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CHANGE: OBAMA AT THE G-20: ?Underlying all of this is an inconvenient truth: The U.S. president is?

By Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: OBAMA AT THE G-20: “Underlying all of this is an inconvenient truth: The U.S. president is no longer the undisputed boss-man of the world. In fact, at gatherings such as the G-20, it is becoming increasingly hard to assert that he is even primus inter pares?first among equals. Given the insurrectionary mood in the global economic hierarchy, led by a hyper-assertive China and an exasperated Germany, an American president debilitated by political defeat at home and genuine policy incoherence in his own agenda cuts a pretty sorry figure.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).