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Obama Again Invokes Personal Diplomacy to Avert NATO Stalemate By Edwin Chen and Hans NicholsApril 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama waded into a diplomatic stalemate for the second time on his European trip and once again succeeded in bringing his more senior peers into harmony. With a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit facing potential deadlock yesterday over Turkey’s opposition to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the next head of NATO, Obama brought Rasmussen and Turkish President Abdullah Gul together for a talk. <SNIP>“There’s a lot of -- I don’t know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics,†he said in response to an Austrian reporter’s question. For all Obama’s success in conciliating the Danes and Turks, the NATO summit was far from an unblemished triumph for the new U.S. president.
Cue the Obamapologists: "He's referring to the Austian dialect!"