http://blog.gmfus.org/2009/09/17/obama-europe-and-the-inevitable/ Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:30:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.gmfus.org/2009/09/17/obama-europe-and-the-inevitable/#comment-25569 Mario Gioannini Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:32:31 +0000 http://blog.gmfus.org/?p=564#comment-25569 I'm afraid that the last statement in Craig Kennedy's penetrating article is a good forecast of what's going to happen in the next few months. And this, not only because Obama will prove to be as "American" as the apple pie, but also because not even the enormous credit he's been given in Europe will be enough to reverse Europeans' attitudes towards crucial topics like, say, Afghanistan. And I suspect he's going to disappoint Europeans on climate change in Copenhagen, a crucial step when it comes to expectations and priorities on this side of the Atlantic. I suspect that for the larger public it won't be easy, at that point, to distinguish between the "good" President and the "bad" Congress. mg, Torino I’m afraid that the last statement in Craig Kennedy’s penetrating article is a good forecast of what’s going to happen in the next few months.
And this, not only because Obama will prove to be as “American” as the apple pie, but also because not even the enormous credit he’s been given in Europe will be enough to reverse Europeans’ attitudes towards crucial topics like, say, Afghanistan. And I suspect he’s going to disappoint Europeans on climate change in Copenhagen, a crucial step when it comes to expectations and priorities on this side of the Atlantic. I suspect that for the larger public it won’t be easy, at that point, to distinguish between the “good” President and the “bad” Congress.
mg, Torino

]]> http://blog.gmfus.org/2009/09/17/obama-europe-and-the-inevitable/#comment-25568 Mario Gioannini Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:29:27 +0000 http://blog.gmfus.org/?p=564#comment-25568 I'm afraid that the last statement in Craig Kennedy's penetrating article is a good forecast of what's going to happen in the next few months. And this, not only because Obama will prove to be as "American" as the apple pie, but also because not even the enormous credit he's been given in Europe won't be enough to reverse Europeans' attitudes towards crucial topics like, say, Afghanistan. And I suspect he's going to disappoint Europeans on climate change in Copenhagen, a crucial step when it comes to expectations and priorities on this side of the Atlantic. I suspect that for the larger public it won't be easy, at that point, to distinguish between the "good" President and the "bad" Congress. mg, Torino I’m afraid that the last statement in Craig Kennedy’s penetrating article is a good forecast of what’s going to happen in the next few months.
And this, not only because Obama will prove to be as “American” as the apple pie, but also because not even the enormous credit he’s been given in Europe won’t be enough to reverse Europeans’ attitudes towards crucial topics like, say, Afghanistan. And I suspect he’s going to disappoint Europeans on climate change in Copenhagen, a crucial step when it comes to expectations and priorities on this side of the Atlantic. I suspect that for the larger public it won’t be easy, at that point, to distinguish between the “good” President and the “bad” Congress.
mg, Torino

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