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Title: Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls
Post by: thundley4 on September 07, 2009, 06:40:42 AM
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Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation: the United Nations. On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council.

No American president has ever attempted to acquire the image of King of the Universe by officiating at a meeting of the UN’s highest body. But Obama apparently believes that being flanked by council-member heads of state like Col. Moammar Qaddafi — who is expected to be seated five seats to Obama’s right — will cast a sufficiently blinding spell on the American taxpayer that the perilous state of the nation’s economy, the health-care fiasco, and a summer of “post-racial” scapegoating will pale by comparison.

After all, who among us is not for world peace?

Unfortunately, however, the move represents one of the most dangerous diplomatic ploys this country has ever seen. The president didn’t just decide to chair a rare council summit; he also set the September 24 agenda — as is the prerogative of the state holding the gavel for the month. His choice, in the words of American UN Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking on September 2 at her first press briefing since the United States assumed the council presidency, is this: “The session will be focused on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament broadly, and not on any specific countries.”
NRO (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWNkMWViY2YyZjU5OTY5ZDcyNDQ1MzIwY2NkNWUyOTU=&p=1)

Another first for 0Bama. I suppose it could be coincidence that Qaddafi is going to be there. Maybe 0Bama just doesn't have much faith in Susan Rice. 
Title: Re: Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on September 07, 2009, 07:24:13 AM
I just don't see him being able to say anything in that setting, and on that topic, that will help him or us.
Title: Re: Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls
Post by: RightCoast on September 07, 2009, 07:46:55 AM
Yes, the UN, because real Americans trust and respect that body of puss-sucking leeches almost as much as we respect the puss-sucking leeches in Washington.  Nice call barack, you idiot.
Title: Re: Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 07, 2009, 08:02:26 AM
Hope he wears this "T"-shirt.

"We pay 25% of the UN budget and all I got was this lousy seat"