No foreign policy boost for Obama

President Obama last week announced the impending end of the nine-year-old Iraq War and the successful conclusion of a U.S.-supported military mission in Libya. They were the latest in a string of foreign policy successes for the president that included the killing of Osama bin Laden in May and the thwarting of a plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil earlier this month.

But those notches in Obama’s win column are unlikely to provide much of a boost to the president’s re-election chances, political analysts said, because voters remain focused on the lingering recession and persistent joblessness and are still waiting for evidence that Obama is doing something about them.