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How the World Fell Out of Love with Obama
politico.com ^

Posted on 07/10/2016 4:13:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

The rest of the world fell as hard for Barack Obama as Americans did.

Back in 2008, the same qualities in the 47-year-old senator from Illinois that excited U.S. voters enthralled people around the globe. He was a fresh face and a compelling orator. He had spent his childhood in the Asia-Pacific, and his skin color alone made billions of people feel a connection with him. Perhaps most importantly, he was not George W. Bush, the president who invaded Iraq. Obama promised “hope” and “change” and people believed he could deliver—that he would end wars in Muslim countries, improve America’s standing on human rights, even alleviate global poverty. “Yes we can!” shouted The Age, an Australian newspaper, when he won office. Just months later, the rookie president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a nod more to his promise than to anything he had accomplished.

Obama’s overseas poll numbers were stratospheric in those early days. In countries like France and Germany, more than 90 percent of people surveyed by the Pew Research Center expressed confidence that Obama would “do the right thing regarding world affairs.” Even in some Middle Eastern countries, where U.S. presidents are rarely liked, nearly half of the populace had high expectations for Obama.

But peace did not arrive in Obama’s time. Obama’s standing in much of the world seemed to sag each year as he struggled to fulfill his promises. America, after all, still has troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Middle East, revolutionary movements, including ones Obama overtly backed, have largely fizzled or bred violent anarchy. And Russia has ignored Obama’s warnings and asserted its influence in former Soviet states, sometimes at the point of a gun. Many saw in this picture a naive president and a United States of diminished standing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nowecant; obama
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1 posted on 07/10/2016 4:13:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

He’s a commie dirtbag. I knew that from the beginning. Wouldn’t hire him to run an ice cream stand. Even if it was 100 degrees outside.


2 posted on 07/10/2016 4:15:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Did you get pears?)
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To: RoosterRedux
How the World Fell Out of Love with Obama

They realized he's an idiot who only got elected because his color gave the liberals who run the media, orgasms.

Yeah, most of us sensible people knew that right form the beginning.

3 posted on 07/10/2016 4:15:23 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: RoosterRedux

I call BS.

Just a Politico Reverse Psychology sympathy piece.


4 posted on 07/10/2016 4:17:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: SamAdams76

Say hello to President Donald Trump


5 posted on 07/10/2016 4:17:43 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

He has done more to divide the races than any other President. ‘Whitey’ is getting damned tired of being blamed for everything.


6 posted on 07/10/2016 4:17:45 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: RoosterRedux

The world is an idiot.


7 posted on 07/10/2016 4:19:32 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: RoosterRedux

The rest of the world is late to this party of realization.
I knew it back in 2007, but too many were determined that this was the answer to their dreams. For most of us, that was the start of our nightmare.


8 posted on 07/10/2016 4:19:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: RoosterRedux

We are the one you’ve been waiting for.


9 posted on 07/10/2016 4:19:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: RoosterRedux

So many dunderheads, so little time...


10 posted on 07/10/2016 4:20:23 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: SamAdams76

Obama and just about the entire government, whether elected or appointed. I have a feeling that the majority of those above the rank of Second Lieutenant in the military is also a communist.


11 posted on 07/10/2016 4:20:53 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ( Screech and the Squawks, or Hillary and her band of fairy misfits)
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To: RoosterRedux

Nobody REALLY loved him except Reggie...
And that was always “behind” the scenes...


12 posted on 07/10/2016 4:21:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Kickass Conservative

Forget Politico. Ask what hath God wrought.

Yes, God writes His message not only via righteous men, but via evil men.


14 posted on 07/10/2016 4:22:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: humblegunner

Well, Valerie Jarrett thought he was a pretty nice puppet.


15 posted on 07/10/2016 4:23:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I read about half the article, and gave up. I realized as I was reading exactly what you stated in your post. Right on.


16 posted on 07/10/2016 4:23:32 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: RoosterRedux

A POS is never loved.

Only avoided to keep getting into one’s shoes.

Flys, however love sh**.

Which is why the progressives of Europe buzzed around him.


17 posted on 07/10/2016 4:23:54 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Kickass Conservative

Exactly right. Total BS.

I’m embarrassed that I read into the 4th paragraph before realizing the article is just 100% disinformation.


18 posted on 07/10/2016 4:24:50 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: rockinqsranch

Well that certainly is a clairvoyance; not even worth seeing if the writer ended up with some clever turn... we just know it all....


19 posted on 07/10/2016 4:24:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RoosterRedux

At end:

As POLITICO discovered in Cuba, Egypt and Ukraine, few things make people long for the extension of an Obama presidency more than the words “Donald Trump.


20 posted on 07/10/2016 4:26:16 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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