France: Sarkozy: has been more successful with his Italian mistress than with reforming his country. Attempting to reform the retirement age has met much opposition, I hope he can actually commit to this reform.
Germany: Merkel: has maintained Germany as one of the strongest European economies through these hard times. But has an unrealistic political partner in the Liberal Party that thinks more thru ideology than realism.
UK: David Cameron: High hopes for the Conservative-Liberal alliance and it seems as if all is going smoothly...for now.
Italy: Berlusconi: if any one person could be blamed for Italy's fall from a prominent world member I would blame Berlusconi, which is more interested in his personal intrests than Italy.
Australia: Julia Gillard: rough start for Australia's first female leader. Lets see how she handles her unstable coalition.
Russia: Medvedev: really he is just a guy working under Putin, until Putin can be President again.
Turkey: Erdogan: has lead his party as the Islamic version of a Christian Democratic party of Europe. Turkeys stock is rising rapidly in world diplomacy, and he seems to be underminding the generals.
Saudi Arabia: Abdullah: a highly conservative country with much wealth based on oil. Slow reforms under his guidance.
South Korea: Lee: Has made some advances, but North Korea has been a major thorn to his administration.
India: Singh: did amazing things as finance minister that has brought on India's amazing growth, but has failed to deliver as prime minister, mostly because he requires communists to hold a government, and poor health.
Indonesia: Bambang: under his leadership Indonesia is becoming south east asias new Thailand....before Thailand's current issues of course.
Japan: Kan: governments in Japan are two cents a dozen ever since Koizumi left. Kan will likely last little and accomplish little.
China: Hu: The bad cop to Wen's good cop. Both men have seen China's huge rise. They must be doing something right. But there are always persistent questions of "how long can this type of growth last?"
Brazil: Lula: has done well to maintain his predecessors open market economic reforms that have lead to lasting growth. Has also done reforms to help ease the large income gap in Brazil, including incentives to get poor children into school. His saint like reign has been besmirked with corruption scandals tho.
Argentina: Christina Fernandez: Picked a fight against beef farmers which she lost misirably. The economy is going good tho under her rule. Strange relationship with the IMF, and debt.
Mexico: Calderon: intensified a drug war which seems to be going badly for Mexico.
Canada: Harper: Canada was largely untouched by the financial crisis, compared to other developed nations.
South Africa: Zuma: bad personal example with his many wives and unsafe sex, but had a good World Cup.
US: Obama: High expectations met realistic situations, leading to low poll ratings. Should have focused more on fixing his predecessors mess than passing his Health care bill.|||They would all have (dec.) following their names.
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