Planet ObamaGore

Where the only serpent in the garden is us.

While I was playing (and losing) Scrabble with the youth, Obama was practicing his usual ham-fisted, fantastical diplomacy and Al Gore was likening us all to Nazis. Honestly, you can't take your eyes off these guys for one second.

Checked my mail and found the following from pal Abe:

Subject: are we doomed??
From Drudge this AM; the title was “LA braces for horde of mourners.” At first when I read it I laughed thinking it said “LA braces for horde of morons.” Too funny Jill.

There was more but I haven't asked permission to use it. Suffice it to say that Abe is incensed about this Obama utterance:

Because the future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground . . . .

Is that a fact. I'm afraid history won't back him up on that one. Commentary from Say Anything:

In Russia, Obama made the sort of dreamy-eyed statement people love to quote but is so thoroughly disconnected from reality as to be laughable. Predictably, Time picked the quote up as one of their “quotes of the day.”

From Weasel Zippers:

Obama's liberal-naivety-fantasyland is so detached from reality it's scary. In his mind America has enemies because of our extensive military capabilities, he genuinely believes if we removed this from the equation rainbows and unicorns would rule the day.....

Text of Obama's remarks here.

Abe also had some choice words for the insufferable Al Gore, who apparently sees himself as a modern-day Winston Churchill (ignore that whirring sound), fighting "climate change" as Churchill fought Nazi Germany. Gore's having a hard time of it, though: “The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change." I think that makes us stupid Nazis. That hurts, but I think Churchill got worse.

Pundit sent the Obama-snubs-the-Russians link:

After passing on dinner with the French president to go on a date in the City of Light with his wife last month, President Obama took leave of his Russian hosts on Tuesday night to seclude himself in his Moscow hotel with his wife, Michelle, and their daughters.

The first family planned to enjoy a relaxed evening at the O2 Lounge, the super-chic, super-pricey rooftop club at the new Ritz-Carlton, although no doubt the Secret Service first cleared the place of most if not all of the swaggering tycoons and leggy models who flock to such Moscow venues.

Aides would not confirm whether they followed through, but if they did they could not ask for a more scenic vista. The glass-enclosed O2 offers a panoramic view of Moscow, including Red Square and the Kremlin, all the more striking as the lingering summer sun sets after 10 p.m. The club is “a place to see and be seen,” as its Web site says — that is, unless you are a visiting president who after a day and a half of blinis, beluga and bilats (the diplo term for “bilateral meetings”) just wants to hang out with the clan.

The decision to brush off the Russians on one of his two nights here miffed some in the Moscow government who did not understand why he would not devote the scarce time to his hosts. Mr. Obama had dinner with President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday and lunch with him on Tuesday. But with the second dinner slot unavailable, he ended up having breakfast Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, a known night owl not given to American-style early morning business meals. [emphasis added]

Getting snubbed by Obama is just part of getting to know him. Ask the French. He doesn't honor just anyone with his presence.

Obama also made a joke about his daughter being a cold-war era spy, a la Get Smart!:

[Obama] laughed at the sight of his younger daughter walking through the halls of the Kremlin with a trench coat on and her hands in the pockets. Mr. Obama jokingly called her “Agent 99,” after the “Get Smart” character. “She just looked like she knew where she was going,” he said. “I thought she was going to pull out her shoe phone.”

If that had been Bush instead of Obama people might have called it a gaffe, insensitive, or at least awkward. But since it was Obama we know that at least one person laughed his fool head off. (Does anyone happen to know if our ultra-sophisticated president made any Hogan's Heroes jokes when he was in Germany?)

Pundit also sent this email:
Subject: Love in the blogosphere
Isn't it romantic? (No doubt RS McCain will be taking credit for this engagement.)

Bonus: I was going to rant a bit about this column on Sarah Palin (appalling!), but life is so short.

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