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6/10/2009
Burri: Obama brings Apology Tour to Green Bay
Even before President Obama was back on U.S. soil, conservative mockery of his “apology tour” had already begun.
And not entirely without reason. Egypt, Turkey, France, Prague, London; Asia, Europe, South America: everywhere he goes, he seems eager to agree that the U.S. is a big jerk, world-history-wise.
Well, the Chicago boy will be in Green Bay on Thursday, or so I hear. And I’ve got a few issues of my own. Opportunities, let’s say, for him to bring his Apology Tour to our own shores.
Maybe he wants to apologize for the 1980s. You know, when the Chicago Bears were an NFL power, and the Green Bay Packers…well…weren’t? So arrogant were the 1985 Bears that they put a 350-pound defensive tackle in at running back, and even at receiver.
All the better to humiliate their opponents.
Maybe he’ll apologize for the Chicago water diversion, which drains up to 2 billion gallons from Lake Michigan. Every. Single. Day.
See, back in the 1880s, Chicagoans didn’t know that you shouldn’t drink poop. So they dumped all their sewage into the Chicago River, which emptied into Lake Michigan. 90,000 people died from cholera in 1885.
Thus the diversion, which kept the water out of the lake. Of course, sewage technology has improved since then. They could do without the diversion. But they won’t. Other Great Lakes states have to ask permission to remove even a drop of drinking water from the Great Lakes basins. Illinois doesn’t.
Or maybe he’ll apologize for Illinois’ northern border, 60 miles further north than it was supposed to be. In 1842, residents of that part of Illinois – the part that was supposed to be part of Wisconsin – voted 2 to 1 to join the future Badger state, rather than remain forever Flatlanders. Their wishes were denied.
Apologize for your state, President Obama. For your state’s arrogance. Its hubris. Its disdain for others and for its own citizens!
Will he? Of course not. Neither would I, because that would be stupid. Insane, even. Obama had nothing to do with all that. A bare handful of Illinoisances ever did. To apologize for them would be a meaningless, even insulting gesture.
Kind of like the meaningless, even insulting “apologies” he’s making overseas.
And anyway, if there’s anything Obama – and all his liberal brethren and progressive enablers – ought to apologize for, it’s the things yet to come. The things he's setting in motion, that will reverberate for generations.
Quadrupling the deficit. Selling off bonds until they become virtually worthless. Forcing 1970s-like inflation until they become actually worthless. Giving foreign countries an excuse to challenge the dollar as the world’s premiere currency.
Failing to address – so far, at least – vast liabilities in national entitlements: Social Security, Medicaid. And then embarking on even more, greater national entitlements that will, eventually, send health care in America into the same downward spiral of underpayment and scarcity that other states and nations already have.
And finally, for showing the world that, yes, the U.S. can be cowed. By his repeated attempts to prove, by apology, that he is not George W. Bush, President Obama is virtually begging foreign powers and wannabe-powers to test the United States.
If President Obama is going to apologize for American arrogance-bred mistakes – real or imagined, no matter how long ago they took place – then surely, he can spare some sorrow for Americans of the next twenty years, and more, who will be paying for his own arrogance-bred mistakes of today.
Lance Burri is a contributor to the Badger Blog Alliance and The TrogloPundit.
COMMENTS
Some of us wll be there to protest Doyle's trying to polish his image by bringing the O-man to WI. www.recalldoyle.com
emily matthews (Wed Jun 10 08:23:25 2009)
Personally, I'm lovin' it. Obama's on the fast track to becoming "Little Jimmy Carter". You know, the kindly intended POTUS that foreign leaders scoffed at and American Citizens rejected after the first four years.
Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me. No ... based on unemployment and North Korean nukes, it's lookin' to me like he's "One and done."
Jeff R. (Wed Jun 10 08:25:43 2009)
Jeff-Maybe we can induce him to resign? If not, his usurpation of unconstitutional powers should be grounds for impeachment. Oh, I forgot, thanks to GB II, the Constitution is just a GD piece of paper.... Boy are we going to pay for that.
Emily- hope to see you there. I will be the fat old guy about 5'11" Let us give Diamond Jim and B. Hussien the welcome they deserve!!!
Ken Van Doren (Wed Jun 10 13:09:16 2009)
After spending 10 years in the Fox Cities, it became increasingly clear just how out of touch that area has become. Some still think its the paper capital. Obama is visiting not for JD's cause, if that were the case he would be working in DC already. ILL and the Fibs have along history in WIs. Wake up folks ILL already owns most of the Dells and Door County, no need to apologize for that. America does not need a war monger, we no longer have any power only words which is why GB looked as stupid as he was. Economic power has long left America, how do you apologize for that?
Belleville (Thu Jun 11 07:19:51 2009)
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