Dubya had a photo op with a foreign leader several times a week. Obama doesn't cultivate any friendships. This article points out especially the chilly relationship between Obama and Putin.
The article tries to make it seem that W. was no more successful with Putin but even in this attempt its clear that W. was much more successful in cultivating a strong relationship with the former KGB leader.
Obama thought he was greater than all foreign leaders and there was no need to lower himself to their level and surpisingly here it is the NYT who points out where that viewpoint is now failing him.
Chilly relationship between Russian employer and US employee? Guess there were some things lost in “transmission” . . .
Everybody can see through this total fraud.
...and a cold raised finger.
OH PUHLEEZ!!! Gawd, these sycophants make me puke!
Maybe our media won't say it, but the rest of the world is not so blind.
It is surprising that the NYT is pointing this out. But maybe not...
However, I was recently at an event in NYC with a large number of leftist folks (not radicals, but just your basic Times-reading liberals), and they don’t like Bambi either. Some of them think he’s too off the wall with his drone attacks, some of them obviously find him creepy and arrogant but didn’t quite know how to put it into words, and others, particularly Jews, are secretly worried about his Islamist bent.
The problem is that everybody is scared to say anything. I’ll give the Times a few points for this one.
No, but expecting a Ceausescu or Honecker wannabe to get all smiles and backslaps is over the top.
Al Qaeda in Syria, The Taliban and The Muslim Brotherhood are all 0bambi’s buddies.
So what’s the problem?
I won't repeat the full litany of failure, but a fellow with no foreign policy chops whatever whose Secretaries of State were too inexperienced to help is going to have a very rocky ride when he meets the pros.
Not only is there no interpersonal relationship between these leaders and Obama... really now... does anyone remotely think they have even a modicum of respect for him?
He’s nothing but a two bit, banana republic dictator to them. He neutered America. America isn’t the country it once was. We are now nothing but the world’s whipping boy.
Obama is arrogant & personally weak concomitantly. He has used race/AA to ‘accomplish’ everything he’s done, apart from his ‘memoir’ [which is Ayers’ creation—& even that was at Michelle’s behest, not Obama’s]. He’s a manipulative backstabber who cheated his own political mentor/benefactor out of her spot in the Dem primaries. He looks & acts like a sissy when he gets around tough men or has to ride a bike or pitch a baseball.
At the same time, he can’t help but behave arrogantly, as when he expresses disdain for ordinary Americans, passes judgment on the Cambridge police, and acts w contempt toward the US Constitution. [Not to mention his election marking the moment the tides began to recede & the planet began to heal.] Given the number of ‘I’s & ‘me’s he includes in every speech, it’s clear he thinks everyone else finds him as fascinating as he finds himself, & that is pure, distilled, 80 proof arrogance.
Add it all up & you have an immanently dislikeable person.
I think many detect dear leader's "gayness" and are turned OFF by it.
He should have given the world leaders a really neat gift of all the Abbott and Costello movies on region 1 dvd.