When even the Germans are tired of Barack Obama and are comparing the Wizard of O to Jimmy Carter, one begins to suspect that the US has a real problem on its hands.
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.”
And the French talking tougher than the won is humiliating.
The Spiegel article makes it abundantly clear that Obama’s Excellent Asian Adventure was completely useless and that it almost certainly cost America face in the region.
I agree with Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit – Obama as Jimmy Carter II is a best case scenario.
The worst case scenario in my opinion? Obama as Robert Mugabe.
I scanned the article elsewhere but failed to stumble upon those “many indications”.
Sorry, Der Schpinn, one may not make a “Strong Horse” of a ‘one-trick pony’.
BTW, Daudi never fails to make a salient point.
Did you ever think you would live to see the day when the POTUS was lectured on fiscal responsibility by the premier of Communist CHINA? Or that the POTUS would be called naive and ineffectual by the president of France? Less than a year in office and the Chosen One has accomplished what the Democrats tried to accuse George Bush of – he has made he US a laughing stock on the world stage.