Obama has lost Maureen Dowd. (let me be clear so I don’t embarrass myself….I don’t read Dowd. I have no idea why I opened it up this morning.)
Dissing the Dalai was part of a broader new Obama policy called “strategic reassurance” — softening criticism of China’s human rights record and financial policies to calm its fears that America is trying to contain it. (Not to mention our own fears that the Chinese will quit bankrolling our debt.)
The tyro American president got the Nobel for the mere anticipation that he would provide bold moral leadership for the world at the very moment he was caving to Chinese dictators. Awkward.
Havel reached out to touch a glass dish given to him by Obama, inscribed with the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. “It is only a minor compromise,” he said. “But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems.”
Now granted, Dowd thinks the constitution is something that Obama should just, you know, do away with so he can get things done, so she’s still a whackjob…my point being that if he’s lost the whackjobs, who does he have left? concerning New Orleans:
The president gave a technocrat’s answer about the “complications between the state, the city and the feds in making assessments of the damages.”
“Now, I wish I could just write a check,” he added. When an audience member yelled “Why not?” he dryly noted, “There’s this whole thing about the Constitution.”
The president should remember, though, that when you’re cooking up a more perfect Union, sometimes you’ve got to break some eggs.
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