THE OBAMAN "OUTREACH" CONTINUES – PREPARE TO BE ILL – AT 7:58 A.M. ET:  As the president talks tough on terror in New York, and his attorney general talks less than tough on terror in Washington, his UN ambassador talks gibberish at the UN.

From the great Anne Bayefsky at NRO:

On Thursday, the General Assembly elected 14 members to its top human-rights body, the U.N. Human Rights Council. U.N. human-rights policymakers now include Libya, Angola, Malaysia, Qatar, and Uganda. On a secret ballot, a whopping 155 countries, or 80 percent of U.N. members, thought Libya would be a great addition.

Isn't it time to replace the UN with a league of democratic nations? 

Obama’s diplomats, sitting in the General Assembly Hall throughout the election, made no attempt to prevent the farce or even to object. On the contrary, Ambassador Susan Rice left the hall before the results were announced in order to hightail it to the microphone. Attempting to spin what was a foregone conclusion, she refused to divulge those states which the U.S. supported. When pressed, she said only that the Obama administration regretted some states on the ballot, but “I am not going to name names. I don’t think that it’s particularly constructive at this point.”

We must not offend.  That's a crime against humanity.

Not constructive because, Rice suggested, it was no big deal. She described the countries on the Council — which include human-rights experts Saudi Arabia, China, and Cuba in addition to the incoming freshman class — as just “countries whose orientation and perspectives we don’t agree with.” And later on she described the election as one which “yielded an outcome that we think is a good reflection on the potential of the Human Rights Council.”

COMMENT:  Apparently, this is the foreign policy that's supposed to make us proud again.  Sure, if you're a left-wing activist in the Middle East studies department at Columbia University, you'll be bursting your buttons with pride.

As for the rest of us...

May 14, 2010