Posted on 03/25/2011 7:40:06 PM PDT by Libloather
Obama's Plan Lost in Glare of Global Crises
March 23, 2011
By Susan Page
President Obama returns to the White House today after a six-day trip to Latin America that was intended to focus on jobs, trade and the economy -- but the world just wouldn't cooperate.
A partial nuclear meltdown in Japan, a U.S. military operation in Libya, a looming budget showdown in Washington and more have overwhelmed Obama's agenda, raised risks for the nation's fragile economic recovery and opened him to criticism from not only the emerging Republican presidential field but also some congressional Democrats.
Welcome home, Mr. President.
"I didn't think anything could take the cameras off the Middle East, and then Japan has a triple disaster" of an earthquake and tsunami that damaged nuclear plants, says Steven Clemons of the centrist New America Foundation. "It's like out of a Godzilla movie. You have to wonder, what's the next thing?"
"I have spent the bulk of the last month literally in the Situation Room," Vice President Biden told a reception for major Democratic donors in Boston on Monday.
Just eight weeks ago, Obama outlined in his State of the Union Address his priorities for the year. He coined the phrase "winning the future," called the challenges of the day "our generation's Sputnik moment" and endorsed both deficit reduction and spending on energy, education and infrastructure. He set goals to expand access to high-speed rail, increase college-graduation rates and generate clean energy.
Since then, the administration's efforts to spotlight those initiatives through presidential trips, events by Cabinet members, conference calls with reporters and op-eds in newspapers have been swamped by an unrelenting crush of news, from public employees protesting at the Wisconsin state Capitol to pro-democracy demonstrators marching in the streets of Cairo.
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I call it election day.
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Obama coined that phrase like Gore invented the Internet.
Obama coined that phrase like Gore invented the Internet.
Steven Clemons of the “New America Foundation” wonders what the next big thing is.
Let me give you a clue, Clemons. The biggest thing in generations is not Mid-East war or earthquakes or tsunamis or nuclear plant problems or oil spills. It was the election of an outright communist to the highest office in the land and the subjugation of a once-free people by Fedzilla without a whimper.
BO went to Brazil for “jobs.”
Pop quiz:
Brasilia is the capital of the country; Sao Paulo is the business center of the country; Rio is for carnivals.
Where did BO spend his time?
Yes, you got that right.
Are you trying to tell me that big Al didn't invent the internet?
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