-on side note- Isreal's pres had a most powerful speech by far of any I saw.
--back to O--his routine has become boring after same ole same old. Apologizes for what made us the greatest nation on earth and how he will be the light and the way. He's an entertainer not a pres--can you see Kennedy-Roosevelt-Truman or any pres being on 5 difff networks-letterman and Leno in a matter of days.
My hope is that our allies know that we still behind them and he doesn't speak for most of us--also hope our enemies realize their days of Gumby's Gummers are limited. Attorneys for terrorists and prosecutions of our protectors will be short lived.
UK chimes in--
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...t_in_obamas_richie_cunningham_presidency.html
So far Obama has courted popularity with America's critics by himself criticising America's past and by giving things away.
He gave the Arabs all kinds of rhetorical concessions, many of them factually wrong, in his Cairo speech in June. He gave the Russians a huge concession this month by abruptly cancelling a missile defence system that would have been based in Poland and the Czech Republic. This abrupt cancellation embarrassed and insulted the Czechs and the Poles, who incidentally may never again be as accommodating to the Americans. But they, you see, are America's friends and Obama's target audience is America's critics and enemies.
The action on the missile defence system will have any merit only if the Russians eventually join the most comprehensive sanctions regime against the Iranians.
Obama tried to give the Palestinians, and the Arabs more generally, an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank. But the most instructive element of this episode is that even the Israelis, with all their intimate dependence on the Americans, don't feel compelled to give Obama any serious face on this issue. They don't fear him either.
Of course, should Obama finally decide to take real action on Iran, all this soft shuffle and endless sweet talk in advance may have helped establish his bona fides.
I have been in London this week. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative but generally pro-American newspaper, carried a comment piece headlined: "President is beginning to look out of his depth".
It's too early to make that call, but I'm starting to get worried.
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