March 23, 2009
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March 23, 2009

Media covers up another appalling Obama foreign policy gaffe

Thomas Lifson
Update: Surber has issued a retraction. This item  is withdrawn. Sorry for the error, having relied on a normally reliable source.

Obama was supposed to be the smart, sophisticated, internationalist who was going to restore respect for America, right? Well, it isn't working out that way, thought the American media are doing their best to cover up the story.

Our allies in France, whose opinion of America used to mean a lot to media elites, are stunned to discover that the President of the United States hasn't got a clue who their president is. The wonderful Don Surber reports:

Who is the president of France?

If you answered Jacques Chirac instead of Nicolas Sarkozy, you may already be the president of the United States.

Obama sent a letter to the French president, and called him Jacques Chirac.

Maybe Barack Obama was too busy running for the next-higher-office (which is his his one strength) to bother reading a newspaper or a magazine or even a book to discover that they held an election a couple of years ago and elected L'Americain, Nicolas Sarkozy, as president.

The American media has ignored this faux pas. But the French have not. One does not need to read French to understand the point of the Le Monde cartoon as shown above. Cartoon via No Parsaran.

Had President Bush made an error of this magnitude, we would never hear the end of jokes about how dumb and out of touch he is.

When will the American media begin reporting the contempt our president is earning among our overseas allies.

It is increasingly obvious that President Obama is well out of his depth, and successfully peddled a veneer of intelligence to voters and the media, beneath which lies an arrogant and poorly-informed man, playing out a con game that has worked so far, but starting to fall apart.

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