realclearpolitics.com - 4/10/2009
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WASHINGTON -- In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed:
"Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. ...
washingtonpost.com - 4/10/2009
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Charles Krauthammer - It's Your Country Too, Mr. President
rasmussenreports.com - 4/9/2009
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Just 27% of U.S. voters regard the United
Nations as an ally of the United States, according...
to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seventeen percent (17%) say the U.N. is an enemy of the United States, and 49% see it as somewhere in ...
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Only 27% See the U.N. As America's Ally
jpost.com - 4/10/2009
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Like it or not, the United States of
America is no longer the world's policeman. This was...
the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week. Somewhere between apologizing for ...
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A handful of mea culpas
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... in Europe as "bestriding the Wesern world in the guise of a philosopher king." Today Charles Krauthammer eloquently employs the same metaphor, describing Obama as "the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating between his renegade homeland and an otherwise warm and welcoming world." Krauthammer adds details we missed concerning Obama's bootless denigration of the United States on foreign soil.: ...
Lunchtime linkage
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President Pantywaist
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President Pantywaist posted at 12:55 pm on April 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Charles Krauthammer and Gerald Warner take up where Jackson Diehl left off in analyzing Barack Obama’s Grand Tour this month. Both men sound warning alarms over Obama’s tendency to surrender large swaths of the American agenda in return for getting nothing at all. And while Krauthammer wonders whether Obama has a sense of his own American identity, Warner wonders whether Obama has any sense at all. First, ...
Krauthammer on Obama’s foreign jaunt
neo-neocon —
Read Krauthammer on Obama’s trip, and the fruit it might bear.
All in all, Obama makes Carter look as though he was ahead of his times, and rather conservative as well. Who knew?
Reviews of Obama’s World Wide Apology Tour are In!
Flopping Aces —
... Iraq would get nothing.
I believe that our president wants to do the right thing. But he doesn’t have a clue how. For now, he’s enraptured by the applause. But he hasn’t tried to charge his fans for their tickets. And they’ve already made up their minds they won’t have to pay.
Another must read is Charles Krauthammer:
It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
By Charles Krauthammer
Real Clear Politics
April 10, 2009
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