President Obama left Friday for a nine-day trip to Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia. The president is trying to justify this long foreign excursion by saying that it will create American jobs.

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By leading in the Asia Pacific, President Obama means, in part, we're not just buying from China anymore. We're selling. At the White House this week, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes explained that this region's growing middle class can be a market for American goods. The vast majority of the export potential in the world is in the Asia Pacific, so when the president sets a goal of doubling U.S. exports to support hundreds of thousands of American jobs, again, that's very much going to be rooted in our ability to open markets in Asia Pacific. Congress recently passed a free trade agreement with South Korea. On this trip, President Obama is working on a larger trade deal involving nine countries spanning both sides of the Pacific Ocean. The message from the White House is that by flying halfway around the world President Obama is helping folks back home on the mainland. Not everyone is convinced, says Ernest Bower. He directs the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. There is pressure here not to do the trip and, you know, it's always better to be in Indiana than Indonesia. That pressure seems to arise any time President Obama goes abroad for more than a few days. He twice postponed an earlier Asia trip to deal with the Gulf oil spill and the health care debate. He was criticized for going ahead with a trip to Latin America just as NATO started bombing Libya.