OH PLEASE - AT 4:47 P.M. ET:  The political campaign continues.  Will these guys please realize that they've got the job.  From The Washington Times:

Top White House adviser David Axelrod on Monday said that President Obama's trips to Europe, Turkey and Latin America in the last three weeks have made anti-American sentiment uncool and "created a new receptivity" to U.S. interests.

"What's happened is anti-Americanism isn't cool anymore," Mr. Axelrod said, speaking to an audience of a few hundred at a conference in Washington sponsored by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

"This president has not only engaged the leaders of the world, he's engaged the people of the world," Mr. Axelrod said, arguing that Mr. Obama's approach to foreign policy has restored "a sense of humility" that "was missing" in the past.

COMMENT:  I just wish they'd get off that tack.  It sounds so amateurish.  "The people of the world" have no power in many countries; it's the governments we have to worry about.  Hold the bragging until we see some concrete results that advance the American interest.  It may be "uncool" to be anti-American in some circles now, but that message clearly hasn't resonated with governments from North Korea, through Iran, and on to Venezuela.

April 20, 2009