At the UN, a Scolding from the President

What does he expect from an organization that lets a guy like Qadafi whine about wars and has holocaust deniers make speeches? (Apparently, blowing up planes is OK…)

“He can’t really be so naive as to think the international community really ever gave a rat’s a** about Gitmo?”
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I don’t suppose the shouts of support and the sustained ovation mean anything compared to the stoney silence Bush received.

Gitmo isn’t closed.

What a disgraceful, shameful, embarrassing speech. Getting rid of this man in three years may not be soon enough. Worse than Carter.

tierra sez: “I don’t suppose the shouts of support and the sustained ovation mean anything compared to the stoney silence Bush received”
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They were cheering at seeing a weak U.S. President toeing their line. Nothing to be excited about, but a lot to be distressed at his inept attempt to conduct diplomacy. First it was his white grandmother who was thrown under the bus, then Poland and the Czeck Republic. Next he’ll throw the UN under the bus when it suits him.

Mr. Obama is still blaming Washington for all problems, despite almost a year in office.

Due to greed and our previous president our country almost went belly up. Obama came in with his team and did the best that could be done. It’s not over yet, but please have a little respect. We are Americans together. This is a beautiful country and our greatness is being challenged every single Day..

Only the disillusionist thinks he is “weak”, the ones like you. Like it or not, He’s the most powerful man on earth, so how do you define weakness?

A scolding? Does anybody take us truly seriously anymore? Did he tell the other nations not to use more CO2 than us? Did he tell other countries how to be economically prosperous? Did he tell other countries to kill less civilians than we do? House fewer nukes? Threaten sanctions less? Oh brother…..

I am very certain that no one at the UN took Obama seriously today, so his scolding went in one ear and out the other. He made some incredibly stupid statements like, “No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.” It is obvious that one nation can and has dominated another nation, even if we all agree that they shouldn’t. He also said, “In an era when our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game.” I don’t think anyone, especially say, Russia and Georgia would agree on what their shared destiny should be. Does he seriously think that we in the U.S. have the same destiny as China, or India, or even Britain? These are just a couple examples of the naivete he displayed today, and he has just destroyed our foreign policy and will be hard pressed to restore our standing in the world. What a sad pathetic speech.

When a U.S. president is praised by the rabble at the U.N., that is nothing to be celebrated. This speech was despicable. What more evidence to we need that Obama is either 1) in way over his head or 2) in way over his head.

Look at me look at me!!
Forget all the good that America has done in the World over the years.
The only thing that counts is what I have done since January.
Look at me world.
I am the great Barrack Obama.

He was not “apologetic” Jake, so stop being a right wing freak and “apologist” yourself and start being an objective journalist.
You know what you’re issue is: you think being objective is just using the catchphrases of the other side, and somehow there’s a balance. NO. That’s not how it works. Being objective is being immune to BOTH sides and coming to an analysis from actual events. You seem so sensitive to the postings of the right wing posters that it’s infecting your ability to think clearly.
How’s about stopping the Twitter fights and defenses and staying tuned with the sanity of reality?

America is tired of Obama’s holier-than-thou scolding speeches. Now that the rest of the world has a taste it won’t be long until they start to yawn as well. Wait a minute, the U.K. papers are already noting the bloom is off the rose. This is what happens when you elect a rock star who fails to hit the charts for a few weeks. The mob is fickle and they’ve moved on.

obama, how dare you apologize to the world for the people fighting for the things you should be praising. How shameful and humiliating for our country. This is not good change.(obama is is not capitalize on purpose)

X, Jake is quite objective. Maybe you should get over your paranoia. maybe he said the president was apologetic because, well, the president was apologetic. And I did not get the impression Mr. Tapper was making a value judgement with that statement– simply stating the facts. Notice the emphasis in this post from Mr. Tapper on the “scolding” the president supposedly delivered to the UN. I think the man is quite evenhanded. Maybe you have trouble spotting objectivity when you see it, because it has grown so rare.

Obama has lied repeatedly..Stimulus- unemployment would not go above 8%.it’s now at 9.7% and predicted to go higher.
No tax on health care-full of taxes. Did he not read the bill? Bailout of auto- to help unions not taxpayers in general. Bailed out AIG- government employees had money invested with AIG.

Listening to Obama’s pitiful self-serving speech at the UN today I wonder how he could possibly still get the support of 50% of Americans.
That’s a frightening thought.
I know Bush made a lot of mistakes.
But his love of America was never ever in doubt.

I agree with Obama that often it seems international bodies such as the United Nations do little more than admit that there are problems that need addressing, talk about them but don’t actually do anything concrete to solve them. This can be seen in the United Nations Environment Program which merely outlines and recommends policies that should be undertaken to prevent further damage to the environment but has no method of enforcing them.
And whilst there is a similarity between the way Obama addressed this issue to the way Bush addressed Iraq, the subject content is completely different. Bush was convincing his audience that action needed to be taken in the form of war. Obama was convincing his audience that action needs to be taken, that it is necessary to come up with solutions and become proactive.

foggy
even you must be aware that
global warming makes climate change happen… some places wetter, some more drought prone,
earlier summers, etc.
the fascination with the right wing paranoids about semantics is amazing, esp. when you take into account there are lives at stake.

For the Right the ‘looming tragedy’ would be world peace. Without a steady supply of convenient foreign adversaries to keep the public distracted by a current nemesis we might start doing crazy things like trying to solve our problems here at home by spending substantial funds on domestic social programs.

AP again:
“Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. Inspired by his message of “change,” they knocked on doors, spread fliers, voted for him by a 2-1 margin, and partied like rock-the-vote stars when he won. Since the election, though, that fervor has died down — noticeably.”
Remember all the hope? All the enthusiasm? Gone…all gone. They see how far out of his element he is, how ill-equipped to deal with a dangerous world. Look how quickly he’s bungled Afghanistan–he announced his new strategy in March; now in September he declares that he doesn’t have one.

This speech literally made my stomach turn. But at least we found out that it’s not just Americans who are bad, Obama has nothing good to say about anyone.
Where does he get off representing us to the world this way? Should we write to the Israeli newspapers and tell them we don’t agree? That we do acknowledge their legitamacy as a country.
Saw a bumper sticker today: ” don’t worry America, Israel’s got your back” I hope that’s still true.

For the first time, a plurality of Independents (46) disapprove of the President’s job performance while only 41 percent approve
And that’s among “voters.” Among likely voters, his numbers are worse. And the GOP now leads the generic confessional ballot among likely voters by 4%.
Those who are paying attention have lost confidence and faith in the man. This will all end in tears.

when will the ‘right’ get over losing in 2008..?
sad to see their destructive nature in action.. but for a cult that is smaller every day and bereft of ideas… not surprising……

I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.’
Posted by: Concerned in OH
if you would have asked that of old W, you would get 9/11 as an answer… quite the accomplishment

we have a 9/11 Truther in the midsts…
Posted by: Concerned in OH
you don’t believe that 9/11 happened when Bush was president? I know you folks like to revise history… but c’mon now…

Obama just isn’t swaggering around, saber-rattling and making loudmouth threats enough to keep the timid feeling safe apparently. If he actually succeeded in admonishing the UN into being more effective, the Right would be obviously disappointed.

Confucious says that he who is blind is not the one who cannot see. It is he who cannot see who is blind. Mr. Obama’s hypocrisy is too much.
Speaking out for the first time, Gov. Paterson’s wife says it is “very unfair,” that her husband be asked not to run for re-election.
“I have never heard of a president asking a sitting governor not to run for re-election,” Michelle Paterson told NBC New York Wednesday. “I thought it was very unusual and very unfair.”
Asked if she thought his blindness is a contributing factor to his low poll numbers, the first lady said “most definitely.”
“People have to see who (the governor) is,” said Mrs. Paterson. “…The whole time I dated David I forgot that he had a sight disability. He has a way of maneuvering and getting around [so] that you forget.”

From the left-wing goofballs at MSNBC, no less:
“Although some 100 world leaders met Tuesday for a U.N. climate summit, most of the attention was on just two — President Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao. Both vowed to take the threat of rising seas, drought and deforestation seriously, but only one had some momentum behind him and it wasn’t Obama.”

There has never been a president so thoroughly dazzled by the sound of his own voice. He endlessly apologizes for our great country and only praises himself and his delusions about “accomplishments.” All he has done in nine months is find a way to spend trillions of dollars we no longer even have.

I have to laugh that Fascist and others quote unabashed right wingers of the pro-military industrial complex ilk like Anne Bayefsky, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and Nile Gardiner, the Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation. What a shocker that they were underwhelmed by Obama’s speech. I’m just always so relieved that I don’t have to sit cringing in embarrassment as I did when Bush spoke at these types of things. If those who voted for Bush twice feel that way about Obama, I have to say I really don’t care. As Skip put it,
“For the Right the ‘looming tragedy’ would be world peace. Without a steady supply of convenient foreign adversaries to keep the public distracted by a current nemesis we might start doing crazy things like trying to solve our problems here at home by spending substantial funds on domestic social programs.”
Great post, Skip :>)

BTW, RCP Job Approval Average is
51.6% Approve
42.2% Disapprove
+9.4 Spread

why you can’t trust Rasmussen polls
- Pawlenty’s question was based on the traditional four-option menu of “strongly approve”, “somewhat approve”, “somewhat disapprove”, “strongly disapprove”.
The Democrats were based on a four-option menu which asked if voters through their performance was “excellent”, “good”, “fair”, or “poor”.
Research has shown that the former arrangement leads to better numbers in the top two boxes, because some voters will conflate a “fair” performance with one that is worthy of the rating “slightly approve”.
Not only that, but in a subtle wording change, it said Pawlenty was “doing a job” as governor, while it said Franken was “performing a role” as senator.
When Mark Blumenthal went to Rasmussen Reports with a query about this, he was told it was a “mistake that slipped through the cracks.”
yeah…… oooooooops

Bush won it
Posted by: Fascist Hyena
so sad…..desperate for any self praise, as if ‘casualties continue to mount, the enemy grows bolder, and the commander/in-chief sits paralyzed with indecision’ wasn’t the exact policy of ‘W’ for many years..and his inept accomplices… same failure right up until the day Obama took office….. if Obama is still in Afghanistan after 8 years… you’ll have a reason to say something….
another reason why the republicans were kicked en masse out of the government…..they thought lies would win, they still try, but they are seen for what they are … republicans would sell out america, everyone and do anything to get back into power

Well, I am very much a liberal democrat, and I see Barack Obama as one of the biggest disappointments in the past 50 years.
Posted by: Jon F | Sep 24, 2009 2:06:53 AM
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Jon F – I appreciate your honesty. It seems the people who voted/campaigned/blogged for obama are too stubborn to admit what is really going on; or the scary thing is that they agree with it.
I’ve never been a patriotic American – just taken for granted that I live here. But the last 9 months of obama’s presidency and his apologies for our country have brought out the pride in me. I love this country and everything it has done for our people and this world in 250 years. I am sad about some parts of our history but believe we’ve tried to overcome it the best way we know how.
If it takes a president like this to bring this out in me and millions of other people, then I guess that’s a good thing…but he has to start taking pride in our country and our people! We’ve got to rise up and tell him that’s what we want!!!

It’s about time Obama came close to doing something I liked. Almost every president in my memory has bowed and taken orders from the UN. Some have stood up to them on some issues but none have told them off in general terms. They hate us, whey do we listen to them?
We don’t need to apologize to a group we have supported with money and military since it’s inception. George W. even allowed them to tell us that our gift to the tsunami relief wasn’t good enough. The UN insulted us for doing it and Bush insulted us for letting them get away with it.
We don’t need or want ‘cap and trade’. We have a different situation than other nations so we can’t meet their standards. Try driving across Texas with a tiny electric car. Not like driving across England.
None of them have had enough guts to admit that as long as population continues to grow there is no way to control pollution. All any of them can do is promote more population growth which adds to the problem. If you can’t even talk about the root cause of a problem, why talk about it at all.
The best thing we could do is to get the US our of the UN and get the UN out of the US while we still have some sovereignty.

Great post, Skip :>)
Yeah Skip awesome, I got a tingle up my leg. Meanwhile a neocon pro-war Sec of State is running around. Great job, Barry. And for all the liberal blabbering about peace, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still continue.

@ Jenny
“But the last 9 months of obama’s presidency and his apologies for our country have brought out the pride in me.”
Same here – Hadn’t paid much attention, hadn’t voted since ’92. The Re-Distributionalist Radical has my full attention.

The US is talking down to other countries, with this, and that isn’t going to sit well, with some.
While we make such statements, we are not ourselves, acting on our own weapons, or our own policies.
Deeds get more attention, than rhetoric.

Very scary that 50% of Americans still approve of this president. Says alot about the direction our country is headed.
Has anyone seen the video of elementary school kids singing about Obama?
“Barrack Hussein Obama”
“mmm mmm mmm”
Reminds me of Venezeula or Germany in the 1940′s.

Obama speaks with so many forked tongues, it is difficult to believe which one he means. You just have to follow his actions.
His naivete is breathtaking. If he thinks Russia is going to somehow sweet talk Iran, he is in for a rude awakening. Those two countries are best buds. And now Obama thinks he will influence the UN…..ROFLMAO!!!!
There still hasn’t been a real serious domestic crisis (national disaster, etc, terror attack) or international crisis for Obama to “cut his teeth” on. When and if that happens, we will see exactly what kind of true President Obama really is. He will either rise to the occasion as a statesman or fall flat on his face like a failure and flunky.

Obama is a radical communist plain and simple. America doesn’t need a radical communist plain and simple. Whatever one’s party affiliation, we should all unite to vote Obama out in 2012 and stop his radicalism!!!

The naive; as well as the Arrogance with a capital A, of this White House administration is unbelievable and makes for a lethal combination…This administration has held the White House since January of 2009…a plot to create massive destruction and death of innocent by a TERRORIST of Middle-Eastern decent, was just RECENTLY unmasked this month…Don’t be blinded by your naive and arrogance White House…Their goal has not changed since the Bush administration…And I pray, and I am not a religious person by any means, that our intelligence people are not blinded to reality….and continue to do a top notch job…

Very selective with content in the speech Jake.
Has management had a talk with you?
Maybe a phone call from Rahm?
Then again, George could just pass along a message from Rahm explaining his displeasure…

Despite being in the minority in Congress, Republican campaign committees outraised Democrats by $1.7 million in August as they have aggressively collected political cash amid the rancorous debate over health care. Republicans also held an edge over Democrats in the amount of money available, when counting debts, as both parties set the stage for the 2010 elections,
(USA Today)

Good speech. I also share the sentiment that world leaders should act on the long-standing problems, rather than just talk.