childhood: being educated by foreign dictators.
logis on April 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM
With an entourage of 500+ staff, 200 of them Secret Service to guard him, airplanes, heliocopters, car etc. That alone should have proved to anyone he was special – More special than anyone else. Certainly he was the kid with the most and nicest toys. Should win by virtue of that OR just “winning through intimdation”.
torrejranne on April 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Thanks for the mental pic…Now all I can see is Ben Stiller as the (fat) White Goodman role playing as the Queen of England and singing that song…
…if you were here, I’d have to kick your sorry be-hind!
GAH!!!!!
ladyingray on April 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM
One of those thousands was his older brother…
rw on April 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM
You are right idiot, for the wrong reasons. Had France not LOST the French-Indian War (Part of the 7 Years War)and ceded Canada and all territories west of the Mississippi to England – the English wouldn’t have begun imposing unfair taxes that fueled the American Revolution.
In fact, due to our efforts – it allowed France back into N America, via the colonies – for their own “support”.
i.e. France would never have returned had the Revolution not been successful and considering France was a “super power” who lost first, then spring boarded off the “loose armies of the colonies” – it still resonates today: we do the winning, they do the losing.
Moron.
Odie1941 on April 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM
My vote is for HopeyChangey to undergo shock therapy. Maybe he’ll see his own blunders for what they are, and perhaps slow the pace of our collective nose-dive into socialism and economic ruin.
Wishful thinking, I know.
Sweet_Thang on April 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Xenu commanded her to say that.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Don’t forget the TWELVE teleprompters. Totus Indeed.
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Lil deb never stops carrying water for her Capitulator-in-Chief!
Sweet_Thang on April 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM
We can’t all be ‘sweet’ heroes like you.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Teleprompter in Chief racked up some nice frequent flyer miles while on his BJ tour abroud.
He must have worn out at least a dozen kneepads on that trip alone.
omnipotent on April 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM
A thread full of debunking of your points and that’s the best you can come back with?
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
To hell, swiss roll Deb!
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Wow, what a stinging retort!
Why don’t you grab that box of Lil Deb brownies you’re vaporizing and go feed your like-minded amigos over at huffpo?
Your arguments here are falling on deaf ears, or something.
Sweet_Thang on April 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM
+1 Carter
pseudonominus on April 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Newt Gingrich says that the president might learn from the failure of his world tour to achieve any substantive results. And points to the example of JFK, who learned and shifted gears after his disappointing meeting with the Soviets.
But, what if Obama learns to adopt even more of the foreign policy goals of our country’s competitors and enemies?
Loxodonta on April 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Heard NPR say the Queen NOW had something millions of americans had, as if she had been uninformed and uncool prior to Obama. No mention of the contents. :(
AnotherOpinion on April 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM
CHICK FIGHT!! CHICK FIGHT!!!
Request for video please!
The Wall on April 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM
A lot of people don’t remember (although Newt Gingrich should) that the JFK/Nixon debates focused primarily on who hated Communism more.
JFK may have been naive and ideolistic, but there is no reason at all to believe that he was unpatriotic.
Barak Hussien Obama spent his entire life being raised by, educated by and mentored by nothing but extremist anti-American radicals.
If anyone concludes from this that Obama has America’s best interests at heart, that is not because OBAMA is the one who’s naive!
logis on April 8, 2009 at 3:52 PM
That’s because it had been only 15 years since the U.S. had liberated France from the Germans. His eldest brother had been involved in the effort.
I’m afraid President Obama doesn’t have the same kind of personal experience with history or the military.
March Hare on April 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM
F minus.
ThePrez on April 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
FIFY
Del Dolemonte on April 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM
I disagree Ed-Carter has actually gotten worse in almost 30 years.
Del Dolemonte on April 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I love Christians. Tim McVeigh would be proud of you.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Do you love that he ate Brownie Bites, Deb?
HornetSting on April 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
The Europeans, Russians, Chinese, and Saudis did a number on him. They did to him the same thing Clemenceau and Lloyd George did to Woodrow Wilson–flattered him, patted him on his head, tugged his big ears like you would a kid’s, and then proceeded to screw him over–you can still hear him squealing.
As for the European press and their reaction to him: When you get both the Telegraph and the Guardian saying you’re an incompetent boob–then guess what–you’re an incompetent boob! And let’s not get started on his other faux pas: The bow, Not going to the D-Day cemetery–although I have a feeling that the shades of all those fallen men are just as happy that he didn’t come as I’m sure they would not want his presence on such hallowed ground.
The “apology tour” was a sickening travesty–only a leftie could applaud it. I make no apologies for my country’s actions–I take pride in them. We did and we do what we have to. Again, my favorite bit from “Wind and the Lion”:
The American grizzly is a symbol of the American character: strength, intelligence, ferocity. Maybe a little blind and reckless at times… but courageous beyond all doubt. And one other trait that goes with all previous.
2nd Reporter: And that, Mr. President?
Theodore Roosevelt: Loneliness. The American grizzly lives out his life alone. Indomitable, unconquered – but always alone. He has no real allies, only enemies, but none of them as great as he.
2nd Reporter: And you feel this might be an American trait?
Theodore Roosevelt: Certainly. The world will never love us. They respect us – they might even grow to fear us. But they will never love us, for we have too much audacity! And, we’re a bit blind and reckless at times too.
I don’t care if the rest of the world loves us–so long as it respects us and even fears us a bit.
Matt Helm on April 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
More off topic name calling… still no responses to the refutations of all of your backup-less “points”
Still waiting…..
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Why not both?
Cuba, and Iran!
Count to 10 on April 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM
I love Christians. Tim McVeigh would be proud of you.
capitulus
That you put all Christians in league with McVeigh indicates you are sick and pathetically hateful.
Normally I don’t go in for feeding the trolls, but you have truly earned the epithets hurled at you.
SKYFOX on April 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Amazing, this loser giving someone an F … after his failure in Congress. I hope this guy sticks around, the only one who wants him anywhere near power again are GOP suckers who have no one else besides the female version of a stupid George Bush to vote for.
Monkei on April 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM
classic example of just how void the GOP is on thoughts and ideas, still blaming Carter.
Monkei on April 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Who better to know!
Now that Urkel is back from his “semester abroad” (I love it) he’ll do absolutely nothing, but describe it as something. My former unit 1/221st in the 11th ACR is deploying to Afghanistan. I hope and pray for those guys with such a feckless CINC in charge of them.
Mojave Mark on April 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Yawn. Blah.blah.blah. Yawn.
capitulus on April 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM
What I was waiting for newt to say was that the important lesson was the one that the other world leaders learned, that barry is an empty suit. He’s not a policy wonk, he’s not brilliant like they keep telling us. He’s an idiot and when he got behind closed doors with these guys, who’ve been playing games of hardball all their lives that would make chicago look like a kindergarten, and they see that there is nothing there, that’s the real lesson that was learned. medvedev went back to putin and said,”We own the world.”
peacenprosperity on April 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
capititulus:
Moron. The French helped the United States for one reason: they hated the British. And in fact we almost got in a war with France not long after the Revolution because the new US government did not let them run the country. Lafayette even ended up in a French prison for awhile. What you know about history is nothing. Absolutely nothing. A lot more Americans have died defending France than the other way around. A lot more.
Terrye on April 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I think his BDS tour half went well. The gimme gimme half, not so well.
History means nothing to this clown. The second coming of jimmah is going to bring us right back to 1979.
oakpack on April 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Well so Obama goes to Europe. And since so many Europeans do not like Americans they are all excited to have an American president who is almost as antiAmerican as they are.
Obama of course is a narcissist. So he believes that all he has to do is flutter his eyelashes and the Russians are going to drool all over themselves and hump his thigh. That might work for capitulus here, but not the Ruskies.
Terrye on April 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM
ses:
You can call this an echo chamber, but it is not nearly as closed minded as Kos and HuffPo and places like that. Why not just go away if you don’t like it here? No one will stop you.
Terrye on April 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Monkei:
What a laugh. I have to listen to lefties come on here and yammer about Hiroshima and you are talking about how the GOP blames Carter. I blame him. We are still paying for his incompetence and unearned self regard. If he had dealt with Iran then, we might not be dealing with it today.
Terrye on April 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Classic example of liberals refusing to learn from history.
This game is fun…
Scrappy on April 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Actually, Carter does deserve blame now-his incompetence as “President” almost 30 years ago is solely responsible for today’s Iran problem.
Del Dolemonte on April 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Modern liberals are incredibly ignorant of history because they are so focused on the “here and now”. Their view is that if it’s change it has to be good. They’re not interested in whether similar programs have been tried and either failed or succeeded in the past, nor are they interested in what happens over the middle or long term. It’s only what satisfies me now.
Matt Helm on April 8, 2009 at 7:33 PM
The final outrage from our jacka** president: “America is not a Christian nation.”
HOW DARE HE?
America was founded on Judeo/Christian teachings from Genesis to Apocalypse.
This small man who is our president has neither the right nor the privilege to proclaim our country to be as pagan as he is.
He refuses to acknowledge that he occupies the Office of the President – which supercedes any indivudual.
He travels to Turkey to publicly deny the Judeo/Christian truth of our founding and tradition; he has the gall to proclaim to the world that it is not so.
Emperor Obama brings a curse upon us by repudiating the God and Faith upon which our nation was founded, and to whom our Founders looked for all guidance and blessing.
tigerlily on April 8, 2009 at 7:50 PM
While in Turkey, Obama proclaimed that, “America was not a Christian nation.”
WHAT???? HOW DARE HE? DOES HE THINK HE CAN REWRITE OUR HISTORY; ERADICATE OUR DEEP ROOTS IN THE JUDEO/CHRISTIAN FAITHS?
WILL WE LET HIM CASUALLY AND IMPUDENTLY DENY THE FAITH OF OUR FOUNDERS, OUR FAITH AND THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE DIED DEFENDING OUR LAND AND LIBERTY?
WE NEED TO LET HIM KNOW THAT HE HAS NO RIGHT TO REPRESENT OUR COUNTRY AND HER CITIZENS IN SUCH A SHOCKING AND UNTRUTHFUL MANNER!
obama’s kind of talk goes beyond arrogance. He is a pagan who brings disgrace and a curse upon us all.
tigerlily on April 8, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Vercingetorix. Charlemagne. Joan of Arc. William the Conqueror. Charles the Hammer. Napoleon. Lafayette. The Citoyens fighting with pitchforks against muskets at Valmy. The Foreign Legion. Armies around the world including the U.S. emulated the French including uniforms and military terminology.
France. What the hell happened to you? Where are your collective balls?
Oh, that’s right…Marshal Petain said it all in 1940-The result of twenty years of Marxism.
But, we are becoming like them and due to the same causes.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 8, 2009 at 8:04 PM
sorry for the double post. I thought I lost the first one and had to rewrite it. Turns out is snuck right past me onto HA. Anyway, gives me the chance to say, God bless America and Jesus is my Lord.
tigerlily on April 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Well, of course he’s all four Presidents on Rushmore with a dash of Superman and a JFK/RFK/MLK sauce with a FDR sprinkles and a Reagan cherry on top.
/sarc
chunderroad on April 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Greta was trying to tell Newt (paraphrasing) ‘These things you think he should learn about North Korea, Russia, etc. are not profound. Bush, Clinton, everyone knows these things. How can you say he needs to learn something?’
She doesn’t seem to notice: Obama clearly does not know these things that everyone else knows; and his whole policy (from ‘reset’ to slobbering over the mullahs and everything else) is all about deliberately un-knowing what this nation has known and stood for.
MikeInOhio on April 8, 2009 at 8:49 PM
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