Obama at the G20: Report Card

[Josquius]

C. Nothing great, nothing bad, but a pass.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The Euros love him.  That's a bad sign.  On the other hand, I can't see that he screwed up anything substantial.  C.

After the nonsense he spouted about turkey being a bridge between the civilised world and the islamic world (Turkey is part of the islamic world, not a bridge) and Turkey becoming a part of the EU he'll be a lot less popular.

[Hansmeister]

He went around sucking up the euro-love by bashing america and playing to their prejudice.  This helps Obama, but I ail to see how this helps America.  In the end he surrendered on all fronts in order to be liked and came home emptyhanded, only succeeding in convincing the world that he's a weak pushover.

[Neil]

A

I think he was your best international representative in the last half century. ride the pony.

Nixon was far better.  Come to think of it, Reagan probably was too.  Look at how well-liked Reagan was around the world.

[derspiess]

What is with conservatives and that anyway?  It it some remnant of isolationism?

Well, Euros seem to hate anything right of the U.S. political left so you can see why we're not exactly sending love back that way.

Plus, Europe is our competitor in many ways, and would generally like to see the U.S. diminished on the world stage.

[Valmy]

Plus, Europe is our competitor in many ways, and would generally like to see the U.S. diminished on the world stage.

Damn if the Euros are our rivals who exactly are our friends?  With that perspective it seems one must regard every single foreign nation as an enemy or rival.

[Berkut]

Conservatives don't like Euroes (in the political sense) simply because Euroland is very socially and economically liberal.

It isn't that complicated. They don't like them for the same reason the hard left socialist types like DG and Raz don't like conservatives.

[Queequeg]

Better than adequate but hardly outstanding, a B seems fair.

Agree, though I wish there was a B+/A- option.

[Ed Anger]

I just return the hate.

[derspiess]

Damn if the Euros are our rivals who exactly are our friends?  With that perspective it seems one must regard every single foreign nation as an enemy or rival.

Now you're gettin' it, boy-o

[derspiess]

Conservatives don't like Euroes (in the political sense) simply because Euroland is very socially and economically liberal.

I don't think that's quite it.  There may be a certain low level of disdain on those grounds, but that's not *the* reason.