WASHINGTON — It is a well-known axiom of presidential politics that when things aren’t going well at home, chief executives go abroad.
With his
presidency beset by a wave of scandals — from the shocking politicization of
the IRS to damaging national security leaks — and his declining job approval
polls, President Obama fled town this week for a European tour. Surely, his
once-legendary popularity abroad would give him a much-needed boost at home.
But Obama
found that the political climate wasn’t much better there than it was back
here. Not only did the nasty scandals follow him overseas, but he also
discovered that he wasn’t the rock star he was in his heyday.
Indeed, a
Gallup poll in March found public approval of U.S. leadership in Europe had
plummeted 11 percentage points since his first year in office, to 36 percent.
Half of that decline was in the past year alone....To Read More...
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