Excerpt From Blog Post:Pam Meister
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/europes-obama-thrill-turns-to-disappointment/
Okay, our president has not ticked off all European countries. Just the Poles, Czechs, Brits, French, Germans Charm, it seems, can only get you so far. Despite Europe’s initial wild reception of Barack Obama, the anti-Bush, and the bestowing upon him of the most prestigious of Euro-lib awards, the Europeans still seem to expect action from a sitting U.S. president.
Understandably, the Czech Republic and Poland were among the first to be disenchanted with the “new direction” in America when Obama decided to scrap the missile defense shield that George W. Bush had promised them. In Poland, President Lech Kaczynski expressed concern that Poland is now left in a dangerous “gray zone” between Western Europe and the former Soviet sphere, while ex-Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was dismayed because the U.S. is “not interested in this territory as they were before....