{"id":694,"date":"2009-04-20T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/20\/chavez-ortega-and-why-conservatism-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:03:00","slug":"chavez-ortega-and-why-conservatism-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/20\/chavez-ortega-and-why-conservatism-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez, Ortega and why conservatism means never having to say you’re sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives are up in arms these days over President Barack Obama’s apology in Europe for America’s “arrogance.”<\/p>\n

They’re also furious over his handshake and conversation with Venezuela’s elected president, Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n

Fox News has also reported<\/a> that Obama sat through a 50-minute diatribe against the U.S. from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a socialist.<\/p>\n

In a Fox interview<\/a>, Newt Gingrich argued that Obama was aiding the “enemies of America.”<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, this does look a lot like Jimmy Carter. Carter tried weakness, and the world got tougher and tougher, because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators \u2013 when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead,\u201d Gingrich said on Fox & Friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gingrich also jabbed at Obama for his “bow to the Saudi king.”<\/p>\n

The dust-up comes at the same time that Democrats were releasing memos detailing America’s extensive use of torture in the war on terror. Here’s the NY Times editorial<\/a> take:<\/p>\n

To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush\u2019s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what do you think? Is Obama showing weakness around the world? Rejecting American exceptionalism? Revealing American war tactics?<\/p>\n

Or crafting a more nuanced foreign policy? Returning morality to our defense policy? Comments welcome below…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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