Enormous cosmic speaking, itty bitty substance.  While making a speech in front of 200,000 people Obama once again shows that he is a bright shinny exterior covering unrealistic and naive interior.  It is worth your time to read this entire article from, of all the unlikely places, the L.A. Times.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA said in an interview the day after his Berlin speech that it “allowed me to send a message to the American people that the judgments I have made and the judgments I will make are ones that are going to result in them being safer.”

If that is what the senator thought he was doing, he still has a lot to learn about both foreign policy and the views of the American people. Although well received in the Tiergarten, the Obama speech actually reveals an even more naive view of the world than we had previously been treated to in the United States. In addition, although most of the speech was substantively as content-free as his other campaign pronouncements, when substance did slip in, it was truly radical, from an American perspective.

These troubling comments were not widely reported in the generally adulatory media coverage given the speech, but they nonetheless deserve intense scrutiny. It remains to be seen whether these glimpses into Obama’s thinking will have any impact on the presidential campaign, but clearly they were not casual remarks. This speech, intended to generate the enormous publicity it in fact received, reflects his campaign’s carefully calibrated political thinking. Accordingly, there should be no evading the implications of his statements.

Obama really shows that he has no understanding of the world, its history, and what really makes it work.  I’m glad to see that in a region of the world where polls show that 58% of the population wish for a weaker America that Obama’s ignorance is well received.  It’s amazing that a couple hour meeting involving warm smiles, firm hand shakes and well rehearsed comments about how he is willing to work with foreign leaders can be, in any way, construed as a firm understanding of foreign policy.