We don’t blame him for getting the heck out of here on the first plane out east.
Following the midterm election bloodbath that washed the nation in red, President Barack Obama took a much-needed trip to Asia, where on Sunday he spoke in India about India’s love-hate relationship with Pakistan, peacemaking efforts abroad and, what else, but the Republican domination back home.
Not even here, thousands of miles away in New Delhi, is the commander in chief immune to prods about how he plans to get anything done in Washington now. Not even here is our president safe from the notions of seemingly inevitable failure during the next two years.
But the discussion of how Obama plans to play outside party lines didn’t come from a Washington reporter.
Rather, an Indian college student wanted some clarification on how the leader of the free world plans to rule sans supermajority.
And as our president travels through Asia during the coming days to focus on peacekeeping efforts in heavily Muslim areas, including the largest Muslim nation of Indonesia, and to address the nuclear relationship between Pakistan and India, there’s one thing Obama has already learned: There’s no escaping the troubles back home.
