The problem is, his country is apparently the European Union.
From the London Telegraph, a story that covers the Republican wrath over President Obama’s remarks:
In a speech in France, a country that has been a bastion of anti-US sentiment in recent years, the President said: “In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.
“But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious. Instead of recognising the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what is bad. On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common.”
You know, I’m mostly Republican, but all American. President Obama can call me those things if he wants, but if he’s talking trash about America, now that does rankle me. I feel as though I should explain to him as I would a two-year-old that this behavior is inappropriate.
Perhaps this is President Obama’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Except in his case, one can reasonably wonder if he wishes it were so.
Krauthammer says:
(Video seen on Neo-neocon.)
Barack Obama’s criticism of America before a French audience takes this approach to a new level. He is after all the president of the United States. Obama nevertheless passed judgment on the United States and found America wanting….
This guy is going to stand up Over There and badmouth Americans and President Bush? He’s a coward with an inferiority complex, a desperate desire to win the approval of his perceived European betters. What an ass.
