For those who thought we were electing a president of the United States it may be a shock to learn that, no, we were putting in place an overseer of the world's affairs who would treat the United States as just another country. As Obama speaks from his Olympian heights, he shortchanges the people who elected him to defend the country and uphold the Constitution.
Charles Krauthammer is getting more than annoyed with Obama's shading of the truth to convince Muslims that the U.S. and the Muslims of the world are engaged in the same struggle for human rights -- and are more or less at the same stage in the struggle.
Obama undoubtedly thinks he is demonstrating historical magnanimity with all these moral equivalencies and self-flagellating apologetics. On the contrary. He's showing cheap condescension, an unseemly hunger for applause and a willingness to distort history for political effect.Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.
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