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MORT ZUCKERMAN: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur. ?The reviews of Obama?s performance h?

By Glenn Reynolds

MORT ZUCKERMAN: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur. “The reviews of Obama’s performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America’s role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world’s leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America’s foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one’s own tribe while in the lands of others. Even in Britain, for decades our closest ally, the talk in the press?supported by polls?is about the end of the ’special relationship’ with America. French President Nicolas Sarkozy openly criticized Obama for months, including a direct attack on his policies at the United Nations. Sarkozy cited the need to recognize the real world, not the virtual world, a clear reference to Obama’s speech on nuclear weapons. When the French president is seen as tougher than the American president, you have to know that something is awry.”

Hard to argue, but Bill Quick is unimpressed to see former Obama-boosters like Zuckerman and Peggy Noonan realizing their mistakes now:

Listen up, you punked, chumped boobs: We looked at Obama not through your rose colored hallucinations, but through the cold, clear spectacles of reality. None of what he?s done since has surprised us one bit. In fact, many of us, myself included, predicted it even before his coronation by people like you. Yes, it?s nice that after a year and a half of horrible examples, the truth about him is finally beginning to penetrate your skulls. But why, for the love of god, couldn?t you see it at the beginning, when it was no less obvious, but your understanding of it might have done some good?

Because he went to Harvard. Duh.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 19, 2010 (boomark / email).