Filed Under: I Heard Europe Loves Obama…

Der Spiegel asks:

Will Obama Be the ‘Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century’?

“Can US President Barack Obama lead America away from fossil fuel dependency? German commentators don’t think so. Some say he is in danger of turning into an idealistic, one-term president like Jimmy Carter.

US President Barack Obama’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday was supposed to be a moment of leadership during the worst environmental disaster in American history. But critics from across the political spectrum wondered afterwards whether he’d shown leadership at all. The geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems, technologically, to lie beyond anything either BP or the US government was prepared for, and Obama failed to mention any specific new ideas.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,701279,00.html

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