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Remember the days when the Left would celebrate every Bush gaffe, pointing out that the 'rest of the world hates America because of BOOOOOOOOOSH!' ? Well, it seems Mr. Obama is considered even less of a leader than George Bush. There's no world acclaim and respect, sorry. At least George Bush was respected as the leader of the greatest nation on earth, as a man of his word, and, yes, a man that the bad guys feared. This president is considered incompetent and, frankly, a walking doofus.

What did we conservatives expect? Democrats are always weak on foreign policy, and are treated as weak on the world's stage, by foreign leaders. This we knew was coming.

Look at Jimmy Carter (D, Doofus). He was scorned by the Iranian revolutionaries who held our embassy staff hostage for years, until Ronald Reagan was sworn in in 1980. Promptly, the hostages were freed.

Because those Iranians, they knew what was gonna happen.

Morton Zuckerman writes...

President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president. Why? Because the United States stands on top of the power ladder, not necessarily as the dominant power, but certainly as the leading one. As such we are the sole nation capable of exercising global leadership on a whole range of international issues from security, trade, and climate to counterterrorism. We also benefit from the fact that most countries distrust the United States far less than they distrust one another, so we uniquely have the power to build coalitions. As a result, most of the world still looks to Washington for help in their region and protection against potential regional threats.

Yet, the Iraq war lingers; Afghanistan continues to be immersed in an endless cycle of tribalism, corruption, and Islamist resurgence; Guantánamo remains open; Iran sees how North Korea toys with Obama and continues its programs to develop nuclear weapons and missiles; Cuba spurns America's offers of a greater opening; and the Palestinians and Israelis find that it is U.S. policy positions that defer serious negotiations, the direct opposite of what the Obama administration hoped for.

The reviews of Obama's performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America's role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world's leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America's foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one's own tribe while in the lands of others.

Even in Britain, for decades our closest ally, the talk in the press—supported by polls—is about the end of the "special relationship" with America. French President Nicolas Sarkozy openly criticized Obama for months, including a direct attack on his policies at the United Nations. Sarkozy cited the need to recognize the real world, not the virtual world, a clear reference to Obama's speech on nuclear weapons. When the French president is seen as tougher than the American president, you have to know that something is awry.

Vladimir Putin of Russia has publicly scorned a number of Obama's visions. Relations with the Chinese leadership got off to a bad start with the president's poorly-organized visit to China, where his hosts treated him disdainfully and prevented him from speaking to a national television audience of the Chinese people. The Chinese behavior was unprecedented when compared to visits by other U.S. presidents. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Even the liberal whacadoodles to the far left find Barack Obama disappointing, because he isn't moving fast enough to satisfy their immediate wants for the earthly nirvana promised by far-left liberalism. If we would only give, give, give, they would take, take, take and then they could be freeeeee! Isn't gonna happen, ever; but still they perpetually dream of the day when they can be nurtured from cradle to grave, by benevolent Government.

Dream on. The rest of the world will keep on laughing at you.

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