Reviews of Obama’s World Wide Apology Tour are In!

What can one say? We were provided with the two worst choices in history for POTUS and 52% chose the worst (as momma would say, ‘he’s feeble minded’) of the worst. Add the anti-american, or totally stupid, leadership of congress and now we pay. A hundred years from now they will still be trying to figure out how so many stupid people gathered in one place in 2009.

I need to up my Paxil dosage.

How about this one?

France Unmoved By Obama Nuclear Speech: Leaked Memo

PARIS (AFP)–France said Friday it had begun to reduce its own arsenal long before U.S. President Barack Obama called for a “world without nuclear weapons,” as a leaked memo showed Paris unimpressed by his speech.

According to the daily Le Figaro, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s foreign policy advisers were dismissive of Obama’s call for an end to the arms race, which he made to a cheering crowd of supporters in Prague on Sunday.

In a memo for the president, the team said U.S. nuclear policy had moved on little from the era of Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush and that the speech was the “export version, designed to burnish the image of the U.S. abroad.”

According to a leaked version of the text, cited by the paper, Sarkozy’s advisers noted that while France had halted nuclear testing in 1996, the U.S. Senate has thus far held up Washington’s approval of a test ban treaty.

They also criticized delays in U.S. strategic disarmament talks with Russia and said Obama’s ideas to reinforce non-proliferation measures – such as the creation of global nuclear fuel bank – had been kicking around for a while.

“Let’s leave the theology to one side and work seriously on disarmament,” the memo said, dismissing Obama’s optimistic rhetoric, according to Le Figaro.

Foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier would not address the leaked memo directly, but in a lengthy response to reporters made it clear France had not waited for Obama’s speech before taking disarmament seriously.

“France was the first country to sign and ratify the test ban treaty and the only officially nuclear-armed state to have dismantled its test centers,” Chevallier said, in response to questions on the French memo.

“We’re the only state to have precisely confirmed its number of warheads. We have dismantled our plants for making weapons-grade fissile material…and we’ve reduced our force posture,” he added.

France also poured cold water on the idea that disarmament measures by declared nuclear powers would aid nonproliferation work by persuading rogue states and terrorist groups to drop their own weapons programs.

“We don’t believe there’s a link between disarmament and the proliferation question,” the spokesman said.

France has an estimated 300 nuclear weapons, a much smaller arsenal than Russia or the U.S., but more than the other declared and presumed nuclear powers, China, Britain, Israel, Pakistan, India and North Korea.

Sarkozy pledged last year to cut back France’s nuclear stockpile, but remains committed to retaining an independent deterrent based on four ballistic missile submarines and several dozen jet fighter-bombers.

Funny, what I’ve seen Obama’s trip was wildly successful and repaired relations. Too bad the negative-neocons have to stick pins into everything even only after two months in office.

@liberaldude: Perhaps you could list examples of where Obie “repaired relations.”

Aside from the stylistic points there was NOTHING of substance to this trip.

If I were an american, I’d be dead embarassed to have such a nitwit as Obama as my president.

Of the many speeches Mr. Obama has made, which one has said to you this is him? This is the irreducible, essential Barack Obama – this is why he’s in politics. You will find it a frustrating challenge: His statements blur into one another, no one speech distinguished by the authentic charge of words spoken from the deepest part of himself.

Obama has given many supposedly good speeches, but can anyone recall even a single quotable statement by him? I mean of the “Tear down that wall” and “Ask not what you can do for your country”… His rhetoric aspires to the profound but is merely fatuous platitudes. His speeches are neither profound nor memorable.

AT HIS BEST, HE IS SAYING NOTHING. And when Obama actually says something, when you deconstruct it, it turns out to be either dishonest political pandering or dangerous leftwing elitism. I mean “clinging to God and guns” hits home, but it was an elitist insult to small-town America.

I conclude that the leftwing Obama puts so much NOTHING in his reading-from-TOTUS speeches and fills it with verbal cotton candy because he doesnt want to tell us what he really thinks.

I am not embarrassed by Obama. Maybe a little for him, but he got himself into this. I didn’t vote for him. Our President he is but it was over my objections. In Europe Obama performed exactly as poorly as I expected him to do. Hi is little more than a party “rock-star who parrots what others have written for him to say. That;s hi he needs all these czars. He is clueless and hopes that all the appointees around him will tell him what to do. That’s why he is screwed without the teleprompters to give him the guidance. Once the stress level really cranks up he’s going to crack. It’s already showing in so many ways how incompetent he is in foreign affairs.