washingtonpost.com - 7/20/2009
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Six months on, how is Barack Obama doing in foreign policy? Some leading experts give the new president high marks for improving America's battered image abroad, but they warn that the hard work is still ahead.
The Obama approach to foreign policy problems —
Betsy's Page
Apparently, there is this joke going around Israeli government circles. I guess the Netanyahu government hasn't been that impressed with the Obama approach so far.What do Americans do when something breaks down in their home - when the sink is blocked up, the toilet overflows, a fuse burns out? ...
Wither Hillary Clinton? —
The Moderate Voice
Is Hillary Clinton being shoved to the side? Has President Barack Obama put her in the administration to keep her out of competition in the future? Is she being overshadowed by Obama on foreign affairs and is merely a figurehead? Is all of this normal or a symptom of continuing political ...
Clinton: We're moving at a 'breakneck speed' —
News
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismisses any notion that she has had a reduced public role in the administration's foreign policy, a criticism that has been leveled since President Obama has taken the U.S. message abroad with several speeches since taking office.
Clinton, in an interview ...
Amitai Etzioni: The Obama Doctrine —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
In contrast to the thesis -- much promoted by the president himself -- that he is not an ideologue but a pragmatic, Obama has laid out a strong new normative foundation for his foreign policy. He seeks to promote peace and security but leave democratization and liberalization to the people who ...
The Obama Effect Considered —
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
President Obama has been described as many things - a Rorschach inblot; a movement; a new America; a fraud; a demigog. For whatever it is that he ultimately represents to the world -- the United States living up to its ideals, perhaps -- he is incredibly popular. Among major world leaders, he ...
Is Hillary in Charge of American Foreign Policy? —
The Washington Note
Marc Ambinder over at the Atlantic interprets Hillary Clinton's speech yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations as an indication that President Obama has placed her firmly in charge of American foreign policy - and that Richard Holbrooke, George Mitchell, and Dennis Ross are ...
Obama's pretty speeches —
Betsy's Page
Daniel Henninger makes the point that Obama's speeches, particularly the foreign policy ones, while well done and well delivered, lose their impact because they are not tied to his policy.With one notable exception -- health care -- there is a disconnect between the scale of Mr. Obama's ideas ...
Clinton speech highlights stature —
Ben Smith's Blog
My analysis piece :
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first major policy address Wednesday was a tour of American foreign policy that also served to highlight her stature inside the Obama administration.
With her highest-profile deputies – special envoys Richard Holbrooke ...
Obama, No Better at the Windup than the Pitch —
Weekly Standard Blog
It's bad enough we're forced to listen to him pitching a domestic policy derived from Alinskyesque community-organizing principles and a foreign policy based on plain old appeasement. It's bad enough he's threatening to hurl us tailspinning back into the malaiseous 1970s with his Carteresque ...
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