This Just In Off The Wire!!!!

President Obama just returned from his Asian tour. His goals as a self proclaimed "first pacific president", were to ask China to reduce greenhouse emissions, have Japan cooperate with our navy in the Afghanistan effort, reevaluate the Chinese currency which has been kept artificially low, find cooperation in sanctions against Iran, promote human rights, and find some common ground in the discussions with North Korea. The Associated Press, generally a pro Obama media arm had this to say about the trip...

"The mood in Obama's foreign policy team is tense following an extended Asia trip that produced no palpable results." "The Asians smiled but made no concessions." "The White House did not even stand up for itself when it came to the question of human rights in China."

They went on to say this about his demeanor.....

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."

The liberal media seems to be jumping ship as the AP also reported this assessment....

"Obama's new foreign policy has also been relatively unsuccessful elsewhere, with even friends like Israel leaving him high and dry. For the government of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, peace is only conceivable under its terms. Netanyahu has rejected Obama's call for a complete moratorium on the construction of settlements. As a result, Obama has nothing to offer the Palestinians and the Syrians. "We thought we had some leverage," says Martin Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel under the Clinton administration and now an advisor to Obama. "But that proved to be an illusion."
Even the president seems to have lost his faith in a genial foreign policy. The approach that was being used in Afghanistan this spring, with its strong emphasis on civilian reconstruction, is already being changed. "We're searching for an exit strategy," said a staff member with the National Security Council on the sidelines of the Asia trip."

Then they issued the knockout punch.......

"Obama's advisors fear a comparison with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, even more than with Bush. Prominent Republicans have already tried to liken Obama to the humanitarian from Georgia, who lost in his bid to win a second term, because voters felt that he was too soft. "Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead," Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker in the House of Representatives, recently said. And then he added: "This does look a lot like Jimmy Carter."

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.

So perhaps it's time for the "change" to change back to a country that has posture and exudes confidence? We are the most powerful nation in the world, time to act the part!

God Bless
Capt. Bill