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German left-wing magazine Spiegel is crying the blues.

Obama Lied to the Europeans

Barack Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world” when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe….

Americans Do Not Look Beyond their Own Borders

Obama’s priorities are wrong…

Obama has proven himself to be unable to put an end to the lies that modern American society is based on.

Executive Summary: It is always easy to write autobiographies and make speeches.

Your correspondent is sure that Spiegel wishes that Obama did more and that Hitler did less given the propensity of both of them when it comes to autobiographies and speeches.

Your correspondent has been ambivalent toward the Carter-Obama analogy, but now it seems the pieces are starting to fit together in the form of KSM trial.  What killed the Carter presidency was the daily news drip about the Iran hostage crisis along with the hostage crisis day-count.  Obama has assured himself that sort of daily coverage with the KSM trial.  Once the trial starts the events will ratchet beyond his control and it will be a leap into the unknown, i.e. Axelrod’s ability to plan will be limited with random developments in the trial.

This is a presidency on training wheels and it is entirely possible, as your correspondent noted in an earlier post, that this administration will change its mind given that this decision is polling badly.