"This has been probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign," Obama protested. "And every fact-checker and every reporter who's looked at it, governor, has said this is not true."
In fact, the president has followed a "doctrine of mea culpa" crafted by a handful of radical advisers who have urged him to, in so many words, apologize for America's war on terror and nuclear superiority.
• Samantha Power. "U.S. foreign policy has to be rethought," according to Obama's national security adviser for multilateral affairs and human rights. "Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors."
Power has suggested the president literally bow to foreign leaders, as atonement for Americans' "sins" — and that's exactly what he's done.
A former New Republic journalist, Power is also a 9/11 apologist who thinks Islamic fanatics hate America because it backs governments that repress them — such as the Mubarak regime in Cairo.
"It's not a coincidence that all but one of the 9/11 hijackers came not from axis of evil countries but from American allies, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia," she says. Power thinks the 9/11 massacre helped "Americans empathize with the victims of genocide."
She redefines U.S. vital interests to include genocide, poverty and disease, and was the main White House aide agitating for removal of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi on "humanitarian grounds."
• Anne-Marie Slaughter. The former State Department policy chief, who last year returned to Princeton University, also has advised the president to apologize for the war on terror.
"The president must ask Americans to acknowledge to ourselves and to the world that we have made serious, even tragic, mistakes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 — in invading Iraq, in condoning torture and flouting international law, and in denying the very existence of global warming," Slaughter said.
• Rashad Hussain. The White House adviser-turned Mideast envoy helped Obama kick off his apology tour in 2009 with a remorseful speech to Muslims in Cairo that he helped draft.
In the 6,000-word speech, which never denounced "terrorism," Obama apologized for the war on terror, lamenting "it led us to act contrary to our ideals." He vowed to close Gitmo, the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and take other "concrete actions to change course."
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