My fellow Americans, you're "lazy" (says Obama) & you're "deplorable" racists (says #HillaryClinton). https://t.co/aUwOrkg32y #tcot
— IBDeditorials (@IBDeditorials) September 16, 2016
On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as "lazy."
In fact, he went on to deride Americans for a list of supposed transgressions ranging from the Vietnam War to environmental desecration to the 19th century treatment of Native Americans.
"If you're in the United States," the president said, "sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people."
The attack on supposedly insular Americans was somewhat bizarre, given that Obama himself knows no foreign languages. He often seems confused about even basic world geography. (His birthplace of Hawaii is not "Asia," Austrians do not speak "Austrian," and the Falkland Islands are not the Maldives).
Obama's sense of history is equally weak. Contrary to his past remarks, the Islamic world did not spark either the Western Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Cordoba was not, as he once suggested, an Islamic center of "tolerance" during the Spanish Inquisition; in fact, its Muslim population had been expelled during the early Reconquista over two centuries earlier....
