Posted on 11/21/2009 3:39:42 PM PST by george76
Even his allies feel let down by the president’s lack of progress both in Asia and at home.
even one previously friendly newspaper noted dismissively: “Obama goes to China, brings home a T-shirt.”
Nor was the steady decline in the president’s approval ratings ...
The real problem may be Obama’s friends — or rather, those among his formerly most enthusiastic supporters who are now having second thoughts.
The doubters are suddenly stretching across a broad section of the Democratic party’s natural constituency. ... anti-war liberals depressed by the debate over troops for Afghanistan; and growing numbers of blue-collar workers who are continuing to lose their jobs and homes.
Obama’s Asian adventure perceptibly increased the murmurings of dissent when he returned to Washington last week, having failed to wring any public concessions from China on any major issue.
For most Americans, the most talked-about moment of the trip was not the Great Wall visit but his low bow to Emperor Akihito of Japan, which the president’s right-wing critics assailed as “a spineless blunder” and excessively deferential.
Perhaps most depressing of all for a small number of influential Washingtonians was the little-noticed resignation of Gregory Craig, Obama’s former White House counsel, who is widely believed in legal circles to have been made a scapegoat for the administration’s difficulties in resolving the future of Guantanamo Bay.
Craig was a key campaign aide to Obama and played the role of Senator John McCain in rehearsals for television debates...
Elizabeth Drew, a presidential biographer and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, described the effective dumping of Craig as “the shabbiest episode of Obama’s presidency”. Drew blamed the “small Chicago crowd” that surrounds the president for undermining Craig’s position with a series of anonymous leaks...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
The Chinese are Proud and Brilliant People. They dispise Frauds! They also dispise Ignorant Outsiders believing they are smarter than the Chinese and We all know the Snotty Attitude OBOZO projects to everyone with his dispicable LENIN POSES! The Worst Thing in Chinese Culture is to Lose “ONE’S FACE!” The Chinese handed OBOZO his Face in a very embaressing way.......and We had the Japanese so embaressed they wouldn’t even publish the picture of OBOZO Kissing the Feet of the Japanese Emperor!
A VERY PATHETIC TIME FOR AMERICA!!
And he and the liberal press were promoting the visit as the most significant visit to Asia by an American President since Nixon’s visit to China —what a joke he has become!
NO one went outside to greet him. He stood there with his microphones, all by himself, and gave a speech with the famous door in the background, Then he had to go up to the door, like a lacky, and KNOCK!
I loved it.
IIRC the first President Bush, got laughed and made fun of when he went to Japan, because all he got for his trip was a contract with toys r us..to be sold in Japan...
BO does not have a dream—just a nightmare. And he IS the nightmare
You mean a superlative form of detrimental. Um..most detrimental ?
PRICELESS!!
Maybe some Freeper can post pictures of OBUMMER side-by-side
Alone at 10 Downing Street and at THE GREAT WALL!!
That will be PRICELESS as well......
Quite frankly, I dont recall that at all!! and China Greatly admired President George H.W. Bush, as well as his son!!! You might refresh your history......
Guessing the Teleprompter goofed again and told OBOZO that the Japanese Emperor was in fact the Saudi King again and His Chief IMAN!
Was it this one?
Lol, could well be true!
I loved a skit I saw on TV of the Obama’s at the dinner table and a teleprompter giving him instructions!!
I thought something was funny about that picture but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
When 0ba-Mao is gone we need to remember that China dissed US and remind them that the United States is not any one President or party.
FWIW I Googled about ten key phrases and couldn't find this pic at all. Scrubbed?
I’ve nothing but contempt for the Euros. F all of ‘em. They all hated George Bush and demanded this idiot be elected. Well, we’re stuck with him and so are they.
the Euro’s yes maybe but no way for the UK.
They are losing men and women every week helping us and have done for 8 years.
In Iraq and Afghanistan they have helped us so much and yes I have served and I know others who still do and we all our thank- full for each other and to be helping each other.
If the UK pulls out we are screwed as the Brits have been in the worst areas since the beginning
When did Honor Guards ever Diss a President before?They are usually “FROZEN AT ATTENTION!! EYES STRAIGHT FORWARD!!”
These Guys would be Executed if They did that without Approval!
so sadly true
Do Democrats have to worry about turnout and voter intensity? You bet,” said Peter Hart, a leading pollster. “But it’s nothing that lowering unemployment by two points can’t solve.”
The odumbo bar is so low that they will cheer 8+ pct unemployment
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