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Does anybody expect France to apologize for being the way they are? Germans? Brits? Russia? China? Islamofascists?

So why is it our stupid leaders think they need to apologize for us?

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display a HUGE deficit of self esteem. And zero confidence. Probably the product of public education in the US (For all the attempts at “building self esteem” our schools have failed miserably. You don’t “build” self esteem – it developed naturally from facing and triumphing life’s challenges.) They just want everyone to like them, so they sell themselves out to everyone, standing for nothing, agreeing with everything. And that is what our dear POTUS has done. Who would have thought it would be this bad, this soon?

whoooops.

Dang nabbit, no teleprompter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7zhnctF4c&feature=player_embedded

I have always been somewhat torn between the left and the right wing, so to preface this I don’t really consider myself a Republican or a Democrat – a perplexed observer, let’s say. So this is coming from that middle of the road point of view.

America shouldn’t want to be liked. America should strive to be respected, to be listened to, but it should not strive to be liked. As the biggest, most powerful country in the world, her leaders have had to, and will continue to have to make some very uncomfortable decisions. We live in an angry world with limited resources. Signatures will determine who lives and who dies, who gets food and who doesn’t. When it comes to making those decisions, you don’t want a nice person in charge. You want an intelligent person, a person with strong moral resolution and long term foresight.

I cannot claim to be a huge fan of Bush. Things like the PATRIOT Act made me – indeed still make me – incredibly uncomfortable. Yet I think that more so than nearly any other president, he was a man of principles. He was willing to make these uncomfortable choices, these choices where there was no right answer and it wasn’t clear what the lesser of two evils was, regardless of whether that would make him liked. He has been likened to Hitler, insulted constantly on television and was one of the least popular presidents ever, but I think that is very much a testament to his willingness to do what he thought was the right thing, and not push it off for someone else to figure out or do something that would make him popular. So while I do not like Bush, I certainly respect him and think that many leaders have a lot to learn from him. I have not fully formed an opinion of our new president, but although time will tell for sure, I think that this may be his biggest flaw. He seems often too concerned with being liked by the whole world that he risks losing their respect.

to the French:

For liberating them from the Nazi Reich and rebuilding their country and economy after we had to destroy it.

To the Germans:

For rebuilding their country and economy after they elected a madman and we were forced to destroy their country in order to save the world. Even though,we have now elected a madman, at least we can rest easy knowing that the Europeans will have no such regrest as ours.

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to apologize to the German people for the presence of American troops in their country and then begin planning their withdrawal in 16 or so months.

—does that mean we know more than our president and his aides — oh, that’s right we are not the Marxist or statists — but sadly they are the ones in power.

We elect an apologist in chief, we get an apologist in chief.

every day —- but they are still clueless. Those of us who did not vote for him are reaping those “potatoes”, anyway, as are our children, etc.

for not leaving us, despite our disagreement on the Palin issue.

You diary is really an inspiration and a source of wisdom. As a matter of fact, I read it twice.

I think the whole issue about “Obama calling us arrogant” is taken out of Context. Obama said in the speech, right after the “Arrogant” remark:
““But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious. Instead of recognising the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what is bad. ”

So, what Obama was saying was: America has done things it shouldn’t have in the past, and we have been arrogant about it, but Europe (and much of the rest of the world) refuses to accept many of the good things about it, and instead, hate us instead of trying to be cooperative neighbors.

What he said, if you ask me, was thoughtful, reasonable, and not too far out. He wasn’t saying that we, as a nation, are arrogant, just that some of our past actions have been, but that both sides need to recognize the good in each other and come together for our common good.

That doesen’t sound too bad to me, and if you really don’t think America has exercised poor judgment without thinking about the broader global picture, then that’s just arrogant.

What I am afraid of is that the last people on the list to be apologized to from not only this administration but much of Washington DC elites is the American People themselves. The likes of Pelosi, Reid, Franks, Dodd and so on and so forth will always blame someone else and inject of right-wing conspiracies to denigrate their character. However, they will never own up to their responsibilities and apologize to the American people for what they have done and continue to do. Obama is of the same cut that he feels Americans (only 50% voted for him) want him to apologize to other countries. However, I don’t think I would feel very moved if he apologized to us anyway as I feel he wouldn’t really mean it.