Nice guy act effective in foreign policy?

[msmith198025]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662822,00.html


When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming.

There were only a few hours left before Air Force One was scheduled to depart for the flight home. US President Barack Obama trip through Asia had already seen him travel 24,000 kilometers, sit through a dozen state banquets, climb the Great Wall of China and shake hands with Korean children. It was high time to take stock of the trip.


Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even slightly forlorn. The CNN cameras had already been set up. But then Obama decided not to play along, and not to answer the question he had already been asked several times on his trip: what did he plan to take home with him? Instead, he simply said "thank you, guys," and disappeared. David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's expectations had been "too high."

Thoughts?

[Bob Haller]

everyone gets tired by the end of a trip/

no doubt afghanistan and health care are bugging him

[msmith198025]

Granted.

The question is though, is his approach to foreign policy effective?

[Skyhi]

Granted.

The question is though, is his approach to foreign policy effective?
He's only been in office for 10 months. It's way too early to tell.

[Bear Paws]

He's only been in office for 10 months. It's way too early to tell.
I hope you where that gracious and benevolent with Pres. GW Bush in his tenth month.


David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's expectations had been "too high."


Your damn right we have a high expectations. Its not too much to ask for someone to live up to the expectations they promised with a lot of hype (BS)... But sulking and acting defeated on foreign soil and sculking away into the shadows of his advisers like a exposed charlatan? That's just unacceptable.

But why would I expect much more of our apologist in chief. There where no teleprompters in the Blue House to give him his fix of courage. There is no script of soaring redemptive rhetoric for diplomatic and economic defeat and failure as the world looks on with utter disbelief of where the once mighty USA has shriveled to in 10 months under his inept leadership..
Still loved by many like Sky, but feared by none, yet still so full of lofty BS, but he is actually incapable of achieving anything with his grandiloquence.

Obama left Asia scolded in defeat with head hung lower than in the Copenhagen humiliated and did not promise to return...ever.

[Skyhi]

I hope you where that gracious and benevolent with Pres. GW Bush in his tenth month.

I was OK with GWB until the USA overthrew the government of Iraq.

[fallout2600]

Nice guys finish last.