"The president scores highly at the UN for refusing to project American values and military might on the world stage, with rare exceptions like the war against the Taliban. His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt."
Simply put, Barack Obama is loved at the UN because he largely fails to advance real American leadership. This is a dangerous strategy of decline that will weaken US power and make her far more vulnerable to attack.It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today.
Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people.
The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama’s leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world – 94 percent in Kenya, 93 percent in Germany, 88 percent in Canada and Nigeria, 77 percent in India, 76 percent in Brazil, 71 percent in Indonesia, and 62 percent in China for example. The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008.As the figures indicate, Barack Obama is highly likely to receive a warm reception when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, whereas his predecessor in the White House was greeted with undisguised contempt and stony silence.
It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits the president at Turtle Bay. Obama’s popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be – ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.
It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House.(More...)
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That shows you just how messed up other parts of the world are. I just know that Dear Leader KIM Jong IL is happy LOOONG time with all of Obama's cow-towing and happy talk.
Obama is more concerned about taking over health care, date nights in NYC, talking to school kids, or having beer summits... rather than protecting our country.
Gene, I guess I slept through the Obama coronation. The guy has no intention of assuming the role of Public Servant.
It's gonna be an uncomfortable next few years as we watch this guy lead from the Chicago bunker. I wonder if there's a tunic and laurel wreath in his closet.
The League of Nations descended to this level of burlesque in the 1930's, with Ramsey MacDonald in the Obama role.
MacDonald was a narcissistic lounge act, and Obama is sounding more and more like him, or a high school class valedictorian in need of a tune-up.
The 1930's opened the curtain on calamity, and so will this liberal fantasy world.
Fortunately, we have Qadaffi and Ahmadinejad to remind us that the nasty world goes on in spite of (and sometime because of) screwballs like Obamaa.
Just hang on tight. It's going to be a bumpy ride but we'll get through it.
I'm stunned. It appears not everyone in the UK has lost their minds.
An English ink-stained wretch calling His Wholly Reluctance a pussy?!?
That article should be framed and put in the Smithsonian.
Rhod, I don't believe you understand how much I'm inspired by your dogged optimism.
Cbull, that one got a genuine laugh out of me. Thanks!
Nothing is written, Nickie, as Lawrence said - at least in the screenplay. Remember, we're being governed by the rubes of The Left.
They can only screw things up.
I'm actually not troubled on practical grounds by The Idiot's yammering at the UN. He's a shocking numbskull, but the clods listening to him in the chamber have more to fear if The Idiot is serious.
They might not want a world red in tooth and claw, but they're about to get it.
Who woulda thought Col. Daffy would save the day? I can only quote Allahpundit: Yet another "important" Obama speech overshadowed by a bizarre outburst. Qaddafi = a terrorist Joe Wilson?
Although, I didn´t consider Joe´s outburst bizarre. I thought of it more as...human. Either way, way to rant Moammar. Nobody here wanted to remember Obama´s verbal bow to the chumps in the UNGA anyway.
Rhod, Europe is in no shape to handle a scuffle of any size. Their denizens seem to walk around with a white flag tucked into their collective back pocket.
Mike, I've heard better speeches at Toastmasters, Tuesday mornings at 8, Julie's Pancake & Sausage World, Route 5.
Wait, do you mean to tell me that the office Obama won, this President thing, is supposed to support the will of the American people and not that of the U.N.? Are you sure the President isn't in office to pass out special privileges to minorities, violent religions, and people who are simply stupid and lazy? Don't yank my chain like that. I thought that office was sort of like a diplomat who was solely intended to appease officials from the country he meets? Damn, I feel so violated...
Mike, the clown car pulled up at Turtle Bay. The first clown out was Obama.
Nickie, Europe, whatever our sentimental attachments, is on a course of its own choosing.
Obama, in a perverse way, is going to force the world to estimate how many alibis for failure they've rolled into anti-Americanism.
He thinks they'll gather at his feet for that? Heh.
This U.N. festival is like a freak show.
I was watching the Libyan moonbat this morning and then read this piece as well. Bizarro world that we live in..........
Nickie, look this at Wall Street Journal, about the Crazy War in HonduraS with the participation of Lula!
After nearly three months in exile, Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president of Honduras, made a stealth return to Tegucigalpa on Monday, taking sanctuary in the Brazilian embassy. He is now using this diplomatic sanctuary to demand reinstatement and stir up his supporters in the streets. This is a dangerous moment, and if violence breaks out the U.S. will bear no small part of the blame.
Mr. Zelaya was deposed and deported this summer after he agitated street protests to support a rewrite of the Honduran constitution so he could serve a second term. The constitution strictly prohibits a change in the term-limits provision. On multiple occasions he was warned to desist, and on June 28 the Supreme Court ordered his arrest.
Every major Honduran institution supported the move, even members in Congress of his own political party, the Catholic Church and the country’s human rights ombudsman. To avoid violence the Honduran military escorted Mr. Zelaya out of the country. In other words, his removal from office was legal and constitutional, though his ejection from the country gave the false appearance of an old-fashioned Latin American coup.
The U.S. has since come down solidly on the side of-Mr. Zelaya. While it has supported negotiations and called for calm, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both insisted that Honduras must ignore Mr. Zelaya’s transgressions and their own legal processes and restore him as president. The U.S. has gone so far as to cut off aid, threaten Honduran assets in the U.S. and pull visas to enter the U.S. from the independent judiciary. The U.S. has even threatened not to recognize presidential elections previously scheduled for November unless Mr. Zelaya is first brought back to power-even though he couldn’t run again.
This remarkable diplomatic pressure against a small Central American ally has only reinforced Mr. Zelaya’s refusal to compromise short of a return to the presidency, with all of the instability and potential for violence that could involve. It also probably encouraged him to gamble on returning to Honduras on Monday, figuring even that provocation won’t endanger U.S. support. And so far it hasn’t.
Now that he is back, Mr. Zelaya and his allies aren’t calling for calm. His supporters have flocked to Brazil’s embassy with cinder blocks, sticks and Molotov cocktails. “The fatherland, restitution or death,” he shouted to demonstrators outside the embassy. In anticipation of trouble and with concern for public safety, President Roberto Micheletti announced a curfew. But when police tried to enforce the curfew, the zelayistas resisted and there is now a Honduran standoff.
On Monday Mr. Zelaya said he owed his return and political survival to “the support of the international community.” He’s getting support from Nicaragua’s Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, the former guerrilla group FMLN in El Salvador, and especially from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. But let’s face it: None of that support would mean very much without the diplomatic and sanctions muscle of the U.S.
If the U.S. didn’t know about Mr. Zelaya’s stealth return, it ought to feel deceived and drop its support. Now that he’s back in Honduras, the best solution to avoid violence would be for the U.S. to urge Mr. Zelaya to turn himself over to Honduran authorities for arrest and trial.
This is a good thinkig about this!
Stenio,
Obama knows exactly what is going on there. It is becoming clear that he wants to destabilize free countries while he winks at the crimes of tyrants. As someone said in recent post: "The Revolution has begun!"
Obama sabe exatamente o que está acontecendo lá. Torna-se evidente que ele quer desestabilizar os países livres, enquanto ele pisca para os crimes dos tiranos. Como alguém disse no post recente: "A Revolução já começou!"
Nickie,
We(good brazilian people)here in Brazil think the same!
On my blog, every day I repeat it!
I'm not desist, but here THEY're(left) always WIN!!!
Somedays we are scared!
This was not unexpected. But that doesn't diminish it's pathetic-ness and evil-ness.
These words will get more of our Son's and Daughters Killed or Maimed starting today in all the hot spots around the world.
In fact it will get a lot more people in a variety of places killed. Israel knows they are on their own now.
The evil-doers are licking their lips at an America in it's weakest period in history.
The whackjobs will believe they have the momentum.
It looks like we are going to abandon A-stan and Iraq even though Iraq is won at this very moment.
These vermin will throw everything they have at us now.
Hey Nickie, I was once a toastmaster.
And you've never seen me type 'uh' have you. :)
You can ask anybody, Kid. I've always praised your diction and elocution.
I'm opposed to elocution. Life in prison is better.
President Obama's U.N. speech made me do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-NrPOMBKnw
O que mais assusta neste momento, não sei se ja perceberam mas, eu particularmente tenho procurado demonstrar a união entre os radicais do Islã com o lixo da America Latina: Chavez, Moralez, Lula, Fidel e seus aliados os narcotraficantes das Farc's.
Saudades de Bush, Reagan........
Pobre America sem o manto protetor dos E.U.A.
The U.N. cartoon reminded me of something. I was doing some online research recently into the constitutions of Communist countries, and the one for Viet Nam gave me a laugh. The Vietnamese Bill of Rights was long and comprehensive:
Vietnamese citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, within the confines of the law.
Vietnamese citizens are guaranteed freedom of the press, within the confines of the law.
Vietnamese citizens are guaranteed freedom of religion, within the confines of the law.
Vietnamese citizens are guaranteed freedom of assembly, within the confines of the law.
And on and on it went. A real hoot. Pretty much they're entirely free to do whatever the confines of the law allows them to do.
Susan
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