The Trash America Tour 2009
Now you know: Team Obama’s world tour wasn’t about defending America and advancing our best interests. It was about raising President Obama’s approval numbers among the Euroweenies.
Bow. Scrape. Bush-bash. Suck up. Mission accomplished!
President Obama’s expressions of regret for the Bush years is only one aspect of what has been jam-packed schedule full of announcements and negotiations, but it’s been a striking part of his message.
Some conservative critics have expressed chagrin at this. On Fox News, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said “When Kennedy arrived in Paris, he did not attack Eisenhower and the United States. When Obama’s elected president, he is president of all of the United States, including Americans who opposed him, and he owns American history, including a past he may not have wanted to engage in. I think what he did is, in order to gain the adoration of the crowd, he denigrated his country in a way that I think is disgraceful.”
The Obama White House sees it quite differently, pointing to poll numbers showing an erosion of support for the U.S. during President Bush’s two terms, and improved international poll numbers now.
Not only was this trip an opportunity for President Obama “to establish personal relationships with leaders of many countries, with leaders who are going to be important to us in promoting America’s interest in the world,” said White House senior adviser David Axelrod Tuesday morning, “as important, we’ve I think begun a dialogue with the people of these countries, as well… That will make it easier for leaders of these nations to work cooperatively with us moving forward is the fact that we have a more positive image among their constituents.”
Axelrod said “that plainly is true — you can see it in all the polling that’s been released in the last few days — I think in every country in Europe, we’ve made progress in this.”
Good work, Comrade.
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Kim Priestap: Hey, Obama, who you callin’ arrogant, dismissive, and derisive?!
Question from William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: When will the Europeans apologize to us?
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If only we could be a fly on the walls at Buckingham Palace and hear the praise and adulation toward Obama. He took protocol to new heights.
Many muslim countries don’t care about their constituents and, mullahs will spin this as a victory of electing a muslim POTUS.
If they like him so much, they can keep him.
And this translates to how many votes for Democrats? I hope they keep doing this – 2010 & ‘12 will be a cakewalk for the GOP if they do!
Let’s see how he polls with Europeans after an Iranian-made mushroom cloud appears over Rome.
Let’s stop giving away tax payer money to these nations. If we’re considered selfish, may as well start acting like it.
How about your constituents here, Mr. Obama? How many French, Saudis, Turks, Brits will be casting ballots for you in 2012? Okay, legally casting ballots?
What in theeeeeee hell has gone wrong with governance in this nation? Illegal immigrants get in front of citizens on college tuition and healthcare. Now Euros and Arabs and their opinions matter more to a sitting US president than those of the people who actually elected him.
Welcome to the Bizarro States of America.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up…the democrats are going to stuff the ballot boxes with ACORN illegals…
Takes one brave S.O.B. to denigrate the country that elected him as President. Yep, his spine is made of steel alright – when he is on foreign soil boot licking the Euro trash elite.
Isn’t it amazing the amount of political clout you wield when you give the English PM some Region 1 DVD box sets and the Queen Mum an iPod?
South Side School of Diplomacy, semester one: EPIC FAIL.
He keeps forgetting that he’s the President of the US, not the President of the world.
Who gives a flyling roadrunner fart what the EuroWhiners think.
How come Michelle is completely ignoring the blows to traditional marriage in Iowa and now Vermont ? I hope she has not been subdued by Gays.
stillontheroad: I agree. Mr. Obama has a pair of brass ones for not waiting until out of office to denigrate his country.
Jimmy Carter, on the other hand, must be packing a can of fruit cocktail in his loins.
FIFY
Apologist. Coward. Appeaser. Traitor.
You have got to be kidding me. I guess you missed all my blogging on Prop. 8.
Free advice: Stop seeing conspiracies everywhere, please. I can’t cover every single story every single minute. Right now I’m filing a column, keeping up with Tea Party events, taking care of family matters, writing a book, managing my blog businesses, and answering email.
“Gays” are not “subduing” me.
Thanks…
Forgot one: Putz.
They’re worried about the polls? In Europe?
News flash – these polls mean nothing.
Mew
Ebony and Ivory the Obama/Carter irony. I know a lot of people that survived the Carter years and were witness to the Shah of Iran incident are wondering which country will be thrown under the bus?
Let’s hope the Israelis have the spine to do what nobody else will regarding Iran.
God bless Israel.
The only reason the Euroweenies hated Bush was because Bush realized that he lived in teh greates nation on Earth and was not ashammed to admit it. Bush refused to let the Euroweenies make him feel guilty about knowing that our nation was founded on a belief that man is RESPONISBLE for his own Destiny. That the only limit placed on himself is that which he allows to be placed on him. The Euroweenies realize that a man who feels no shame in the pride of his nation can not be easily controlled into doing what the Euro “consensus” suggest he do!
stillontheroad: I think we know from the first days of this presidency which country is being thrown under the bus. A quick listen to the anti-American pandering coming out of Mr. Obama’s mouth will clarify any lingering doubts.
“Fly-over country” will now be known as “Drive-over country.”
Hey, give Obama a break. Why do you want to go and diss him like this? So what if he never held a real job and his only success was teaching ACORN parasites how to fudge the voter registration process and raise the dead from their graves to vote in various elections.
This man has more experience than, uh, than, wait, uh, give me a minute – I’ll think of whatsamacallits name. Levi Johnson? No that’s not it. Joe Biden. Wrong again. Maybe Sarah Palin. No. That couldn’t be it, she’s at least lead the small town of Wasilla and the state of Alaska. C’mon folks, help me out here. I know he’s got some experience in there somewhere. State Senator?
Any way, he was the most qualified candidate the Democrats could offer us and we the people voted for him – at least a majority did. We at least owe it to him to give our undivided attention and support.
/sarc
Cosmo said: “Euros and Arabs and their opinions matter more to a sitting US president than those of the people who actually elected him.”
These are his constituents, cosmo. These are his financial backing which allowed his victory.
This guy’s arrogance knows no bounds. Now that He has risen He will heal all wounds and light the way for all. Its pathetic, as has been the media’s orgasmic reaction to this rock star tour of his. Ooh ooh, the Euros love us now! Yay!
So what do you do in your spare time?
Just kidding, I feel exhausted just reading that.
What we’re seeing is Obama’s Dixie Chick moment (taking frickin forever), trashing the US to gain favor with the pygmy nations. Well, I aint’ buying anymore of your stuff either, you poinyoin! (another word for the list)
at the rate dear leader and Congress are going, there simply won’t be a country to vote in…we’ll be under communist rule with dear leader permanently installed….fear not comrades….all is well….
Nah–more than likely over Tel Aviv. By doing that the rest of the world will not care.
Let’s hope that Israel takes care of biznass before that happens.
Hag Sameach.
Paving the way toward his next job as Secretary General of the UN….
Totally agree Cosmo, I never thought I would see a repeat of the Carter years, it is uncanny.
As my brit wife would say, “The Queen is not amused” with all that touchy feely stuff from the black widow”…you simply don’t touch the Queen unless she extends her hand to you….the stupidity of both of them gives dumb people a bad name….
I believe the mullahs will wait til they have an arsenal before they start shooting them off. Rome will definitely be on the short list of targets. It is the historical seat of western civilization and the site of the Vatican. Don’t think for a moment that this is all Israel’s problem.
Well if the polls say it then by god it must be gospel at least according to the One. What a dip stick.
I’ve said it before … I’ll say it again … and I’ll keep saying it …
Obama will end up setting minority candidate elections to major offices back at least 40 years …
His total incompetence will lead to campaign comparisons of “another Obama” that will make the “another Bush” numbers look like nothing …
His poll numbers here and the Dow are improving also. Hmm. The further away he is, the more people like him and the better the economy gets. Strange.
Ok, how about this afternoon?
The turkey should stay in Turkey!
I really, really can’t stand our president. Can’t even bring myself to capitalize the “p”.
If the US is so terrible, why did his mother send him back here to begin with?
He’s free to stay in any of the Euro/Commie countries that he chooses, for as long as he likes. (Perhaps say, for about 4 years?)
So Michelle, What’s for dinner?
I think that with Netanyahu as PM it’s as good as done. The Israelis aren’t always right, but they learned the hard way and won’t go down without a fight. They’re the only real friend we have in the Middle East, and probably the only people on the face of the Earth that would come to our defense with something besides happy talk.
On April 7th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, Michelle Malkin said:
Right now I’m filing a column, keeping up with Tea Party events, taking care of family matters, writing a book, managing my blog businesses, and answering email.
She likes us! She really, really likes us! .oO(well some of us)
I wonder what the leaders of Europe think of this freak denigrating his own Country? They must be thinking: “what a complete azzhole”.
We are now the laughingstock of the world. The Manchurian Candidate is doing his thing.
It’s too bad that Israel can’t buy up our bad debts instead of China.
One wonders
NPD
Great, as if it isn’t wonderful enough to have OUR country run based upon public opinion within our borders, now we have now crossed over into the politically correct “twilight zone” to the point that international opinion will now be used to run OUR country.
Message to BHO: Sometimes the measure of success in international affairs is NOT measured by how happy you make countries on a globetrotting “hope and change” tour, but instead by just how far you’re willing to go against such pressure based upon an affirmative belief in our own innate good or moral conduct. Sometimes, the folks on the other end of this may disagree, did you ever wonder what Roosevelt’s popularity numbers looked like in Japan or Germany? Just ask Hirohito or Hitler…
But not to worry, because you see such popularity will enable us…
Hmm…
Supplication before the house of Saud? – CHECK
Being called a “comrade” by the leader of a former socialist nation? – CHECK
Saying “I love this guy” to a self-admitted racist and leader of one of the most corrupt governments in South America? – CHECK
Insulting longstanding allies? – CHECK
Selling out your own constituency in the name of adulation and popularity? – CHECK
Yep – we’re really wowing them internationally.
Hard to believe we’ve come so…(ahem)…far…in just 90 days… Can hardly wait for the next 1300 days.
Confirming the above, the White House comments:
Lord, hear our prayers and please help us…
from, Shinola
She was tired of him and knew a typical white person who would raise him for her?
he was finished with getting his foreign policy experience.
Obama’s comments are yet again another manifestation of how ill-prepared he is to be President, and David Axelrod’s comments show how ill-equipped he is to be advising a President.
The campaign ended in November. It’s time to be the President.
As Karl Rove pointed out, did you hear Merkel criticize Schroder, Brown criticize Blair, or Sarkozy criticize Shirac? They had to be listening to Obama, asking themselves, “what on earth is he doing?”
That’s the Community Organizer I recognize. Blame America First of Course he couldn’t repeat his Minister’s GDA…..not yet.
I have utter disgust for this man and equal disgust for his wife. The two of them are our enemies.
But a repressive muslim country would have been SOOO much better for the lad! What a sacrifice she forced him to make! /sarc
LOL – now he’s employing all the wonderful insights he learned about how magnanimous the rest of the world is.
usa_usa sounds like a concern sockpuppet to ilovemycountry. Same person?
Salt–it is.
one of ‘em at least.
Foreign policy by poll numbers.
Whatever happened to ‘The strategic national security interests of the United States of America’… regardless of what the friggin’ French think?
This is going to be a long 4 years.
As much as PBHO irritates me there are NO surprises. He told us ALL these things during the campaign and in his books. Where we got the idea that he was “moderating”? That way just a msm spin.
He is a marxist
He does resent white people
He resents our military
He does favor muslims
He is an Internationalist/statist
Fascist sums it up nicely.
I am surprised he hasn’t elevated Jeremiah Wright to Cabinet Level Race Baiter in Chief; perhaps Wright actually paid his taxes.
Trash America Tour 2009? A continuing tragedy with the Left. White Trash Clinton was no slouch trashing America-Miss Hillary is doing a fine job there. But now that every loves us I guess it is worth it.
It’s all an evil plot by Jimminy Carter to have his legacy remolded into the image of Ronald Reagan.
And the way our current Apologist-In-Chief is talking, that (incredibly) is not gonna be very difficult.
Just when one thinks the humiliation of the Pelosi/Reid/Obambi trio can’t make things any worse…
Actually, with his actions towards the Queen and some of his comments about Turkey to France and Germany, as well as his pleas for more troops from other countries, there is already some lost love among some of the European press. We can only hope now that they will spread the truth where our op-ed bins will not.
Truth in Europe? Do they do that?
I saw the same interview with Rove; what struck me was his spot-on identification of Hope-a-Dope’s weaving of a false narrative for the past 8 years to portray himself the “un-Bush” — even though he’s continuing many of the Bush-era foreign policies.
What’s also interesting about the “perpetual campaign” chest-thumping of hacks like Axelrod is that so far Hope-a-Dope’s most significant foreign policy accomplishments in Europe have been to:
(1) Hang the Czechs and Poles out to twist in the wind for backing us on missile defense, while sucking up to “Comrade” Putin; and
(2) Submit vast sectors of the American economy to regulation by Europeans, while getting nothing in return when it comes to supporting our “contingency operation” in Afghanistan.
Historians are going to pull their hair out trying to peg what Hope-a-Dope’s one-term presidency will have amounted to:
- Lyndon Johnson’s second term: “Great Society 2.0″, anyone?
- George McGovern’s / Michael Dukakis’ / Al Gore’s / John Kerry’s first term: “There’s no problem that can’t be solved by America apologizing and walking away.”
- Jimmy Carter’s second term: Stagflation and “malaise” at home, retreat and defeat abroad. Where’s the Killer Rabbit when we need him?
- Bill Clinton’s third term: Tax Hikes for Everyone, “What do the polls say is in it for me?” and “The most ethical administration, evah!!”
In the end, he’ll go down as a small man in a big job, who never learned anything from history because he was too busy trying to write himself into it — and thereby ushered us all into the era of “Post-Prosperity America.”
How is this for arrogance? Roger Cohen, the columnist at the NY Times who likes to brag that he “understands” why Iranians don’t like us, wrote: “Barack Obama has now accepted all the conditions I called for”. What is worse? An NY Times columnist who thinks that the POTUS does what the columnist instructs him to do or a President who is in lockstep with the NY Times editorial board?
It’s not logical, but even though you are the author of every thread, it’s always nice to see a post from you.
Add, he does resent “the wealthy few”.
Obama resents anyone who does not think the same way he does. (For that matter, the way all his mentors over the years think, too.)
I think a good turn of phrase applies to the Poser In Chief:
No class just sass.
Too many Americans including the Poser In Chief care about fitting in and being popular like they never left high school or still operate on the basic social high school mentality. How many rights and how much of our soverignty are Americans willing to give up to please Europe and feel like they’re part of the “in-crowd” again?
For a political party (the Dems) who think they’re intellectual Einsteins and look down on the “common folk” this popularity-seeking behavior seems in stark contrast to its past assertions. This country has lost its heart and soul in a bid to be BFF’s with Europe and the Muslim World.
Is this a Mean Girls movie remake or what?
From George at urbansurvival.com
And probably with the Approval of The One.
OT: Have you read the ranting of Roseanne? Isn’t there a way we can get her kicked out of the Tribe?!?!
I’d much rather our POTUS be respected by the rest of the world, than liked. There’s a big difference between respect and like.
Bush often confused his personal interests and the interests of the Republican party with the interests of the nation. And here you go again.
Obama wasn’t trashing America, he was trashing Bush and the neocons. Most Americans agree that Bush made a mess of US foreign relations (and US domestic relations too, and everything else …).
America needs friends in the world. You’re so bitter. Anyone who opposed reckless Bush is a weenie. Well, the party of Bush was defeated by one of those weenies. His domestic approval rating is a wee bit higher than the last four years of Bush.
In the wake of 9/11, I used to wonder if the Euros would toughen up their attitudes if THEY were the ones being attacked. I know the answer to that issue by now.
Don’t talk to me about polling. Axelrod and all the rest know full well that polls are bogus 90 percent of the time. They are not tools of measuring public opinion, but of pushing or pulling it in a particular direction. Take for example a poll in the New York Times yesterday that purported to show an increasing optimistic outlook toward the economy since Obama’s inauguration. If you were to actually look at the questions and the results, which were skewed to begin with by over sampling Democrats, as is the pattern, you’d see that a majority of people oppose the actions that have been taken, including the bailouts and vastly increasing the national debt. But instead, the New York Times spins the results to show an increase in confidence, from a very low number to a slightly less low number, but still a negative. So they trumpet Obama’s restoring confidence in the nation. What a load of crap.
What’s news about an America-hating liberal sucking up to other liberals? I’m eating this up. The sooner the chosen one eliminates his chances for re-election the better. I just hope that there’s something resembling America when he’s done trying to disassemble it.
lgm – apples to oranges… Compare approval ratings 3 weeks in. G.W. Bush was at 55-60% approval, BHO is at 60% – call it a wash. Let’s reserve our judgment until BHO’s 4th year then compare the approval ratings. Assuming that we’re not all living in “green,” eco-friendly, caves by that time…
lgm – apples and oranges once again… Look at the portion of MM’s lead that you quoted, “It was about raising President Obama’s approval numbers among the Euroweenies.” While the Euroweenies may have had a hand in the election of BHO via the antics of ACORN, the issue MM was indicating was that BHO is in full court press appeasement mode to the Europeans and trashing all of us (you too…) in the process. I agree with MM that this is offensive. I don’t need a president to apologize for me. By the way, regarding the use of the term “Euroweenies” – name one assertive act by a European nation in the last 30 years…
OK – help me to understand. You say “Obama wasn’t trashing America, he was trashing Bush and the neocons” but didn’t Bush represent the people of the US on the international stage in the same way that BHO is supposed to represent the American people on the same stage? In that regard, BHO has trashed Bush directly and every American he represented indirectly.
Best for last…
Please advise on how BHO/government control of the financial and manufacturing sectors in the United States of America is in the best “interest of the nation.”
from, shinola
Mission’s not – quite – accomplished yet.
Apparently some of the sucking-up involves deliberately packing the White House with Muslims.
‘Cause you know, hiring people based on their religion shows how non-discriminatory we are…
– MuscleDaddy
I hate Obama.
I really, really do.
I hope he fails. He and his family.
I thought libs were all about Change and wanted to MoveOn. Sounds like somebody can’t let go of the past. Could it be because he knows he’ll never fill those shoes?
Well some may, but he’s sure to have some of them cast cash donations toward his re-election campaign.
Mr. Obama, an American Coward. What a miserable disgrace. May God forgive him.
I added the Fox Video so much for a New Era In American Race Relations.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/neil-cavuto-al-sharpton-acorn-call-for.html
Al Sharpton and Acorn call for Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign
I am so ashamed of America’s president.
How can he diss this country? There is no shame left in him.
From now on, he will be “he who must not be named” to me.
What an evil evil man.
That’s funny. After watching the video of the Sheriff’s Deputies going off at how they have been called “racist” and about the cries of “racial profiling”, I went to their website and sent them a “Thank You” and “Right On” letter of support. The Sheriff and his Deputies are doing a great job over there, and their Fire Department is leading the way in teaching other departments across the nation and in other countries the proper way to treat the populace and deal with people and situations.
People are really beginning to become fed-up with the constant cries of “racist” and accusations of “racial profiling”. I have been waiting a long time for them to go too far and have it all blow up in their faces. When you cry wolf too many times, eventually it will lose it’s meaning and no one will listen or respond. It appears that has finally happened there, and hopefully it will begin to spread everywhere, leading to the people at the airports and elsewhere who fit the “profile” of who will actually commit a crime and finally they will end searching the 90 year old grandmothers, just so no one’s delicate sensibilities are not bruised.
I think you hit the nail on the head John. That is psychology 101.
And just how can anyone defend a President of the United States that talks smack about the country he leads? How can anyone actually support a President of the United States, the man who represents this country where ever he goes, when he doesn’t even speak highly of his alleged own country?
I am personally sick and tired of being sick and tired of listening to Liberals and Democrats talk down about this country, how embarrassed they are to be from here or even of being American at all. How on earth can anyone who represents this nation be allowed to continue to hold office when they speak poorly of this country to other nations, either in public or in private? Do we really care what people in Europe or anywhere else think about us? They are all the way on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, for one thing. They have lead this world into two incredibly devastating wars that cost tens of millions of lives just in the last century alone, outside of Great Britain, they can’t maintain any one form of government for very long, they have a long and extensive history of violence, death, oppression etc., yet our President is over there to gin up his poll numbers to those that have absolutely no say in who gets elected what-so-ever?
Maybe someone should remind him to stop believing his own press. He is not the “President of the World”, he is the President of the United States of America, and as such he is supposed to be a PROUD American and represent us in the best light possible. What France, Luxembourg, Germany or any other European country thinks of our internal policies doesn’t matter. It is none of their business. What we think of the European Union should not matter either. Hell, even they haven’t figured out if they like it or not. But that has nothing to do at all with Obama’s narcissism. He has been believing what his own people say about him, and it is getting worse and worse. He is becoming one of the largest megalomaniacal people in history, and someone in the press needs to seriously begin to bring him back down to reality.
The road he has taken is a very dangerous one, and it will leave him, his administration, and Liberals in general stuttering and sputtering, wondering what they did wrong once one of these “mis-understood” dictators strikes out against the US, as they have been planning to do for a long time. All Obama is doing is to help them lull people into a false sense of security. And making himself look like a narcissistic a** in the process.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/
D’ohbama didn’t bow – seriously.
Now why would the WH be actively denying something that was not blatantly caught on video if it never occurred in the first place?
Curioser and curioser!
You really could not make this stuff up! Really, how plausible would any of this be in a work of fiction and how in the heck is that going to make us look in the annals of history. I only hope that history will be kind enough to remember there were those of us who protested this slippery slope on the path to socialism?
He just dropped a cuff link and was picking it up!
Sounds like good skit material for Gilbert Godfrey.
I’m shocked that the Whitehouse is actually lying to the american public and claiming it wasn’t a bow. The video proof is right here! They think americans are stupid! Else they wouldn’t try to preted it wasn’t a bow!
I swear, this guy (the One) is literally begging for someone to attack us, just so he can sit back and tell us that we had it coming due to the policies of past administrations; however, HE’S going to bring the world together in a spirit of understanding, diversity and yadda-yadda-yadda.
If Obama gets his way, the United States will look more like North Korea than the nation that Obama presumably was born in.
The Trash America Tour will be non-stop. If THE One isn’t trashing America (especially past Republican administrations) on foreign shores, he’ll be doing so on ours. The polarization and continued Balkanization of the United States delivers power to the Socialist Democrats. Why else would they do it? Democrats do not care a wit about the future freedom and liberty of our citizens. All they care about is power and ruling over us.