Obama's bad start

Pajamas Media's Stephen Green writes about President-elect Barack Obama's very bad start. He lists four areas, but who would of thought Obama, the "Citizen of the World," is having problems with Europe?

Obama vs. Europe

Speaking of indiscretion, Obama doesn't seem to have a clue on how to treat American allies. During the primary race, he threatened to crack down on major threats like Canada — a position he probably/maybe/sort of backed off from in backdoor talks with the Canadian government. In Europe, Obama is already to the left of most every major EU leader. Then last week, Obama told Poland one thing about missile defense in private and told Russia quite another thing in public. In other words, he's doing his best to spoil relations with Poland, which will have repercussions throughout Eastern Europe, too. Our allies have got to wonder where Obama stands. I think we all do.

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