[...] pathetic statesmen…but my “in over his head” remark was actually substantiated by the Obama team itself, who admits that Obama’s rudeness was caused by him being “overwhelmed”, [...]

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@wordsmith:

Yes, that’s right.

Great Britain is no different than any other country in the world.

I mean really now.

Consider the reaction of the Palace to 9/11.

Roll the tape:

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MSCatLady: My BIL thinks the Clintons both are giving Obama bad advice On Purpose because They want him to fail as a president.
They hold grudges very well….and Hillary NOT giving Obama proper advice re: Brown’s visit falls right into place with my BIL’s theory.

One does have to wonder…..

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So why does this come to mind ?

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If W had been this stupid, they’d have called for impeachment over this. Actually, if I recall, when the Queen came they made a big stink over his remark to her about the American Revolution. Kinda seems stupid to bitch about that now, eh?

One word for Obama…

COFFEE

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@MSCatLady: Thanks for your comment and I hope to hear more from you, but I don’t see how a Secretary of State is really in a position to be calling the shots on the protocol of a foreign visit. The State Dept. may advise on certain matters, but nothing like the catalog of incompetance we witnessed with the Brown visit.

That was all coming from inside the White House where it is now painfully obvious that the adults are no longer in charge.

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I’m a newbie here, so you’re just going to have to take my word for it that I agree with what Rush had to say about Mr. Obama in his excellent and spot-on speech to CPAC. Nonetheless, I’m cheering for Obama here (which is not the same as supporting what was done). Here’s why.

1. If you think about it, it’s unlikely that the State Department wouldn’t have any input on protocols, etc., when a foreign head of state comes visiting.

2. We’ve seen that this very inexperienced executive apparently wants to surround himself with a lot of experts he can rely on to help him out.

3. What better expert could there be for Gordon’s visit than a Secretary of State who also happens to be a former First Lady with plenty of experience in greeting, wining and dining heads of state?

4. Now then…just what sort of advice might Hillary have given her former rival–who is sitting in the house she and her husband once occupied for 8 years and wanted to occupy again, starting this year–concerning the visit of our strongest ally, considering that our history with Britain, unlike just about any other country, is strong enough to survive some strains now and again? Think about it.

I’m not saying she sabotaged the visit. But after seeing the Clintons in action for 8 years, such utterly deniable ruthlessness is not impossible to imagine. And it *is* hard to think what else might have happened that would lead White House insiders to publicly put forward the excuse of inexperience. That’s the last thing the inexperienced use as an excuse.

Maybe, if there were an exercise in ruthlessness here, Obama’s nominees would indeed start bailing out on all sides, because they figured the Clintons want to surround the “king” with their own people and run the country at secondhand for the next 8 years, and it’s not a good career move to get in the Clintons’ way.

As for the nation, and the national interest, well, Rush was right. For the next 4 years, though, we have President Obama, and this may just be the test of his presidency right now: own or get owned. If it really has come down to that now–and nobody outside the closest centers of DC power just now can know that for sure–well, I’d like to have a President who owns himself and is not ruled by advisors who surround him.

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@Wordsmith:

How about his vacations in the middle of campaigning?

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@Missy: I could swear, I heard it mentioned about, that McCain, at his age, was doing longer hours and hitting the campaign trail a lot harder than Obama was.

Approaching two months into his presidency, and Obama is already winded.

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@Aye Chihuahua:

Gee, Aye, I kept looking to see if anyone had five o’clock shadows.

Has anyone read this? Ed Lasky and Rick Moran link portions of recent columns about Obama and wonder:

Is Obama lazy?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/is_obama_lazy.html

One of the paragraphs:

Moran’s take:

Ed’s evidence is compelling. I would add that during the early stages of the campaign, his “keepers of the body” – probably Axelrod at that point – overextended the candidate. His gaffes about 10,000 dead in a Kansas tornado came at the end of a long day of campaigning. They never made the same mistake again and limited his access to the press and reduced the number of events per day. This would seem to indicate the president doesn’t have much stamina.

Indeed.

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