The President's chilly treatment of our allies

During his campaign, President Obama said he would change the tone of our government's interactions with foreign leaders around the world. He's done that. He greeted Venezuela's Hugo Chavez with a warm smile and handshake. He told us during his campaign that he'd be happy to meet Iran's Ahmadinejad without preconditions. And when it comes to longtime allies, the President has changed the tone of those interactions as well, as explained by Mark Steyn via the Orange County Register:

Visiting France, he declined to dine with the Sarkozys. Visiting Norway, he declined to dine with the king at a banquet thrown explicitly in Obama's honor. The other day, the president declined to dine with Netanyahu even though the Israeli prime minister was his guest in the White House at the time. The British prime minister, five times rebuffed in his attempt to book a date, had to make do with a perfunctory walk'n'talk through the kitchens of the U.N. Obama's shtick as a candidate was that he was the guy who'd talk to anyone anytime anywhere.