Anyone notice there is almost no coverage of Obama's trip

It almost seems like a news blackout. The (hated by me) Washington Post only mentions a few things on the business page in the context of the South Korea deal faltering. Normally, such a trip would push other things aside in the news cycle. Certainly it would be on the front page. It seems to me it is barely mentioned (now that we figured out it didn't cost 200 million a day).

It was their feature 6:30 (EST) piece.

:shrug:

which is a big deal to have not secured. But he did pretty well in India from what I can tell.

where the hell did this 200 million a day story come from? Did it come from the Huffington post? I was not paying attention to the news or DU the day that "story" broke. Did people seriously post that crap here on DU?

I'm not real big on Stewart right now but I have to say that clip was funny. Fox news will never disappoint. Thanks again.

I mean he goes to India and says yest we will send you the rest of our IT jobs and no you don't have to let Wilmar build any stores in India or let Citibank open any branches in India. Then you can join the UN security council?

Then he goes to Korea, fails are a trade agreement and cannot convince the rest of the world that he is devaluing the dollar. Come on people, this is a shellacking just like the election. And it hat were he he said bring on the republican tax cuts for the rich?

above yours.

Ill give them a pass.

They will spend the next 2 years trying to take Obama down.

But they will be surprised in 2012 when, despite all their efforts to tell us what is going to happen, Obama is still victorious.

NYT covered it. WashPo covered it.

It made a big splash when he was welcomed with accolades. When he had triumphed. When Michelle showed she could dance.

The India trip was converted into a "the US supports others" and "the President is trying to spin his trip to be all about American jobs." The former is nice, newsworthy, and basically says that we're trying to exit gracefully but mostly trying to exit. The latter is ridiculous pandering.

The G-20 summit was essentially a failure. The blather that resulted amounts to a bucket of warm piss. It could have been worse, but let's not confuse the lack of abject failure with stunning victory. QE2 didn't make a whole lot of people overseas happy.

When the paeans ended, much of the positive coverage ended and the trip got the same kind of coverage *'s trips got. Who, what, where, when, and why. "Woo-hoo" is not a wh-word, and what woo-hoo there was was *personal*, not presidential. It's nice that everybody loves Obama and he scores victories, that he's given an award for his mother; it's far better that the president have some pull and score victories. When the personal and the presidential were separated, the chants of woo-hoo died down because all the woo-hoo was personal. Lack of "woo-hoo" does not constitute disrespect.

Very little on the front page, nothing in the past two days that wasn't buried way, way in.

Obviously he needs to do some, but it seems to me he has gone abroad quite a bit in his first two years as president. But then again he is much more popular abroad than he is currently at home.

It doesnt matter where he is

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/facts.html

Scroll to the middle of the page....

I would rather my President travel and try to fix world relations than be on the record as taking the most vacation time in history, especially during inappropriate times.

It's almost like the media begrudges him the benefits..never seem to be a problem for Bush..

Obama being AWOL on Veterans Day - it's a nasty piece of work by some guy named Charles Hurt. Says he spent Veterans Day in Indonesia with their army. Funny, I watch POTUS speaking to several thousand Vets in S. Korea thanking them for their service on Veterans Day. They cheered him on and tried to get his picture, or shake his hand But you wouldn't know this, because it was late at night here - Gosh it was probably 11:00PM in NY - Mr. Hurt was no doubt sleeping, and in Murdoch's world, if you're sleeping, it didn't happen.

other than Fox News' coverage the supposed cost of it? :eyes:

Otherwise, yeah, I think you're essentially right.

Things have changed since "news" changed to "programs for ratings." They go for the attention-getting flashy stories. I love Obama, but I don't find those overseas trips very exciting, no matter who the President is.

and will fail miserably. I predict that that Obama will win by a landslide (at least 55% of the vote), and I also predict that the Democrats will gain a large number seats in the House and Senate.