Obama Soul Mate Down Under Looks Down and Out: William Pesek
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Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- It’s as predictable as politicalleadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseasfor a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state andchange the subject.
Barack Obama may have this tried-and-true strategy in mindas he plans to visit Australia, which is about as far as a U.S.president can get from the rancor in Washington. Yet as he meetswith Prime Minister Julia Gillard in November, it will be hardnot to wonder about the weak leadership imperiling not onlytheir economies, but also the world at large.