We expected more from Barack Obama, maybe because he told us we could and should expect more. And the media got behind him like nobody before, building expectations to astronomical heights.
Obama reiterated remarks from his presidential campaign just last week, saying:
“Given this reality, we’ll have to be more vigilant than ever in eliminating the programs we don’t need in order to make room for the investments we do need,” Obama said. “I promised to do this by going through the federal budget page by page, and line by line. That is a process we have already begun, and I am pleased to say that we’ve already identified two trillion dollars worth of deficit-reductions over the next decade.”
Page by page and line by line: except for the 9,000 some earmarks in the omnibus spending bill now stalled in Congress.
This is not nuanced at all: it is a lie. An Obama lie. A Presidential lie.
It is brazen, as the Washington Post chose to label Obama for a Charles Krauthammer op-ed on Friday.
About as nuanced as Roland Burris and Rod Blagojevich.
Brazen is the opposite of nuanced.
But the media, enamored with Obama, has mostly elected to ignore such brazen language and conduct.
Bill Clinton was slightly more nuanced: “I did not have sex with that woman.” Of course, that depended upon what one’s definition of sex is.
“That depends on what your defition of is is.”
Slightly more nuanced than Obama, anyway.
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International relations is the arena of understanding different peoples and cultures and one might expect that Barack Obama, with his wide ranging international background, along with America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her vast international experience, might understand international nuance.
Yet on Hillary’s first outing with one of America’s most difficult adversaries, she delivered a gift bearing an incorrect translation: an insult because it represents a lack of proper care in even properly translating one word.
What do we pay that big crowd at the State Department for, anyway? Too expensive and porky, if they can’t get one word properly translated. But I’m picky.
Barack Obama made a similar gaffe with America’s top ally, Britain, by presenting Gordon Brown at the White House with gifts not deemed suitable for the international stage.
Barack gave Gordon CDs, including the movie “Star Wars.”
Then, instead of a formal head of state side-by-side news conference with Gordon Brown, an event the Brits really desperately wanted, President Obama provided a very less formal (and some say demeaning to the Brits) sit down chat with Mr. Brown and the media.
This was a kind of White House bait and switch for Mr. Brown and his countrymen.
You can bet that at the top of the UK government, behind closed doors, someone said something like “That black Yank doesn’t get it.”
Which means he is too arrogant and brazen and not really nuanced at all.
Which is not al all helpful in international relations….
Good nuanced protocol and honesty costs nothing. But casting them aside often has very real costs….
Related:
Brit View of Obama on Inauguration Day
President Barack Obama meets with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Related:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-
budget-reflects-campaign-promises-2009
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Fine Art Of Protocol, International Relations Lost On Obama?
Protocol: Brit Media Furious At Obama
In The White House, Protocol Not Just For Computers
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(Now we can add stupid….)
Charles Krauthammer called President Obama’s explanation of the current economic “catastrophe,” a word Obama himself coined, “the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people. ”
The “day of reckoning” has arrived. And because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.
Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.
At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry.
Read the rest:
Obama’s Brazen Deception: Why The Stock Market Won’t Recover Soon
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gestures prior to the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, in Washington, January 20, 2009. White House nuance….(Jim Young – UNITED STATES/Reuters)
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March 7, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
I think President Obama is in war with both the congressional GOP and the Fat Cats of our most treasured street in America – “Wall Street” and we the people are losing the most in this war.