Make new friends, but keep the old . . . .
Bookworm on Nov 21 2009 at 1:33 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Make new friends
But keep the old
The one is silver
And the other gold.
–Song that every school child in my (and Obama’s) age group learned growing up.
It’s becoming very apparent that Obama either wasn’t paying attention in school or that he is willfully disregarding one of the great pieces of folk wisdom — namely, it’s good to add friends, but very, very stupid to offend them. I mention this because of a little news item today:
Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian relations.
Obama has pretty much inverted entirely the classic rhyme, since he’s offended our allies and merely amused, in a condescending and dangerous way, our enemies.
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Greetings:
1) As ye were abandoned, so shall ye abandon. President Obama has no friends, he has tools and fools. The tools get their payoffs most of the time and the fools get a warm feeling in their hearts for a while.
2) Since the recent digital to analog TV conversion, I have had access to a bunch of Asian oriented stations. It’s been enlightening to see the coverage of President Obama’s recent Asian trip through their lenses. Several of the clips I saw of the China part of the venture, showed our President with a very unusual look on his face that I would attribute either to severe constipation or the realization that someone else was going to be eating your lunch. It may be a good while before he heads back to the Orient.