The U.S. President in South Korea - Attending the G-20 Summit

President Obama is now in South Korea, where he will meet with the leaders of the top global economies at the G-20 summit. The purpose of these meetings are to help stabilize the world's financial markets.
On his present schedule is a meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. While in South Korea, The President will visit with the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea on a most fitting day on Thursday, which is the celebrated Veterans Day holiday in the U.S.
Expected are talks about currency and trade at the summit. President obama is likely to ask all other nations in the G-20 to help foot the bill of the world economy. South Korean authorities now have approximately 50,000 police and others known as riot police to help protect the G-20 Summit.
Grappling with a troubled U.S. economy, the Obama administration has highlighted the strengthening of economic and military ties during the president's 10-day Asia tour. Obama started his trip with a three-day stay in India, before heading to Indonesia.
In Mumbai on Saturday, the president unveiled about $10 billion in contracts for U.S. exports to India. It is Asia's third-largest economy and one of the world's few growth markets.
Speaking in New Delhi on Monday, Obama said, "We make some of the best products in the world and we want to sell them to a growing Indian market."
At the Seoul summit, G-20 leaders are expected to focus on the global economic recovery and mechanisms to ensure balance and sustainable growth.

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Suprise visit to BAGHDAD, IRAQ after a Very Successful G-20 Summit

Today President Obama was supposed to return from his European trip, but instead took a detour to Iraq. President Obama made an unannounced visit to Baghdad.  One reason for the visit was to honor U.S. troops, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. "Our men and women who are in harm's way, either in Iraq or Afghanistan, deserve our utmost respect and appreciation," Gibbs reportedly told reporters traveling on Air Force One. He landed in Baghdad at 4:42PM local time in Baghdad, which makes it approximately 9:42AM Washington D.C. time. Besides visiting the troops, his 2nd goal was to award 10 medals of valor to 10 servicemen that have earned them. A third goal was to meet with Iraqi Prim Minister

Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi President, Jalal Talibani. Obama was almost setting the the backyard of Baghdad when he visited Turkey, so it was definitely not out of the way, and to tell the truth, when First Lady Michelle decided to go back home before Barack, I had an indication that he might just do that. There was lots of speculation, but no proof. The White House kept the travel plans secret, mainly for security reasons. It is unknown if anyone in the military even knew that he was coming, but again, you can speculate that the Iraqi President and the U.S. commanders knew of his plans when leaving Turkey.
The last thing President Obama was scheduled to do was to jointly address the Turkish parliament and hold a  news conference with the Turkish President Abdullah Gul. You can listen to the address to the Turkish parliament in a prior article here on this Obama website.
It was an extremely busy week, as he successfully detoured all eyes and ears away form the U.S. economic crisis by traveling to Europe, as he first attended a series of summits within the G-20 summit in London. At that meeting he did discuss the global financial crisis facing all nations today.
His objectives to travel to Europe were multi-faceted. Besides the G-20 conference in Great Brittain, President Obama traveled to France and Germany, and did get the allies to pledge about 5,000 troops, in the form of police and security trainers, and not as combat troops.  In Prague, Czech Republic, Obama delivered a speech about nuclear nonproliferation while at least 20,000 people attended. During the speech, he brought back to life a now old slogan "YES WE CAN" as he answered critics  who think he can't follow through on ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
At least 79% of the people polled by CNN now believe that President Obama has a "more positive" effect on how people in other countries view the U.S. So in summation, it can be viewed that President Obama had a very successful trip to Europe and beyond. Critics, who previously thought that President Obama just didn't have the expertise in handling foreign affairs, has become a model for his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Both Barack and Hillary in tandem appear to have the global situation at hand.

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A 'Thank You' To my readers at Blogheaven.us Blog and followers of Obama right here

I must apologize to all my readers of my other blog at http://blogheaven.us, as many feel I have abandoned that blog. That may be true in a sense, but I do plan to start writing there  again. I invite all of my readers here to visit my Blogheaven blog. Most of my blogging time is devoted here at  http://obamainthewhitehouse.us and even before the Democratic candidate for President actually became President of the United States, I've been devoting most all of my time writing about Barack Obama as it is the opinion of this editor that he is doing such a wonderful job as the very first African American President of this country.

President Obama attended the G-20 conference in England where the largest of economic nations have participated in the summit. Barack Obama has also been traveling after the summit, as he flew from England to France, and held a town hall meeting there. He was very eloquent in his speech, and received a very warm welcome from everyone he met. Meanwhile, the First Lady Michelle Obama visited one of the local schools to talk very candid and personal to the children, and shed a tear or two from time to time.
All in all, the trip to Europe has been an astounding success, and the week planned away from the United States to travel to Europe could not end quick enough, as both First Lady Michelle and President Obama miss their two children very much. Both will be looking forward rejoining the children, along with some R & R, most likely at Camp David, to get away and settle down from the long trip.
As Barack Obama has now realized that his job as President of the United States is a very busy and demanding one, President Obama must somehow get back to business here at home and work with Congress working out more details of his plans to fix the economy. Lately, he has been taking more and more flack from the Conservative Party movement, but President Obama appears unscathed from the attacks. President Obama is now on the downward slide in completing his 'first 100 days', and I'm sure like most other liberals and conservatives alike will be talking about his first 100 days for a long time to come. It will be interesting to see how the history books depict President Obama along with his failures and successes as President during that time.
But the work doesn't stop there. After the first 100 days, just the very start of his presidency, Mr. Obama will have another 3 1/2 years as President in his first term, and regardless of what the Conservative movement will say he can do, I predict that Mr. Obama will win his bid for a second term in 2012 without any problem.
As you can see, I am deeply motivated in writing about our President, and feel such a high sense of respect and compassion for him, his ideals and what he stands for, along with being the 1st African-American President of the United States. Because of President Obama and his difficult run for the Presidency the past two years, I've gained a strong interest in politics, and have a desire to follow his every move. I've pretty much abandoned the idea of blogging to make a few extra bucks, as its been quite a while since I've written a paid article. Recently, this Obama blog acquired a new Google ranking, 'Google Rank 3' which may indicate how much time and effort I've been putting in writing here.  I know that I'm still new to blogging, and I will continue to gain knowledge so that I may continue to improve on my blogs. Besides personally created articles, you will find highlighted articles I've picked from great reporters from CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post and other sources. There are so many excellent articles written today, that you usually don't have to look any further than your computer screen to find out exactly what you wanted to. My goal here is to put everything worth reading and of value about our President Obama to be located here in one place.  I invite all of my readers here to stop by my original blog at http://blogheaven.us and say hello. Leave messages in the CBOX and I'll return the visit.
Again, thank everyone for the support you have given me and the time spend reading my articles.

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Commentary: Obama has best day as President

By James Carville
CNN Contributor

Editor's Note: James Carville, a Democratic strategist who serves as a political contributor for CNN, was the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1992 and political adviser to President Clinton. He is active in Democratic politics and a party fundraiser.

James Carville says the president's trip to England was a success.

(CNN) -- If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll. Well, I'll go one better and just look at today -- April 2, 2009.
This has most likely been President Obama's best single day since inauguration.
His and first lady Michelle Obama's first foray onto the world stage since being elected cannot be dubbed anything but successful. Obama appeared to be quite comfortable and confident as president of the United States at the G-20 summit that produced an unprecedented global economic recovery package.
The president's polling numbers at home are coming in at an impressive rate. A Democracy Corps poll taken this week found that the percentage of likely voters saying the country is going in the right direction is up to 38 percent, the highest level recorded in more than three years.
His budget is sure to be passed by Congress. And the recent special election in New York's 20th Congressional District in which Democrat Scott Murphy initially trailed by more than 20 points -- but wound up slightly ahead before officials count absentee ballots -- shows that the GOP is making few, if any gains among voters.
To top it all off (at least for now), the financial markets are expressing confidence in the president's leadership as they are expected to close up for the fourth straight week.
However, the real measure of how well the president is doing is indicated by two stunning events in the Republican Party just Thursday. First, on Rick Sanchez's program on CNN, Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tennessee, completely dissed the de-facto leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, by referring to him as an "entertainer," which is the more common description only the left-wing blogosphere would dare to use.

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Wamp went on to say that he didn't pay attention to Limbaugh. I'll bet that the Zachster did a little polling in Tennessee and discovered that El Rushbo would be a pretty heavy load to carry around the Volunteer State in his run for governor.
Then my friend and a recent guest at my class at Tulane University, GOP strategist extraordinaire and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, became so frustrated with the Republican congressional leadership that Thursday in Missouri he opened up the possibility of a third party forming before the 2012 election. "If the Republicans can't break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012," Gingrich reportedly said.
Clearly a day does not make a presidency. But if President Obama has more like April 2, 2009, he'll be able to govern much more like a statesman than a politician.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James Carville.

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