Recently, the aspiring king in Washington jetted off again, this time visiting the Alcoa plant in Davenport, Iowa. I don’t believe any president has spent so many taxpayer dollars building up flight time since Air Force One first became airborne.

Hardly a day passes when he’s not making a photo op here or abroad. Watch a daily TV newscast from London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and there he is, getting coverage for this and that. What a great statesman.

And he has proved it, signing a U.N. gun control resolution, telling Israel to return to 1967 borders and cede territory to the Palestinians, and don’t forget his speech to the British Parliament that inspired London Times legendary columnist William Rees-Mogg to compare him to Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill, once a young reporter, must have rolled over on that one, no doubt rephrasing his famous saying to, “Never before have so many of the British press corps fallen for the spiel of a colonies huckster like this since P.T. Barnum visited London.” Barnum, though, sought to entertain the populace, not subjugate them by ignoring constitutional laws.

By Rees-Mogg’s parameters for statesmanship, I must be right up there with Teddy Roosevelt, or Bob Hope at the very least. Hope, known for “Let the show begin,” undoubtedly, upon hearing Barack Obama compared to Churchill, surely said, “Let’s ring the curtain down on this guy’s show before he totally destroys this great country. One term is enough.”

Amen, Bob.

John R. Davis, South Paris