Obama's 'expertise' is showmanship
What a circus, what a show! Featuring Obama the snake-oil pitchman and the three anchors from the major networks as the three stooges.
The stage: a tour of the Middle East and Europe. All to screaming audiences.
It's not too difficult to whip up fervor with the foreign youth with utterances such as we (Americans) have made mistakes and we (Americans) must break down walls between us and our European brethren (meaning: Americans should become more like Europeans).
Certainly a high priority for the average American. Why, the gatherings were regular love-fests. And educational, too.
The Obama love machine touching down 15 minutes here, and 15 minutes there and before you know it, Obama is a foreign policy expert.
But you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear, just as you can't make a statesman - a pitchman yes, but a statesman no - out of a two-bit politician, a product of the Chicago Democrat Machine.
Mr. Obama, for all the hype, is still the junior senator from Illinois. No European adulation changed that.
We here in America still want to know what has he done, or at least what he intends to do, to qualify him for anything, much less the president.
Why, given the number of countries that I have visited (and throw in the countries that I have flown over), I have as much right to claim being a foreign policy expert as Mr. Obama.
Perhaps I, too, should run for something, maybe for president.
Laszlo Stephan
Des Plaines