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How the World Fell Out of Love with Obama
politico.com ^

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nowecant; obama
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To: DiogenesLamp

They were getting so tired of calling Bush a chimp that they decided to elect a real chimp.


21 posted on 07/10/2016 4:26:46 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharaoh?)
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To: RoosterRedux
Not the whole world:


22 posted on 07/10/2016 4:27:18 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (BLM = Obama's Mau Mau)
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To: KyCats

Remember, everything on this rabid left wing website is BS.


23 posted on 07/10/2016 4:27:27 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Recently, in France they called Obama a horses’ behind (freely translated from the French).

And remember early-on....Mrs O disgraced herself-——she told Carla Bruni, wife of the then-French President that she hated being our First Lady.

24 posted on 07/10/2016 4:28:04 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Your self indulging snark is noted.


25 posted on 07/10/2016 4:28:17 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Maceman

wrongo.

most of the world hates the US.
that’s why they love Obama


26 posted on 07/10/2016 4:29:36 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: RoosterRedux

He is a fraud.
The biggest scam ever perpetrated.
He even lies about who he is.

Marxist muslim usurper.

If his father really is the Kenyan he claims, then he is NOT a natural born citizen.

He did tell the truth once. He promised to fundamentally transform America.
I don’t recognize it anymore.
That’s not a good thing.......


27 posted on 07/10/2016 4:30:12 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RoosterRedux
The real question is why anyone fell for the affirmative action pansy to begin with.


28 posted on 07/10/2016 4:31:07 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well, Valerie Jarrett thought he was a pretty nice puppet.

I've always wondered about that.

If Obama is a muslim and muslims treat women like crap
and subjugate them then how the hell is Obama taking orders
from a woman?

Makes no kind of sense at all.

29 posted on 07/10/2016 4:32:00 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"If his (obama) father really is the Kenyan he claims, then he is NOT a natural born citizen."

BINGO!

30 posted on 07/10/2016 4:32:16 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Ukraine itself is a stew of contradictory factions, all calling Ukraine their own. This is a conundrum. How do you win such a game. It seems that winning isn’t even defined.

Maybe Politico is trying to boost Hillary this way.


31 posted on 07/10/2016 4:33:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Not at end, in middle before another picture.


32 posted on 07/10/2016 4:34:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Shows you how stupid the world is...


33 posted on 07/10/2016 4:34:13 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: humblegunner

I’m not sure Islam cares about being doctrinaire if it can exploit a practical situation.


34 posted on 07/10/2016 4:35:34 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: humblegunner

I believe that Obama is a non-observant, homosexual muslim who takes his orders from Soros.


35 posted on 07/10/2016 4:35:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“........and a compelling orator”

Yeah, a regular Churchill. I have never understood why people say this. He’s a terrible speaker and lost without a teleprompter. I’d say that if he was saying things I agree with.


36 posted on 07/10/2016 4:36:13 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Agreed.


37 posted on 07/10/2016 4:36:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Maybe that’s the only truth that counted to his boosters.


38 posted on 07/10/2016 4:37:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: humblegunner

“If Obama is a muslim and muslims treat women like crap
and subjugate them then how the hell is Obama taking orders
from a woman?

Makes no kind of sense at all.”

If she is simply a messenger passing orders along it makes sense for exactly that reason.


39 posted on 07/10/2016 4:39:21 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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To: CrazyIvan

He was the Magic Negro. The world knew it had an ex-slave problem and threw it a bone in the form of Barack Obama. The problem is that they have remained spiritual slaves long after they stopped being physical slaves. God is the only answer here; not any mortal.


40 posted on 07/10/2016 4:40:53 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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