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Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Obama sets record for most foreign trips by a President in his first year
Via CBS News:
(CBS) Even before President Obama sets foot on Air Force One tomorrow [today- ST] to begin a 9-day trip to Asia, he has traveled to more countries in his first year in office than any of his predecessors.
Since taking office, he has made 7 foreign trips and visited 16 countries, 3 of them twice.
The Asia trip – which takes him to Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea – will bring his total to 8 foreign trips and 20 countries.
The only other president to come close to Mr. Obama’s first-year-in-office globe-trotting numbers is President George H. W. Bush, who took 7 foreign trips to 14 countries.
His son traveled abroad five times to 11 countries during his first year. President Clinton only did 2 foreign trips to 3 nations in 1993.
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This Asia trip is not Mr. Obama’s last foreign foray of the year. He’s scheduled to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in October. And he may stay or head back to Scandinavia to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change a few days later.
It will further secure his record as having done more foreign travel than any U.S. president to date.
Gee, with a foreign travels track record like that, it’s no wonder he hasn’t made a decision on Afghanistan yet. He’s a busy guy! As Think Progress liberal Matthew Yglesias has said before in a huffy response to the criticism that the President is dithering on Afghanistan, hey – it’s all about the priorities. Maybe he’s using all that foreign relations “experience” he got as a child in an effort to try and “repair” so-called “damaged” alliances abroad (well, some of them, anyway).
Oh well. I guess the foreign trips record is a better achievement than, say, having racked up more golf outings in your first year in office than your evil predecessor had in nearly three.
Just sayin’.
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This guy is using AF-1 and Marine-1 like a bloody Yellow Cab. I think he’s spent more time on those than he has in the WH!
Now if he would only spend that much time doing the job he was elected to we might be in better shape. Change that, the more he’s gone the less he can screw up.
Hear that roar of protests from the left about his huge carbon footprint from all this air travel? Oh, wait…Bush is no longer president…
In his way of thinking just making a mere appearance at these places is stellar foreign policy. They wet themselves over his effervescent aura in their presence. Have the sea levels receded yet ?
Is Obama doing less damage by being abroad for so many trips than he would do were he around Washington more?
Which makes his non-appearance in Berlin except as a hologram or whatever even more perplexing.
I hate being overly paranoid or a conspiracy-monger. Having said that…
I can’t help but wonder if he’s not delaying his decision on Afghanistan until events can overtake him there. Let the situation deteriorate while he dithers until he’s forced by circumstance to claim defeat and pull all forces out.
I have to go vomit now.
Seems to me I remember some headlines about GHWB flitting about too much and that he wasn’t paying attention to the massive problems at home. I wonder why the MSM isn’t so all-fired excited about telling us that about Duh-1? Maybe because they still get tingles up their legs?
Oh, wait. The problems at home GHWB’s first year weren’t too big; the economy was heating up a little, the stock market was in a good uptick, unemployment had returned to reasonable levels after the disaster of Peanut-head’s term and the USSR was about to collapse, so he had a little time on his hands.
Now, with unemployment above 10%, the mortgage market about to swan dive again, taxes up and loads more coming, more debt than the country could ever cover (with massively more coming), two wars to fight and the country more divided than it’s ever been in my lifetime, yeah, I’d say he has plenty of time to figure out how to speak Austrian and which of the 57 states he wants to visit next.
At least he can’t be making deals with lawmakers they can’t refuse while he’s out of the country.
What a maroon!
Well, you know this guy has been given the “travel the world for free” card thanks to the MSM. They probably feel that everything is fine in the able hands of Joe Biden and the Democratic congress…let them handle any little problems that might crop up.
Carbon foot print? Who Cares? This is Obama, guys! He’s leading the world toward a cleaner environment. So fly those jets without guilt – Oprah, Al Gore, and all you other super rich folks in Hollyweird.
Who cares that he hasn’t made a decision on Afghanistan…he’ll look damn good in front of a microphone and teleprompter is the Far East. Afghanistan is a lost cause to him already, so it really doesn’t matter how it handles it…just give everyone some perverse speech using military jargon and look presidential.
I am unconcerned with the amount of his overseas travel, except for one minor quibble – he keeps coming back! Can’t we bribe one of these destinations to keep him? It shouldn’t be hard, after all, the rest of the planet loves him…