PRESIDENT OBAMA, PLEASE GO HOME
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April 6 2009
Ian Martin at the UK Telegraph thinks it’s time for Obama to end the
perpetual overseas campaign and go home
Isn’t it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the
new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour
Europe. He arrived in London last Tuesday, has been to Strasbourg,
Prague yesterday and now he’s off to Turkey. It shows, I suppose,
that he cares about the outside world and that is ‘A Good Thing’. But
his long stay means that we are hearing rather a lot from him, way
too much in fact.
And it probably isn’t cheap dragging his 500 person strong entourage,
including the guy tasked with dialing his Blackberry, around Europe,
either.
Yet, we are told that he is a great orator and in one way he certainly
is. He does have a preternatural calm in the spotlight and a mastery
of the cadences we associate with the notable speakers in US history
– such as JFK and MLK. But beyond that, am I alone in finding him
increasingly to be something of a bore? (snip)
But Obama was only warming up. "When I was born," (Everything usually
leads back to him, you’ll notice)… "the world was divided, and our
nations were faced with very different circumstances. Few people would
have predicted that someone like me would one day become an American
President." (Him again)…
Come on, Ian, you know it is All About Barry.
"Few people would have predicted that an American President would one
day be permitted to speak to an audience like this in Prague. And few
would have imagined that the Czech Republic would become a free nation,
a member of NATO, and a leader of a united Europe. Those ideas would
have been dismissed as dreams". (Not by Ronald Reagan they wouldn’t
have been, when most of Obama’s Democrat friends thought the then
US President’s robust approach to the Cold War made him a loony on
the loose).
But, hey, it is All About Barry and his time in the spotlight. Good
thing he is bringing his own doctors (doesn’t he trust socialized
medicine countries?) in case he gets a sore throat. Meanwhile, Obama
is in Turkey, getting all wishy-washy on the question of the Armenian
"genocide" (paragraph 8 ) and calling Turkey a "critical ally"
(paragraph 8, also.) Bet that makes Britain feel great, eh?