American Thinker: Obama the Abject

American Thinker: Obama the Abject

President Obama promised us we would make history. We certainly have. Last week, he invited Mexican President Felipe Calderón to the White House. There, in the presence of his foreign guest, President Obama humiliated himself and us by his attacks on the new Arizona law passed to cope with illegal immigrants.

But it got worse. Soon, Calderón was invited to address a joint session of Congress. There, in the well of the House of Representatives, the Mexican leader himself sharply criticized Arizona's law. He was applauded by Democrats from both houses, even given a standing ovation.

This was surely historic. Never before has the United States of America submitted to such an indignity. Never before has any president or Congress so abjectly allowed our country to be maligned.

This takes some doing. Jimmy Carter previously held the record for supineness. Carter allowed Iran to hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days in Tehran from 1979 to 1981. During that time of "American Held Hostage" -- ABC News' formulation, not mine -- Iranian hostage-takers were allowed to shuttle back and forth to sessions of the United Nations. Their diplomatic immunity was scrupulously respected by an impotent administration.