Rush Limbaugh these days refers to much of the "main stream media" sardonically as the 'state controlled media' in reference to the fact that the majority of media outlets are leftists, and in the tank for the administration.  In the United States today, the grand exulted "free press" has been free to collude, both actively and passively with the Obama Administration to make an otherwise sorry excuse for a President look as good as possible. 

It's getting harder to gloss over the problems with Obama and his administration, but there is a long way to go before those Americans who get their "news" exclusively from "main stream" news outlets start hearing the hard truth, even though the truth is out there for the taking, if one let's their fingers do the surfing on the web.  The single best alternative news source, in our opinion, is the Drudge Report.

But we digress.

In the leftist beacon, the New York Times, on June 5th an article was published written by Nicholas Kulish titled Rift With Germany Is Next on Diplomatic Agenda.  Along with the usual general-speak on tensions between the US and Germany, there was in interesting statement:  "On a more basic level, there is a sense that the Obama administration is ignoring the needs and counsel of longtime allies."  Frankly, much of the article was chock full of apologies for Obama and how he's not a bad guy, just a misunderstood youngin' and all the usual crap one can expect from a Times article.  But that one little itty bitty sentence says an awful lot about the true current state between Obama and our traditional friends and allies - they are being all but ignored.

In the recent past, Obama has managed to snub the British, the French (not exactly our friends but...) the Germans.  Obama has also managed to piss off the Canadians, and members of Obama's administration have infuriated our neighbors to the North with their dunderhead statements.  The Mexicans are also very unhappy with the Obama Administration over cross-border trucking, and generally pissed at talk of dismantling NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).  And then, of course, the Israelis are by this point wondering if Obama isn't a full blown anti-semite (anti-semitism and Marxism seem to go hand in hand for some reason, so we wonder about that ourselves).

Then there is the bowing to the Saudi Arabian King (also not exactly friends in the literal sense, they put up with us because they want our cash and our military protection), the embarrassing warm greeting to Hugo Chavez, overtures to communist Cuba, aid cash to Hamas - a known terrorist organization, and overtures to Iran, and some reports of overtures even to the Taliban. 

As we posted during the Presidential Campaign, we concluded from Obama's flowerly rhetoric on what his intentions were on the international scene that what he really intended was to alienate our friends, and embrace our enemies.  And that is precisely what he's doing.

Like the cliche goes - many Americans may be dumb, but they are not stupid.  Slowly a growing number of American's are realizing that President Bush was to President Obama what jumping out of the frying pan is to the fire. 

It's all bad.