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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
ETA: Thinking about the Churchill bust - if Obama had accepted a bust of a foreign leader (even a dead one) to be displayed in the White House, the cons would have been ALL over him for showing weakness, threatening US sovereignty by acknowledging a foreign power's leader in that fashion.
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It's simpler than that. ${ANY_OBAMA_ACTION} will be immediately interpreted in the worst possible light, no matter what it is. Visiting foreign countries and assuring them that the Bush-era "we rule and you drool" policies are over = weakness. Addressing them in their own languages = pandering, if not outright treason. These are the same people who won't get off the birth certificate thing.
As long as they're an ineffective irrelevant minority I plan to simply ignore them.
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