This weekend the president travels to Lisbon, Portugal for the upcoming NATO summit, but will it be another disastrous foreign trip for the president and the U.S.
After the shellacking the president and his party suffered in the mid-term elections, the president traveled to Asia. The trip was heralded as a chance to bring home valuable jobs for the American people, unfortunately it turned into a public relations nightmare for the president.
Asian and European leaders dressed down the president over U.S. currency policy, and European leaders lectured the president that his economic policies are having a negative effect on the global economy. The last indignation was the failure to secure a free trade deal with Korea, which was all but completed by the Bush administration, and would have created substantial number of jobs in the U.S.
The president has to deal with a reluctant number of our NATO allies who are beginning to signal that they are pulling their forces out of Afghanistan, this after the president repeatedly stating that our allies need to do more. There are other weighty issues to be dealt with to include NATO countries substantially reducing their defense budgets and NATO relationship with Russia.
Is the president up to the task?
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