President Obama just hosted the largest conference — leaders from 46 countries — in the United States since the gathering that founded the United Nations back in 1945. It was the nuclear summit, where the international community endorsed the president’s goal to cooperate in securing nuclear materials from terrorists. No, it didn’t rebottle the nuclear genie, but it helped.
The previous week the president had met with Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev in Prague to sign a new arms control treaty that reduced the number of strategic warheads each side has deployed. He also announced an updated “Nuclear Posture Review” that is a key step toward a saner, more credible nuclear policy.
Meanwhile, Tea Party huckster and Fox celebrity Sarah Palin mocked his NPR as well as his bona fides, noting the “vast nuclear experience that (Obama) acquired as a community organizer.”
Put it this way. Who in their right mind would have wanted this embarrassingly ill-informed, platitude-spouting, media hustler hosting a 47-nation nuclear summit and resetting critical geopolitical ties with Russia with the New START treaty? Probably not even John McCain.
And speaking of, thanks again, Senator McCain. You could have, you know, lost with your dignity intact and the country unimperiled by a lightweight, divisive diva masquerading as a serious public figure.