Obama: The Musical

Quipped Out
“Poland is the most pro-American country in the world — including the United States,” goes a quip, well known here, from an American foreign policy expert more than a decade ago.

“Yes,” Marcin Zaborowski, director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, said a little ruefully last week. “We had long periods like that. But not so much now.”

Poland is still a warm haven of pro-American sentiments, as President Obama will no doubt feel when he revisits Warsaw on Tuesday. But after more than a decade that has seen Poland shifting from a Washington-centric focus to an increasingly vigorous engagement in the European Union, the intensity of that love affair has diminished. (New York Times, 6/2/2014)

The New York Times writes a twenty-six paragraph article about a slight cooling of pro-American feelings in Poland. The Times describes Poland as making a pivot toward the EU. What the Times does not examine - not a single word - is whether Obama's actions have anything to do with this change. 

What actions you ask?

Well, how about when he shelved a missile defense treaty with the Poles because he was more interested in cozying up to his pal Vladimir Putin? (How did that work out?) Oh, and he managed to do that on a September 1st further alienating Poles. The significance of September 1 - as any American president except Obama knows - is that on that date back in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. And to add to the insult, several years later Obama referred to Nazi concentration camps in Poland as "Polish" death camps. One suspects that Poles have not forgotten these slights.

We are pleased to do the reporting and analysis that the New York Times refuses to do.


Withdrawn
Before long, he withdrew from class work into World of Warcraft, the online interactive video game that had become his obsession. (New York Times, 6/2/2014)

Elliot O. Rodger.

Mental illness.

Video games.

Again.

Liberals are not particularly interested because Rodger did not use an AR-15.


Discretion
PBS reporter Christi Parsons asked the president during today’s V.A. press conference why he rejected former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s resignation following the healthcare.gov debacle but accepted Shinseki’s.

Obama argued the problems with healthcare.gov were more discreet than the problems at the V.A. (Freebeacon.com, 5/30/2014)

Which means what exactly?