Obama Did More in 8 Days than Bush Did in 8 Years Concerning Global Policy »
Posted By ChangeToday 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
During his time at the g20 summit, president Obama was loved by many and respected by all; the complete opposite of our previous president George Bush. Some of the issues that were discussed at the g20 summit were:
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engineer8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Codi69348 months, 2 weeks ago
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It isn't hard for people to like you when you apologize for everything dating back to the crusades. Or you bow down to them, either in words or on camera. Can't deny that one as much he would like to. He really did no different then GW, he asked for help on international issues but was told to get bent. Which instead of complaining about ,he did the right thing anyway. With or without EU consent. Because it was the security of this country not EU. Do you think the that the EU or UN care about our security, NO. They just want the money. Obama only will get lip service from EU. You wait, they will make out to be a weak ,fool of a president. with no bite in any international crisis.
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I want to know were all you Obama supporters were on propeller thread about NK missile launch and he did notng!! Two stories have come from that and only 4 people commented on them. Where are you when everyone knows he stepped on it!!?? -
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not2needy8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Endoscopy8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ignorance abounds. An empty suit (absolutely no experience) going over there and getting lectured as to the fact that he is doing the wrong things. The fact that he apologized for our country to countries who owe their existence to us because of the lives of our soldiers who died over there in two world wars. Then the tons of money we spent to protect them from the encroachment of the USSR. But he apologized to them. That made him look the fool. You never apologize like that in international politics. But the great Obama did. Then he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia. Our leaders NEVER bow and our flag NEVER dips to others. The ignorance of this man is astounding.
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tanglang8 months, 2 weeks ago
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cloud158 months, 2 weeks ago
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This article may be exaggerating a bit but it certainly was a successful trip with most, but a disappointment with others. Obama definitely warmed some tension with some allies, but he did expose some weakness to others. He came across much warmer to allies than Bush did and he took the role of a leader. I think this is important and a great move. To some it might seem arrogant, but I believe the main purpose of him trying to assume to role of leader was for him to show people that although he is young and somewhat inexperienced, he could handle the politics of the world. But we will see, only time will tell if the weakness exposed is worth the ground gained.
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The one thing I didn't like about the tour was how apologetic he was. I understand we have done things recently that require apology, but I just felt in every speech and stop he was apologizing to someone else. It seemed a little over the top and ingenious.-
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Daylight8 months, 2 weeks ago
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The one thing I didn't like about the tour was how apologetic he was. I understand we have done things recently that require apology, but I just felt in every speech and stop he was apologizing to someone else. It seemed a little over the top and ingenious.
Yeah, you don't need to apologize to anyone because you are above the international law and you are a civilized nation, you can invade, destroy, kill millions of people and still expect everybody to love you. Perhaps as black man Obama may be feeling guilty of his countries past because his up bringing is not the same as Bush or Chaney. He wants an human face to the world.
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Pecossam8 months, 2 weeks ago
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My Dear Fellow Propeller Heads:
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(With apologies to Thomas Jefferson)
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for America to grovel at the feet of Inferior Nations and to abdicate the Rightful Powers and Exalted Position She has accrued over the centuries, the Separate and Superior Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle Her (due to Her Superior System of Governance; Her Constitution), a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that the United States of America should declare the causes which impel Her to follow such an unworthy and inane policy.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Barack Husein Obama, during his childhood years in Hawaii, was tutored and mentored by one Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist and enemy of the American Way, and during his later years in Chicago, by one William Ayers, Unapologetic Leader of the notorious Weatherman's Underground, a Marxist Terrorist Group, sworn to destroy America; that in view of his background, it is fitting that Barack Husein Obama, the Leftist Community Organizer, be the agent of America's downfall, including non-required apologies, unnecessary groveling at the feet of foreign leaders, and assuring them that America would heed their ill-advised counsel.
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Ratskii8 months, 2 weeks ago
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I get the feeling, from looking in the foreign press, that the fact that America's leader is capable of showing a little humility has been seen as being to our credit, not as an indication of weakness.
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Klarissa8 months, 2 weeks ago
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"By agreeing to the stipulations in this document, President Obama gave the blessing of the United States to the G20 decision to elevate the Financial Stability Forum into the Financial Stability Board," Corsi wrote. "The United States has only one vote in the newly constituted Financial Stability Board, a group that will be largely controlled by European central bankers."
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banditslove18 months, 2 weeks ago
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Obama has done more damage in a short time than Bush did. he just bought a full fleet of cars for everyone at the White house. He has spent more money in a short time than Bush did the whole term. He is friends and brought friends that are not honest people. Why is so many people do darn blind with what is going on? God Help us. Our rights are being taken away. Obama is going along with Hitler way of doing things. We worked for our retirement and Obama wants to take it away. Open your eyes.
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Caroline Glick...
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Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week.
Somewhere between apologizing for American history - both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, "Don't worry, be happy," as he leaves them to Moscow's tender mercies; humiliating Iraq's leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its great contribution to American history, President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future.
Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.
This news is music to the ears of the American Left and their friends in Europe. Obama's supporters like billionaire George Soros couldn't be more excited at the self-induced demise of the American superpower. CNN's former (anti-)Israel bureau chief Walter Rodgers wrote ecstatically in the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, "America's... superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy." -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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The pro-Obama US and European media are so pleased with America's abdication of power that they took the rare step of applauding Obama at his press conference in London. Indeed, the media's enthusiasm for Obama appeared to grow with each presidential statement of contrition for America's past uses of force, each savage attack he leveled against his predecessor George W. Bush, each swipe he took at Israel, and each statement of gratitude for the blessings of Islam he uttered.
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But while the media couldn't get enough of the new US leader, America's most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America's role as the protector of the free world.
Tokyo was distraught by the administration's reaction to North Korea's three-stage ballistic missile test. Japan recognized the betrayal inherent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates's announcement ahead Pyongyang's newest provocation that the US would only shoot the missile down if it targeted US territory. In one sentence, uttered not in secret consultations, but declared to the world on CNN, Gates abrogated America's strategic commitment to Japan's defense.
India, for its part, is concerned by Obama's repeated assertions that its refusal to transfer control over the disputed Jammu and Kashmir provinces to Pakistan inspires Pakistani terror against India. It is equally distressed at the Obama administration's refusal to make ending Pakistan's support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan. In general, Indian officials have expressed deep concern over the Obama administration's apparent lack of regard for India as an ally and a significant strategic counterweight to China. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Then there is Iraq. During his brief visit to Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, Obama didn't even pretend that he would ensure that Iraqi democracy and freedom is secured before US forces are withdrawn next year. The most supportive statement he could muster came during his conversation with Turkish students in Istanbul earlier in the day. There he said, "I have a responsibility to make sure that as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that we don't see a complete collapse into violence."
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Hearing Obama's statements, and watching him and his advisers make daily declarations of friendship to Iran's mullahs, Iraqi leaders are considering their options for surviving the rapidly approaching storm.
Then there is Europe. Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia. The Czech, Polish, Georgian and Ukrainian governments were quick to recognize that Obama's strong desire to curry favor with the Kremlin and weaken his own country will imperil their ability to withstand Russian aggression.
It is not a coincidence, for instance, that the day Obama returned to Washington, Georgia's Moscow-sponsored opposition announced its plan to launch massive protests in Tblisi to force the ouster of pro-Western, anti-Russian Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7,000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.
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Finally there is Israel. If Obama's assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, his declarations of support for the so-called Saudi "peace plan," which requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for "peace" with the Arab world, and his continuous and increasingly frantic appeals for Iran to "engage" his administration weren't enough to show Israel that Obama is sacrificing the US's alliance with the Jewish state in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran, on Tuesday Vice President Joseph Biden made this policy explicit.
When Biden told CNN that Israel would be "ill-advised" to attack Iran's nuclear installations, he made clear that from the administration's perspective, an Israeli strike that prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power is less acceptable than a nuclear-armed Iran. That is, the Obama administration prefers to see Iran become a nuclear power than to see Israel secure its very existence.
AMERICA'S BETRAYAL of its democratic allies makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies - enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease. And as the US strengthens their adversaries at their expense, these spurned democracies must consider their options for surviving as free societies in this new, threatening, post-American environment. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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For the most part, America's scorned allies lack the ability to defeat their enemies on their own. India cannot easily defeat nuclear-armed Pakistan, which itself is fragmenting into disparate anti-Indian nuclear-wielding Islamist and Islamist-supporting factions.
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Japan today cannot face North Korea - which acts as a Chinese proxy - on its own without risking a confrontation with China. Russia's invasion of Georgia last August showed clearly that its former republics and satellites have no way of escaping Moscow's grip alone. This week's Arab League conference at Doha demonstrated to Iraq's leaders that their Arab brethren are incapable and unwilling to confront Iran.
And the Obama administration's intense efforts to woo Iran coupled with its plan to slash the US's missile defense programs - including those in which Israel participates - and reportedly pressure Israel to dismantle its own purported nuclear arsenal - make clear that Israel today stands alone against Iran.
THE RISKS that the newly inaugurated post-American world pose for America's threatened friends are clear. But viable opportunities for survival do exist, and Israel can and must play a central role in developing them. Specifically, Israel must move swiftly to develop active strategic alliances with Japan, Iraq, Poland, and the Czech Republic and it must expand its alliance with India.
With Israel's technological capabilities, its intelligence and military expertise, it can play a vital role in shoring up these countries' capacities to contain the rogue states that threaten them. And by containing the likes of Russia, North Korea and Pakistan, they will make it easier for Israel to contain Iran even in the face of US support for the mullahs. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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The possibilities for strategic cooperation between and among all of these states and Israel run the gamut from intelligence sharing to military training, to missile defense, naval development, satellite collaboration, to nuclear cooperation. In addition, of course, expanded economic ties between and among these states can aid each of them in the struggle to stay afloat during the current global economic crisis.
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Although far from risk free, these opportunities are realistic because they are founded on stable, shared interests. This is the case despite the fact that none of these potential alliances will likely amount to increased support for Israel in international forums. Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly. But this should not concern Jerusalem.
The only thing that should concern Jerusalem today is how to weaken Iran both directly by attacking its nuclear installations, and indirectly by weakening its international partners in Moscow, Pyongyang, Islamabad and beyond in the absence of US support. If Japan is able to contain North Korea and so limit Pyongyang's freedom to proliferate its nuclear weapons and missiles to Iran and Syria and beyond, Israel is better off. So, too, Israel is better off if Russia is contained by democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe. These nations in turn are better off if Iran is contained and prevented from threatening them both directly and indirectly through its strategic partners in North Korea, Syria and Russia, and its terror affiliates in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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For the past 16 years, successive Israeli governments have wrongly believed that politics trump strategic interests. The notion that informed Israel's decision-makers - not unlike the notion that now informs the Obama administration - was that Israel's strategic interests would be secured as a consequence of its efforts to appease its enemies by weakening itself. Appreciative of Israel's sacrifices for peace, the nations of the world - and particularly the US, the Arabs and Europe - would come to Israel's defense in its hour of need. Now that the hour of need has arrived, Israel's political strategy for securing itself has been exposed as a complete fiasco.
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The good news is that no doubt sooner rather than later, Obama's similarly disastrous bid to denude the US of its military power under the naive assumption that it will be able to use its new stature as a morally pure strategic weakling to win its enemies over to its side will fail spectacularly and America's foreign policy will revert to strategic rationality.
But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another - covertly if need be - to contain their adversaries in the absence of America. If they do so successfully, then the damage to global security induced by Obama's emasculation of his country will be limited. If on the other hand, they fail, then America's eventual return to its senses will likely come too late for its allies - if not for America itself. -
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ChefEOD8 months, 2 weeks ago
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For the past 16 years, successive Israeli governments have wrongly believed that politics trump strategic interests. The notion that informed Israel's decision-makers - not unlike the notion that now informs the Obama administration - was that Israel's strategic interests would be secured as a consequence of its efforts to appease its enemies by weakening itself. Appreciative of Israel's sacrifices for peace, the nations of the world - and particularly the US, the Arabs and Europe - would come to Israel's defense in its hour of need. Now that the hour of need has arrived, Israel's political strategy for securing itself has been exposed as a complete fiasco.
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The good news is that no doubt sooner rather than later, Obama's similarly disastrous bid to denude the US of its military power under the naive assumption that it will be able to use its new stature as a morally pure strategic weakling to win its enemies over to its side will fail spectacularly and America's foreign policy will revert to strategic rationality.
But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another - covertly if need be - to contain their adversaries in the absence of America. If they do so successfully, then the damage to global security induced by Obama's emasculation of his country will be limited. If on the other hand, they fail, then America's eventual return to its senses will likely come too late for its allies - if not for America itself. -
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PapaWolf8 months, 2 weeks ago
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So, pirate. You believe that w gave money to those who DID deserve it? The richest 1% who took their tax breaks, closed US factories & shipped US jobs overseas?
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If the bottom 99% don't have jobs OR money, who's going to buy the products the few remaining US manufacturers sell?
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emslee8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Obama has done nothing but weakened the US in the face of the world. Now, the entire world thinks that Obama's position is the US's position. They are sorely mistaken. The world will see in the near future by the citizens who care about the US and the Constitution, rise up in protest of Obama's policies. If Obama and his supporters continue in the course they have started, they will all be voted out of office. As for the voters who actually voted for Obama, please, if you do not like the way the US Constitution is wriiten and followed, go to Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea where socialism has really been proven.
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ljponejolic8 months, 2 weeks ago
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ya he sure did he ripped the american people in france then he bowed down to the saudi king just short of kissing his ass you dam liberal get off of areal president president BUSH take obama and leave im just sick of your liberal ********
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rbarraganr8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Look at all weve done and continue to do for the muslim people and Obama apologizes? Talk about spoiled! Noone knows how he even got thru school because all his papers are sealed. The liberals in this country only care about reputation as opposed to character. Obama doesnt care because he is a muslim and not a natural born citizen of this country. I predict he wont even make it thru 4 years in office.Obamas wife went to one of the best schools in the country for free on a scholership and she bad mouths this country!
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PapaWolf8 months, 1 week ago
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Yeah. We've done a LOT for the Muslim people & the Christians living in those countries, like
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- dropping bombs on their heads
- overthrowing democratically elected gov'ts (the PM of Iran)
- supporting brutal dictators (the shah, Saddam & OBL to name a few)
- destroyed their economies
- took control (if not stole) their natural resources.
A LOT of good we've done for them.
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