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April 1st, 2010 | 
Author: Prof. Niall Ferguson on Obama: A colossal failure of American foreign
The result has been a foreign-policy debacle. The president has alienated everybody: not only Mubarak's cronies in the military, but also the youthful crowds in the streets of Cairo. Whoever ultimately wins, Obama loses. …
Publish Date: 09/30/2011 6:43
http://politicalarena.org/2011/09/29/prof-niall-ferguson-on-obama-a-colossal-failure-of-american-foreign-policy/
RealClearPolitics – President's Foreign Policy Failures Increase
President Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic …
Publish Date: 09/28/2011 5:53
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/28/presidents_foreign_policy_failures_increase_111498.html
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ObamaCare finally scraped through and seems too have given Obama a little boost back home, but his overseas agenda is looking worse and worse.
Before going into the blunders it needs to be said that although the Obama administration did achieve a missile treaty with Russia, it was far more profitable for Russia than for the U.S. because Russia needed to reduce the costs of its nuclear arsenal, and the arms talks with the U.S. gave it some wanted prestige.
So Who Has Obama Upset So Far?
Canada
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticized the Canadians for failing to invite all eight members of the Arctic Council to a recent consultation and the following day, the Canadian Foreign announced that Canada will be ending its Afghan mission next year.
Just one day after the above was written, Clinton again publicly attacked Canada.
This time critiquing it’s approach to abortion.
Israel
Obama behaved as badly as is possible by telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he was going to have dinner and hoped that Netanyahu would have come up with some better ideas by the time he returned.
The E.U.
The administration recently angered the EU by refusing to attend a summit in Madrid and the EU powers are no longer leaping to Washington’s support on Afghanistan.
Britain
The administration angered Britain by seeming to side with Argentina over negotiations about the Falklands Islands and a British parliamentary committee has just pronounced the US-UK special relationship as over.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s President Karzai was angered because his visit was cancelled.
Brazil
Obama upset the Brazilians by rushing over to Copenhagen to try and snatch the 2016 Olympics from Rio and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has now publicly rejected Secretary Clinton’s public request for support for a sanctions resolution at the U.N.
Turkey
Turkey is angry about the passing of another version of the Armenian genocide resolution through a key House committee and it’s now getting closer to Iran with Russia.
Obama Is Perceived As Weak And Naïve
North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Iran have totally rejected the administrations overtures and the administration’s actions have simply given the world the impression that the administration is weak.
It’s possible that the reason that Israel is being given such a hard time right now, is not so much because of its insistence on building homes in east Jerusalem, but because the U.S. needs to gain some badly needed credibility.
April 7, 2010
Just a quick follow up to the above;
Posted in administration, Afghanistan, America, Europe, failure, Hilary Clinton, Israel, Jerusalem, Medvedev, Middle East, Netanyahu, Obama, president, Russia, Soviets, UK, USA, Washington | 
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Prison Planet.com » Did Russian Leaders Snub Obama by Refusing …
www.prisonplanet.com7/14/09
Did Russian Leaders Snub Obama by Refusing to Shake His Hand? … The video appears to show numerous Russian politicians ignoring Obama's extended hand during his visit to Moscow. Did Russian Leaders Snub …
Wake up Black America: Was Obama "snubbed" while in Russia?
It doesn't surprise me that the media didn't report on this apparent snub of Obama by Russians. … As far as a snub in Russia I really dont know. … Obama's internet Czar will decide which message should be on the internet.
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Did the Duma Shun Obama when he visited Russia?
The video shows members of Russia’s Duma shaking hands with President Medvedev but refusing to take Obama’s often offered hand.
A couple of Americans that I showed the video to suggested that it must be faked, and I wish it was, but I doubt that it is.
To alter an image in Photoshop is one thing and even the best done ones can be detected if you look hard enough and know what you’re looking for, but to alter a video in this way would be exceedingly hard to do, even for a major studio.
I might be wrong, and if you believe the video is fake then please explain how it was done and I will publish your comments.
I live in an area that is 80% made up of people from the former Soviet Union with most coming from Georgia and when I told people about the video last night and asked them what it meant, they looked at me in a somewhat surprised and half-disbelieving way, and said, “Of course they wouldn’t shake hands with him, he’s black”.
So the refusal to shake hands was because Obama is half black and not because of his politics which is very very sad.
A quick perusal of the articles on this site will show that I am not an Obama fan, and I believe him to be one of the worst things that ever happened to the United States.
In this case however, I feel very sorry for him, and that is something that I never expected write.
During his visit to Russia, it was widely reported in Europe, but not in the States that Obama suggested to both Medvedev and Putin that they try to put a stop to corruption in Russia.
Such a suggestion would be similar to proposing that Obama cut back on the Constitution, and they must have both laughed their way to the bank.
One well known French newspaper carried a banner headline following the report which roughly translated was, “Obama puts his foot in the plate”.
