WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action."The point is not in having the States fix problems for us or fight somewhere, no," Walesa said. "The States should organize us, encourage us and offer programs, while we, the world, should do the rest. This kind of leadership is needed.""I will say: Either you want to be a superpower and guide us, or you should give the superpower to Poland and we will know what to do with it. Amen," said Walesa, who is known for sometimes abrasive comments.
More unsettlingly, so does Vladimir Putin:
The Freedom-Haters' goal of a weak post-America appears to be right on track.The CNBC interviewer asked Putin: "You have said 'we are a room full of adults,' so let's have an adult conversation. President Obama has accused you of untruths, as you know, when it comes to supporting some of the separatist groups in the Ukraine..."Putin responded through an interpreter:"Who is he to judge? Who is he to judge, seriously?" The crowd began to laugh and clap. "If he wants to judge people, why doesn't he get a job in court somewhere?"
Funny how it almost seems like Putin is a hero to your ilk.
ReplyDeleteThat's a weird view.
ReplyDeleteYou appear to admire his stature.
ReplyDeleteBut do you think I think it bodes well for America or the world generally? You know I think the opposite.
ReplyDeleteI wish we had an actual president of an actual United States of America who would not stand for any usurping of America's role as the world's leader and lone hyperpower. In short, I wish we had a world where freedom and security were on the increase.
ReplyDeleteWell I don't view Putin as any icon of anything and since Mao I can't really name any towering Chinese figures. Obama got more game than any of them to the masses worldwide. Despite continual efforts from multiple camps stateside to tear him down. He knows he is a walking cult of personality and that's his major problem. Even I'll Papa apparently agrees with him on Palestine.
ReplyDeleteNo, his major problem is his radical socialist ideology and his lack of one subatomic particle of patriotism.
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