So....finally, others are realizing that just what the Right said in 2008, and again in 2012....is the truth.
1. "...earlier this month, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about Chinas disputes with its neighbors. If it is going to be a rising power, he scolded, it needs to behave like one. The next morning, Mr. Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics it attributed to China. It was, Mr. Obama acknowledged, a very blunt conversation.
2.... in Northern Ireland, Mr. Obama had another tough meeting with a prickly leader, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. At odds with him over the Syrian civil war,...
3 ..... tangling with the leaders of two cold war antagonists of the United States is nothing new, the two bruising encounters in such a short span underscore a hard reality for Mr. Obama as he heads deeper into a second term that may come to be dominated by foreign policy: his main counterparts on the world stage are not his friends, and they make little attempt to cloak their disagreements in diplomatic niceties.
4. Even his friends are not always so friendly. On Wednesday, for example, the president is to meet in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has invited him to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. But Ms. Merkel is also expected to press Mr. Obama about the National Security Agencys surveillance programs, which offend privacy-minded Germans.
5. For all of his effort to cultivate personal ties with foreign counterparts over the last four and a half years ... Mr. Obama has complicated relationships with some, and has bet on others who came to disappoint him.
6. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, whom Mr. Obama views as a new kind of Muslim leader, has used tear gas and water cannons against protesters in Istanbul. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader whom Mr. Obama telephoned repeatedly after he became president of Egypt, later granted himself unlimited powers, though he also cut off ties with Syria.
7. Mr. Obama spent nearly four years befriending Mr. Putins predecessor, Dmitri A. Medvedev, hoping to build him up as a counterweight to Mr. Putin. That never happened,....
8. Even with friends, however, there is tension. President François Hollande of France was initially thrilled with Mr. Obama because he saw him as an ally against Ms. Merkel on economic issues.But by the time they met at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, the relationship had soured,....
9. Mr. Obama arrived in office determined to invest in Mr. Medvedev, but he underestimated Mr. Putins continuing power. Their first meeting was marked by a nearly hourlong lecture by Mr. Putin about all the ways the United States had offended Moscow. At their second, Mr. Putin kept Mr. Obama waiting 30 minutes.
10. With Obama, she said, theres no pretense of personal chemistry,...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/w...inds-a-cold-shoulder.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
What will it take for his supporters to finally admit that, in every realm....
...Obama is a fraud and an abysmal failure.
1. "...earlier this month, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about Chinas disputes with its neighbors. If it is going to be a rising power, he scolded, it needs to behave like one. The next morning, Mr. Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics it attributed to China. It was, Mr. Obama acknowledged, a very blunt conversation.
2.... in Northern Ireland, Mr. Obama had another tough meeting with a prickly leader, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. At odds with him over the Syrian civil war,...
3 ..... tangling with the leaders of two cold war antagonists of the United States is nothing new, the two bruising encounters in such a short span underscore a hard reality for Mr. Obama as he heads deeper into a second term that may come to be dominated by foreign policy: his main counterparts on the world stage are not his friends, and they make little attempt to cloak their disagreements in diplomatic niceties.
4. Even his friends are not always so friendly. On Wednesday, for example, the president is to meet in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has invited him to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. But Ms. Merkel is also expected to press Mr. Obama about the National Security Agencys surveillance programs, which offend privacy-minded Germans.
5. For all of his effort to cultivate personal ties with foreign counterparts over the last four and a half years ... Mr. Obama has complicated relationships with some, and has bet on others who came to disappoint him.
6. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, whom Mr. Obama views as a new kind of Muslim leader, has used tear gas and water cannons against protesters in Istanbul. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader whom Mr. Obama telephoned repeatedly after he became president of Egypt, later granted himself unlimited powers, though he also cut off ties with Syria.
7. Mr. Obama spent nearly four years befriending Mr. Putins predecessor, Dmitri A. Medvedev, hoping to build him up as a counterweight to Mr. Putin. That never happened,....
8. Even with friends, however, there is tension. President François Hollande of France was initially thrilled with Mr. Obama because he saw him as an ally against Ms. Merkel on economic issues.But by the time they met at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, the relationship had soured,....
9. Mr. Obama arrived in office determined to invest in Mr. Medvedev, but he underestimated Mr. Putins continuing power. Their first meeting was marked by a nearly hourlong lecture by Mr. Putin about all the ways the United States had offended Moscow. At their second, Mr. Putin kept Mr. Obama waiting 30 minutes.
10. With Obama, she said, theres no pretense of personal chemistry,...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/w...inds-a-cold-shoulder.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
What will it take for his supporters to finally admit that, in every realm....
...Obama is a fraud and an abysmal failure.
