President Obama: "A Lot Like Jimmy Carter"

[n david]

From the website of spiegel ... a funny bit on how little BHO has gotten in exchange for his nice guy routine.

You remember, BHO was going to really change how the world viewed America, and he was going to change relations and get real progress by respecting others, apologizing for America any and every chance he gets and by basically bowing (literally) to foreign leaders' demands.

Well .... he's done that and what has BHO got in exchange???

Nothing.

So now comes this great article that brings out the comparison to that great (tic) Democratic President, Jimmy Carter (pronounced Cartuh).

Here are a few quotes from the article...love the headline

Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming.

In Tokyo, the new center-left government even pulled out of its participation in a mission which saw the Japanese navy refueling US warships in the Indian Ocean as part of the Afghanistan campaign. In Beijing, Obama failed to achieve any important concessions whatsoever. There will be no binding commitments from China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A revaluation of the Chinese currency, which is kept artificially weak, has been postponed. Sanctions against Iran? Not a chance. Nuclear disarmament? Not an issue for the Chinese.

The White House did not even stand up for itself when it came to the question of human rights in China. The president, who had said only a few days earlier that freedom of expression is a universal right, was coerced into attending a joint press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, at which questions were forbidden. Former US President George W. Bush had always managed to avoid such press conferences.

Obama's new foreign policy has also been relatively unsuccessful elsewhere, with even friends like Israel leaving him high and dry. For the government of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, peace is only conceivable under its terms. Netanyahu has rejected Obama's call for a complete moratorium on the construction of settlements. As a result, Obama has nothing to offer the Palestinians and the Syrians. "We thought we had some leverage," says Martin Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel under the Clinton administration and now an advisor to Obama. "But that proved to be an illusion."

There are many indications that the man in charge at the White House will take a tougher stance in the future. Obama's advisors fear a comparison with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, even more than with Bush. Prominent Republicans have already tried to liken Obama to the humanitarian from Georgia, who lost in his bid to win a second term, because voters felt that he was too soft. "Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead," Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker in the House of Representatives, recently said. And then he added: "This does look a lot like Jimmy Carter."

BHO's already a lame duck and he hasn't even completed his first full year. Good thing they already gave him the Nobel Prize!

Now we just need a conservative with a pulse, not named Sara Palin, who has a positive message and ideas (not just attacks and negativity that LameMcCain had) to run in 2012 and BHO will be a one-term President.

"Let his days be few; and let another take his office (in 2010)."

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