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Brazil’s president, angry about spying, cancels state visit to U.S.
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 17, 2013, 5:57 p.m. | Kathleen Hennessey and Vincent Bevins

Posted on 09/17/2013 8:16:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai

In the latest fallout from the Edward Snowden affair, the president of Brazil canceled a state visit to Washington out of anger that the National Security Agency had spied on her and other Brazilian officials, deepening a rift with the Obama administration.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday called off the high-profile visit that both governments had planned for Oct. 23. A White House spokesman sought to downplay the diplomatic snub by a key ally and trading partner, and described the decision to indefinitely postpone the visit as mutual.

The White House said in a statement that Rousseff and President Obama had agreed that the state visit—an elaborate affair with meetings and a formal dinner with toasts—would be better staged when relations between the two nations were less tense. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; espionage; nsa; statevisit

1 posted on 09/17/2013 8:16:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No biggie, the NSA already told Obama everything Dilma Rousseff had to say.


2 posted on 09/17/2013 8:18:24 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

Relax Dilma, they’re spying on everybody, and preventing no terrorist attacks (see this morning’s newspapers.)


3 posted on 09/17/2013 8:19:29 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Olog-hai

With a name like Dilma he should have better things to Do.


4 posted on 09/17/2013 8:20:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Olog-hai

Obama rebuilding America’s moral stature in the world.


5 posted on 09/17/2013 8:21:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Olog-hai

When I was a kid I would tell my mother: “I don’t like dill, ma!”


6 posted on 09/17/2013 8:23:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Olog-hai

Dear rest of the world: you didn’t like that cowboy Bush. How do you like this horse’s ass Obama?


7 posted on 09/17/2013 8:23:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

0 has gotten everybody in the whole world mad at us. That’swhat happens when you make terrorists friends and citizens enemies.


8 posted on 09/17/2013 8:27:46 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

As amusing as it is to watch 0bama step on his d***, his successor is going to have a h*** of a mess to clean up.


9 posted on 09/17/2013 8:28:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Olog-hai
With friends like the Obama regime, a nation doesn't need enemies.
10 posted on 09/17/2013 8:31:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: bigbob

isn’t Dilma a female


11 posted on 09/17/2013 8:44:28 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Olog-hai; governsleastgovernsbest

Will this be reported on the AM network “KissObamabutt-apalooza” shows?


12 posted on 09/18/2013 12:46:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Slings and Arrows
As amusing as it is to watch 0bama step on his d***, his successor is going to have a h*** of a mess to clean up.

There are some things impossible to clean.

13 posted on 09/18/2013 2:38:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

For all our sakes, I hope that this mess isn’t one of them.


14 posted on 09/18/2013 5:30:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t blame Presidente Dildo, I wouldn’t visit Obunghole either.


15 posted on 09/18/2013 3:42:26 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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