i think so, too. i have sort of a suspicion, though, that the trip to europe and the perceived ill reception he got from european leaders probably didn t endear him to the idea. i do think the president takes a lot of things personally. anything paris in it is sort of out? if it s coming from continental or new if it s old europe, yeah. i don t know if he likes it or not. i have a feeling that that probably had something to do with it. it was not a good reception the way he was treated over there. so i have a feeling this president takes things personally and probably was just like, you know what screw those europeans, i m going to get out of their stinking i think he does respect businesspeople. we ll see whether they can pull him back. i do think he does, you know, generally respect foreign leaders but i wonder whether the personal factor of the trip and the interactions in europe have something to do with it. i think it does. if you step back from this, they must k