The Ultimate Diplomacy

[5711-Marine]

The Ultimate Diplomacy
—Ace

I linked this "Obama Overwhelmed" article before-- but I missed this.

Get ready to cushion your falling jaws.

Mr Obama rang Mr Brown as he flew home, in what many suspected was an attempt to make amends.

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."

Oh, my. Three points:

1) Smarter diplomacy is supposedly the stock in trade of this administration. Is this smart? Insulting our oldest ally? No, it's not smart -- it's left-wing score-settling against Britain for being "too right wing" for having supported Bush's efforts in Iraq, and perhaps for being a colonial power through the fifties.

2) They don't know what the fuck they're doing.

3) The quote shows the arrogance and thin-skinnedness of this administration. Utterly unable to graciously confess error and seek forgiveness, they instead dig their heels in and claim We meant to do that. They intended, it seems, for no particularly good reason, to alienate our most reliable and oldest ally. (Apologies to Australia which also can lay claim to that title.) That's their story -- we meant to let Britain know it was no more important to us than, say, Trinidad and Tobago.

Perhaps Obama's game -- in insulting Britain and selling out Poland and the Czech Republic to the Russian wolves -- is to teach all countries a lesson: Never, ever support a Republican President, for there will be a grim reckoning when we socialists get back into power.

Politics begins at the water's edge, now. A lot of things are changing. Hey, did you hear that dissent was no longer patriotic?

We live in an age of miracles and wonders, my friends.


Thanks to Entelechy in the Hot Air comments for highlighting this, which I'd utterly missed.


Posted by Ace at 01:23 PM New Comments Thingy

[ohyeahfriday]

OK, well from what it looks like in their statements it seems that Mr. Obama is becoming very tired, overworked and strained from his new job. He is not getting enough sleep, and is sporting a "...weary appearance in the Oval Office..."

I suspect the job is a bit much for him, he is only used to fucking things up on a smaller scale. My thinking is he should just step down, and go hop on an unemployment line, he would look good there. Just make him a nice offer, like if you go now, you can take your teleprompter and a speec writer with you

[Morel42]

I find it odd, that in one thread people are screaming that Obama flew in a helicopter thus wasting money.. And in this thread people are yelling about not spending a million dollars to throw Britian a party..

/boggle.

Our relationship with the UK was not affected in anyway by this.. To think otherwise is laughable.. lol

[Yellowfin]

Someone's gotta find a way to remove this clown from Illinois before he does anything worse. What will be the last straw?

[Morel42]

Someone's gotta find a way to remove this clown from Illinois before he does anything worse. What will be the last straw?

If the Economy gets better in the next 2-3 years? 2016..

If it is in the shitter? 2012..

That's really what his entire presidency is about now. Every other issue is just white noise..

Unless the Economy is struggling, but slightly better.. A middle zone.. Then holy crap 2012 is going to be a nightmare. I'm canceling my Cable TV because of the BS we'll be seeing.

[ira82]

If the Economy gets better in the next 2-3 years? 2016..

If it is in the shitter? 2012..

That's really what his entire presidency is about now. Every other issue is just white noise..

Unless the Economy is struggling, but slightly better.. A middle zone.. Then holy crap 2012 is going to be a nightmare. I'm canceling my Cable TV because of the BS we'll be seeing.

that and if the situation gets worse we will start seeing campaigning and such on the news everywhere shortly. I couldnt wait for the last election to be over cause they beat i to death for more than a whole year. more like 2.

[5711-Marine]

I find it odd, that in one thread people are screaming that Obama flew in a helicopter thus wasting money.. And in this thread people are yelling about not spending a million dollars to throw Britian a party..

/boggle.

Our relationship with the UK was not affected in anyway by this.. To think otherwise is laughable.. lol

No one said spend a million dollars, but there are diplomatic protocols for foreign head of state visits.

to claim being "overwhelmed" as the reason to ignore these protocols is sad.

[ira82]

No one said spend a million dollars, but there are diplomatic protocols for foreign head of state visits.

to claim being "overwhelmed" as the reason to ignore these protocols is sad.

Agreed. While I do believe it was an insult t give him dvds but i dont want hi to spend a butt load of money on hi either. He is our ally though. If it was someone like qaddafi or someone from russia who we are just correcting ties with then ok give them a few copies of red dawn!.

[Morel42]

Agreed. While I do believe it was an insult t give him dvds but i dont want hi to spend a butt load of money on hi either. He is our ally though. If it was someone like qaddafi or someone from russia who we are just correcting ties with then ok give them a few copies of red dawn!.

Red Dawn.. hahahahhah I LOL'd.

Great Movie BTW...


Wolverines!!

[ira82]

Yep wolverines baby. That will be me if shtf. I am heading back home to NH and the white mountains. Hunted them for years. Just me and my trusty shotgun and my pistol. Also my new mosin nagant.