PHOTOS: It's amazing how smitten European LEADERS are with Obama. Also, BREAKING NEWS.

[Barack_America]

Sarko's positively giddy!



U.S. President Barack Obama (L) gestures at France's President Nicholas Sarkozy, prior to talks in Strasbourg, on April 3, 2009... REUTERS/Christophe Ena/Pool (FRANCE POLITICS MILITARY)


Check Merkel drawing Obama in. "Not without a HUG, you!"



President Barack Obama is greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and her husband Joachim Sauer, right, during an arrival ceremony at Rathaus in Baden-Baden, Germany, Friday, April 3, 2009.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


I think Obama makes Sarko want to be a better man. ;)



France's President Nicolas Sarkozy jogs after meeting U.S. President Barack Obama in Strasbourg April 3, 2009... REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE MILITARY POLITICS)


And who can forget this "oldie but goodie" from the G20 in London?



G20 leaders (from L) US President Barack Obama, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pose for a photo during the G20 summit...(AFP/Eric Feferberg)


Breaking News from the press conference with Merkel. Merkel is saying that Germany's goals for Afghanistan are in line with Obama's. Sounds very much like they're planning to commit forces to the effort. Damn, our President is GOOD!!! :D


Edited: title and to change "troops" to "forces"

[soothsayer]

1. O joy, one big happy new world order

[babylonsister]

5. You preferred Bush and all the enemies he earned that reflected so

poorly on all of us? I sure don't, and know McCain would have been a disaster. So what exactly are you complaining about?

[cliffordu]

9. Some people cannot be pleased. Not even by these epic shifts in alliances.

[Cha]

11. Some of us will take positive news when

we get it..others(you know who you are) just like to go around and crap on it.

[high density]

2. A thumbs up!! ut oh

That's an obscene gesture in some of the world!!! GAFFE ALERT!!!!!

[Arugula Latte]

3. Merkel is going to be BEGGING Obama for a shoulder massage before this is through!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. It would seem that Obama gets on with neocons too

sarkozy and bersculoni. He should be careful

[Barack_America]

6. You would rather he snub them? These are elected leaders, after all.

Obama doesn't get to choose who he has to work with.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. I know

but I always worry

[MADem]

7. Fuckin' Sivio!! The hair plugs have grown in quite nicely, though....

And Puppet Medvedev...you can hardly see the strings!!!!

That's hardly a progressive pair he's snuggling with....

[Barack_America]

10. It certainly seems that Obama is rubbing off on them...

More than they are rubbing off on him.

Getting Medvedev to commit to reducing Russia's nuclear arsenal is nothing to sneeze at.

Did you see this?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_2_MOLT/idUKTRE5323WO20090403

[MADem]

13. It's SALT on steroids!

Of course, it benefits both us and the Russkies, that move. AND it checks Iran and Pakistan, to say nothing of Little Kim and his Big Rockets.

There's more than a little self-interest at play, here.

Medvedev will have his hand out, you know--part of the reason we slowed that process down is because the Russkies couldn't AFFORD the rather lengthy and arduous destruction process.

No such thing as a free lunch...but still, it's a good thing, if only to reduce the number of weapons that are flopping around, poorly secured, with the potential to endanger any city or town around the globe.

Good for Barack!

[Barack_America]

15. We won't put missiles in Poland.

Which is what Russia was freaking out about. So they get that.

Obama, I'm sure, is also demanding greater cooperation with regards to Iran. He'll probably get it.

[AyanEva]

8. I love that last photo

It makes me lol because it's so light-hearted. :) You'd never see that with Dubya.

[Phx_Dem]

14. So do I. I love Berlusconi's big beaming smile! They all look so happy.

[Cha]

12. Rec'd~ I love the way you have this

set up, BarackAmerica!

[Barack_America]

16. Thanks. I'm just so proud of our new President...

And figured I'd have a bit of fun with the fact that Europeans clearly are too!

:hi:

[Cha]

17. Peeps are proud out

on the street too:patriot::patriot:

:hi:

[Mme. Defarge]

18. The new Rat Pack?

(Picture number 4)

[livetohike]

19. ROFL! I was thinking the same thing

:rofl:

[Jennicut]

20. Who can resist Prez Obama? He is the coolest cat around and they are all hoping his popularity rubs

off on them!

[Barack_America]

21. And I'm hoping his progressive ideas rub off on them!

:D

*issues a preemptive "fuck off" to the inevitable naysayers*--not you, of course.

[JuniperLea]

22. I guess they didn't get the talking points handed out by Limbaugh, et al

They were supposed to give him a very rough time, remember?

:rofl:

Tell me, how many times are they allowed to be wrong before their opinions actually become a portal to Bizarro World?