Now that Bush is out of office, and we have elected the first black President of the United States (sorry, Bill Clinton – you ain’t it!), we’re bringing American respect back!  Bush destroyed the reputation of the United States. He acted unilaterally. He didn’t respect our allies or the international community as a whole. He brought the United States down in the eyes of the world. He made us into a hegemon – a rogue that doesn’t take anyone else’s opinion into account.

The Magic Marxist was supposed to fix all that. He was supposed to fly over the world and shit unicorns and butterflies on their lawns. He was supposed to fix the reputation of the United States in the eyes of the international community! He was supposed to save us from the embarrassment Bush caused – to elevate us to a team player and a nation that is respected by all. 

Right?

Aren’t we repeatedly told by Teh Anointed One’s ™ supporters that now that we’ve elected him, we have gained a modicum of respect back in the eyes of the rest of the world?

I mean, he did win the Nobel Peace Prize, after all!  Not that we know exactly for what, and neither does the rest of the world, for that matter.  And well… he did bow to several world leaders, supplicating at their feet, humbly asking for forgiveness for America’s transgressions!  That should count for something, right?

Right?

The more I read about the hapless antics of our Fearless Leader, the more I’m beginning to believe that he’s simply a buffoon.  He’s incompetent to the point of being pathetically amusing. He’s a complete embarrassment.

A dramatic entry by Barack Obama into a
room where the US President found no chair for himself but four
probably startled heads of government set the stage for the “political
accord” in Copenhagen.

The
jury is still out on who were more taken aback: Obama or the room’s
four occupants — Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao (China)
and Presidents Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(Brazil).

It
is not clear whether Obama barged into the room to break up the “secret
meeting” among the four nations or he turned up for a bilateral meeting
with Wen and found to his surprise parleys were already going on among
the four developing countries.

According
to a last-ditch schedule drawn up by the US team after almost giving up
on a deal, Obama was supposed to meet Wen and then the three other
leaders jointly. But the way the events unfolded, it appeared that the
Chinese, Brazilian, Indian and South African leaders wanted to meet
Obama together, rather than in separate sessions.

Manmohan
Singh had either reached the airport to fly back to India or was about
to leave his hotel when word was passed on that Obama wanted to take
one more shot at an accord.

Sergio
Serra, Brazil’s senior climate negotiator here, confirmed that the US
President had joined the meeting of Brazilian, Indian, Chinese and
other officials. But he did not say that Obama had walked in uninvited
to the room at Bella Centre, the venue of the summit.

The US President had met Wen privately
once. But Wen did not attend two smaller, impromptu meetings during the
day that Obama and US officials conducted with leaders of other world
powers, an apparent snub that infuriated the Americans and the
Europeans.

The two sides then scheduled the bilateral meeting that eventually became a multilateral event.

Obama,
while entering the room with secretary of state Hillary Clinton, said:
“Can I join you now? Are you ready to talk to me or do you need more
time? I can go back and come again.”

He
was told by the leaders that he was welcome to join them which Obama
did, although at one point he threatened to walk out if no deal was
reached. There, the final stages of the agreement came together,
sources close to the talks said, with Obama discussing specifics.

Later,
a US official said: “The only surprise we had, in all our history
was… that in that room it wasn’t just the Chinese having a meeting…
but all four countries we had been trying to arrange meetings (with).…
The President’s viewpoint was, ‘I wanted to see them all and now is our
chance’.”

The
Chinese told the White House that it was going to be a bilateral
meeting and did not give an impression that all these leaders were also
in the same room, a US official said.

[...]

“We
weren’t crashing a meeting. We were going for our bilateral meeting. We
found the other (India, South Africa and Brazil) people there,” a US
official said, referring to suggestions that the Americans had got wind
of the “secret meeting” and did not want to be left out.

When Obama entered the room, there was no chair for him. Obama himself was reported as saying that there weren’t any seats.

Obama said, “No, no, don’t worry, I am going to go sit by my friend Lula,” and said, “Hey, Lula.”

He walked over, moved a chair and sat down next to Lula. Clinton sat next to him.

If Obama did not walk in uninvited, I’m surprised there was no chair for him.  I’m surprised that the heads of the four other nations involved were startled at his barging in to a meeting.  Sure looks like to me that despite the fact that he was expecting a bilateral meeting, he essentially walked in to a meeting to which he was not invited and invited himself instead.

Apparently, Obama is terse about not being treated like the Messiah, all of a sudden.  So the stupid, arrogant toerag felt entitled to just walk into a meeting uninvited, feeling snubbed earlier because the Chinese assigned a lower level official to the summit talks.  After all, the Jugeared King must meet with someone of his own stature!

Yeah, where’s that respect again?

This absolutely confirms what I thought all along.  This man is woefully out of his element. He was elected on “hope and change,” and being the first African American POTUS in history. He was elected by those who had no clue how he was going to fix things, but hoped that he would because he talked pretty and looked good.  And once he got into office, he found himself in way over his head.  He was likely surprised to know that this President gig – it’s an actual job!  A very important and challenging one!  And that it’s not all state dinners and waving to his adoring, adulating crowd of blind, ignorant supporters.

My dad feels sorry for him.

I think he got what he deserved.