Mitt Romney has likened President Obama’s foreign policy to an “apology tour.” Former half-term governor Sarah Palin has stated that the Obama Doctrine is akin to “coddling enemies and alienating [our] allies.” Radio and television personality Sean Hannity has broadcasted that Obama is “the Neville Chamberlain of out time.”
The President shouldn’t be surprised. In 1988, the far right used similar smears against (the now sacrosanct) Ronald Reagan. See for yourself.
Today’s hot doc is an ad from the 25 January 1988 edition of The Washington Times. It compared President Reagan to the World-War-Two-era British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and implied that Reagan’s leadership in eliminating intermediate nuclear weapons was akin to letting the Nazi’s invade Czechoslovakia.
Some people, you just can’t appease please. (more…)
