In Japan, Obama was invited to visit the cities destroyed by the U.S.,
the only country on the planet to use nukes to take out masses of human beings, which is why the rest of the world hates it when we say: do as I say not as I do.
An inconvenient invitation awaits President Obama when he lands Friday in Japan. It's one that no sitting U.S. president has accepted and that Obama's tight schedule in Japan cannot accommodate.
Yet many Japanese have been talking about the invitation for much of this year, and it remains open: Come see what a U.S. atomic bomb did 64 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Obama — maker of stirring speeches about "a world without nuclear weapons" and surprise winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize — has raised expectations across Japan that he would break with the past and visit cities devastated by a weapon that only the United States has dropped on human beings.
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Obama is expected to spend less than 24 hours in Tokyo, the initial stop of his first trip to East Asia as president, and he has said that "this time" he cannot accept the invitation. But in a television interview broadcast Tuesday in Japan, Obama said he "would be honored to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency." More at MSNBC
Japanese are fond of Obama:
Obama is deeply admired in Japan, with 85 percent of the population confident he will do the right thing in world affairs, according to a Pew Research Center survey in July. A year earlier, only 25 percent of those polled had similar confidence in President George W. Bush. MSNBC
