Posted on 11/12/2008 12:37:24 PM PST by chickadee
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named a bipartisan duo of Washington veterans to meet foreign delegations at this weekend's global financial summit, opening communication between the next U.S. administration and its global counterparts.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Democrat, and former Republican Rep. Jim Leach will be available for unofficial meetings on Obama's behalf at the Washington summit, which Obama himself will not attend, a statement from his office said.
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For “change” everyone is supposed to believe in, the emerging Obama Administration is starting to look exactly like the old Clinton one.
WOWser is right, Madeline half-bright to the hopey changey team. So what is new and different about that fossil... I guess she didn’t do enough with NK needs to do more.
Hopey changey different sure is going fast.
He never gives up trying to cause trouble, does he. Bush told him he couldn’t attend, so he’s going to try to steal the thing anyway. What a creep.
If there was one thing that really caught my attention during the Obama campaign, it was that he doesn’t have any friends and/or allies. All he has is advisors . . . and they are legion. It’s like a big crap shoot.
It will probably be a lot like Wheel of Fortune or that big wheel on The Price is Right. Spin the wheel each day and see if the pointer lands on “Hope” or will it land on “Change”.
Is Warren Christopher still alive? Perhaps he will be the next Secretary of State.
Evan Thomas hit the nail on the head when he called him “creepy”.
I have been thinking of him as the First Creep ever since.
laugh!
Wheel of Zeros
First Creep. Yes, that’ll work.
Sure he has friends! Just none he would acknowledge.
He has Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Marshall Davis...
What in the world? obama’s not president yet. I don’t remember any other president-elect taking over, running things before they were sworn in.
Is it me, or is this guy overstepping?
We need to laugh him out of office. He is so lame, I cannot believe him!!!
Ridicule is the answer to him and his style of “rule”. I read somewhere yesterday that one of his staff was talking about how he will “rule”......... They must really think he can step in and be Ruler of the USA.
Let’s find a good candidate and declare that person the winner by the middle of next year we should make up a near copy of the seal and have that shown every speech that is given.
Obama has proven to be singularly classless. It may be a cultural thing, though, and I mean this kindly. So often, the dominant culture (the dreaded Whitey) doesn’t clue in the minority population as to what is acceptable and what isn’t.
Obama’s crowd got kudos for snitching to the press during his campaign, so I guess he thought he could snitch out the President after a private briefing.
The press lauded his faux Presidential seal and his Greek columns, so he may not realize that his open disrespect for the current occupant of the WH, in sending reps to the G20, is boorish behavior.
I like it.
Who’d you have in mind? It has to be someone expendable to the Pubbie cause.
I'm pretty sure Senator McCain has some time on his hands about now...
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And McCain’s new routine, as outlined on the Leno show, “sleeping like a baby: sleep for two hours, wake up and cry for two hours”, would suit the role perfectly.
No, it should be a new face like obama was. And this person should act just like obama did. See how long it would take the left to see the singularities. If they saw them at all. And the whole time they would be saying that we were drinking the kool-aid, while we could all be laughing at them for their not seeing themselves in us.
Sounds like Obama just doesn’t like to actually work and he will just send people in and report back to him.
That is because he is just a puppet, but who is pulling the strings ???
Who is “pulling the strings” you ask. Rush has been wondering this aloud for months. Is it the Chicago Machine? Is it George Soros? It remains to be seen.
Yeah, Leach makes it REAL bipartisan.
Oh, GREAT! The "cleaning lady" is our hope for the future?
ROFLMAO !
"Feb. 2000:
"When a bunch of Albanians mistook Madeleine Albright for a hotel cleaning lady, the secretary of state spewed a most-undiplomatic, and untranslatable, stream of invective, a newspaper reports. A State Department spokesman wouldn't comment on the New York Daily News report that Albright was mistaken for a maid during last year's peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France. Albright at first wasn't recognized by the Albanian delegation when she walked into their room, it said. "'One member of the delegation, who didn't realize who she was, and probably thinking she was some cleaning lady because it was after midnight, simply said to her, 'Give us five minutes and please go away,' recalled Albanian diplomat Dugagjin Gorani in War on Europe, a British TV program. Instead, Albright exploded in rage, swearing at the group, according to the reports. 'Mrs. Albright started using explicit language which the translators never could translate into Albanian,' says Veton Surroi, another member of the delegation."
Bipartisan? I guess Leach might be considered a “Republican” if we really stretch the definitions.
Dennis Miller said on O’Reilly that he supports both President Bush and President-Elect Obama.
Do you think Dennis Miller is joking ?
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I am not seriously promoting him only saying he could be used as a weapon to prove some points that running a foreigner is not the right thing to do.
Now, if we had a serious contender, we wouldn’t be able to get away with using a phony pres. seal like the O did. The media would be howling if a Rep. did that.
Then there's that pesky little Constitution thingy...
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I am amazed that Obama will not attend. He is not even going to vote "present" on this one!
Of course, if he goes, he would be asked questions and then spill the beans about his plan, or show that he has no knowledge about how to fix the economy.
There is nothing wrong with supporting the president. However, supporting socialist policies proposed by a president is another thing (a little liberal nuance here). Many in the center or center/right of the main stream media will "support" Obama. If they know what is good for them, that is.
Oh yeah, that little thingy.......has not bothered the Obots so far. The playing field was pretty lopsided during this election, in my opinion.
Wondering if anyone can force him to prove he is a citizen of the country he plans to “rule” (his staffer’s word). That should tell you what we are dealing with here. When the staff thinks their boss is a ruler..........
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