Obama Jane Fonda

A great article in the WSJ by Dorothy Rabinowitz, "Obama Blames America." It states basically that "a new American leadership stood ready to atone for the transgressions of the old." Some in the comment section said there is nothing wrong with admitting you're wrong, etc. and that what the president is doing is reaching out in a healing gesture. But what was the wrong? And according to whome? I find it somewhat offensive and generally unseemly.

I don't suppose there's anything wrong with admitting your wrong, however, there is something wrong with a president speaking ill of his own country and apologizing. He wasn't elected to apologize. He was elected to energize, something he's falling woefully short of doing. It's not the time to apologize nor is it the place -- partiucularly a place so morally self-righteous as Europe.

Europe is still rife with antisemitism as well as racism; there is not nearly the same level of opportunity in any of these countries as there is in the US. Say what you will about certain dark episodes in US history, but they are not the things that define us, or me for that matter. I guess for some the Bush years were a "dark episode" but it is still far from clear; and they weren't as far as I'm concerned. And even if history shows they were, they would rank pretty low on a "dark episode" scale. Sure, Obama's my president and for now I have to live with him, but I don't want him out there kowtowing around the world like he's Jane Fonda.