Obama's disastrous trip abroad

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Obama's world tour was a disaster.

He spoke to the Germans "as a fellow citizen of the world", but this was not sufficiently 'American'. It seems that he is trying to run for the President of Planet Earth.

He should have given a dumb speech so that he did not 'look presidential', because he is not the President. Our president is the Republican, George W. Bush.

The speech should have been peppered with policy formulations and details so the Europeans would have hated him. This would have increased his popularity at home with the 'bitter' demographic that eludes him. But alas, he preferred to use "just words".

As Ronald Brownstein said in the National Journal Magazine, "blue-collar voters, especially blue-collar men, ... [are] most supportive of GOP arguments that the best way to ensure peace is through military strength, not diplomacy. European cheers may strengthen Obama at Starbucks, but it remains to be seen whether they will sweeten his prospects at Dunkin' Donuts".

Nuri al-Maliki supported his position on troop withdrawal only because he knows that the dovish Obama will be easier to manipulate than the hawkish McCain, and not because Obama makes more sense, as the liberals claim.

It was left to our great hero, General Petraeus, to disagree with the Obama-Mailiki time horizon; he supported that of McCain-Bush. The General knows better because he has one eye on Iraq and the other on Afghanistan, in spite of the fact that this makes him cross-eyed.

By visiting the Palestinian president Abbas, Obama has clearly demonstrated that he supports the Palestinians over Israelis. When McCain visited the region, he deliberately avoided going to Ramallah, so as not to give Abbas the legitmacy of being seen as having a tête-à-tête with a presumptive presidential nominee.

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, he supported a plan - between the lines - that Israel should withdraw from occupied territories and stop building settlements there.

The King of Jordan chauffeured him to the airport only because he has sympathies a man who shares the middle name with his father, King Hussein.

Being a secret Muslim has won him accolades all over the Middle East and the support of Hamas. It is the same reason Karzai was so enamored by him and they talked exclusively in Arabic.

Sarkozy also had no choice but to support him as the Muslim population in France is on the rise. The President of the Republic didn't want to see a repeat of the violence that had gripped Paris only a few years ago, had he not sucked up to Obama.

The German leaders are facing a similar problem and so they give him high marks for his 'incisive intellect'. The plot of the 9/11 attacks was hatched in Hamburg, remember?

And Gordon Brown didn't want to be left as the odd man out.

Barack HUSSEIN Obama has shown us where his sympathies lie. He has also proven, like Kerry, to be Euro-Centric; he will therefore sacrifice American interests at the altar of European and Middle Eastern opinion.

As McCain has reminded us, twice, Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."

As further proof that he is 'not one of us', he refused to serve himself grits for breakfast at the mess hall in Afghanistan. His lame excuse was that he is trying to "stay healthy".

Gladly, McCain used that week to prove that he is one of us. He went to Kennebunkport, ME to discuss the Iraq war strategy with the senior President Bush and had a lunch of sauerkraut, an American staple.

May the older, wiser, and a more hawkish AMERICAN win.

I hope John McCain endorses this message.