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| ObamaÂ’s Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders (telegraph columnist) |
| 2009-12-24 |
| ...Instead of strong American leadership, the White House has all too often offered humiliating apologies for AmericaÂ’s past and embarrassing gaffes. Here is a list of the ten biggest foreign policy follies of Barack ObamaÂ’s first year in office.entirety. But here's the list: 1. Surrendering to Russia over missile defence. 2. Appeasing the mullahs of Iran. 3. Ending the war on terror. 4. Announcing a surge while declaring an exit. 5. Apologizing to France for America's "arrogance." 6. Giving DVDs to the British Prime Minister. 7. Siding with Marxists in Honduras. 8. Bowing to emperors and kings. 9. Embracing genocidal killers in Sudan. 10. Throwing Churchill out of the White House. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #14 Wouldn't it be easier to list the Top 100? No, that would be way more painful. It would be way easier to list the things he has done right. At least it would be a much shorter list. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-12-24 23:10 |
| #13 Here's hoping the next conservative President of the US (yeah, we can hope for one of those) makes time for "stick my thumb in obama's eye" one hour a day during 8 years of cleaning up the beltway cesspool. Could be great fun... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-12-24 17:23 |
| #12 I don't understand why he didn't move the bust into a different room. Not very political. Nobody would have loaned Clinton anything expensive ... that they wanted back. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-12-24 15:18 |
| #11 Wouldn't it be easier to list the Top 100? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-24 15:00 |
| #10 Not difficult to figure actually. It was Winston Churchill's army that arrested Barry's grandfather for spying for the Mau Mau. Apples, they generally fall pretty close to the tree. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-24 14:06 |
| #9 Bulldog, I admit that the return of Churchill's bust was a very low point in the special relationship, but look at it from Obama's point of view: Could there have been a more embarrassing comparison? |
| Posted by: Matt 2009-12-24 13:03 |
| #8 #7 Have you noticed any leaks or backstabbing from State No, and you won't either. Barry is to the State Department what the eggs are to an omellete. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-24 08:44 |
| #7 Have you noticed any leaks or backstabbing from State as we saw during the Bush II era? They seem very content with these 'blunders'. No surprise there. So, it should have been titled Obama and State's Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders. |
| Posted by: P2k on vacation 2009-12-24 08:36 |
| #6 Someone really ought to be keeping tabs and listing/inviting suggested means to rectify the likely unpleasant outcomes resulting from Obama's woeful lack of judgement. In response to Blunder #10: Requesting the return of Churchill's bust to the White House. Should be done with some ceremony during the first days of the next president's term. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2009-12-24 07:22 |
| #5 He is the Messiah. the ONE who the whole world has been waiting for. Isnt he just FAB-ulous ? AND he's Black ( well half anyway). What was the name of his little dog? |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-24 06:59 |
| #4 Too bad they couldn't have done a top twenty. I'm sure that giving the Queen an iPod loaded with Obama's speechifying would have made it. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-24 06:04 |
| #3 Galling, embarrassing, stupid, Painful blunders! |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2009-12-24 05:59 |
| #2 Also not mentioned: Accepting a copy of Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America) from the punk Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-24 03:55 |
| #1 You forgot Kenya. Thats number 1. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-12-24 00:18 |