Friday, August 28, 2009

Insulter in Chief

From the American Thinker, on the Boy King's propensity to insult well, pretty much everyone:
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing." If Goethe was right, I guess we can give up on President Obama exerting a useful influence. By now he's insulted just about everything and everyone. I list some of his insults below, in alphabetical order by insultee. Let the healing begin.

Afghanistan/Karzai.
"... senior members of Obama's national security team say Karzai has not done enough to address the grave challenges facing his nation. They deem him to be a mercurial and vacillating chieftain... Obama intends to maintain an arm's-length relationship with Karzai... The administration will also seek to bypass Karzai... The administration rebuffed Karzai's request for a bilateral visit to Washington this spring... Karzai's meeting with Obama today is scheduled for 20 minutes..."

The people of Afghanistan may have just re-elected this "mercurial and vacillating chieftain." ...

Read the rest here (with links to sources).

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