Category: Foreign Relations

Obama Explains His Peace Agenda to Skeptical Norwegians

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama — a wartime president who has just ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan — was greeted by anti-war protesters and banners in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday. The Associated Press reported that posters around Oslo feature a campaign image of Obama reading “Change?”  The posters refer to Obama’s expansion of the [...]

‘Obama may put Americans under world judges’ power’

From World Net Daily: President Obama has dispatched a delegation this week to The Hague to explore issues involving the United States’ possible participation in the International Criminal Court, an organization critics charge could be used to prosecute Americans under international legal standards for actions that are not crimes in the U.S. Andy Laney of [...]

Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ America’s World Standing With His Head Down

From RightWingNews.com: The headline up top is borrowed from Power Line, “Why is This Man Bowing?” (via Memeorandum): Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on [...]

Obama Sent Secret Message to Castro

From NewsMax.com: MADRID – U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to send Cuba a message about reform when he met Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, the newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday. Six days after their meeting on October 13 at the White House, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visited [...]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize, Nominated Only 12 Days Into Term

From HumanEvents.com: President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today. By awarding Obama that prize, the Nobel committee has placed Obama in the same category as Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and the late terrorist Yassir Arafat.  We could not agree more. Nobel prizes are won for achievement, supposedly, in the arts, sciences [...]

Barack Obama cancels meeting with Dalai Lama ‘to keep China happy’

From Telegraph.co.uk: The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader. It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in 1991. The Buddhist monk arrived in Washington [...]

Obama knew of Iran Nuclear plant before U.N. assembly

From World Net Daily: The Obama administration reportedly knew about the second secret Iranian uranium enrichment program prior to the United Nations meeting, yet the president chose to say nothing about the revelation, either during his address to the General Assembly or yesterday, when he chaired a Security Council session.Since the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama [...]

The Obama Administration’s Version of Immigration Reform

From The Heritage Foundation: As widely noted, President Barack Obama has comprehensive immigration reform on his 2010 legislative agenda. Given the policy changes made during his first nine months, it is clear that President Obama sees reform through the prism of perceived Hispanic votes and union payback. First, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano changed the worksite [...]

Netanyahu Approves New Settlements Over Obama Objection

From NewsMax.com: JERUSALEM — Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements Sunday, with key leaders speaking out in support of the contentious enclaves and preparing to sign orders to allow building of hundreds of new housing units there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are expected to [...]

‘Will Obama Bow to EU When It Costs U.S. Jobs?’

From HumanEvents.com: Later this week, the World Trade Organization is expected to come out with a preliminary finding that billions of dollars worth of European subsidies to Airbus — the EU’s largest aircraft manufacturer — are illegal under existing trade law. During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Obama regularly assured American manufacturers and blue collar [...]

Obama Continues to Weaken National Defense

From The National Review: Is Obama Pressing the ‘Reset Button’ on Defense? – By Thomas C. Pinckney His proposed budget cuts would not bring peace but would endanger America’s security. Despite all his initial talk of bipartisanship and putting aside the stale arguments of the past, President Obama is revealing himself with each passing day [...]

Russians See Obama Destroying America With Marxism, And They Would Know

This article from the Russian newspaper Pravda—the once-official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the voice of it’s Marxist propaganda—is a couple months old, but hasn’t been published on this blog yet. This is so dead-on that it literally made me sick to my stomach. American capitalism gone with a whimper [...]

Obama Has Handshakes Snubbed in Russia and Saudi Arabia

There’s been a video going around of Obama being “snubbed” in Russia when he goes to shake hands with four different Russian officials during his recent visit to Russia, all of whom look right past him and shake hands with the next guy in line, Dmitri Mendeleev. Some liberal sites have been saying that Obama [...]

Obama Lost When Asked About North Korea Without Teleprompter

Here is our eloquent and wise leader faced with a question that’s actually challenging: From HotAirPundit: “It’s not sufficient for the United States, or France or other members of the nuclear club simply to say all of you have to stop but we’re not gonna do anything to change ourselves” So we really can’t tell [...]

Obama’s “We Suck ’09″ World Apology Tour

From HotAir.com: The following passage from Barack Obama’s speech to Latin American leaders will be one of those Rorshach tests for political perspective.  Those who hated the Bush administration enough will applaud it; those who think America is usually wrong will cheer; and the rest of us will shake our heads: I know that promises [...]

Obama Needs to Learn From Britain’s History and from Daniel Hannan

Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for the South East of England and author of The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain. View his blog at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/Daniel_Hannan. This video of him speaking the truth frankly to Britain’s Prime Minister about their failed socialistic policies has already gone viral around the world. Here’s his full speech, [...]

Obama’s Embarrassing Gift to British Prime Minister – 25 DVDs

From NYmag.com: When British prime minister Gordon Brown visited President Obama for the first time earlier this month, he sought to demonstrate the importance of the cross-Atlantic “special relationship” with a unique, thoughtful gift: a pen holder crafted from the wood of the HMS Gannet, the sister ship of the HMS Resolute, whose oak was [...]

Obama Returns Churchill Bust to Britain

This is from the telegraph.co.uk from about a month ago: A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back. The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds [...]