More Like Bush
Cowboy diplomacy, back in vogue? We’ve already noticed that Eurobamadoration has its limits … they like their Americans to bow and carry a big stick … and all that kowtowing got him nowhere in Asia. Now Gabor Steingart takes another jab at him at Der Spiegel, suggests O’s getting ready to trade in his tired Carter nag for a Bush pony:
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Upon taking office, Obama said that he wanted to listen to the world, promising respect instead of arrogance. But Obama’s currency isn’t as strong as he had believed. Everyone wants respect, but hardly anyone is willing to pay for it. Interests, not emotions, dominate the world of realpolitik. The Asia trip revealed the limits of Washington’s new foreign policy: Although Obama did not lose face in China and Japan, he did appear to have lost some of his initial stature.
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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.”
Yeah, well, he can try being like Bush, but there’s more to cowboy diplomacy than saying ”giddyup.”
How bad is it? Maguire notes that Brazil is horning in on our action. Looking to become a Mideast player. More from HotAir on O’s Asia flop.
Never mind the Germans. How bad is it when Chris Matthews notices? Newsbusters: “Carteresque.” That’s big worm turnage.
More on Gabor Steingart, BTW. No big O fan. He may be a Kraut but he doesn’t sound like he’d settle for a Karl May cowboy. Maybe the armed Hungarian anti-Soviet activism up the family tree has something to do with it. Tanks for the memory, so to speak …
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Topics: Europe,Obama,asia,dummkopf!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:27 am Comments (3) on Monday, November 23, 2009
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November 23rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Guess the legs ain’t feelin’ so tingly any more.
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