Something about this Summit reminds me of what happened last Summer......

[FrenchieCat]

Remember this? :shrug:

Denver Question: Will Hillary Endorse Obama or PUMA?
http://wallwritings.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/denver-question-will-hillary-endorse-obama-or-puma/


Drama Favors Dems in Convention Battle
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/2008/02/media_spend_mes.html


Obama on Clinton: No Catharsis Needed at Convention
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/obama-on-clinton-no-catharsis-needed-at-convention/


Battle begins for the Hillary vote | World news | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/31/palin.johnmccain


Political Radar: The Note: Obama vs. Clinton: The Battle Continues
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/the-note-obam-1.html

NOW WE HAVE HAD THIS....

G20: Barack Obama flies into London to face Franco-German ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-barack-obama-arrives


Tensions Rise at G-20 Economic Summit -
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/story?id=7214176&page=1


G20: France and Germany throw down the gauntlet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-obama-brown


Sarkozy warns over French and German support
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/sarkozy-warns-over-french-and-german-support-1659164.html


Sarkozy warns G20 over "false compromises"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/bs_nm/us_g20

SO WHAT DO THOSE TWO SITUATIONS HAVE IN COMMON?

:shrug:

THE WAY THAT THEY WERE RESOLVED;
QUIETLY, ORDERLY, AND BETTER THAN MOST EVERYONE INVOLVED EXPECTED!

This man continues to be underestimated,
and maybe that's not such a bad thing afterall! ;)

[redqueen]

1. Lemme just get out my pom poms real quick...

:P

:hi:

[FrenchieCat]

3. I've yet to be proven wrong on the positive value of bringing out the pompoms

for all of the right reasons.

[Clio the Leo]

7. lol, and you never will.....

.... so when do we officially initiate Brown and Medvedev into the megaphone cabal? We're not hearing too much whining about all of the "cheerleaders" these last few days, are we?

[csziggy]

14. Sorry - I forgot to return your pom poms

[firedupdem]

2. K&R! n/t

[kimmerspixelated]

4. I like it!

Good points! Obama simply rocks! It's great that he is so charming, and really I can't wait to see what he can accomplish next! I feel this really is just the beginning! That he'll be accomplishing a lot up until his last day in office. There is much work to be done!

[JayMusgrove]

5. That picture of Obama in the OP's post is

MARVELOUS!!!!!!!!!!

[Beetwasher]

6. The Media Made It Seem Like he Was Walking Into A Lions den

Which makes this positive outcome that much more of a grand slam success.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. The foreign media is making MSM look like a bunch of tools

They are tools, mind you, but now eveyone knows it.

:)

[4lbs]

13. The same lion's den that had France and China at odds with each other and President Obama brokering

a compromise between all parties.

Then, France, Germany, Russia, and China, all came out with statements of enthusiasm for President Obama and looking forward to more meetings with him.


Yeah, he was sure eaten alive at the G20 summit meeting. :D

[Beetwasher]

15. *Snicker*

He makes it look easy.

[empyreanisles]

8. Exactly, Frenchie. How many times can we keep undererstimating and 2nd guessing this man?

This is precisely the reason we should have a degree of trust about how he handling the economy. Let's see how his plan works out. And if he ends up with egg on his face, he'll admit it, and try something else.

[Barack_America]

9. And with Barack and Hillary working as a team.

Much like how the conventions went down.

Today's successes are hers too.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Agree that she has definitely been working behind the scene.....

[Top Cat]

10. Great post..... K&R

[TayTay]

16. They have nothing in common.

The first few articles from 2008 seem to reflect a media obsessed with minutiae from a campaign that was already settled.

The second is about President Obama on the world stage confronting the challenges coming from other international leaders. There are differences of opinion as to what should or should not happen to kick start the global economy. The President has one set of ideas on what to do and is acting persuasively to get world opinion to turn his way. That is an ongoing process and Mr. Obama appears to be doing quite well right now in getting world leaders to acquiesce to some of his goals.


What do you see?

[BeyondGeography]

17. What anyone can see is the press setting Obama up for a big fat failure

when the big fat failure turns out to be their own powers of prognostication.

[TayTay]

18. This makes no sense at all

The accounts coming out about the G-20 Summit and President Obama's helping to forge a consensus are a pretty good win and a very, very decent foundation for this Administration in their dealings with Europe going forward. French and German leaders were initially opposed to bigger stimulus plans and wanted a much stronger and quicker application of regulations that would be binding on world financial institutions. The President, by all press accounts, was key to helping mediate a solution to that.

That is how the press accounts read. I am at a loss to find where reporting someone's hard-won success is a set-up for failure. That makes no sense. If you take this logic further then the President should never attempt anything because it will only engender criticism.

President Obama is going to have successes and failures, like everyone else. I think he is well positioned to have much more success than failure. We can look to the very qualities that made him so welcome on the world stage for why this will be. He is an intelligent, reasoned, diplomatic man who is truly willing to negotiate with others. This man doesn't need to dominate others when he can use his persuasive gifts to get others to willingly come over.