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Under Fire at Home, Obama Finds More Support on World Stage
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 22, 2011 07:12am |
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| Author | Alexis Simendinger |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "In the United States, confidence in President Obama’s leadership and policies may have taken some serious knocks since his inauguration, but America’s head of state frequently boasts that his presidency has revitalized the nation’s tarnished reputation and clout around the world.
“Tonight we can say that American leadership has been renewed and America’s standing has been restored,” the president boasted during his State of the Union address in January.
At the United Nations this week, the president may be in open disagreement about statehood with the leaders of one of his (and America’s) strongest detractors -- the Palestinians -- but he’s also selling the U.S. role as indispensable helper. Tuesday’s example was the U.N.- and NATO-backed interventions that helped drive Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi from power.
The lesson in Libya, Obama said during a speech in New York, was that the finest results are achieved when allies “stand together as one.”
“You will have a friend and partner in the United States of America,” he promised the Libyan people during his U.N. remarks. (The president will give a formal address to the General Assembly Wednesday morning.) “We will stand with you as you seize this moment of promise, as you reach for the freedom, the dignity, and the opportunity that you deserve.”
A little more than a year before he faces economically distressed voters at home, Obama’s reputation for leadership on the world stage remains on solid footing in most countries, according to polls, even as international assessments of the political newcomer have grown more equivocal around the world since his historic 2008 election." |
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