OUR EMBARRASSMENT – AT 10:28 A.M. ET:  I just watched the massive anti-terror rally in Paris, attended by many of the world's leaders.  It was a remarkable sight.

It was also an embarrassing sight.  Absent was the president of the United States.  Our only representative was outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.  And it now turns out that he was already schedule to be in Paris, so he wasn't even sent as a representative to the rally.

As usual, Obama's actions were vulgar.  As Bridget Johnson of PJ Media notes, "President Obama has nothing on his weekend schedule, and Vice President Joe Biden is in Wilmington, Del., with no events scheduled. Obama welcomes the San Antonio Spurs to the White House on Monday."  I'm sure Barack is excited about the Spurs.

Silvio Canto Jr pointed out earlier today that Obama, if he didn't want to go himself, could have asked former presidents to go.  Bush 43 and Clinton come to mind.

I have never seen a president act this badly on the international stage.  Obama proved once again that he is a small-time politician with a golden voice.  We must believe that his absence was duly noted by all the other leaders there, not that any of them take him seriously any longer.

It is up to the Republicans, who now have majorities in both houses of Congress, to point and and emphasize this president's littleness, his incompetence, his pettiness.  Are the Republicans up to it?  We'll see within a few days.

January 11,  2015