Obama the party crasher, Foreign leaders avoiding the president in Copenhagen

[bijou]

Barack Obama is not used to being the guy not invited to a party. At the Copenhagen global warming conference, however, he found that not everyone wanted to hang with him. Our president can't take a hint.

After Mr. Obama's bilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the Chinese began sending lower-level functionaries to the multilateral meetings. A frustrated Mr. Obama pressed for another bilateral meeting, which was scheduled for Friday at 6:15 p.m. Other leaders of the countries known as the "BASIC" bloc were harder to pin down.

The Obama team tried to schedule a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was told he was at the airport readying to leave. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also was unavailable. South African President Jacob Zuma said there was no point meeting without India and Brazil. Then the Chinese pushed the bilateral meeting back to 7 p.m.

"We were told they were at the airport," a senior administration official said. "We were told delegations were split up. We were told they weren't going to meet." So imagine Mr. Obama's surprise when he arrived for the bilateral powwow and found all four leaders in the room already in deep discussion. "Are you ready for me?" he said with an "uncharacteristic edge" to his voice, according to a CBS News report.  ...

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Well, he wanted to reduce America to being just another 2nd rate country of no exceptional preeminence.

I just don't think he figured it would be towards him.

[Lord Undies]

Hey, Buddy O'Bama:  That's the way children treat you when you try to be their friend instead of their parent.  You can't change the meaning and the purpose of your role just by wishing it was so.

[Eupher]

I guess he's still back in inauguration mode where the only party crashers were those who couldn't see all the way up the pedestal on which the MSM put His Highness.

I can't imagine walking into a room where people are talking amongst themselves and then assume that it was all small talk until I arrived.

And Hillary hung around while the staff scrambled to get chairs. Uh huh.

Any other normal person would've been monumentally embarrassed at this complete lack of social skill.

Chicago "thug-style" politics at work again. 

[TheSarge]

Wow...and here all this time I thought that all it would take for other countries to "like" us again was the election of a Liberal.

Who knew! 

[SilverOrchid]

Heh. He is like the loser younger sibling that you try and ditch at the mall because Mom forced you to inclue him.