Enough About Me—What Do You Think About Me?
President Obama welcomed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the White House with words that have inspired snickers in New Delhi:
“Yours is the first official state visit of my presidency, its fitting that you and India be so recognised,” 48-year-old Obama told the 77-year-old Indian leader.
The general reaction in India has been: Who the heck does this guy think he is? Note to the Great Diplomat: When you do a head of state an honor, you don’t remind him, in public, of the fact that you have done him an honor, particularly in self-aggrandizing terms of this sort.
Come on, shorty, one little bow. You know you want to. I practically pitched forward ass over teakettle to the little Asian dude, and you won’t show a brother some love? What’s up with that?
Obama reminds me of King Lear asking his three daughters to out-flatter each other in their professions of love for him. Katie Couric is definitely Goneril; Chris Matthews is deliciously right for Regan (get it?); and we stand apart as Cordelia, saying “nothing.”
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 25, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
If Bush had been this consistently clumsy with foreign leaders, the Left would have discussed it non-stop. He is a doof.
- Aggie