In one week Obama and his crew managed to alienate a staunch US ally (churchill sent packing too) and look like an ass to a world rival not once but twice.

Even Bush is watching this and thinking, that was some dumb strategery.   Part of me wonders if Obama goes ape shit over these things.  If this guy was football coach his team just fumbled the ball twice, jumped offside and then ran the wrong-way after catching the ball.  I imagine Obama gathering all of his advisors and staff into a room and just letting them have it.  Who the hell advised him that a letter to the Russians was a good idea or giving the Prime Minister Brown a DVD collection?  I can’t believe that he really thought these were good ideas.

Then again perhaps he still thinks that everyone can be reasoned with.  Unfortunately the world is not full of reasonable people.  This tends to be the mistake of over educated people.  They (those who are over educated) spend too much time with other very educated people who are generally reasonable people (notice I never said smart people this is because I do not believe that educated and smart are synonymous).   Unfortunately for Obama the world and its leaders have more in common with the biker bar in the ghetto then a Harvard cocktail party that he is used to.  It would be nice if the world was reasonable and world leaders acted rationally but it just is not the case.  Aside from Canada and some western European countries the rest of world leaders are like jackals.  They will attack if they smell weakness.  The combination of a quid pro quo letter to Russia and then making Prime Minister Brown  look like a some rube accepting a bag of crap as a prize has made it seem like this administration put on a big ole bottle of weakness cologne.

I think there is already a divot in the desk at the oval office for the amount of times Obama has hit is head against it already.   I hope he does not get a concussion before his first 100 days are over.

 Side Note:  Can anyone make another version of the Hitler Raving mad clip from downfall, but with Obama complaining about the tax problems of his staff and foreign policy blunders?