Friday, October 09, 2009

The BHO honeymoon is over: Doubts about the Obama administration have been a dirty secret in European policy circles for months

The Apologizer-in-Chief may have won the Nobel Prize, but still, The Economist tells us (or told us prior to the Nobel Committee announcement), "The honeymoon between Europe and Barack Obama's America is over", with the London weekly noting that
From the American side, there is frustration that the Obama administration’s multilateral humility has not been matched with more European help in Afghanistan, or a promise in every European capital to back tougher sanctions on Iran.

… The sense of a honeymoon ended is widespread, at least at official level. … Doubts about the Obama administration have been a dirty secret in European policy circles for months, even as polls like the latest German Marshall Fund’s “Transatlantic Trends” survey continued to find Obamamania in western Europe. But the grumbling is slowly becoming public.

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