We now have in Barack Obama an American president who prides himself on criticizing his country's past, doing so while abroad and doing so in a way that gives undue satisfaction to our critics and undue pain to our friends. He omits points in our country's favor and exaggerates our failings.
The inconsistencies in the Cairo speech are astonishing. Here is Pete Wehner's account.
Here is another paradox to consider: we have a President of the United States who is eager to show his support for nuclear power development in Iran--a reliable foe of America--but cannot bring himself to support nuclear power in his own country, the United States of America.
What is going on?
