Mark Steyn on America's Post-American President

Hillary the Crone recently slapped down the PM of Canada for not inviting Inuit to a meeting of Canadian province chiefs. Imagine if Sarah Palin were Secretary of State and her half-Inuit husband Todd accompanied her to Ottawa! Steyn hits about ten home runs in this five or six para masterpiece.

The Obama administration came into office promising to press the “reset” button with the rest of the world after eight years of the so-called arrogant, swaggering Texan cowboy blundering his way around the planet offending peoples from many lands. Instead, Obama pressed the ejector-seat button: Brits, Czechs, Israelis, Indians found themselves given the brush. I gather the Queen was “amused” by the president’s thoughtful gift of an iPod preloaded with Obama speeches — and, fortunately for Her Majesty, the 160GB model only has storage capacity for two of them, or three if you include one of his shorter perorations. But Gordon Brown would like to be liked by Barack Obama, and can’t understand why he isn’t.

Go to the link above and read the entire piece, with more mordant wit and brilliant humor than all the NYT Sunday Times columns put together---although that is NOT saying much of anything!