Posted on 03/13/2010 12:05:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.
But Washington figures with access to Mr Obama's inner circle explained the slight by saying that those high up in the administration have had little time to deal with international matters, let alone the diplomatic niceties of the special relationship.
Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.
A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to "even fake an interest in foreign policy".
A British official conceded that the furore surrounding the apparent snub to Mr Brown had come as a shock to the White House. "I think it's right to say that their focus is elsewhere, on domestic affairs. A number of our US interlocutors said they couldn't quite understand the British concerns and didn't get what that was all about."
The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.
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If the Feds were to properly relinquish jurisdiction of many issues that used to be controlled by the States under the Constitution, he wouldn't have to be so busy.
Gee. I learned in college that all-night keggers interfered with what was really important.
Get this.....
Yeah, because he's too busy trying to destroy THIS country.
[This poseur makes my ass tired.]
LOLol, gave me a laugh and not much does right now!
Some of this is old news, toward the end of the article. Obama deserves a ton of criticism and he’s in way over his head and ability level, but the Telegraph shouldn’t be re-running old news about him having to rush back from dinner to attend to business or looking like he needs a cigarette.
IMO.
He’s way way way above his pay grade.
THE ARTICLE IS A YEAR OLD.
I’m kinda glad this take is seeing print.
As utterly disasterous as Obama’s foreign policy has been, I think I’d rather, choosing among evils, have our enemies (and our friends) think that we are rudderless, rather than that any of this is a matter of American intent.
Oh yea, he just had a big party the other night with Tom Hanks and Spielburg.
This video says it all....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MddREczVeL4
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