[FlingWingFlyer]

Just in time to do a little Christmas shopping. How convenient.

[MulberryDraw]

This is normal for lame-duck presidents.

[Windflier]

Another trip???

Geeeze...does this guy EVER show up to work?

[definitelynotaliberal]

I want the President to have nice, relaxing, long trips. May he take many of them without ever feeling obliged to stop back by here.

HEY! Don’t come around here no more!

[mountn man]

He’ll be home in time to go to Hawaii for a Chrismas vacation.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.

• Euro under siege as now Portugal hits panic button
• Europe Embraces Free-Market Reforms
• "Obama Delivers Only Hot Air" (ASIA TIME) (Messiah's Epic Fail in Asia)

[jakerobins]

Is this guy EVER in the Office?? Now it’s time to load up the Family Truckster for another Wacky Obama Adventure! National Lampoons Obama European Vacation........

[Siena Dreaming]

He will attend back-to-back NATO and European Union summits in Lisbon on Friday and Saturday

My suspicion is that his European buddies are setting him up for some "breakthroughs"...aka some kind of treaties which the MSM will herald as earth-shaking but which nobody really cares about.

[hinckley buzzard]

He's f*ing skying off abroad AGAIN?

This asshole just might get the coldest shoulder in diplomatic history. He may have to nuke Dublin just to stay warm.

[ConservaTexan]

I will seldom complain when this a-hole is out of the country.

[Nepeta]

Will he be able to get in a game of golf before leaving for Europe?

[Don Corleone]

Soros’ little messenger boy on the road again.

[mylife]

"The tricky thing for Obama is to show the Europeans not only that he's still important to them but that they're still important to the U.S.,"

It's ALL About Obama isn't it?

[mylife]

"The tricky thing for Obama is to show the Europeans not only that he's still important to them but that they're still important to the U.S.,"

It's ALL About Obama isn't it?

[Lonely Bull]

- Barack, why don’t we just forget the “Pig-in-a-Poke” itinerary, and just play it by ear, like normal people?

- Honey, we’re not normal people. We’re the Obamas.

[taraytarah]

If President Barack Obama is not yet convinced that his international star power has faded, his next round of transatlantic summitry should clear up any lingering doubts.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The tricky thing for Obama is to show the Europeans not only that he's still important to them...

Except they already think he sucks.

[mojitojoe]

I don’t think he can stay around DC. I think he is in melt down mode and they are doing everything they can to keep it from happening. Escaping on his favorite thing in the entire world, AF1 is what he does to escape reality... and have some private time with IReggie.

[mojitojoe]

Is Wookie going? She would love to shop, but she might have to face Mrs. Sarkozy and that wouldn’t be fun.

[mojitojoe]

Excerpt from the article:

The EU summit was originally scheduled for May in Madrid, but it was called off after Obama decided not to go. U.S. officials said it would have been little more than a photo-op.

Then the euro zone debt crisis erupted, with the near-collapse of Greece’s sovereign debt market and a spillover effect on U.S. financial markets and the economy.

That sent officials scrambling to reschedule the summit, which now is sure to discuss Ireland’s emerging debt woes.

Obama said last week at the G20 that he had developed “genuine friendship” with some foreign leaders, including Merkel. But European diplomats demurred, saying he had mostly forged working relationships, not close personal bonds.

Born in Hawaii and raised partly in Indonesia, Obama — who lacks the instinctive European focus of his predecessors — has declared he wants to be America’s first “Pacific president.” Europeans may be wondering where that leaves the Atlantic.