| Disgraceful That Obama Snubbed France By Michael Reagan Everyone from Jon Stewart to Sen. Ted Cruz has mocked President Obama for not flying to France last weekend. Rightly so. It should have been a no-brainer for any American president to want to be seen by the whole world leading a massive unity march against terrorism in response to what is being called France's 9/11. Obama had a great chance to show America's solidarity with the latest victims of Islamist extremism, standing up for a fundamental Western value like free speech. He blew it. Many of Barack Obama's most faithful allies are still shocked by his clumsy blunder and have trouble defending him. His latest diplomatic faux pas doesn't surprise me a bit. Editor's Notes: Special: 4 Things You'll Feel Before A Heart Attack IRS Insider Reveals How to Save as Much as $355,000 The leader of what we used to call the free world has been embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage for years — by not going where he should go. Or, saying and doing things he shouldn't when he does go somewhere. Let's see. If memory serves, he didn't go to Berlin in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall or to Poland for celebrations of the collapse of Moscow's evil empire. Though he didn't skip the 70th anniversary of D-Day last year in Normandy, he spent most of his time during the solemn ceremony chomping on bubble gum like a 12 year old. The French people were irate at the disrespect. It's not that Monsieur Obama dislikes France. He also stopped in France in 2009 on what became known as his first "Apology Tour," where he apologized for America's past bad behavior, including arrogance toward Europe, using the atomic bomb in World War II, and trying to unseat communist dictators in Latin America. Meanwhile, the president has found plenty of time to visit other parts of Western Europe — when it suited his political or publicity purposes. Remember when he went all the way to Copenhagen just to lobby for Chicago to be chosen to host the 2016 Olympics? What happened spontaneously in Paris last weekend was bigger and more important for a president of the U.S. to attend than all those other official, long-planned events. A million and a half Parisians went into the streets to defy the Islamic terrorists who, in cold blood, slaughtered journalists solely because they had satirized Muhammad. The whole world watched a morality play. Our president — therefore our country, and our Western values — were missing in action. We will never know the real reason President Obama didn't fly to Paris, unless he confesses it in his memoirs. He's been known to blame America for just about everything. Maybe in the back of his mind he thinks the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was the fault of the cartoonists who made fun of Muhammad after they were warned not to. Maybe he thinks it was somehow America's fault. Or, Christianity's fault. It doesn't really matter what Obama thinks. He had no excuse to skip Paris. The White House has admitted the president had nothing on his schedule Saturday or Sunday. He had no pressing fund-raiser in West Hollywood to attend, no big golf match set for Sunday morning. Michelle Obama wasn't using Air Force One over the weekend. So the president had plenty of time to fly to Paris. If he didn't want to miss the NFL playoff games on TV, he could have dispatched Joe Biden, who spent the weekend at his home in Delaware — no doubt watching the same football games his boss did. At the very least, Barack Obama could have ordered Attorney General Eric Holder — who was already in Paris — to march arm-in-arm with the 40-plus other world leaders who found the guts and the time to get there, making a public statement for freedom. Instead, our president did nothing and America was embarrassed in front of the whole world. Michael Reagan is the son of former President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the League of American Voters. His blog appears on reaganreports.com More Links: Doctors Using Magnesium to Reverse Diabetes ALERT: US Intelligence Adviser Exposes Covert Plan to Destroy the US Economy | 
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