Poster by Tennyson HayesThe Obama World Tour 2008 has stirred up a lot of opinion, pro and con, on the Left and Right, both here and abroad. Those reading this blog don’t have to wonder what this ol’ Okie thinks about it — CON, as in against and come to think of it, as in CON job, too. For a refreshing, and laugh-out-loud-funny take on Obama’s international folly, check out the Brit’s Times Online columnist Gerard Baker’s skewering of the Chosen One: He ventured forth to bring light to the world Here’s the opener.

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.
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And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth – for the first time – to bring the light unto all the world.

This it truly classic, and you just have to go and read all of it. Quite a different take than our own near and dear LA Times’ Christian Retzlaff’s response — are we surprised? Phft!

He didn’t break into German, but he spoke of tearing down walls of division, and the crowd loved it.

Tens of thousands of Germans, along with some resident Americans, filled Berlin’s Tiergarten park to hear Barack Obama talk about the U.S., Europe and their shared visions and challenges. {…}

The audience repeatedly interrupted his speech with applause and cheers, and erupted in chants of “Yes, we can!”

A lot of Europeans are hoping Obama will give them a reason to love America again.

“I expect Obama to be a president who makes it possible to be proud of being a fan of the USA,” said Gerda Schulz, a 72-year-old retiree. Schulz has watched historic speeches here by a string of American presidents — John F. Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1987 and Bill Clinton in 1994 — and on Thursday added the Democratic presidential contender to the list.

“In the last seven years, it was rather embarrassing here to say, ‘I like the Americans and I am thankful for what they did for us,’ ” she said.

Better for them to be embarrassed over the fact that we had to beat ‘em down twice in the last century to keep them from destroying the whole world as we knew it, and then had to save their bacon from the Soviet expansion — but little things like that need no mention or gratitude ya know. And, what about American might, ever since the great wars, that has near unilaterally been responsible for keeping a lid on the despots and tyrants of the world, while the Europeans, especially the Germans, enjoy their months-long vacations, 35 hour work weeks and limited calls to duty? Any feelings of appreciation for that? Nah — didn’t think so.

“World Candidate”
[Montage credit: Huffington Post]

In his Berlin speech yesterday, did Barack make any of that perfectly clear? Nah — you didn’t think he would, did you? As Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles comments:

Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin today was not given by an American; it was given by a globalist. He may have said he loved America, but his speech was a frightful minimalization of America’s contribution to the world’s security, and it gave made the scoundrels who have sought to be tyranny’s profiteer, not its vanquisher, parity with us.

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His cliche-laden speech – “This is the moment.” “This is our time.” “A new crossroad.” “The road ahead will be long.” – gave Europeans undeserved credit, saying “they are bearing more burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world.” Show me where. Show me where they are not enjoying the comfort of our defense while complaining about the every minute perceived excess of their defenders.

And spare me a president who derides his own nation in front of a foreign audience[.]

My buddy Laer doesn’t mince many words. That last statement says it all for me. But, what about the rising star that is Barack Obama? As Michelle Malkin comments in her take on Gerard Baker’s satire:

Ever so slowly, the glow is dimming. Better late, than never…

One can only hope so Michelle . . . from your lips to God’s ears.

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