I got a message late last night that Jack Cafferty quoted my Obama story on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

The story has really been making the rounds, and I wonder why.

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

“Everybody is saying no to the American president these days”… that’s the start of a pretty scathing piece in the Jerusalem Post about where President Obama stands on the international stage — just as he addresses the UN and meets with world leaders.

Amir Mizroch has plenty of examples… like the Saudis twice saying no to the president’s request for normalizing relations with Israel; or the North Koreans saying no to repeated attempts at talks by firing off test long-range missiles; to Russia and China continuing to say no to tougher sanctions against Iran; to Iran itself saying no — by agreeing to talks about everything except stopping its uranium enrichment.

Mizroch suggests the reason all these nations are saying no to President Obama is because the U.S. economy has made him a weak president. If the president manages to turn around the economy in the next two years — and then manages to get re-elected — at that point he might be able to focus on international trouble spots with more success. That’s if Iran hasn’t managed to blow up half the world by then.

Along the same lines, a piece in the British newspaper The Guardian titled “Obama the impotent” says many in the U.S. and abroad are impatient with the pace of progress under this president.

It points out Mr. Obama hasn’t even been able to get health care reform passed in his own country and questions his ability to lead internationally on issues like climate change and regulating international financial systems:

“It appears that the wheels may be coming off the world’s post-war leader, and not even Barack Obama can stop it happening.”