Only nine months ago,when he addressed an estimated 200,000 people in Germany, Barack Obama was heralded as "President of the world."But now that he's president of the United States, the world doesn't appear to be following up on its endorsement.
From France to Poland,Czech Republic to China,many European nations are rebuffing him and offering little room to negotiate economic and security policies.
Obama faces his first major international test next week at the G20 summit in London.
I think as he heads to Europe, he faces a public relations disaster.European leaders are turning against his massive spending plans.They, as many Americans, see it as a destructive way to move forward and will only add to a massive American debt burden.
Some leaders have called the Obama administration,"inept,""inefficient" and "increasingly poorly managed."A top European Union politician slammed Obama's plans for the U.S. to spend its way out of recession as, "a way to hell."
They also feel that the massive stimulus package and the banking bailout will undermine the stability of global financial markets.
Poland is concerned that Obama,as a way to appease Russia, plans to bailout of a missile defense shield that the Bush administration negotiated with Poland and the Czech Republic.
Sure sounds like "CHANGE" included pissing off our allies overseas, too.
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