Pres. Obama Bashes Bush Overseas at NATO Summit

Bully Pulpit  " Obama: “The message I want to send is that after a period in which relations between the United States and Europe were severely strained, that strain no longer exists… in terms of a broad vision of how we achieve transatlantic security the alliance has never been stronger”…"   (Irony follows...)

Jindal: Obama told us not to criticize him on TV   "Bobby Jindal said that at a meeting with the President during the gulf oil spill, that he and the President of Plaquemines Parish were told specifically by Obama not to go on TV and criticize him."

Obama in Portugal; meets with EU, NATO partners "Obama's two-day Portugal trip comes days after a sometimes disappointing 10-day swing through Asia, the longest foreign trip of his presidency. Though he failed to ink a free-trade deal with South Korea and couldn't rally wide-ranging support for his opposition to China's currency manipulation, he did make clear that fast-growing Asia is central to U.S. foreign policy.
"It's a reality not lost in Europe, where some leaders worry that Obama views the continent as a secondary player in his foreign policy agenda. "

Pat Oliphant, WaPo