Obama's own remarks (not to mention his policies) have been categorically bearish for the dollar.
It took a european central banker to say what someone in this administration should have said.
All true, but the problem is that in Trichet saying it, he casts into sharp contrast the feckless policy of the Obama administration.
If anything, Trichet and Sarkozy have opened people’s eyes in the last week: The emperor has no clothes.