We've come a long way from that summer of '08 & the "irrational welcome" in Germany or "groupies" cheering the new president in January '09.
I guess that results matter after all.
This is a sample from this week's headlines:
1) Germany, the place where Euro-BO-mania had its start:
"Germans were ecstatic when Barack Obama took over the keys to
the White House from George W. Bush. Now, though, a new Pew Research
Center survey shows that disillusionment with the US president is
widespread in Germany and that Obama has not lived up to the high
expectations Europeans had of him." (Spiegel)
I guess that the Germans don't like the fact that GITMO is still open, the Bush plan was followed in Iraq, we escalated Afghanistan and now we learned that Pres BO picks what terrorist to blow up.
My reaction: Were Germans really that stupid? Were these people so drunk on Bush Derangememnt Syndrome to believe that a US president would change our anti-terror policies?
Pres BO does not have "a message problem" anymore than Pres Carter had a "message problem" back in 1980. This is not about message. This is about results and the growing perception that Pres BO is in over head.
3) We heard complaint after complaint in the recent Cartagena meeings that Pres BO does not have a Latin American policy. From Mexico to Argentina, there are real concerns that Pres BO is disconnected.
4) Last, but not least, there are more signs that Pres BO has a "base" problem. The left is not energized for some of the same reasons that the aforementioned Germans are disappointed. The American left fell in love with a guy who had never accomplished anything and now can't understand why he can't accomplish anything. For more analysis on this read Jay Cost's latest post.
It wasn't supposed to be this way but it is.
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