Obama's failed trip and failed policies

[sandie]

Seems the whole world is waking up to the failures of this president's policies.

Obama’s economic view is rejected on world stage

Free trade deal with South Korea eludes president
By Sewell Chan, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David E. Sanger
New York Times / November 12, 2010

President Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts yesterday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.


The most concrete trophy expected to emerge from the trip eluded his grasp: a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, first negotiated by the Bush administration and then reopened by Obama, to have greater protections for US workers.

And as officials frenetically tried to paper over differences among the Group of 20 members with a vaguely worded communiqué to be issued today, there was no way to avoid discussion of the fundamental differences of economic strategy. After five largely harmonious meetings in the past two years to deal with the most severe downturn since the Depression, major disputes broke out between Washington and China, Britain, Germany, and Brazil.

Each rejected core elements of Obama’s strategy of stimulating growth before focusing on deficit reduction. Several major nations continued to accuse the Federal Reserve of deliberately devaluing the dollar last week in an effort to put the costs of America’s competitive troubles on trading partners, rather than taking politically tough measures to rein in spending at home.

The result was that Obama repeatedly found himself on the defensive. He and the South Korean president, Lee Myung Bak, had vowed to complete the trade pact by the time they met here; while Obama insisted that it would be resolved “in a matter of weeks,’’ without the pressure of a summit meeting it was unclear how the hurdles on nontariff barriers to US cars and beef would be resolved. .

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi...t_a_done_deal/

[coadie]

It is clear Obama is an economic disaster. The best thing he can do is announce he is not running 2012. In his head he saved the country. I am sure he feels he is ready to save the world and is qualified to run the UN.

[Cindy]

Wow, I don't know if the President plans to run again or not. As much as I dislike politicians, and I don't think he was ready to be the President of the United States. I think he needs some new adviser's if he does.

[sandie]

Originally Posted by Cindy

Wow, I don't know if the President plans to run again or not. As much as I dislike politicians, and I don't think he was ready to be the President of the United States. I think he needs some new adviser's if he does.

He needs advisors that aren't committed leftists and are willing to govern with the idea in mind that this government is FOR the people and BY the people.

[Dedicated Mind]

Sandie, you are not supposed to quote the whole article. There are copyright infringement laws. A paragraph is more than enough.

[Praxeas]

I don't think it's just his policies as far as the world scene goes. When he was first elected he brown nosed to the world apologetically and quite frankly that made him and us look weak

The other problem DM illustrated in his thread on GW is arrogance. That was one of the reasons I did not want Gore for president. He was arrogant. You can see it in his debate.

Democrats act like they are know it alls and that they know what is best for us while we do not. Obama carries himself this way too,watch some of the video of him up on stage the way he holds his head up and the way he looks out. Mixed messages, we are humbled yet Im better than you.

[sandie]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Sandie, you are not supposed to quote the whole article. There are copyright infringement laws. A paragraph is more than enough.

I've never heard of such a thing, but I've just learned otherwise, thanks for the heads up.

But, hey how about commenting on the policies of President Obama and how they are failing and how the world governments aren't so thrilled with them either?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by sandie

I've never heard of such a thing.

But, hey how about commenting on the policies of President Obama and how they are failing and how the world governments aren't so thrilled with them either?

You never heard of copywrite laws? Yes you are not supposed to copy what someone else wrote without permission, if it is copy protected.

Legally you can quote a couple paragraphs but that is all

[sandie]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

You never heard of copywrite laws? Yes you are not supposed to copy what someone else wrote without permission, if it is copy protected.

Legally you can quote a couple paragraphs but that is all

I've heard of copywrite laws, but I thought whatever was on the net was useable.
Live and learn.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by sandie

I've heard of copywrite laws, but I thought whatever was on the net was useable.
Live and learn.

Nope. If you go to that article and scroll to the bottom you see this at the end of the article

© Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.

That's just like you might see in a local newspaper of somewhere on the page of a book.

Anything is useable, but as I pointed out legally you can only quote so much. You also have to give credit (not plagiarize), and in some cases you might still need to get permission