HANSON ON OBAMA'S LAMENT - AT 7:45 P.M. ET:  Reader Ray Cleveland alerts us to Victor Davis Hanson's comment on the Obama Appalling Apology Tour (my term) of Europe.  Hanson says:

In this great age of atonement, in a mere two or three days the world has been reminded that (1) the U.S. has been arrogant; (2) dismissive and derisive to Europe; (3) was a slave-owning society; (4) practiced genocide against native Americans; (5) did not let blacks vote; (6) was the only nation to have used nuclear weapons; (7) embraced torture; (8) alienated the world under Bush, and on and on. The subtext has been that those of a different race, of a different era, or under a different president have done terrible things, which I, from my own moral Olympus, must now apologize for.

Yes.  Perfection has spoken, and its name is Barack.  Hanson goes on:

A modest suggestion: from now on, every president who wishes to go abroad and review all his lesser citizens' collective past and present sins, with accompanying apologies — to applause from foreigners — must first, in the spirit of New Testament atonement, review his own regrettable transgressions.

And then the sins of Barack are listed - taking campaign funds from AIG; smoking, snorting cocaine, hangin' with Rev. Wright, making disparaging remarks about working-class Pennsylvanians, and joking about the Special Olympics.

I think many of us could add to that list.  Read the piece.  You'll like it.

April 7, 2009