I don't know if it is a good idea first to call Ahmadinejad the "elected leader of Iran" and then "correcting" that statement.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud AhmadinejadIran's elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran's election was fair.

"Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say that's not for me to pass judgment on," Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090805/pl_nm/us_obama_iran

The US' new foreign policy surprises me. Obama promised change. He delivered. But he also promised improved relations with foreign countries, and that he failed to deliver.

Existing allies have been shocked with anti-Semitic statements (a demand that Jews must not live in their old homes in Jerusalem if Arabs expelled them and took over the houses; and a general demand that Jews not build houses in disputed territories with no similar demand of Arabs) and an apparent change of opinion regarding the value of NATO and the new eastern-European allies (see the open letter by Lech Walesa and other east-European leaders).

Obama has also ignored Africa. Despite a lot of good will in Africa (because Obama's father is from Kenya), Obama has essentially undone what George Bush had started. During Bush's years US aid for Africa was increased and African states were heard (and despite what many want to believe, Bush and the US were and are popular in sub-Saharan Africa). Since Obama became President, Africa is no longer on the map.

So apart from counting open anti-Semitism, a deterioration of relations with eastern Europe, and ignoring Africa as an "improvement", what really has improved?