President Obama Addresses American ‘Arrogance,’ European ‘Anti-Americanism’

Well stated, Mr. President. About time someone addressed it.

A pres apologizing for American. This clown is out of control. America gives more and does more than any nation in the world yet we have to apologize???This makes me sick. This experimental presidency is going to destroy this country. We have NOTHING to apologize for. If its so bad why do we have 1 million people coming here every month. It looks more like obama wants to be the world president more than the US president. He is more concerned with image than truth.

“This experimental presidency is going to destroy this country. We have NOTHING to apologize for. If its so bad why do we have 1 million people coming here every month.”
What does one have to do with the other?

The most arrogant president in history bashing the citizens of the country he is supposed to lead.
What a joke.

“Obama is fascinated with Europe’s trains. When has Obama been on a train? lol…Does he not realize that Western Europe is about the same size as California?”
Yes and Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston would fit in that area. Some of our largest and most important metropolitan areas are close enough together to benefit from a really good high-speed rail system like the Europeans have been working on.

“Yes and Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston would fit in that area.”
We already have “high speed” trains there. It’s a joke. You could give all those train riders a new car for the amount of money lost on operating those trains.

“You could give all those train riders a new car for the amount of money lost on operating those trains.”
Really? And the maintenence and gas, too? And the shelf life is as long as the trains, too? Goodness…the idiocy of those crazy Europeans and their silly trains!

“We have NOTHING to apologize for”
Irony alert.

“Goodness…the idiocy of those crazy Europeans and their silly trains!”
The train system in Europe is fabulous.
Because of the short distances involved it is very practical, convenient, and cost effective. With exception of places like NE corridor as you say, it is not practical, convenient, or cost effective to use trains for transportation. It’s cheaper, more convenient to fly. Use your head.

the ones who should apologize are the people who voted this idiot into office. they got what they deserve but they infected and burdened the rest of us with his socialist ideas and policies

Comments bashing Obama are just those from “Old” America.

“Can you guess why?”
Because sometimes the Europeans demonstrate more foresight than we do.

For once, I don’t totally disagree w/ something our President has said. A lot of truth to that. Glad he took both sides for once.

“I like trains.”
Me, too, but taking a train to most destiations is inconvenient, costly, and slow way to travel. I can see the benefit of train travel in areas like the NE corridor and the benefit of moving freight nationally. It’s a great concept for passenger travel in Europe but not viable in US.

When will mainstream reporters go into Obama’s obsequious bowing to the king of saudia arabia?
Remember the flap just a few days ago about the Queen, the curtsy, etc.? Why is there little reporting on our president bowing and scraping (a deep bow, too) to this person? It’s reprehensible.

Is Obama going to exhibit Bush Derangement Syndrome for all of the next four years?

Here are some apologies I’d like to hear from Europe.
Sorry for World War I.
Sorry for World War II.
Sorry for tolerating Hitler for so long.
Sorry for anti-semitism.
Sorry for socialism.
Sorry for colonialism.
Sorry for communism.
Sorry for Boy George.
When I hear those collective apologies I’ll know that a real dialogue is taking place. All countries were complicit in those ills.

Posted by: Sigmond | Apr 3, 2009 11:24:51 AM “It’s a great concept for passenger travel in Europe but not viable in US.”
Not according to Washington Post columnist Neal Peirce or Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican congressman.
Studies show $1 billion in transit funding creates 22,000 jobs and modernizing the US rail system in long overdue.
I suspect the real objection isn’t about better trains, it’s that Obama included $8 billion to begin constructing rail lines in the economic stimulus package and the budget he submitted to Congress calls for an addition $1 billion on lines each year for the next five years. That’s most likely not enough money for all regions, so conservatives would rather do nothing than support a future where our continues to “waste” money on infrastructure.

” so conservatives would rather do nothing than support a future where …”
Do you really think creating a new railway system for passenger travel in the US is a priority or even a viable, realistic investment that should be undertaken by taxpayers?

“Do you really think creating a new railway system for passenger travel in the US is a priority or even a viable, realistic investment that should be undertaken by taxpayers?”
Heck yeah. -when the airline industry keeps running into trouble and all these beltways around our major cities look like the world’s largest circular parking lots during rush-hour.

You’d think that southern Californians would think differently by now. They keep stacking freeways on top of each other to no effect other than making the smog so thick that you can’t see down the street on bad days.

Let’s edit Obama’s statement a bit; change the European part:
“But in the Obama family there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual and insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America does in the world,” The Obamas have sometimes chosen instead “to blame America for much of what is bad.”

Wow. God Bless America and those who love it. Downgrading America to the rest of the world is sad. America is the melting pot of all the cultures that came together and we each have every right to be proud of our country. This is called patriotism not arrogance. We are a very giving and loving country.

Americans are arrogant? He’s obviously not dealing with Parisians.

“I haven’t said that. Local train systems should be paid with local or state taxes, not the fed”
So each state should have their own system even though the trains in the NE corridor alone go thru 8 states?
Should we no longer fund interstates but instead have state roads only?

“Tough time for Republicans. ‘
What did Obama accomplish in London, or Paris, for that matter?

“We all recall his 20 years with self described mentor Reverend Wright, whose anti-american, anti-semitic rants were such a source of pride that they were sold on DVD’s in the gift shop.”
Funny how with all those DVDs, Fox was only able to find a couple of blurbs that they ran ad nauseum.

Wow. God Bless America and those who love it. Downgrading America to the rest of the world is sad. America is the melting pot of all the cultures that came together and we each have every right to be proud of our country. This is called patriotism not arrogance. We are a very giving and loving country.
Posted by: anony | Apr 3, 2009 3:28:24 PM
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AMEN
And while the rest of the world was complaining, although this was so exaggerated in the mainstream media, whenever anyone needed help who did they call on?
Even with the hijacking of ships off Somalia, we were asked to come in and help out the mideast countries and europe.
Which by the way is what happened to europe when they became so socialist with their failed national health care, chronic 10 percent plus unemployment, high premiums and co-pays for their “free” health insurance, taxes as much as 70% (and not just for the rich), and most importantly
EUROPE IS unable to afford to defend itself and had to call on us to fix bosnia, Kosovo, Yugoslavian conflicts.
They cannot afford to deal with their own European Union conflicts because they are so burdened with over the top failing social programs.
We will soon be in the same position. So who will defend europe when we sink under Obama’s high spending, military cutting, socialist policies?
China and Russia cannot wait!!
No wonder they smile so wide when they meet him.
Of course the trillion is US taxpayer dollars Obama gave the world bank helped a bit too. Bailing out europe always makes them smile.

WELL CHAD DONT WORRY PAL ITS JUST POLITICS HE WANTED TO APOLOGYZE FOR THE THINGS THAT BUSH’S ADMIN DID THOUGH THERE WAS NOTHING BAD WITH IT, BUT THE IMAGE OF AMERICA IN EUROPE HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED AT THAT TIME BUT STILL UNIFICATION IS VERY IMPORTANT AND WE EUROPEANS MUST BE STRONG ALLIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE THE JUSTICE, IM A KOSOVAR AND ALL MY COMUNITY HAS ALWAYS SUPPORTED U.S AND THEY STILL DO PPL HERE R READY TO GIVE THEIR LIVES ASIDE WITH AMERICANS

“Local means of transportation – paid with local, state taxes, not fed..”
Interstate highways are a local means of transportation within and between states as well.
Get it now?

Interstate highways are paid for with federal tax $$.

“BTW, that $8Billion in the stimulus for maglev train from Vegas to Orange County was a slick way to earmark federal funds to both Cal and Nevada for that project.”
Ahhh still repeating that debunked talking point huh?
Not surprising, its not like you think for yourself or anything.
What the bill contains is $8 billion in funding for unspecified high speed rail projects (skip to p. 237 for the relevant section). The money is to be allocated by the secretary of transportation. A DOT spokesperson told us that it is “premature to speculate” about what exactly will be funded. Even vigilant pork-busting budget watchdogs agree that the “levitating train earmark” charge is without merit: Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that scours legislation for earmarks, told us that there is “no way that this provision is an earmark for Sen. Reid.”

Obama failed to get the NATO countries to send combat troops to help us fight in Afghanistan. The British have offerred up to 700 troops to help with elections and the Spanish are sending about a dozen trainers. The French, hosts to Obama today, offered nothing.
This means we will send our men and women to the battlefield by the thousands without additional support from our “allies’. America again will do the heavy lifting with the Canadiens and the Brits there now.

From the Humility Department of the present Admistration: The Americans is a Nation of Cowards . Americans are Arrogants. The Americans are….. Well what they really mean is that we the american people should continually keep giving the other cheek so in this servil attitude, our democratic friends feel goooood…I personally can assured any of my fellow americans that our dear country is the best gift to any free soul in this very unjust world,a world full of white sepulchers. If you have any doubt you can ask every single soul running from opppresive tyrants (from the right or from left). Amen. May God Bless America the compassionate nation .

The comments by Obama on American arrogance are some of the most embarrassing ever uttered by a sitting president (past president like Carter continues to spew such). He placed himself in the Dixie Chicks category…..had to say what he did overseas.

Seems to me that he is campaining for world leader. So far he holds titles of “Community Organizer in Chief”, “Apoligizer in Chief”, “Blamer in Chief”, “Spender in Chief”, “Delegator in Chief”, and the list could go on. He is just getting us ready to accept rule by the UN since we are now being made equal to Europe and the rest of the world. Soon other countries will own our government as they hold most of our debt and soon they will call those debts. We will get placed in severship controlled by the IMF or UN and then assets will be sold off to the highest bidder. The new top lawyer in the stsate department will be glad to move that along. Now how is that for a cnspiracy theory? Now prove it is not possible by reading and research.

JWF : you are EXACTLY RIGHT.
Obama calling us arrogant is a laugh. He is the epitome of narcissistic/arrogance and he disgusts me. It is SHAMEFUL and the American people should be outraged.
BTW… It is truly amazing to me that anyone can call her a fashion icon. She looks DREADFUL, and the look on her face is one of hate. (I read some of the thesis she wrote while at Princeton)
She has a bad attitude.
THE OBAMAS ARE LAME.

I am angered by Obama’s speech that Americans are “arrogant”. Sounds to me like he DID listen to Rev Wright in church all those years when he said “God Damn America” instead of God Bless America. This president needs to be impeached!

Arrogant? Humm. America men and women have bleed on just about every continent in the world, provided aid, stood beside those who could not defend themselves – namely Europe, donated food, helped organize government, spent countless billions of dollars across the world. Americans ARROGANT? I can’t remember any American President good or bad that would say such a thing.

Can you people read? This reaffirms why I voted for President Obama!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got this in my email and it desribes eexactly how I feel
Our American Arrogance
1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2289
2.The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium. A total of 5329
3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France. A total of 4410
4. Brookwood, England American
Cemetery. A total of 468
5. Cambridge, England.. 3812
6. Epinal, France American Cemetery. A total of 5525
7. Flanders Field, Belgium. A total of 368
8. Florence, Italy. A total of 4402
9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. A total of 7992
10. Lorraine, France. A total of 10,489
11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. A total of 5076
12. Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246
13. Netherlands, Netherlands. A total of 8301
14. Normandy, France. A total of 9387
15. Oise-Aisne, France. A total of 6012
16. Rhone, France. A total of 861
17. Sicily, Italy. A total of 7861
18. Somme, France. A total of 1844
19. St. Mihiel, France. A total of 4153
20. Suresnes, France. a total of 1541
Apologize to no one.
Remind those of our sacrifice and don’t confuse arrogance with leadership.
The count is 104,366
dead brave Americans.
And we have to watch an American elected leader who apologizes to Europe and the Middle East that our country is “arrogant”!
HOW MANY FRENCH, DUTCH, ITALIANS, BELGIANS AND BRITS ARE BURIED ON OUR SOIL, DEFENDING US AGAINST OUR ENEMIES?
WE DON’T ASK FOR PRAISE … BUT WE HAVE ABSOULUTELY NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE!!
I hope you remember this when election time comes around again.

Truth be told European Colonialism from the 15th through the 20th Century is the source of most of the world’s problems including Iraq, Afganistan, and the whole African continent.