Obama's 'Apology Tour' Not True

[Rinata]

The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.

The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009.

By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."

Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies.

This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.

Obama told the Turkish parliament, in which he was trying to urge that country to come to terms with its tragic history with the Armenians: "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. Facing the Washington Monument that I spoke of is a memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed those who were enslaved even after Washington led our Revolution."

But compare what Obama said to what George W. Bush said at Senegal's Goree Island in 2003. Bush called the U.S. constitution flawed and said that America is still troubled by the legacy of slavery. This does not seem like an apology, either -- but it is even more sharply framed than Obama's comments.

Why would Obama's comment on slavery be considered an apology and not Bush's?

The Pinocchio Test

The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.

Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.

In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist. [/COLOR]

Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.

Fact Checker - Obama's 'Apology Tour'

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.

The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009.

By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."

Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies.

This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.

Obama told the Turkish parliament, in which he was trying to urge that country to come to terms with its tragic history with the Armenians: "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. Facing the Washington Monument that I spoke of is a memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed those who were enslaved even after Washington led our Revolution."

But compare what Obama said to what George W. Bush said at Senegal's Goree Island in 2003. Bush called the U.S. constitution flawed and said that America is still troubled by the legacy of slavery. This does not seem like an apology, either -- but it is even more sharply framed than Obama's comments.

Why would Obama's comment on slavery be considered an apology and not Bush's?

The Pinocchio Test

The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.

Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.

In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist. [/COLOR]

Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.

Fact Checker - Obama's 'Apology Tour'

OMFG! You're right! Again!

Obama never even said that!

Here's what he said, "We succeed because of our individual initiative but ... of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."

 

[SniperFire]

Obama's Apology Tour(s) were his way of telling all the little borat nations that it was OK to now run amok, as the Leader of the Free World was withdrawing.


We see the results.


Elections have consequences. Vote responsibly next time, peeps!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama looks so cool and Presidential and stuff when he was telling everyone the USA would be the mean poopyhead it was before he was anointed

 

[skookerasbil]

The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.

The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009.

By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."

Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies.

This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.

Obama told the Turkish parliament, in which he was trying to urge that country to come to terms with its tragic history with the Armenians: "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. Facing the Washington Monument that I spoke of is a memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed those who were enslaved even after Washington led our Revolution."

But compare what Obama said to what George W. Bush said at Senegal's Goree Island in 2003. Bush called the U.S. constitution flawed and said that America is still troubled by the legacy of slavery. This does not seem like an apology, either -- but it is even more sharply framed than Obama's comments.

Why would Obama's comment on slavery be considered an apology and not Bush's?

The Pinocchio Test

The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.

Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.

In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist. [/COLOR]

Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.

Fact Checker - Obama's 'Apology Tour'

meh


This is a POLITICS forum s0n...........nobody cares what some k00ks's opinion is in the nether-regions of the internet. Everybody else and their brother think the whole thing was what it was: an apology tour.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Your title should say IT'S NOT OVER

 

[meson]

Anybody with half a brain knows that the right wing smear machine were out to discredit anything
Obama did or said from the beginning of his campaign.

 

[percysunshine]

When Obama loses in November, will he then enter a twelve step program for recovering fascisti?

He kind of needs to say it...

"My name is 'Barry. And I am a Fascist!"

 

[RosieS]

Obama needs to do an apology tour for Romney going abroad and screwing up royally. We are so sorry for Mitt infliction! Lech Walesa's endorsement? SRSLY?

Regards from Rosie

 

[Liability]

The reality is that the OP is false and "fact checker" performed dishonest propaganda.

The fuckwit imbecile incumbent sure as hell DID go on an "America Sucks" tour.

President Obama DID say that "[the United States] 'has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.'"

In a major address to the UN where (admittedly) SOME of what the President said seems taken out of context, other parts are quite clearly in context: He said: " And I admit that America has too often been selective in its promotion of democracy." Try to pretend that he wasn't thereby essentially saying "and for that America owes an apology."

And when, in THAT SAME speech the President said the following, let's be honest. He was making claims about what we HAD allegedly done in the past to get praise for his "new" approach. He WAS fucking apologizing for some of our ALLEGED behaviors:

For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.
On my first day in office, I prohibited -- without exception or equivocation -- the use of torture by the United States of America. (Applause.) I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed, and we are doing the hard work of forging a framework to combat extremism within the rule of law. Every nation must know: America will live its values, and we will lead by example.

-- Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly | The White House

Asshole lying sacks of liberal propagandist shit, such as "politifact" call the claim that Pres. Obama went on a world apology tour a "liar liar pants on fire" kind of lie. PolitiFact | Mitt Romney said Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour

But that fucking piece of shit propagandist apologist organization itself lied. They selectively snipped out of the President's UN speech just the parts that suited their agenda. Fuck them and all the hacks who cite their shit as credible "evidence."

The Wall Street Journal got it right:

The president of the United States has completed another outing abroad in his now standard form: as the un-Bush. At one stop after another -- the latest in Latin America, where Hugo Chávez expressed wishes to be his friend -- Barack Obama fulfilled his campaign vows to show the nations of the world that a new American leadership stood ready to atone for the transgressions of the old.

All went as expected in these travels, not counting certain unforeseen results of that triumphal European tour. The images of that trip, in which Mr. Obama dazzled ecstatic Europeans with citations of the offenses against international goodwill and humanity committed by the nation he leads, are now firmly imprinted on the minds of Americans.

-- Obama Blames America - WSJ.com

 

[Rinata]

You people are all nuts, I swear. I don't think you'd recognize a swinging door if it hit you in the face!!! For the issues with medicare alone, the Republican ticket needs to lose. And they are BOTH liars!!!

 

[Rinata]

Did these stories make you people angry??

Bush Apologizes for Iraqi Prisoner Abuse | Fox News

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bush apology for Koran shooting

 

[Sinjorri]

You people are all nuts, I swear. I don't think you'd recognize a swinging door if it hit you in the face!!! For the issues with medicare alone, the Republican ticket needs to lose. And they are BOTH liars!!!

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liberal tolerance, i will give you your opinion than you tout it as fact. No we are all not nuts thank you very much.

 

[bodecea]

Obama's Apology Tour(s) were his way of telling all the little borat nations that it was OK to now run amok, as the Leader of the Free World was withdrawing.


We see the results.


Elections have consequences. Vote responsibly next time, peeps!

We did last time...and will again.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.

The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009.

By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."

Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies.

This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.

Obama told the Turkish parliament, in which he was trying to urge that country to come to terms with its tragic history with the Armenians: "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. Facing the Washington Monument that I spoke of is a memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed those who were enslaved even after Washington led our Revolution."

But compare what Obama said to what George W. Bush said at Senegal's Goree Island in 2003. Bush called the U.S. constitution flawed and said that America is still troubled by the legacy of slavery. This does not seem like an apology, either -- but it is even more sharply framed than Obama's comments.

Why would Obama's comment on slavery be considered an apology and not Bush's?

The Pinocchio Test

The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.

Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.

In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist. [/COLOR]

Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.

Fact Checker - Obama's 'Apology Tour'

The fact that Obama never ‘apologized’ comes as no surprise, of course, as most conservatives are comfortable spreading lies about the president, a consequence of their complete lack of policy alternatives – they have nothing constructive to contribute.

 

[squeeze berry]

Anybody with half a brain knows that the right wing smear machine were out to discredit anything
Obama did or said from the beginning of his campaign.

Obama discredits himself most of the time

 

[hortysir]

Never apologize.


Just bow.......

 

[Liability]

Did these stories make you people angry??

Bush Apologizes for Iraqi Prisoner Abuse | Fox News

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Bush apology for Koran shooting

When prisoner abuse did take place, an apology was IN ORDER, you dope.

And deliberately desecrating the Qur'an IS worthy of an apology, you dolt.

Those things HAPPENED. For discreet, identifiable and unacceptable behavior, there is nothing wrong with acknowledging reality and owning up for it.

This is NOT what President Obama was doing. And you know it.

 

[Liability]

Obama's Apology Tour(s) were his way of telling all the little borat nations that it was OK to now run amok, as the Leader of the Free World was withdrawing.


We see the results.


Elections have consequences. Vote responsibly next time, peeps!

We did last time...and will again.

No. You didn't. You voted in the assclown who is presently fucking everything up.

But, you will try to get that moron re-elected.

 

[Liability]

The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.

The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009.

By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."

Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies.

This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.

Obama told the Turkish parliament, in which he was trying to urge that country to come to terms with its tragic history with the Armenians: "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. Facing the Washington Monument that I spoke of is a memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed those who were enslaved even after Washington led our Revolution."

But compare what Obama said to what George W. Bush said at Senegal's Goree Island in 2003. Bush called the U.S. constitution flawed and said that America is still troubled by the legacy of slavery. This does not seem like an apology, either -- but it is even more sharply framed than Obama's comments.

Why would Obama's comment on slavery be considered an apology and not Bush's?

The Pinocchio Test

The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.

Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.

In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist. [/COLOR]

Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.

Fact Checker - Obama's 'Apology Tour'

The fact that Obama never ‘apologized’ comes as no surprise, of course, as most conservatives are comfortable spreading lies about the president, a consequence of their complete lack of policy alternatives – they have nothing constructive to contribute.

It isn't a fact. It's a claim and it's false.

He did, as I showed above.

Denying the truth won't salvage your imbecile position, Adam_Clayton.