Barack Obama: The Un-American President

Barely three months into his presidency, and Barack Obama is handling his responsibilities as head-of-state with the grace of a donkey in an opera house. At every turn during his recent travels in Europe and the Middle East, he has repeatedly disgraced his country by apologizing for being an American, bowing to foreign potentates, issuing impotent communiques in response to North Korea's recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and boldly claiming that Americans finally absolved themselves of their historical sins by electing him president last November.

To make matters worse, some self-described conservatives, libertarians, and "responsible" Republicans have been trying to excuse Obama's recent asininity, claiming that what he's been doing is no big deal. After all, didn't John Adams once bow to King George III and wasn't George W. Bush a bit too friendly with Saudi royalty during his presidency? Taking such responses at face value (a dubious proposition), I ask this: do such past incidents excuse Obama's sheer stupidity?

What's rather interesting to me is how such lily-livered types weren't so nuanced during the past election, when they were falling all over themselves to denounce Sarah Palin as just another inbred, red-state, nose-picking Jesus freak who was going to alienate the all-important moderate middle that McCain was supposed to carry by double-digits. Tell you what, guys (and I use that term loosely), why don't y'all go back to worrying about your Greenwich cocktail parties and let the real men of the conservative movement and the Republican Party do the heavy lifting.

Now to this poor ol' country boy, it seems Obama's numerous pratfalls during his European vacation - along with the many other missteps committed during the past three months - have validated a few simple conclusions:

1. Patriotism is not the first refuge of a scoundrel, but anti-Americanism is always the first refuge of a leftist.
2. Any "conservative" who voted for Obama last November is a few tacos short of a fiesta platter.
3. To paraphrase Will Rogers, every time the Obama administration makes a joke, it's a law, and every time they make a law, it's a joke.
4. Much like many an armadillo has learned trying to cross I-35, those who stand in the middle of the road get run over.
5. If you want people to respect you, never ever apologize for who you are or where you are from.

Not that I expect any liberal Democrat or "responsible" Republican to take any of these observations to heart. No, they'd rather sell their country down the river for the proverbial thirty pieces of devalued silver. More than two centuries back, British Prime Minister George Canning best summed up that attitude with his description of the typical eighteenth century Jacobin: "A steady patriot of the world alone. The friend of every country but his own."

And make no mistake, the modern-day Jacobins are no friends of ours.

Update:

Thanks to Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom for the link.