Drezner doesn't see Obama as a foreign policy president:
Even if he could claim successes, foreign policy achievements — particularly of the non-military kind — during an economic downturn are pretty much a dead-bang political loser. Why? Because even successes suggests that the president cares more about the rest of the world than his own countrymen. Think about it. The last time a sitting president focused on foreign affairs in the middle of a recession was George H.W. Bush. That was great from a policy perspective, but a political disaster for Bush.
Increasingly I wonder whether Garry Wills wasn't right. Maybe Obama should be prepared to risk being a one-term president, and actually make a difference in that one term rather than trying for two in this climate. And if he made such a difference, maybe two terms would come anyway.
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