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2009-04-13 Home Front: Politix

America under Barack Obama is taking a long, cold look at its transatlantic relations

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 that its more erudite, socially acceptable commentators have begun to engage in vitriolic condemnation of European selfishness and irresponsibility in the face of international danger:

It seems reality is intruding into the Liberal mythology.

Posted by phil_b 2009-04-13 02:22|| 2009-04-13 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry - WTF? Since when is this inexperienced, rhetorically leaden and clumsy, mono-lingual, remarkably ignorant empty suit a "sophisticate"? He reads lines of mediocre to bizarre prose ("stop the ocean's rise") well, though not as well as many coiffed local news TV airheads.

Bigger issue: again, for the billionth time, what exactly were the brash, arrogant, cowboy policies of Bush? Or Cheney, or Rumsfeld? Maybe it was abrogation of the ABM Treaty - which led, as warned, to that ruinous US-Russian arms race. Oh, wait ....

Rumsfeld was RESPONDING to despicable Euro arrogance with his Old Europe comment - a comment that was openly and warmly endorsed by several European leaders.

As welcome as the conclusions or predictions of this column may be, they rest firmly on the make-believe world of the "critics" during the Bush years. There was no "arrogance" or "swaggering" - and a demand to produce examples of same will always be met with silence or fumbled and unpersuasive references to irrelevancies. There was - and is - however, plenty of shameful Euro arrogance, and cowardice, contrasted with American integrity and determination.

Back to the embarrassment in chief. Sophisticated? Cosmopolitan? Are you effing kidding me? Because he speaks Austrian? (those who don't get the joke, behold the awesome power of distortion in what was once called the press)

Posted by Verlaine 2009-04-13 03:11|| 2009-04-13 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 From your mouth to the ear of G*d, Janet.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-13 07:06|| 2009-04-13 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Verlaine, don't forget....the Obamanutz are all about style.

As much as it might make you and me both gag, Obama is pretty much everything they wish they could be. He's tall, thin, can wear a suit well, has a nice deep tone to his voice (even if what he says is total BS), and went to Hah-vahrd Law School. Add the bit about him being biracial and their own "valor" in voting for him mainly because of that fact...and it's enough to make some of the more radical experience near orgasmic frenzy at the mention of his name.

They've bought into the marketing that "he is soooo cool, and since I support him, I'm cool too!" to such an extent that anything that doesn't fit in with their "narrative" must be re-edited to fit.

Remember, we have always been friends with Oceania, and have always been at war with Eastasia.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-13 08:33|| 2009-04-13 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, the 'Burg dismissed EUrope long ago. The libs are just pissed that EUrope hasn't bowed down to The One. I doubt they will actually come to hate EUrope - it remains their ideal, socialist EUtopia.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-04-13 08:44|| 2009-04-13 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 it remains their ideal, socialist EUtopia.

Yeah, but a family feud can be bloody. That last go around between International Socialists and National Socialists in the early 40s left a lot of dead piled up around Eutopia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-13 09:55|| 2009-04-13 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Haha, I love that the Brit Press HATES Obama.

LOL.

Posted by Anon4021 2009-04-13 11:25|| 2009-04-13 11:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Lest we fergit, the BAMMER intends for the USA to construct a TRANSATLANTIC OIL/ENERGY PIPELINE SYS from CONUS-NORAM to the EUROZONE, across the NORAT [North Atlantic].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-13 19:17|| 2009-04-13 19:17|| Front Page Top

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