Maybe just because the U,S President drops a dime and tells foreign leaders to adjust their schedules because he wants to see them at the White House won't get the same response so much anymore. This seems to be the first evidence that the rest of the foreign leaders won't beat such a hot path to sit with the American president and get pictures taken in the White House. No more most of the games being played being played on our turf. It might be more like a lot of the future games will be played either on the other guy's field or a neutral site. Looks like our Prez has been reduced to being "just one of the guys".

When it's our political leaders and our businessmen that have cost the rest of the world so much with our incompetence and greed, I guess we earned it. Too bad.

Here's an article from the weekend Wall Street Journal...

http://sbk.online.wsj.com/article/SB...538447677.html

"I’ve always believed that America’s government was a unique political system — one designed by geniuses so that it could be run by idiots. I was wrong. No system can be smart enough to survive this level of incompetence and recklessness by the people elected and appointed to run it." (Tom Friedman, The New York Times, 2008)