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Obama's Asia tour kicks off at critical time on home front
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | November 6, 2009 | Margaret Talev

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


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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.

1 posted on 11/07/2009 8:20:25 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

This guy is disgusting. He starts forest fires then runs — all to suit his radical left agenda.


2 posted on 11/07/2009 8:23:14 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Zakeet
The guy will be pushing union agenda during this tour. Such as “Import X amount of big 3 autos or I will slap you with...”
3 posted on 11/07/2009 8:23:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: EagleUSA
Chicom can keep him. I begin to wonder how many Jihadi sleepers are crawling inside his gov.
4 posted on 11/07/2009 8:25:14 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: EagleUSA

May he get chicken flue.


5 posted on 11/07/2009 8:27:00 AM PST by boomop1
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To: Zakeet

That is priceless!


6 posted on 11/07/2009 8:28:18 AM PST by PghBaldy (DC only had about 31,000 doses of vaccine, yet two relations of Obama got it!)
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To: Zakeet

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Will he use his British passport or his Indonesian passport?


7 posted on 11/07/2009 8:28:48 AM PST by UglyinLA
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To: Zakeet

Is The One planning to visit Ft. Hood anytime soon?


8 posted on 11/07/2009 8:28:49 AM PST by GOPRaleigh (It's gonna be a loooonnnggg 4 years...)
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To: Zakeet

I’d like to see his passport.


9 posted on 11/07/2009 8:29:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither)
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To: Zakeet

Yep! Nov. 11 - Veterans day - just another slap in the face to our military!


10 posted on 11/07/2009 8:30:25 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Zakeet
Will he lay a wreath at the tomb of Chairman Mao?

Leni

11 posted on 11/07/2009 8:30:48 AM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I begin to wonder how many Jihadi sleepers are crawling inside his gov.

Most likely every one he's appointed and many more who opened the door for him.

12 posted on 11/07/2009 8:32:53 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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“”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.


13 posted on 11/07/2009 8:53:41 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Zakeet

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.


14 posted on 11/07/2009 9:22:32 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: Joe Boucher

Obama is a puppet. Pelosi is the president.


15 posted on 11/07/2009 9:28:46 AM PST by 2Jedismom
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Tiger,

You getting this joker over there?

We do over here.

Unfortunately.

Thursday I think.

16 posted on 11/07/2009 9:37:08 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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Yeah, he will be here.
The pathetic sack of sh*t will talk gibberish as usual.
He will play the lobbyist of Big 3 autos, or shall we say
UAW.
17 posted on 11/07/2009 9:40:35 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: Zakeet

I suppose he expects the Asian leaders to kowtow. I wonder what insults they (Asian leaders) have cooked up.


18 posted on 11/07/2009 9:42:16 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Zakeet

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.


19 posted on 11/07/2009 9:52:31 AM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Zakeet

Continuing in his role as president of the world. UNbelievable.


20 posted on 11/07/2009 9:58:37 AM PST by Borax Queen
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