he wanted a capitalism hating Frenchman and had the bad luck of catching the rare pro-American in the Elysee. I can just imagine how Obama and Berlusconi will NOT get on lol. When the Tories take back the UK, I hope Cameron does not catch Obama Worship Disease.

All the libs want to be loved in Europe, I have a strong feeling Obama is looking at other continents. I am not thinking Africa, I am thinking left leaning Latin America.

Never thought I’d see the day when I’d think that.

How much Obama would return our respect in the world?

Dear Lord, I almost puked when I heared that.

I don’t know weather to laugh or cry now.

How much Obama would return our respect in the world?

Dear Lord, I almost puked when I heared that.

I don’t know weather to laugh or cry now.

who served about 100 days in the Senate wouldn’t have a clue as to how to treat other heads of state. But is is surprising that one of the many Clintonistas around there hasn’t sidled up to him and set him straight.

Weren’t we all told that he was more than president of the good ol’ USA, he was much more worldly than Bush,McCain, and the rest of us peons. Seems President ZerO is living up to this build up…..not.

Ignore 500k-600k+ swing voters who were revolting from his policies and referred to by European leaders as not having the cohones (slang for guts, for those of you who do not live in the south) to be President of the USA, all in a single week. It’s a combination of Barney Fife whipping your ass and making Jimmy Carter look like a great leader.

and some of these many back-handed comments might well blow back on the USA. It won’t affet Obie and family. the rest of us and our troops and embassies are sitting ducks.

This is why you don’t want to snub the French. They tend to react badly. However, some of this may be an honest assessment of Obama which may well be shared by other European leaders, and even the Russians and Chinese.

Unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated is a pretty good description of The One’s policies at home. It is also a good summary of his performance as a Senator.

…according to the Sarkozy version, at the Nato summit in Strasbourg, Mr Obama was meekly yielding to Turkey’s refusal to endorse Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the alliance’s new Secretary-General. It took pressure from Mr Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel of Germany to stiffen him up and change his mind, say the French.

Meekly yielding? Pressure form the French and the Germans was required to “stiffen him up and change his mind”? Translation: Obama is a weak President who can be bullied.

Put all this together with the non-response to North Korea’ s missle, the weak response to piracy so far, and the cave-in to Wall Street banks and you have an emerging pattern. This is the weakest American President since Jimmy Carter.

Obama needs to raise his game, or sooner or later something will come along to make his shallowness obvious to all. It might be a hostage crisis or a terrorist attack or a natural disaster, but at some point this man’s incompetence will become impossible to hide.

It took France… FRANCE and Germany, GERMANY to get our President to man up.

We are so screwed.

Family friends recently returned from a three-week cruise around Europe. They said that everywhere they went, the issue of Obama would come up in conversation. Every single one of them raved about Obama, but not because they adore him. They are thrilled that he is the US president because they KNOW he is weak and this is their chance to put America in its place.

I’ll take my “cowboy” President Bush back any day over this arrogant, empty suit weenie!

I jest. Recall his speech before Congress last year:

international efforts to combat the Somali pirate situation? France could be the strongest ally in that particular fight yet Obama’s slaps at Sarkozy is derailing that train before it even gets on the tracks. Last I looked, France is handling the pirates pretty well by themselves:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000447.stm

I think some apologies to Mr. Sarkozy might be in order here, Mr. Obama, else the French may end this problem before your “negotiations” with the pirates even start.

I’m sure Europe really appreciated that.

It seems President Sarkozy managed to insult a lot of leaders at that lunch. The latest at http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090417/wl_afp/francespainuspoliticsdiplomacysarkozy.

Perhaps President Sarkozy had too much to drink at that lunch. In any event it is not clear to me that we should hold his opinion in higher esteem than the Europeans quoted below:

The Spanish government has not officially responded, but the Spanish media reacted with incredulity to the alleged gaffe.

La Vanguardia daily’s headline read “Sarkozy humiliates Zapatero.”

“It does not seem like the best way to prepare a state visit,” it noted drily, referring to Sarkozy’s planned trip to France’s southern neighbour later this month.

Italy’s La Republicca wrote of “Sarkozy’s gaffe,” while The Times of London opined that “Sarkozy is annoyed by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed his own record as a world troubleshooter.”

The same paper’s diplomatic editor wrote in a separate article that “the arrival of a new — taller, more handsome and popular — president on the scene (has turned) him into (a) kind of bitchy little princess.”