Dear Republican Friends,
Please stop emailing me poorly distorted email chains concerning the idiocy of Barack Hussein Obama, as I will hit ‘Reply All’ and start the ‘Northern War Of Email Spam Aggression’ on yo ass.
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Ahem. Here’s a letter:
We are not friends because of politics. This isn’t because I’m not Republican, as I don’t have any friends of mine based on their being Democrats, or anything else for that matter.
Please don’t send me pictures of cemeteries across Europe that hold the bodies of our fallen soldiers as reasons why you’re outraged at Obama for apologizing to Europe for our arrogance.
This is pulled from ABC.com:
“We must be honest with ourselves,” the president said. “In recent years, we’ve allowed our alliance (European and American) to drift.”
Obama said the United States was partly to blame because “there have been times where America’s shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive” toward Europe.
But he said Europe had to accept responsibility and make changes too.
“In Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans chose to blame America for much of what’s bad,” Obama said.
Both of these attitudes “do not represent the truth,” Obama continued. “America is changing, but it cannot be America alone that changes.”
If you look at the speech, he doesn’t really apologize, and we HAVE been a bit dismissive of Europe these past few years. Bush wasn’t exactly a stellar foreign policy president, I don’t think there’s much to argue there. I hardly think saying “there have been times we’ve shown arrogance” is an apology, and, anyway, I think it’s mature to own up to your country’s mistakes. I’m not for or against Obama in this case, but this email chain is clearly based on a distortion, and fails to mention that Obama used his “apology” to chastise Europe.
And isn’t declaring WE DON’T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE both brash AND arrogant? And isn’t using the deaths of our soldiers to justify that, well, kind of morbid?
Thx k bai
(There. I’ve made up for all the sentences I skipped these past weeks, and the ones I’ll skip in the future.)
