Obama's "Kick Me" sign

Our foreign policy seems to be eliciting a response from those we have had disagreements with.  Unfortunately it is the wrong response.

Charles Krauthammer - Obama's 'Kick Me' Diplomacy - washingtonpost.com

I would like to think the supine posture is attributable to a rookie leader otherwise preoccupied (i.e., domestically), leading a foreign policy team as yet unorganized if not disoriented. But when the State Department says that Hugo Chávez's president-for-life referendum, which was preceded by a sham government-controlled campaign featuring the tear-gassing of the opposition, was "for the most part . . . a process that was fully consistent with democratic process," you have to wonder if Month One is not a harbinger of things to come.