Krauthammer: Obama 'denigrating the country' with UN speech
Syndicate columnist Charles Krauthammer appeared on Fox News Sunday with sharp criticism of President Barack Obama speech to the UN General Assembly. "I think he indulged himself in his speech at the General Assembly, which started out as sort of adolescent utopianism and went downhill. He started out saying things like no nation can dominate another. He said no group of nations ought to be above others," said Krauthammer.
"What do our allies think when they hear that and when they hear -- as we saw in the clip -- Obama denigrating his own country and presenting himself as the man who will redeem America from its wickedness and he said those of you who doubt that the character of America should look at what we -- meaning I -- have done in the last eight months, including joining the human rights council act at the U.N. which is a body which we should take no pride in being on. I thought it was a sorry performance. It did not advance our interest in the least," concluded Krauthammer.
"He started out saying things like no nation can dominate another. He said no group of nations ought to be above others"
Wow, these are horrible statements, huh? Pfft...
He and the other AE's don't believe in anything remotely like karma, so they don't understand why things like terror may happen here. Well, it's not "because of our freedoms".....
Smug PUKIES, what O-bought-ma did, was 'mea culpa' for the previous mis-administration's predatory, aggressive/regressive assult, invasion, butchery, pillaging. looting, sacking, of a gov. that was at least functioning, more than can be said for the neoNAZIcons in present time, even.
King Geo was supposed to get those GD OIL Leases, but Mr. Failure just got his own private collection of torture tapes, CD's to jack off to.
The rest of the world has to take in these refugees without a country and that is a burden on the rest of the world, they don't like and the UN is cutting out as much 'participation' as possible from the USofBLOODYISRAEL.
King Geo is too stupid and intellectually non-curious to have any idea of the destruction he brought to this country and a good part of the rest of the world.
Remember when he said he sleeps just fine at night? That's how fucking stupid he is.
by the minute...On the merits he can not stand so he and the repubs begin to name call..Sick of the MSM pushing the repub/conservative message with no fact check..Boycott all sponsors and programs that repeat the Wingnut message!
Leaves us with net TV and foreign programing but it's better than this crap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3HmiecraGA
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denigrated (to put it mildly!) the ENTIRE PLANET and every living creature, and some not living (like the Grand Canyon or Baghdad's museums and Iraq's oil fields) for EIGHT YEARS. And counting, sadly.
We didn't get any significant cooperation with the boycott against Iran by being arrogant and demanding with the rest of the world-the Bush 'strategy.' Being polite and respectful as an alternative strategy strikes me as simply being another example of the President's good manners and high intelligence. If it doesn't work, what have we lost? If we end up bombing Iran, some people will give us credit for having tried all reasonable alternatives first, and we will have alienated fewer people. I'm a progressive, and not keen on war, but I really don't want to see that insufferable two bit dictator I'm-a-dinner-jacket with nukes plus missiles.
Alan Grayson for President, Elizabeth Warren for Vice President, and Paul Krugman for Secretary of the Treasury!
actually you catch more flies with shit. One of my chores was to clean under the henhouse and reload the fly trap. That is a rectangular box of fly screen with an inverted funnel of flyscreen inside. The flies go for the shit then rise into the cone, end up inside and die. I see so many analogies.
The 'but' takes you well out of progressive territory. Go ahead though, keep calling yourself that.
me-oww!
He just wants his country back. The one where his kind dictate "American interest" as dollar diplomacy, Halls of Montezuma to shores of Tripoli, Send in the Marines, eminent domain, White Man's Burden, neo-con, Star Wars, Axis is Evil view of the world. Sorry, you've lost. Get used to disappointment. If W showed us anything, it is that nobody will care about America if we clearly only care about ourselves.
Krauthammer is a terrorist.
He doesn't get that people like him are what Obama keeps apologizing for. And since when is rejecting American exceptionalism a bad thing?
"American Exceptionalism" is the new mantra for the likes of Chuckie, Rush, Glennda et al.
Apparently no society, including the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Druids or any other "ancient" society did anything of worth. Nope. Everything that is "exceptional" started in the U.S.A. 230 years ago.
Simply nauseating listening to that creep. Plus he's funny lookin.
Look far enough into Krauthammer and you'll find either a Nazi sympathizer, or a grandpappy in the gestapo. He looks like a Kraut, the worst kind. Sorry no insult meant to real, regular German people.
My dear American friends, this is what the rest of the world sees when we watch you.
"American Exceptionalism" what piffle, hubris is the most disturbing of vices.
There is a ratio that rings true in most things in life, 20/80.
20% of the people you meet you will judge poorly, why do you as a country have those 20% speaking for you?
There is no need to watch American sitcoms, their news shows have all the laughs!
Sun, 09/27/2009 - 11:19 — marcellajoy
Druids weren't a society but a religion; they were a religion of the Q Celts.
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Yes, YS, I get that. But they built bloody Stonehenge. I'm not as smart as you, but from what I have read Stonehenge was quite forward thinking.
My point was that humans did not suddenly, 230 years ago in North America, become innovative. As FOX news and all their minions appear to believe.
Stonehenge was built starting 4500 years ago, so approximately 2500 BCE.
Druids didn't arrive until 45 BCE.
They had no idea what Stonehenge was for, because it was already ancient. That led to legends of a race of giants making it, or the magic of Merlin. This doesn't preclude the possibility that they used it though, but nobody knows in what fashion.
But you're right about American Exceptionalism. It seems for the most part we didn't invent a whole lot of what we take credit for but made more efficient, a reputation taken from us by the Japanese about 50 years ago.
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Again, I'm not as smart as you, but I was wondering if you would mind shagging your ass on out here to Lubbock, cause I have the flu and need someone to run some errands for me. I'm out of soup AND beer.
I do have a shaggy ass.
But using your colloquialism in the British sense would require an inordinate amount of flexibility on my part.
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I think his real handy cap is mental rather than physical.
I don't really care what he thinks about anything.
republicanism is a mental illness! If you are in a position to do so, have one commited! It's the right thing to do LOL!
why no intelligent person pays the least bit of attention to him.
I'd like to push him in the deep-end of a swimming pool!
...lets assume for the sake of argument their is such a thing as American exceptional-ism, that's based on our inherent, American-ness and not nuclear power. Ok? Well if there is, Bush destroyed it.
Ah, but Mr. Krauthammer, it's not your interest that we wish to advance. We prefer to see attention paid to the interests of the American people at large.
love that football team fan mentality. Screaming, "We're the best," does not make it so. Right now we look pretty sad and rudderless.
Sorry, Charlie. Obama hasn't been going around the world "denigrading" and "apologizing" for America. He's been going around the world "denigrading" and "apologizing" for people like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Faux News Channel and YOU...none of whom is synonmous with America, but simply a sub-culture of America hating loons who figured out how to play the celebrity game well enough to gain way too much attention, power and influence than they ever should have.
Well said.
Anyone who is a regular on FAUX is not credible, no matter the subject. Wingnuts who cannot admit that the US has not always been the best friends in the world are delusional liars.
I gotta BS degree
In Political Science
(But I bet you could guess that).
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Is too common a theme on fuxNoise.
Some stuff you can't make up!
makes Dr. Strangelove seem like Mr. Rogers.
Asshole.
ASAP!
Krauthammer is a hideous human...by hiding behind his gig at the WaPo-wing of Rupe's NewsCorp monopoly and his permanent presence on Cluster-Fox it's clear a little of the joint KoolAide has rubbed him (finally) to the bone... Think tanks won't have him... reputable 'news' organizations won't have him... campaigns won't have him.. yet he continues to spew this bile of racism everywhere just like his Cluster-Fox brethren..
It's truly abysmal that some folks in the US still stoop to this level of trivial debasement but when you got nothing left, I guess that's the only answer... Charlie is simply part of a sub-culture of America-hating loons that for some reason seem to get their faces plastered all over the Cluster-Fox propaganda machine...
Debasement in Texas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA&fe...
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"It did not advance our interest in the least," concluded Krauthammer.
Well what is the God Damned point then huh Chuckie baby?
After all nothing else matters a whit.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
And now for something completely different:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_...
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The world already doesn't think much of the US, Obama's speech actually helped US interests. If he'd gone and continued to play at being the leader of everything it would have driven the final nail into what is left of US support and buried it outright.
How do I know?
I live in Europe, that's how.
And they say Americans have no appreciation of irony.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Mr. Krauthammer is merely parroting the so-called "Realist" theory of International Relations, a self-serving rationalization of imperialism.
That's what they call Realpolitik.
However, the problem is Realpolitik is generally shaped by past conflicts: WWI, the Munich Syndrome, WWII, the Cold War, the Vietnam Syndrome etc, not on present circumstances, which can lead to specious historical analogies with often tragic consequences.
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We lived in Krauthammer's America for eight years. And there was absolutely nothing good that happened.
This is not my father's America
...by criticizing his every move. I hope that the President ignores this bullshit network for eight years.
I think krauthammer was the first to use the term barking moonbats for liberals and boosh bashing even when people had valid grievances against the pretender.
Maybe it was william safire who first did the former epithet.
Funny, I didn't know bats could bark:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/moonhoax.html
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This guys not happy unless we're in another country killing people. He's a war monger. There's no secret there.
this kind of talk is such obvious bullshit -- even to those barely tuned in -- that chuck's only impact will be on that ignorant 28%. the neocons are in full panic having lost two of their daddy figures in the past week; and polling showing that progressive policies are popular -- and live in terror that should the democrats finally figure out a way to sell their message and see it pass -- with successful foreign and domestic policies, the republicans will go extinct before the icebergs.
Why doesn't Krauthammer just come out and say it - he's an admirer of the old Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, among a host of other belligerent terror regimes that ruled by force. But he can take solace that Obama's words are just that. Chuck still has Gitmo, Bagram, a shit load of black sites and two dismal military occupations as his Viagra.
President Obama was admonishing the Republicans. Krathhammer can't tell the difference and wouldn't admit it if he could understand. KrathHammer is a stupid oportunist.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Give this guy a helmet, a gun and deployment to Afghanistan and let's see how long he continues with this line of right-wing nuttery.
http://www.operationawareness.com/custom3_1.html
http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item8166/he...
And my favorite:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/169831299...
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Why is it every time a person of Character and Intelligence, offers viable Intelligent solutions these wackos crawl out from under the rocks that they live.
This Nazi and his Racist party had eight long miserable years in power they destroyed our International credibility, they tanked the US and World Economies, they violated the US Constitution, Illegally Wiretapped American Citizen yet this Racist Nazi Christian comes out against a PRESIDENT that is offering POSITIVE slow moving Long range solutions. I guess it is true the RNC is all about NO, DEATH and DESTRUCTION,no solutions just HATRED,LIES Twisted Truths and Manipulation.
and his ilk have been discredited time and again. He and his neocon cabal have shown themselves to be America haters. They hate the rule of law, separation of powers (which limits the presidency), equal justice and a sane, respectful approach to foreign policy. Krust-hammer and his cohorts might enjoy their senior years in a "Lord of the Flies" retirement community.
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
During the Chimpy years, there was indeed much to apologize for. Krauthammer speaks to a dwindling, idiotic base. I can't believe there was a time when the conservatives were supposed to be the adults. They all sound like petulant, spoiled children. Time for them to sit in the corner for a few decades.
you'd see that people around the world LOVE Obama, including the leaders.
Why wouldn't they? Obama has done nearly as much to improve the reputation of America in his first 8 months as Bush did to destroy it over 8 long years.
People abroad cannot believe that Obama was elected. But what they can't believe even more is that so many people are protesting his policies, particularly healthcare.
Republicans are masters of the disingenuous misunderstanding - [Re: like children/ but more skilled]
Krathhammer would rather have his flock believe he doesn't understand the wise things President Obama does, than for them to see the truth about Republicans - Swindlers. The rest are in on the disingenuous misunderstanding.
Krathhammer is full of it - a repigliscum agent.
willful ignorance
selfish deception
President Obama was not denigrating the country. Far from it. President Obama was denigrating President Busch and all he wrought.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This guy is the personification of the closeted Gay. Look at that pinched nose. And he seems to be fastidious about his appearance.
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That what nose again?
does that mean cosmetic surgery or something?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Might be nice if the "news" actually had to interview actual journalists rather than "syndicated columnists."
Since when did Dear Abby get interviews on legitimate news shows?
"....It did not advance our interest in the least," concluded Krauthammer.
Whose interest are you talking about???
Krauthamer is a hopeless loser, but Obama does come across as utterly naive. Platitudes are not policy.
What are you doing here?
Why is it that everyone who hosts a talk show (Gordon Peterson, Chris Wallace, et al) always defers to Krauthammer as if he has the definitive explanation for all things? Krauthammer doesn't seem to respect anyone (like Mark Shields for example) who challenges his so called intellect and point of view.
I have the the impression that the President could go toe to toe with Mr Know it all and cut him down a few pegs.
"adolescent utopianism" says the man in the immaculately tailored $5000 dollar suit along with the man-mani/pedi.
Where do they get that putting George Bushs' massive failures down is denegrading the country. I don't feel denegraded.
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