"President Pantywaist" Not Exactly Exciting All of Europe

The European press as a whole and the press in Great Britain in particular are the last vestige of great journalism. They play it straight and if the don't they make it known. For instance, the Guardian is a well-known leftist paper and they make no bones about it while papers in the US like the NY Times put on ridiculous airs that they are not biased.

Another thing about Brit papers is that they are fearless when it comes to berating politicians and they seem to have a a special loathing of Barack Obama in the wake of his gift-gaffe with Gordon Brown and his call for Turkey to be allowed into the EU.

Here's the latest example:

THERE is a certain type of political career that has auto-destruction built into its DNA: look no further than the predicament of the pathetic creature pointlessly lingering on in 10 Downing Street, si monumentum requiris. To this category belongs Barack Obama. This, of course, is heresy to the consensus that is still rapturously inhaling the heady fumes of self-delusion - as it did with Tony Blair.

What most Obama sceptics would have to concede is some surprise at the speed with which he has launched into self-destruct mode. The President Pantywaist tour on which he embarked, embracing America's enemies, was fairly predictable, even if some of the detail was more grotesque than expected. There was, however, one area where most commentators believed Obama would tread warily: it seemed implausible that he would play politics with America's national security within his first 100 days in office.

Meanwhile in the US, the left is calling for release of everything that would make George W. bush look bad and prompt calls for him to be investigated, tried and convicted. Well, all the documents that don't show that water boarding actually works but I digress. The jihad to get Bush regardless of the national security concerns is among the most dangerous misadventures we as a nation can partake in.

They get it in Great Britain as they've not lost the will to fight terror that we have. They still remember the 7/7 bombings in London and the death toll. They know that they are an easier target than the US and they know that these people can't be appeased. They will attack given one small opening and Obama just gave them the opening.