Posted on 12/31/2015 7:58:03 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Americans can expect to play a game of 'Where in the World is President Obama?' all through 2016 as the White House is working to line up at least six trips abroad for the lame duck leader.
Politico is reporting that the only continents the president has ruled out are Antarctica and Australia, and while Africa won't be a solo destination, there's a chance Obama could swing through his father's home continent as part of another trip.
He's making the trips to secure his foreign policy legacy – working on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ridding the world of the Islamic State – while the presidential election will be sucking up most of the political oxygen back home.
So far on the docket, there's a G-7 meeting in Japan in June.
A month after, Obama needs to be in Poland for the NATO summit.
In September, the president will head to China for the G-20 meeting.
And after the presidential election, Obama will likely, according to Politico, head to Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Vietnam is reportedly an option for a visit, when Obama is doing one of his Asia swings.
There will also surely be more travel through Europe and to the Middle East too.
And then he's done come January 2017.
That end date will might impact how much influence Obama has abroad.
'Travel early on in a presidency has the value of investing in the relationship, when the president could be around for anther three or seven years,' Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told Politico. 'Traveling at the end of the presidency is very different. They're no longer looking toward the future.'
The White House's Ben Rhodes countered that claim, insisting that Obama's lame duck status gives him great flexibility.
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Dirty Little Secret:
People in all of those countries are just as sick of hearing him flap his gums as we are.
He is not doing anything but hiding in plain site. Just like Hillary. The more he is seen and heard the less people like him. Most of us can’t go any lower on the likeability scale.
That dude is putting some serious miles on that 747! I wonder how many engines he has used up? Boeing is going to have to do a major overhaul for the next president!
Obama is buying votes for his next job as Sec Gen of the UN.
He then controls Global Warming, global gun control and global immigration.
All free from USA interference.
The GOP-e just sits there saying “yea but he is almost gone”
Yes, secure his legacy of f’ing up.
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