Americans today don't embarrass very easily. Just ask MTV progeny Heidi Montag-Pratt-Montag (and her plastic surgeon), Rod Blagojevich or the Salahis.
Tiger Woods had no problem showing his face at the U.S. Open less than a year after ruining his squeaky-clean image (and perhaps his marriage). Eliot Spitzer could become the next Larry King. As for me, I'm a cable news pundit, so clearly my standards of dignity are fairly low.
But two years into his first term, President Obama is proving we are not entirely without shame.
Thanks to a slew of gaffes, blunders, miscalculations and alarming personality revelations, Obama has become a surprising liability where our reputation abroad is concerned — surprising not only because he was elected, in part, to restore our supposedly damaged image overseas, but also because he was touted as a smooth and charming diplomat.
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