President Barack Obama's worldwide apology tour is getting old -- and it's barely even started. It's one thing to strike a tone and take positions different from a previous administration, especially one of a different party. But Obama has gone around the world apologizing for every real and perceived slight this nation has ever visited on any person or nation on the face of the earth for the past 200-plus years.

After listening to a nearly hour-long anti-American diatribe by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega -- a communist and former Sandinista leader -- President Obama proffered the following defense of the nation he was elected to lead:

I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old.

This is reminiscent of Obama's excuse for his "acquaintance" with homegrown terrorist bomber Bill Ayers -- that Ayers crimes occurred when Obama was merely a child.

This excuse was lame the first time it was used -- but the media like it, so it gets recycled.

Obama was elected president of a 233-year-old nation. As much as he'd like the nation's history to start the day he took the oath of office, it didn't. He now owns all that history. He seems to enjoy embracing and wallowing in the bad parts of our history, but has no interest in any of the good this nation has done, unless it's occurred in the past three months.

The United States' involvement in Latin America hasn't been all unicorns and rainbows -- but we're hardly responsible for much of the corruption and mismanagement of most of those nations that has led to their current economic situation.

Apologizing (repeatedly) may get you some kudos and make you popular with the "right" crowd, but it won't get you respect or results -- and that's what the American people want.