After Health-Care Reform Victory, Emboldened Obama Standing Tall Abroad

[Purveyor]

By: Lee-Anne Goodman, THE CANADIAN PRESS

29/03/2010 2:28 PM

WASHINGTON - The passage of a historic piece of domestic legislation has given U.S. President Barack Obama his mojo back, and in a surprising area - foreign policy.

An emboldened Obama, fresh off his health-care reform triumph at home, is now flexing his muscles abroad, displaying a confidence that undoubtedly resulted from his steely determination to win a long and bruising legislative war with Congress.

"It appears he feels he now has the wind to his back," Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, said Monday.

"Internationally, it's definitely being played that he stared down his opponents eyeball to eyeball, that he persevered, that he was tough and he won. It's created a perception globally that he's a force to be reckoned with."

Obama's surprise trip to Afghanistan over the weekend was clearly meant to capitalize on that new-found position of strength. The president delivered a pointed message to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, commanding him to rein in corruption.

"Going there at this moment was well-chosen," Kull said. "He's on a high, he's got some momentum and he wants to associate that with Afghanistan."

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[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

2. Good for the President..he's doing everything

he possibly can to get our country turned around ..inspite of the corporatemediawhores and all the other teabagged legions of hate.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Kick for my president.

:kick:

[jenmito]

4. He has proven he's a winner. People like and respect winners. He got historic legislation passed

when MANY in the media just KNEW it was dead. Taking a term from Seinfeld, he has "hand." :D