Posted on 07/10/2016 4:13:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The rest of the world fell as hard for Barack Obama as Americans did.
Back in 2008, the same qualities in the 47-year-old senator from Illinois that excited U.S. voters enthralled people around the globe. He was a fresh face and a compelling orator. He had spent his childhood in the Asia-Pacific, and his skin color alone made billions of people feel a connection with him. Perhaps most importantly, he was not George W. Bush, the president who invaded Iraq. Obama promised “hope” and “change” and people believed he could deliver—that he would end wars in Muslim countries, improve America’s standing on human rights, even alleviate global poverty. “Yes we can!” shouted The Age, an Australian newspaper, when he won office. Just months later, the rookie president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a nod more to his promise than to anything he had accomplished.
Obama’s overseas poll numbers were stratospheric in those early days. In countries like France and Germany, more than 90 percent of people surveyed by the Pew Research Center expressed confidence that Obama would “do the right thing regarding world affairs.” Even in some Middle Eastern countries, where U.S. presidents are rarely liked, nearly half of the populace had high expectations for Obama.
But peace did not arrive in Obama’s time. Obama’s standing in much of the world seemed to sag each year as he struggled to fulfill his promises. America, after all, still has troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Middle East, revolutionary movements, including ones Obama overtly backed, have largely fizzled or bred violent anarchy. And Russia has ignored Obama’s warnings and asserted its influence in former Soviet states, sometimes at the point of a gun. Many saw in this picture a naive president and a United States of diminished standing.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
He’s a commie dirtbag. I knew that from the beginning. Wouldn’t hire him to run an ice cream stand. Even if it was 100 degrees outside.
They realized he's an idiot who only got elected because his color gave the liberals who run the media, orgasms.
Yeah, most of us sensible people knew that right form the beginning.
I call BS.
Just a Politico Reverse Psychology sympathy piece.
Say hello to President Donald Trump
He has done more to divide the races than any other President. ‘Whitey’ is getting damned tired of being blamed for everything.
The world is an idiot.
The rest of the world is late to this party of realization.
I knew it back in 2007, but too many were determined that this was the answer to their dreams. For most of us, that was the start of our nightmare.
We are the one you’ve been waiting for.
So many dunderheads, so little time...
Obama and just about the entire government, whether elected or appointed. I have a feeling that the majority of those above the rank of Second Lieutenant in the military is also a communist.
Nobody REALLY loved him except Reggie...
And that was always “behind” the scenes...
Forget Politico. Ask what hath God wrought.
Yes, God writes His message not only via righteous men, but via evil men.
Well, Valerie Jarrett thought he was a pretty nice puppet.
I read about half the article, and gave up. I realized as I was reading exactly what you stated in your post. Right on.
A POS is never loved.
Only avoided to keep getting into one’s shoes.
Flys, however love sh**.
Which is why the progressives of Europe buzzed around him.
Exactly right. Total BS.
I’m embarrassed that I read into the 4th paragraph before realizing the article is just 100% disinformation.
Well that certainly is a clairvoyance; not even worth seeing if the writer ended up with some clever turn... we just know it all....
At end:
As POLITICO discovered in Cuba, Egypt and Ukraine, few things make people long for the extension of an Obama presidency more than the words “Donald Trump.
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