Image of the Day: These side-by-side photos show America now vs. then

Image of the Day: These side-by-side photos show America now vs. then

On his first trip abroad after being elected president, Barack Obama earned the disrespect of every American who loves his country by apologizing for America’s past arrogance. In Strasbourg, France, on Apr. 3, 2009, Obama made it clear that if there was a leader of the free world, it was not him:

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

If it wasn’t clear after that message that the U.S. is a second-rate power, at least in the view of its newly elected leader, Obama demonstrated this graphically by bowing at the waist when he met the king of Saudi Arabia.

To make matters worse, when the honest media pointed out the outrage of his actions, Obama denied that he was prostrating himself to show obeissance to his better, claiming instead that he was simply bringing his head lower in order to be face-to-face with the king, who was much shorter. The video below puts the lie to that claim:

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Obama was equally dismissive of American exceptionalism, acknowledging that America was exceptional to Americans in the same way that Britain is exceptional to its citizens and so on.

Eight years later, we have a new president — a man who ran on the promise to make America great again. As an acid test of that promise, compare the side-by-side photos that follow. The one on the left is a still image from the video above. The one on the right, also shot in Saudi Arabia, shows one of the figures bowing slightly, but this time it’s not the American president.

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles is a freelance writer and regular contributor to "Liberty Unyielding."

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