PUBLIC HUMBLING OF OBAMA/update
Chicago Is the First to Go in 2016 Voting Barack Obama thought the world adored him. He thought he was elected the president of the world. In Copenhagen, the IOC set him straight.
Will he finally become the president of the United States? If so, the exercise may have been beneficial.
A couple of my fellow HNN bloggers challenged my assumption that Obama considers himself the president of the world. So, I googled Obama,"president of the world" I got 64,500,000 results. Clearly, I am not alone. Here are a couple of results:
Carlos A. Quiroz of the Ground Report writes:
He stood there as if he was the president of the world, big error. . . .The fact that the president of the U.S. traveled to Denmark, might have seemed arrogant and pretentious to many in the world, as Obama abused of his popularity and personal appeal, he went to the OIC himself to speak. That was a risky move that backfired. The 2008 campaign has ended already, Mr. President.
And by the way, the video presented by the U.S. had several Black kids presented as needy children who depend only in sports to overcome poverty and a difficult reality. It seemed so cliche and fake -not to say that is not the reality for African American children- because charity is not a reason to host the Olympics.
And here is a video of cnn - obama"president of the world"