THE BRITS GET IT - AT 7:02 A.M. ET:  We've said here many times that British writers often do the sharpest reporting on American politics.  What a great example we have this morning in Nile Gardiner, in The Telegraph, who writes a piece gently titled...

The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak

The subtlety, the British understatement.  Oh, I love it all.  Gardiner goes on in a similar soft spirit:

He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be – ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country.

Well, there goes the Obaman idea that he's the second coming of Jack.

The UN is not a club of democracies - who still remain a minority within its membership – it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies. Obama’s clear lack of interest in human rights issues is a big seller at the UN, where at least half its members have poor human rights records.

And the worse the record, the greater the chance of being elected to the Human Rights Council.

His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt.

What a record.  Build the man a monument, just not in the USA.

The Obama administration is now overseeing and implementing the biggest decline in American global power since Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately it may well take another generation for the United States to recover.

COMMENT:  The problem is, Obama's most influential supporters don't want us to recover.  And we may not, unless we reverse the effects of this creeping collapse in next year's midterm election.

September 23, 2009