The Obama Show Is Home Now

and Ollie North at Human Events has a "review" which begins - - -

The traveling, never-ending campaign road show came home this week. POTUS is back in Washington from his “I like you-you like me,” excellent adventure in Europe and “surprise” trip to Baghdad. It was nice of Obama to thank the troops. He should have bowed to them instead of King Abdullah.

Members of the O-Team, recovering from late-night teleprompter edits, grand parties and jet-lag now deny that the apparently obsequious gesture to the Saudi king was really a “bow.” Perhaps it would be better described as a “curtsey.”

Whatever it was, the Arab press applauded the moment as servile -- and in keeping with the administration’s “apologize for America first” message.

Given what else happened this week, the incident may turn out to be as trivial as giving the Queen of England a Chinese-made i-Pod as a gift from the American people.

While Obama was basking in the adulation of carefully selected Euro-crowds, and genuflecting to foreign potentates (or simply “bending, because he is so tall”), other really bad things were happening.

The North Koreans defied his warnings of “severe consequences” and test-launched a long-range Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

In Tehran, the ayatollahs ignored his utopian plea for “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” and claim to have turned on 7,000 more centrifuges to refine Uranium.

Somali pirates “dissed” his “deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world” and hijacked an American-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden.

The O-Team was so exercised over the first piracy of an American-flagged merchant vessel since 1866 that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fired off a full rhetorical volley. While the crew was busy re-taking their ship, she said that “We’re deeply concerned” and “following it closely” and “the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.”

More telling than the vacuous hot air blowing from London, Prague, Ankara, Baghdad and Washington was the defense budget presented this week. It assures adversaries and allies alike that we will be unprepared to fight a serious adversary in the future. Hollow talk, empty oratory and impossible dreams are now commonplace in American politics, but the O-Team’s Euro-Expedition may have set a new foreign fantasy record.

The rest of North’s column’s here.

The North comment I most appreciated: He should have bowed to them instead of King Abdullah.

His most important comment: [The defense budget presented this week] assures adversaries and allies alike that we will be unprepared to fight a serious adversary in the future.

Hat tip: BN