Sunday, December 20, 2009

Obama's Pulls A Rodney Dangerfield


Obama raced clock, chaos, comedy for climate deal:
"WASHINGTON (AP) - It was almost unthinkable. The president of the United States walked into a meeting of fellow world leaders and there wasn't a chair for him, a sure sign he was not expected, maybe not even wanted.
Barack Obama didn't pause, however. 'I'm going to sit by my friend Lula,' he said, moving toward Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A Brazilian aide gave the U.S. president his chair, and Obama spent the next 80 minutes helping craft new requirements for disclosing efforts to fight global warming. Along with India, South Africa and Brazil, the key member in the room was China, which recently surpassed the U.S. as the world's top emitter of heat-trapping gasses."

As I noted in a previous post, anyone looking for Gravitas from this White House had best look elsewhere.

This is another in a series of Non-Presidential behavior that goes beyond being comical or sophomoric. It is disturbing to say the least. For a President of the United States to walk into a conference room, in a foreign country, that his Secret Service hasn't checked out before hand, is incredulous. They should not only have known where he was to sit, but they should have had full knowledge of everyone in the room and made sure that they satisfied security clearance rules. His aides are either complicit in this incompetence, or must be bald from all their hair-pulling over the incident. I'm not sure how the Secret Service guys feel, but I can guess. Obama and his staff are out of control and clueless as to international protocol and security.
Adding insult to injury, joking that a Communist Dictator like Lula is his friend, is beyond the pale.

I never thought  Bubba  Bill Clinton could be made to look Presidential by anyone, but Mr. Obama has done it.
Is it too late to get Bubba back?


1 comment:

  1. Get bubba back? If we'r getting people back haw about Regan. Even with Alzheimr's he would be an improvement over both.

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