Bill O’Reilly: Why Doesn’t Obama Like Being A ‘Superpower’?

Bill O’Reilly loves being #1, and as someone who is the top dog in his field, he is concerned that Barack Obama isn’t enjoying his stint as President of the United States as much as he should. “He is the most powerful man in the world,” he notes, “but he looks uncomfortable in that role.”

O’Reilly bases his doubts around the fact that during a speech at this week’s nuclear summit, the President commented that “whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.” The introductory clause prompted O’Reilly to ask: “why shouldn’t we like being a superpower?”

Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn argued that the responsibility of being the most powerful military nation in the nuclear era was a cumbersome burden that led to many complications, and that “nobody wants to be the leader in the nuclear world.” O’Reilly wasn’t buying it. He also didn’t appreciate the angle radio host Nancy Skinner introduced that Obama might be deliberately trying not to look too smug as president to make other countries more comfortable with us. The president, he concluded, should look like he loves the job.

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