Toby Harden,UK Telegraph
Is Obama embarassed by his country
Here in the Rhenus Sports Arena in Strasbourg,I’ve just witnessed what is surely a very important –I hesitate to say historic –moment in transatlantic relations. Barack Obama went further than any previous president in apologising for American behaviour.
“In America,there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world,”he said in a prepared speech delivered before a campaign-style town hall meeting in which he took questions from mainly French and German students.
“Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges,there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive,even derisive.”
Maybe the “Great &Powerful Ears”should find himself a crevice in his beloved Europe to call home.
I suppose he could go to the D-Day Memorial in Normandy to apologize for the amount of Europe’s stone used to mark American soldiers graves.
We don’t need a president to apologize for us,
it seems like we just need a president.
Period.
This sorry excuse for an American President has either forgotten,or never paid heed to the oath he took.