No Respect

The new President is showing signs of the inexperience we were warned about. After six weeks in office his cabinet is still not complete, Americans have their wallets in lockdown and he’s managed to alienate our two closest allies. Keep in mind that our President has never been in charge of anything except his campaigns and the Harvard Law Review. He’s never run a business or a government agency or picked up the public relations skills those would have required.

This on-the-job training has left British Prime Minister Gordon Brown doing his best Rodney Dangerfield "No Respect" all the way back to London. There was no joint appearance in front of flags planned until Brown begged and even then the opening remarks were skipped for questions from the press. When gift-giving time came, Brown handed President Obama a pen holder carved from timbers of the HMS Gannet which will match the desk in the Oval Office made from wood of its sister ship HMS Resolute. Like someone who forgot Christmas was coming Obama must have ran to Best Buy to fetch a stack of 25 DVD’s of American movie classics including Gone With the Wind and Ishtar. OK, not Ishtar but it wouldn’t matter if it had been that and the entire Friday the 13th catalog; the DVD’s aren’t compatible with UK DVD players and never mind that Brown isn’t a movie buff anyway. The Brown children got models of the Obamas new helicopter. Big woop. Our new President then abruptly Brown to go to a party. No respect at all, I tell ya.

Sending chills throughout Israel not just for her cackling, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the Middle East giving away $900M to the Palestinians who could hardly contain their laughter while promising not to give a penny to Hamas. She’s also made overtures to Iran who replied that President Obama is following the same “crooked ways” as George Bush. To summarize, we’re trying to buy friends in Palestine and Iran who want to destroy our only ally in the region. And they wouldn’t mind destroying us too.

George Bush built a coalition of over 30 countries in our Iraq War efforts with Great Britain in the forefront. If the time comes for a similar military engagement I wonder if our President will get a return phone call. George Bush kept Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, averting all-out war in the entire region. I doubt President Obama will be able to keep restraining the Israelis or will even try.

President Obama’s promise of The United States finally being respected in the eyes of the world must have had an asterisk.