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UPDATE: From our friends at Powerline, some good analysis of this article and the subject.

This guy gets it. Too bad Obama doesn’t. (Barf alert! Speech at UN upcoming … if you’ll pardon the expression)

The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak – Telegraph

It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, writes Nile Gardiner.

Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people.
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Obama, UN, weakness

And now from the real journalists alive and well in the UK, some News.

A couple of comments I read over at Lucianne.com which are so appropriate:

I guess we can’t afford it. ACORN is supposed to get $8B.

Now THIS is a subject Jimmy Carter should be well familiar with.

Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defence – Telegraph Blogs

By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: September 17th, 2009

I blogged a couple of weeks ago that the Obama administration was about to abandon its plans for Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. I wrote then that “if enacted, this would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a global missile defence system, and a massive betrayal of two key US allies in eastern and central Europe. Such a move would significantly weaken America’s ability to combat the growing threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile program, and would hand a major propaganda victory to the Russians.”

It now looks as though the president has surrendered to Russian demands to kill off Third Site. Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard is reporting that:

Obama surrenders, Russia, US Security