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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Odd, that's what Reggie says too.
...for his *own* sake, he'd better stay within CONUS. ISIS does not look kindly on apostate Muslims, (not to mention the Sunni-Shi'a split which could bite him no matter which side he's on). Yes, I think he's Muslim.
He just spent two weeks in Asia.
Yeah I fel the same way....but at least he is not HERE...running around in foreign countries hen they already mock him means nothing...
we get the minor bonus of his absence and his go-rilla woman.
I call BS on ‘his legacy’.
I say he is shopping for a retirement location for 13 months from now.
All the graft he has accumulated should make him able to live in a palace in a Third World country. He can keep lying to those people.
I hope he makes it to Egypt to survey his accomplishments.
Yeah, that overseas visit includes visiting the headquarters of his legacy: Iran and ISIS Headquarters.
Just a World Tour to look for more Illegals to replace American workers
“Obama to fly abroad at least six times to ‘secure’ his legacy”
More likely, to secure his next job: Sec. General of the U.N.
But Taquiiia (or however it’s spelled) will ensure him a pass.
The World will celebrate when this Fool is gone
Just another way to spend as much of OUR money as he can before he’s HISTORY!!!!!!
Maybe ISIS can pop him off during one of these “tours” (actually scouting out places to go into exile).
Really hope they don’t. The assassination of JFK absolutely KILLED any possibility that Barry Goldwater (or any Republican) could have been elected President in 1964. The “memorials” to JFK that were passed in the succeeding Congresses, including the War on Poverty (which, to date, accounts for practically every CENT of the national debt, all while moving the needle of poverty not one whit), and the bumbling that finally lost Viet Nam for America.
And the trade embargo against Cuba, which was kept in place for DECADES as a further “memorial” to JFK.
Of course, this grifter pretender bum will travel at taxpayer expense even after he is out of the presidency. What a subhuman waste.
If he has a pen and a phone, we’re still in trouble...
Cost for Obama aboard Air Force One...$228,288 per HOUR.
Leni
His legacy is a vastly weakened US, the Middle East on fire, murdered Christians in Africa, Syria and Iraq, and severed heads rolling from their bodies on the desert floor - pure evil
All quite true, but
STOP HATING OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS BLACK (AND GAY AND MUSLIM)!
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