World Leaders Beginning to View Obama as ‘Naïve’

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1. Aron Goldman Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am

   Sarkozy snipes at ‘dim’ Spanish PM and ‘weak’ Barack Obama
   April 17, 2009
   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6106250.ece

   In the latest in a stream of accounts from the Élysée Palace, Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive. “Obama has a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic,” the French President said. “But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency.”

   The US President had underperformed on climate change when they met, Mr Sarkozy said, according to an account of the MP’s session in the newspaper Libération. “I told him, ‘I don’t think that you have quite understood what we are doing on carbon dioxide’.”

   Mr Sarkozy was apparently irked by media reports that Mr Obama had saved the day in London by persuading President Hu of China to reach a compromise with France over tax havens. Mr Sarkozy’s version is that he shamed Mr Obama into action, telling him: “You were elected to build a new world. Tax havens are the embodiment of the old world.”

   Mr Sarkozy was also reported yesterday to have cracked a dubious joke about Europe’s “Obamamania”. According to L’Express news magazine, he mentioned Mr Obama’s planned visit to Normandy for the D-day anniversary in June, saying: “I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it.”

   This jaundiced view of Mr Obama may have been prompted by the US President’s heartfelt welcome at the G20, Nato and EU summits. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” wrote Claude Askolovitch, a commentator close to the Élysée Palace.

2. marK Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:22 am

   I agree with the sentiments expressed here, but let’s not forget the outrage we all felt when the MSM used unnamed sources to trash McCain and Bush. Let’s not fall into the same trap.

3. Kristofer Lorelli Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:36 am

   2 – I agree, but Jack is an honest guy. We corresponded during the Palin-for-VP movement and I have nothing but positive things to say about him.

4. Kevin Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:40 am

   I have a friend, and he is also a very close friend of Sarah Palin. He has CONFIRMED that she is actually going reveal herself as a Democrat and loyal Obama supporter in her book – hence the title.

   This will surely change the dynamics of the 2012 race significantly.

5. OHIO JOE Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:46 am

   “This will surely change the dynamics of the 2012 race significantly.”

   Yeah, if that were true.

6. Aron Goldman Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 11:59 am

   Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says
   October 25, 2008
   http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
   http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

   …Hence the title.

7. Kristofer Lorelli Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   6 – that is my guess…Wallace is going to get it.

8. Martha Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

   Obama is a truly cynical and callous man. He simply does not care that more and more American soldiers are going to die in Afghanistan while he appeases the left.

9. lkv Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

   Everywhere Palin goes and everything she does, she creates drama and enemies.

   Palin became the V.P. running mate after Palin and her aides spent months actively lobbying McCain’s people for the position, soon after this political novice, without even learning how to give an interview decides to go Rogue because she doesn’t like the way McCain’s running his campaign, and then she does her best to destroy the reputations of his campaign staff when they tried to stop her. There’s something not quite right about this.

10. Bob Hovic Says:
    September 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    The book is already #2 at Amazon.