Foreign No-Trade

I think most of us can agree, regardless of your political leanings, that free-trade agreements with foreign countries go a long way to stimulate job growth. During his eight years in office President George W. bush negotiated eleven free-trade agreements which included Columbia, Korea, Chile, and Australia. After three and a half years in office can anyone guess how many free-trade agreements President Obama has negotiated? Zero, yes zero, nada, not a one. A lot of pundits will claim that Obama inherited a bad economy that "all Bush's  fault", and yet Obama has done nothing to create jobs by initiating any free-trade agreements with foreign countries.

President Obama seems to be extremely naive when it comes to dealing with other countries. All can agree Israel is the U.S.'s closest ally in the Middle East, and yet this President continues to alienate Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, while he accepts large campaign contribution from a strong Palestinian activist.

We continue to send foreign aid to Egypt where we have less than a five per cent approval. We are also easing sanctions on Iran "by 20%" as they continue to build their nuclear base.  In fact many of the countries we send foreign aid  actually vote against the U.S. at UN meetings, and yet we continue to send foreign aid to these countries.

Many say President Obama is weak in decision making regarding the Middle East. Also, many say our allies are beginning to disrespect us, while our enemies are becoming stronger in their hatred of the U.S.  Mr. President, be the strong leader you were voted in to be.

and that's Politics with Pete for today.