Unemployment at home ... Afghanistan strategy ... socialized medicine ... Cap and Tax ... domestic terrorism!!
My giant community organizing brain tells me it's time to vote PRESENT by going on another junket.
Posted on 11/07/2009 8:20:24 AM PST by Zakeet
President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending.
He planned his Nov. 11-19 trip around the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Singapore, but added stops in Japan, China and South Korea. The itinerary reflects the growing importance of East Asia — especially China — to everything from financing U.S. debt and powering the global economic recovery to climate change, disease control, and containing nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.
Asia's importance in global affairs rose over the past decade as U.S. foreign policy was dominated by the war on terror, and as U.S. domestic spending and borrowing from foreign countries spiraled.
"These phenomena have persuaded many Asians that the U.S. is overextended and distracted" and a declining power, said Jeff Bader, the National Security Council's senior director for East Asian Affairs.
Obama intends to use his trip to counter those doubts.
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The Asia venture will bring to 20 the number of countries that Obama has visited in his first year in office, a new presidential record.
It also will come weeks before an international gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to seek a global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Unemployment at home ... Afghanistan strategy ... socialized medicine ... Cap and Tax ... domestic terrorism!!
My giant community organizing brain tells me it's time to vote PRESENT by going on another junket.
This guy is disgusting. He starts forest fires then runs — all to suit his radical left agenda.
May he get chicken flue.
That is priceless!
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Will he use his British passport or his Indonesian passport?
Is The One planning to visit Ft. Hood anytime soon?
I’d like to see his passport.
Yep! Nov. 11 - Veterans day - just another slap in the face to our military!
Leni
Most likely every one he's appointed and many more who opened the door for him.
“”These phenomena have persuaded many Asians that the U.S. is overextended and distracted” and a declining power, said Jeff Bader, the National Security Council’s senior director for East Asian Affairs.”
“Obama intends to use his trip to counter those doubts.”
The credibility of the United States will take years to repair after this guy, and his group of 60’s lunatic radicals.
This piece of crap is making the U.S. in to a banana republic,
So when he is overseas, lets overthrow him.
If he comes back arrest his sorry ass before he makes it to the Brazilian embasy.
Obama is a puppet. Pelosi is the president.
You getting this joker over there?
We do over here.
Unfortunately.
Thursday I think.
I suppose he expects the Asian leaders to kowtow. I wonder what insults they (Asian leaders) have cooked up.
How many of Wookie’s family members are tagging along for a free trip this time? They have to take advantage of all these luxury vacations paid for by tax payers.
Continuing in his role as president of the world. UNbelievable.
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