OBAMA'S INTERNATIONAL CLOUT DECLINING

I have been noticing increasingly critical treatment of Obama in the foreign press. The foreign press is far more critical of him than the mainstream media. It is hard to find critical assessments of his policies, actions, or goals in the US unless you listen to FoxNews or right wing talk show commentators. But I have wondered if some of them are more in tune with world opinion than the mainstream media and David Letterman.

Now I see some others noticing this attitude abroad. Reihan Salam, "Can He Wow the World Again." The weak US economy does play a role in this, but I don't think this is the complete picture.