This is an apocryphal story, or at least I can’t be bothered to source it, but it goes something like this-
During the height of the Space Program a famous Astronaut was eating dinner at a restaurant when a waiter came by and spit in his soup. Said the waiter-
Not everybody loves you babe.
So after his election “shellacking” his handlers hustled Barack Obama out on the road to revisit his adoring overseas crowds. How’d that work out for you?
Traveling in Asia, Obama’s Glow Dims
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, The New York Times
Published: November 12, 2010
Before leaving Washington for a 10-day diplomatic tour of Asia that he has characterized as an economic mission, Mr. Obama conceded that his relationship with the American people had come down from an “incredible high” and gotten “rockier and tougher” as time went on. But he said the same is not true of his relations with foreign leaders.
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Mr. Obama seemed to stumble in Seoul. He failed to seal a deal with Mr. Lee on a long-awaited free-trade agreement, a serious setback for a president who has made doubling exports a centerpiece of his economic agenda. And his plan to even out global trade imbalances ran into resistance from Mr. Hu and Mrs. Merkel, among others. Mr. Obama chalked it up to international muscle-flexing.
It ain’t just a river babe.
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