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Obama’s Warning Against ‘Nationalism’ Clanks Against July 4

Obama’s Warning Against ‘Nationalism’ Clanks Against July 4

Leave it to Barack Obama. As the rest of us were getting ready for the July 4 holiday that celebrates the birth of the United States of America, our former president fetched up on foreign soil, in Indonesia, to warn against what he described as "an aggressive kind of nationalism." If anyone's being unduly "aggressive" here, it's Mr. Obama, throwing what sure looks like shade at his elected successor, from beyond the water's edge, and for some as-yet-unreported

Leave it to Barack Obama. As the rest of us were getting ready for the July 4 holiday that celebrates the birth of the United States of America, our former president fetched up on foreign soil, in Indonesia, to warn against what he described as "an aggressive kind of nationalism." If anyone's being unduly "aggressive" here, it's Mr. Obama, throwing what sure looks like shade at his elected successor, from beyond the water's edge, and for some as-yet-unreported but almost certainly lucrative spe…