He forgot to wait until after he was elected and sworn in!

Other folks were President BEFORE they made their overseas tours and were either cheered or booed in foreign countries. That means them furriners got to say whether they liked or disliked whom we elected. Their perogative.

By making this kind of tour as a candidate, them furriners (through no particular fault of their own) are in the position of telling us whom we should and should not elect. Whoever is identified with that is bound to alienate at least some voters. And if a candidate ever gets identified with them furriners telling us whom we HAVE to elect, either he is toast or we really are doomed.

I am reminded of 1996. A recently defeated Benjamin Netanyahu was in the US right after Bill Clinton had done everything but stuff ballot boxes on behalf of his opponent, Ehud Barak. Since Clinton had done that, “Bibi” was asked whom he would support in the US Presidential election. Without hesitation he replied, “I shall support the winner, of course!”

Netanyahu was being astute. Obama is being a smart-ass.