Mark Steyn looks at Barack Obama’s shoddy treatment of Gordon Brown.
Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart: Lot of classics in there, I’m sure – “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane,” “The Sound Of Music” – though this sort of collection always slip in a couple of “Dude, Where’s My Car? 3″ and “Police Academy 12″ just to make up the numbers. I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players.
Steyn makes a bold prediction: After four years of the Obama ego, our relations with the rest of the world will be far worse than they were under George W. Bush. I suspect he’s right. I don’t think we’ll see many of our allies treated very well by Obama. But I’m quite sure our enemies will love him.
Obama doesn’t really seem interesting in much of anything but staying on endless campaign and seeing how gloomy he can be about the economy. While using that economy as a reason for expanding government and spending money like mad, of course.
Read the whole thing, Steyn is, as usual, witty and brutal at the same time.
UPDATE: Well, when I wrote this line, “But I’m quite sure our enemies will love him,” I had no idea how quickly this would pop up over at Memeorandum.
President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq.
The difference, of course, being that George Bush didn’t reach out after telling the enemy that we had lost already. Wow, just wow. This is the biggest foreign policy blunder to date. And he’s been in office a month or so. One simply cannot wait to see what’s next.
“One simply cannot wait to see what’s next.”
I dread seeing what’s next around the pike. The sad thing is my husband and I aren’t surprised. What did the liberals expect from someone with Obama’s track record and lack of experience?