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RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting post at National Review Online. ‘The Corner\u2019 is the name of their blog. ‘Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour?\u2019 We talked about this yesterday. You can\u2019t find one positive review of Obama\u2019s trip over there. Oh! And Drudge has unearthed another picture of Obama bowing, this time to the Chinese premier. So he bowed to the Japanese emperor, and he bowed to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (interruption) No, it\u2019s never understandable. American presidents don\u2019t bow to anybody — except this one. It\u2019s never happened, except this one. This one\u2019s running around bowing to everybody. But Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s point here is kind of interesting. He says: ‘There is a surprising amount of liberal discomfort, here and abroad, with the underwhelming nature of President Obama\u2019s Asian tour. Apparently this results from displeasure over the lack of any substantive dialogue with the Chinese about climate change (and China\u2019s inordinate coal burning), censorship, the lack of human rights, Tibet, unfair trade practices, etc. (In the president\u2019s defense, if we are going to borrow at an annual rate of $1.6 trillion for further entitlement spending, some of it floated at low interest from the Chinese, we are not going to have a lot of leverage with our creditors.)<\/p>\n

‘The liberal discontent (even in the New York Times, of all places) is strange, inasmuch as Obama campaigned on exactly this sort of multilateralism and deference to the UN. In this new approach, America doesn\u2019t try to ‘get\u2019 anything from anyone, but simply listens, and as a guest abroad defers to its hosts. After all, Obama has rejected in explicit language the notion of American exceptionalism. The Nobel Peace Prize committee correctly sensed Obama\u2019s departure from the past and preemptively awarded him the prize, both as praise for his utopian rhetoric and as a reminder than the first multilateral president should govern as if the United States is merely one among many nations in the world. French president Nicolas Sarkozy sensed this as well at the UN, in reference to Iran. <\/p>\n

‘So again, why the unease with Obama\u2019s trip? From the trivial expressions like bowing to the more fundamental one of deferring to the Chinese Communist leadership, Obama is merely establishing the outlines of the promised new foreign policy. France will be as prominent as we are in the Mideast negotiations; Russia will adjudicate regional disputes with former Soviet republics and interests in eastern Europe; progressive nations like Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and others will establish a Latin American consensus that favors a statist, anti-capitalist, and less democratic paradigm of indigenous governance. China, naturally, will insidiously begin to shape the regional futures of the Koreas, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Turkey can sort out its problems with Greece. The UN Human Rights Council will be the proper forum in which to express unhappiness with human-rights transgressions abroad. This new consensus is what Obama promised, and it is what Obama is doing his best to deliver. <\/p>\n

‘The Asian tour should have delighted Obamaites as the proper expression of Obama\u2019s philosophy: two equal nations, neither one more exceptional than the other (or any other), their systems merely ‘different,\u2019 not better or worse, simply chatting about mutual concerns,\u2019 and he pretty much, I think, nails that. Obama is doing what he said he was going to do. It\u2019s all, folks, about cutting this country down to size because he has a huge problem with this country — and has for his entire life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting post at National Review Online. ‘The Corner\u2019 is the name of their blog. ‘Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour?\u2019 We talked about this yesterday. You can\u2019t find one positive review of Obama\u2019s trip over there. Oh! 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