HoodaThunk?

From Ed Morrissey of Hot Air:

It’s considered de rigueur among the cognoscenti to apologize for America by noting its youth compared to other countries, especially when the cognoscenti go on tour. Barack Obama tried this apology on his European Tour, but unfortunately, he used it in a nation that doesn’t qualify:

Obama exercised his routine diminishing of America in front of foreign crowds by noting to a Turkish audience that America “is still very new” compared to the older, and by implication wiser, country of Turkey. Just 1 problem with that – Turkey wasn’t a country until 1923. By my math, that makes the United States considerably older than Turkey, not the other way around.This is part of Morrissey’s “Obamateurism of the day” series and it certainly belongs there.

America isn’t perfect, we all know that. But it’s got a lot to be proud of and a lot to recommend it even in comparison to those oh-so-elite Europeans. We don’t owe anyone fawning obsequiousness.