President Obama: Where Are Your Manners?

2135_1415715416President Barack Obama has continually made terrible decisions – domestically and internationally – and has left America in a worse place than when he started.  In China, Obama chewed gum and outraged Chinese citizens with his behavior.  This has been a constant throughout his administration.  Some meaningful quotes on the absolute failures of Obama when it has come to diplomacy:

  • “As far as is known, Obama became the first President, the first Commander-in-Chief, not to salute the living recipient of the Medal of Honor after presenting the medal.” — Rees Lloyd
  • “Obama is inexperienced and lacks a proper understanding of how he should handle himself as President.” — Casey Carmical
  • “Who can forget the moment last year when Obama took a selfie during a memorial service for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela?” — Amie Parnes
  • “However one feels politically, it is questionable to salute Marines while holding a coffee cup – Could not someone have held it for him?” — Eric Vainer 
  • The GOP is taking the public outrage over Obama’s salute to Marines while holding a coffee cup and running with it.” — Lisa Fine
  • “In an unprecedented breach of diplomatic etiquette, President Obama once again sandbagged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.” — Isi Leibler
  •  “President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter.” — Bobby Jindal
  • “It was seen as a slap in the face when Obama got out of his U.S. supplied transportation chewing gum.” — Roz Zurko
  • “To see a leader like Bibi Netanyahu treated so shabbily by someone [Obama] who treats us the same way was too much to bear.” — William A. Jacobson
  • “Obama’s awkward encounter with Akihito – bows are not meant to accompany physical contact – is not the first time the president has been criticized for his greeting of a foreign leader: Critics accused him of genuflecting to Saudi King Abdullah at a world economic summit this year.” — Foster Klug
  •  “Yes, President Obama has just gifted the queen an iPod.” — Chris Matyszczyk
  • “Obama presented former Prime Minister Gordon Brown with DVDs of American films that couldn’t be played on British machines. Our classy president gave the queen an iPod loaded with his speeches.” — Robert Hanusa
  • “Instead of rendering the traditional salute, after fumbling as if all-thumbs in trying to affix the blue-ribboned Medal of Honor, Obama, equally awkwardly, tried to ‘hug’ the Sergeant. Yes, a ‘hug’ for the soldier who remained at attention with eyes front in military bearing.” — Rees Lloyd
  • “Mr. Obama’s manners at the event were on a par with those of Clark Griswold’s cousin Eddie from the 1989 movie Christmas Vacation.” — Larry Clifton
  •  “Barack Obama makes us look patronizing, rude, and condescending.” — Doug Wead
  • “Gordon Brown has been snubbed repeatedly by Barack Obama during his trip to the United States, as the fall-out from the release of the Lockerbie bomber appeared to have left ‘the special relationship’ at its lowest ebb for nearly 20 years.” — Andrew Porter
  • “What is also more consistent with the Limbaugh and D’Souza thesis are such personal quirks as Obama’s gross rudeness to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House and his otherwise inexplicable public debasement of himself and the United States by bowing low to other foreign leaders.” — Thomas Sowell
  • “One of the important considerations for the leader of the free world has to be inter-personnel relations.” — Jonah Engler 
  • “We made this meeting so luxurious, with singing and dancing, but see Obama, stepping out of his car chewing gum like an idler.” — Yin Hong
  • “He [Obama] made the mistake of both shaking hands and bowing at the same time, a big breach of etiquette. The truth was that he was supposed to choose one or the other.” — David E. Sanger
  • “President Obama has very poor personal relations with most world leaders.” — Ed Lasky
  • “But the quintessential dissing of our mother country had to be Obama’s return of a bust of Winston Churchill bestowed on the U.S. by former Prime Minister Tony Blair after 9/11.” — Robert Hanusa
  • “Benjamin Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of tense talks to have supper with his family.” — Adrian Blomfield

This NY PR firm owner has said it before and shall say it again – Obama’s legacy is one of disaster.

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  • Elizabeth Jenan-Dickman

    You know what they say. You can take the community organizer out of the slum, but you can’t take the slum out of the community organizer.

    • Upaces

      You said it soooo much better than what I was going to say.

      • rjnvpn

        Me too!

    • Upaces

      “Trash is still trash even when the sun shines on it.”

    • Bill Badger

      1 year after the “Arab Spring”

      all the community organizer’s horses
      all the community organizer’s men
      couldn’t put the Muslim Brotherhood back together again.

      Apologies to the writers of Humpty Dumpty

      • gerry

        Morsi is in a cache,and Obama is still in th wh.

  • Adheeb

    Why do people expect better from an enemy of the state?

    • gerry

      Gruber gave you the answer.

  • Biff Henderson

    It is my hope that the next president will do what it takes to restore Churchill’s bust to its rightful place. He can invite Obama to witness its restoration to a place of honor.

    • DontMessWithAmerica

      No, no, no, he shouldn’t be released from jail for that occasion.

      • Biff Henderson

        An 8 x 10 glossy will suffice.

      • gerry

        Hum, who will put him in jail?

        • Harald Eigerson

          If they have any sense at all it will be his own party.

  • namberak

    C’mon, he’s an intellectual and emotional child — what would you expect?

  • Rebel

    I’d say he picked the wrong advisor

    • Atikva

      Of course it’s “the wrong adviser”!

      It couldn’t possibly be that Mr. Obama exposed himself again as the incredibly ignorant, ill-mannered, arrogant politician that the world knows he is. And this time, he chose to display his appalling coarseness as a guest of a country that can boast of one of the oldest and most brilliant civilizations the world has ever known, no less.

      • Canadianpatriot

        The Chinese were great inventors responsible for paper, the compass, gunpowder and printing, among others. Almost everything they have in terms of technology since Mao Tse Thug has been stolen, or purchased from ignorant greedy jackanapes in the West. Their culture has always been brutal and repressive, marked by torture and murder by decree. To label Chinese “civilization” (I prefer the term “culture”) as brilliant, is to label Jack the Ripper “brilliant” because he evaded identification and capture. The Chinese might have dominated the world if warlords had not kept inventions secret for their own use but rather had allowed the inventors to profit from their work, and if plans for technological innovation had not been artistically rendered rather than exactly rendered. Communism fits Chinese culture like a glove: the individual has always been of little consequence in China, seen only as a disposable tool. Mao’s disposal of millions of individuals during the cultural revolution, and the use of Chinese troops in the Korean conflict are perfect examples of this.

        • Atikva

          Chinese and other Eastern civilizations are no more immune
          to the communist plague than our Judeo-Christian Western civilization. You can’t
          judge any of the affected countries on their history of the last century only.

          Naturally most of the old world’s mores seem terribly brutal
          and cruel from a contemporary point of view (but some of our own current practices
          would horrify many of our ancestors too).

          Torture, slaughter, ruthlessness, conquest by the sword, systematic
          elimination of the weak was the norm everywhere, not only in China – including
          in the Greco-Roman civilization until it was baptized in the Jordan River. Actually,
          when it comes to slaughter and ferocity, the Maya, Aztec or Assyrian
          civilizations could easily hold their own against China.

          Which doesn’t prevent us from considering them as ancient civilizations:
          not because they abode by our Judeo-Christian criteria, but because they united,
          organized and gave an identity to large groups of people who would otherwise have
          lived according to the laws of the jungle, preoccupied only with surviving, without
          producing anything or building anything for the future generations. China and
          other civilizations’ legacy lies in their artistic and scientific contribution
          to the world’s heritage.

  • http://stores.ebay.com/Occidental-Numismatics?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 F. A. Hayek

    Well, “You can’t polish a Turd”

  • disqus_dcwFI0hvgS

    0bama is not incompetent, he’s not a fool, he’s just not an American. He is following his agenda extremely well while our so-called “representatives” flounder for fear of being called names by the media. All his seemingly petulant actions are by design. Look at the damage he’s done in less than 6 years. He will continue unless somebody stops him. BTW, he apologizes for the United States not because he’s weak, but because he believes, like a muslim; that we are the Great Satan.

  • Bandido

    Obama, a pus-filled political pig, is the quintessential Ugly American.

    • Atikva

      He may the the Ugly… whatever, but American? Nay!

      • Joe The Gentile

        OK then, he is the quintessential Ugly Postamerican.

  • PhillipGaley

    I did not see listed, the incident in which Obama toasts the Queen of England, . . .

    But, hey! More to the point of the article, there is a principle in law drawing from life: “First things, first!”, and as following, concerning discrediting the birth certificate from the British Protectorate over the Kenyan province—the validity of which would then suffice to show lack in qualification to run for president—the most which I’ve seen is that, several commentators have repeated the meme: “Oh, that has already been laughed out of discussion as thoroughly discredited.”, . . except, . . . where are—and who made—the discrediting statements of fact?

    And in parallel, there were those also, who laughed at Hitler, and Mussolini, and Joe McCarthy, and Jesus—there, so long ago, and yet so familiar today, their mockery was: “Hey, physician, heal thyself! Can’t even save himself!”.
    But, those first two, from them much damage did ensue, and for all that which Joe McCarthy presented in the way of warning, now, there is a Communist type—and with so many of his Communist-type helpers—as President of the USA; and for the last, what if there really was a Jesus who arose from the dead and ascended to some other realm in the clouds, somewhere, . . . I would say, only for weak-minded souls can mockery supplant facts, . . . and no surprise then, if as in the very least of possible signals Obama’s basic unfitness shows as this article chronicles, . . .

    • gerry

      The only one that are discredited and laughed out are them,courtesy of Gruber.The whole thiing, like Obamacare,a hoax.

  • Cappy1437

    Obama is inconsiderate and he doesn’t care. How he treats Netanyahu is intentional and shows his arrogance and his inability to be a mature, respectful, and responsible person let alone president. Netanyahu is ten fold the man and leader Obama could ever hope to be. Obama’s gum chewing I have noticed before and thought he was trying to put on a facade of a coach in hopes that he would appear cool, and in his mind appeal to the younger people. He acts like a teenager. His actions at Mandela’s funeral were embarrassing. The list goes on and on and we are all saddened by the type of president we have in the White House. Our country doesn’t have a leader. It has an albatross that is a shameful embarrassment.

    • Upaces

      You will love this! This is what happened when Obama “tried” to shake the hands of Russian Diplomats….This will crack you up!
      Russian love with Obama Russia give there opinion on Obama USA leader FUNNY. No one will shake his hand!!!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdcDKDxhJo

      • gerry

        Who wants to shake the hand of a low live criminal.The Russians know that Obama beside being an usurper is a pathological liar.They will even tell you where he was born. In this world people are not as stupid as the Americans.

        • Atikva

          The Russians have been working for over sixty years to create the new generations of “stupid Americans” (not to mention “stupid Europeans”) who are at the root of our current predicament – so let’s (assuming you are an
          American worthy of the name) use a little tact here before praising these top-level manipulators to the skies. Apparently it’s easier for them to unmask foreign tyrants than their own, because I haven’t seen them yet officially debunk their soviet heroes. Actually they don’t seem to mind too much having an ex-KGB member (and most probably inveterate soviet himself) as their own current leader.

          This being said, granted, Mr. Obama is no match for the Russian leader. But that’s no big accomplishment.

  • Elizabeth capecod

    Well it’s good to know Bama can walk and chew gum at the same time.

  • James Foard
  • William James Ward

    I have often thought how are we going to live this down, the great
    farce of Mullah Hussein Obama as President but have concluded
    that we are not supposed to. It may be that the plan is for most of
    us not to go on living. After Obama it may be that all mixed race
    persons will claim to be white, Baptist and members of the
    700 Club…………………William

  • tagalog

    I guess President Obama skipped the briefings on protocol that other Presidents have attended.

  • IssacAdamBurke

    You don’t get it, do you? Hussein doesn’t give a s–t. Furthermore, his actions reflect his priorities – to diminish and degrade America.

  • gerry

    Embarassment is not the word!

  • Horace Yo

    We are lucky he doesn’t run around under the table on his hands and knees biting people.

  • bruce lorraine

    You can put lipstick on a pig, well you know the rest.

  • frodo

    This is far from serious criticism.

  • crisco

    Consider the vast confederacy of moronic fools who voted for and continue to defend and run interference for this creature.

    • Hewlett Harris

      That is why the country deserves his dictatorship.

    • Greg

      Cisco, love your caricature, creature. I’ve come to call him the “Creature Who Occupies the White House”!

  • Hewlett Harris

    A half-Black POS.

    • pfbonney

      Half-breed?

  • pfbonney

    As I have often said, since I first started posting on blogs, you can dress Democrats up but you can’t take them out. And Obama takes that concept to a new low.

    Then, throw in his pole-dancing wife, on national television, no less (thank god she kept her clothes on!), and you have a REAL class act. Can anyone even imagine the First Lady of ANY other country, no matter how impoverished, or how “rogue” a nation is, doing that?

    • Harald Eigerson

      Oh dear lord its all true! I’m not a big consumer of network television so I missed this. Outside of a few shows on HULU I still don’t watch much television so my mind was blown when when I went to look it up. Wow! Just wow!

  • Harald Eigerson

    To harm the country is precisely the point. Collossal arrogance and abrassiveness to match are just two more weapons in his arsenal to damage the country.

  • Cretien

    And his successor will sue him for all the damage he caused.

  • USARetired

    What can one expect from an ignorant illegal immigrant, with no experience, and no evidence of a formal education!