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RUSH: Der Spiegel. I never get that first word pronounced right. Every time I think I say it right, I get e-mails: ‘No, Rush, it\u2019s ‘durr\u2019.\u2019 Then I say ‘durr. ‘No, Rush it\u2019s ‘derr.” Then I say ‘derr.\u2019 ‘It\u2019s Der Spiegel!\u2019 Okay. Der Spiegel: ‘Obama\u2019s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage — When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it\u2019s not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming. There were only a few hours left before Air Force One was scheduled to depart for the flight home. US President Barack Obama trip through Asia had already seen him travel 24,000 kilometers, sit through a dozen state banquets, climb the Great Wall of China and shake hands with Korean children. It was high time to take stock of the trip. Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even slightly forlorn. … The mood in Obama\u2019s foreign policy team is tense following an extended Asia trip that produced no palpable results. The ‘first Pacific president,\u2019 as Obama called himself, came as a friend and returned as a stranger. The Asians smiled but made no concessions.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s new foreign policy has also been relatively unsuccessful elsewhere. They cite Israel and a number of other places, and then they say he\u2019s a lot like Jimmy Carter, Der Spiegel. ‘There are many indications that the man in charge at the White House will take a tougher stance in the future. Obama\u2019s advisors fear a comparison with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, even more than with Bush. Prominent Republicans have already tried to liken Obama to the humanitarian from Georgia, who lost in his bid to win a second term, because voters felt that he was too soft. ‘Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead.”<\/p>\n

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Leslie Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations — the CFR (wink, wink) — says Obama\u2019s China trip was ‘amateur hour.\u2019 Chris Matthews takes a cue from Dick Cheney and said, ‘Obama is dithering over Afghanistan.\u2019 Yep. Yep. He also said some other things about Obama. I think he caught onto this Jimmy Carter routine. He\u2019s starting to look like Jimmy Carter. Even the New York Times is getting a tad troubled by Obama\u2019s trillions upon trillions of spending. I have to ask: Are these people nuts? They don\u2019t get it? Don\u2019t they know why Obama was elected? Obama was elected to smile and to act cool, which he still does. He still smiles, still acts cool. He can deliver a well-phrased speech on any subject. That\u2019s what the media wanted. They wanted somebody ‘smart,\u2019 they wanted somebody elegant, they wanted somebody like them — and that\u2019s what they got: A basic empty suit. Well, not quite empty suit. <\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the fuss? See, those of us who are honest are not surprised by anything that has happened here. We said he was going to be a repeat of Carter only worse, because Carter wasn\u2019t trying to do this. He was just inept. Obama is trying to do this. It\u2019s his objective. We knew he was going to sell the country out on foreign policy. We knew it. What did these guys think? Did they really buy that drivel that the world hated us because of Bush and was going to love us because of Obama? If they really bought that, then they\u2019re dumber than even I consider them to be. Dumb has nothing to do with IQ. Some of the smartest, highest-IQ people around us are the most idiotic, stupid, uninformed people you could ever run into because their arrogance and conceit tells them that they don\u2019t need to learn anything. They already know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Der Spiegel. I never get that first word pronounced right. Every time I think I say it right, I get e-mails: ‘No, Rush, it\u2019s ‘durr\u2019.\u2019 Then I say ‘durr. ‘No, Rush it\u2019s ‘derr.” Then I say ‘derr.\u2019 ‘It\u2019s Der Spiegel!\u2019 Okay. 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