It seems our President is a globetrotting dynamo. In his first six months in office he’s managed to rack up enough miles to circle the globe twice; more than any of his recent predecessors in the same time frame.
Which had me asking: With soaring employment, a housing market in ruins, government takeover of more and more private industry, and U.S. military forces still engaged abroad shouldn’t the President be spending more time at home and less apologizing to every head of state face-to-face?
“One comes at the expense of the other,” said Brendan Doherty, an assistant professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy who studies presidential travel for the White House Transition Project.
I mean, couldn’t he get someone to Twitter the apologies for him?
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The only sincere apology is made face to face. At the end of his world tour(s) he will have to fly to Al Gore’s energy guzzling compound outside of Nashville to apologize to Al for all the CO2 he’s used.
I dunno, CC. We pissed everyone off from a distance, right? I think it’s only logical we apologize from a distance as well. It’s symmetry.
Kevin, you just don’t get the “change” meme do you? It’s not real bowing and scraping if you don’t really bow and scrape. That’s the whole POINT. ;)
Hate to be nit-picky but it’s “soaring unemployment”; if it were soaring employment I probably wouldn’t care very much what the President did because I’d be too busy working at my job.
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