scaramouche

Sunday, 15 November 2009

All things to all people but one of a kind in the ego department: Now he’s “Pacific,” yet. And, as always, it’s all about him. William Kristol comments:

In his speech Saturday at Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Barack Obama called himself “America's first Pacific President.”

His basis for that claim seems to be that he was born in Hawaii, lived in Indonesia as a boy, and, “when I was a young boy, my mother brought me to Kamakura, where I looked up at that centuries-old symbol of peace and tranquility -- the great bronze Amida Buddha. And as a child, I was more focused on the matcha ice cream....I have never forgotten the warmth and the hospitality that the Japanese people showed a young American far from home.”

Perhaps that memory led to Obama’s extraordinary deep bow in reaction to “the extraordinary honor of the meeting with Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress, on the 20th anniversary of his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne.” I must say, when I was Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, and we met the newly-ascended emperor on a trip to Japan, it didn’t occur to any of us in the official party--all of whom were, I think, perfectly polite--to bow…

Well, Bill, is seems obvious you and Dan and the boys weren’t “Pacific” enough to pull off such a feat (unlike the black/white/Christian/Muslim/Hawaiian/Chicagoan).

Obama's deference to the Japanese Imperial Majesty prompts contentions' John Steele Gordon to remark:

President Obama goes abroad apologizing for the supposed sins of a country that defended and extended freedom around the world at a staggering cost in lives and treasure and then grovels before the man whose country has yet to apologize for the Rape of Nanking.

As my mother used to say, “Pardon me while I throw up.”

Posted by: scaramouche at 17:55 | link | comments (3)

Comments:

#1 15 November 2009 - 22:50

He even talked about the ice cream he ate as a boy? It really is all about him. He feels honoured, so he bows, to heck with the history of the United States and the free world. He doesn't care about Queen Elizabeth, so he gives her a crappy gift and his wife paws Her Majesty, to heck with the United States' historical relationship with Great Britain.

He is not representing the United States, he is representing himself and his view of what the United States should be and what he hopes it will be after he's done with it.

I'm so disgusted with the Americans who voted him into power. May we all live to regret it. I just hope the next president will be able to undo the damage done by Barack Obama and his government.

Josephine