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Now it's on to Normandy, to apologize to the Germans. It's the least an
American president can do after the way the Allied armies left so much of
Europe in rubble. There's a lot of groveling to do for what America
accomplished in the Pacific, too.
This prospect should appeal to Barack Obama, who relishes the role of
Apologizer-in-Chief. Apologizing for manifold sins against civilization is
not always easy, but it's simple enough: "Blame America First." You just
open a vein and let it flow. In Cairo, Mr. Obama opened an artery.
...
Big talkers don't know when to stop when they're on a rhetorical roll
because they can't remember which facts are actually facts and which "facts"
they're making up. Mr. Obama even attributed the Golden Rule, from the
teachings of Christ, to "every religion." In an interview before the Cairo
speech, he called the United States one of "the largest Muslim countries,"
based on its Muslim population, and he later put the number of Muslims in
America at 7 million, more than even most Islamic advocacy groups claim. The
most reliable estimate, by the nonpartisan Pew research organization, is 1.8
million. That would make the United States the 48th "largest" Muslim nation,
just behind Montenegro. Mr. Obama often has trouble with numbers, big and
small; he once boasted of having campaigned in 57 states.
...
Mr. Obama's revelation of his "inner Muslim" in Cairo reveals much about who
he is. He is our first president without an instinctive appreciation of the
culture, history, tradition, common law and literature whence America
sprang. The genetic imprint writ large in his 43 predecessors is missing
from the Obama DNA. He no doubt meant no offense in returning that bust of
Churchill ("Who he?") or imagining that a DVD of American movies was
appropriate in an exchange of state gifts with Gordon Brown. Nor did he
likely understand why it was an offense against history (and good manners)
to agree to the exclusion of the Queen from Saturday's commemoration of the
Anglo-American liberation of France. Kenya simply routed Kansas.
The great Cairo grovel accomplished nothing beyond the humiliation of the
president and the embarrassment of his constituents, few of whom share his
need to put America on its knees before its enemies. No president before him
has ever shamed us so. We must never forget it.
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Obama has a lot of features of his personality that, as they become known,
will eventually bring him down. But at what cost?
- Bob
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