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Monsieur Obama MIA
Making Sense
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Everyone from Jon Stewart to Ted Cruz has mocked President Obama for not flying to France last weekend.And rightly so.It should have been a no-brainer for any American president to want to be seen by the whole world leading a massive unity march against terrorism in response to what is being called France’s 9/11.Obama had a great chance to show America’s solidarity with the latest victims of Islamist extremism and stand up for a fundamental Western value like free speech.But he blew it.Many of Obama’s most faithful allies are still shocked by his clumsy blunder and have trouble defending him. But his latest diplomatic faux pas doesn’t surprise me a bit.The leader of what we used to call the Free World has been embarrassing the USA on the world stage for years by not going where he should go - or saying and doing things he shouldn’t when he does go somewhere.Let’s see.If memory serves, he didn’t go to Berlin in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall or to Poland for celebrations of the collapse of Moscow’s evil empire. And though he didn’t skip the 70th anniversary of D-Day last year in Normandy, he spent most of his time during the solemn ceremony chomping on bubble gum like a 12 year old.