Posted on 03/18/2015 7:09:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This morning, the White House conspicuously avoided sending any message of congratulations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his sweeping victory yesterday. Weekly Standard reports:
On CNN this morning, White House aide David Simas avoided congratulating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Israeli elections. Instead, he would only congratulate the Israeli people on having an election.
“We want to congratulate the Israeli people for the democratic process for the election that they just engaged in with all the parties that engaged in that election. As you know now, the hard work of coalition building begins. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks. And we’re going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we’re not going to weigh in one way or another except to say that the United States and Israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward,” Simas said.
While Obama has had public differences with Netanyahu recently, in the past he has made efforts to congratulate leaders that have a much more adversarial relationship with the United States as well as shamefully undemocratic electoral processes.
On August 12, 2014, Reuters reported:
Obama congratulates Turkey’s Erdogan on presidential win
U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his victory as the country’s next president, the White House said.
Erdogan vowed to pursue a period of reconciliation in Turkey after securing the post with more than 52 percent of the vote on Sunday.
“The president praised the prime minister’s speech on Sunday and noted that as Turkey’s first directly elected president, the prime minister has an historic opportunity to further move Turkey forward,” the White House said in a statement.
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The call lasted 45 minutes, according to Turkish sources.
Erdogan last month acknowledged strains in his relations with Obama, saying he no longer spoke directly to the U.S. president as he had in the past.
Erdogan’s leadership style, from his bombastic rhetoric on Israel to his crackdown on anti-government protests last summer, has raised increasing concern among Western allies in recent years.
On June 10, 2014, Reuters reported:
Obama calls new Egyptian president to congratulate him: White House
President Barack Obama called new Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday and affirmed their commitment to a U.S.-Egyptian strategic partnership, the White House said.
Sisi was sworn in on Sunday, almost a year after toppling elected President Mohamed Mursi, an ouster that Obama resisted calling a coup because it would have prompted Washington to cut off assistance to Egypt.
The White House said Obama called Sisi to congratulate him on his inauguration and “to convey his commitment to working together to advance the shared interests of both countries.”
On September 27, 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Obama breaks three decades of silence with call to Iranian president
Obama began by congratulating Rouhani on his June election. He referred to the long mistrust between the two sides but said he believed the talks were already making progress.
Israeli leaders and senior U.S. lawmakers, some of whom remain wary of Iran’s intentions, were notified of Obama’s plans ahead of time.
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor blasted Obama for failing to press the Iranian leader on terrorism, Syria and other issues.
And on March 9, 2012, Weekly Standard reported:
CBS’s Mark Knoller reports:
Pres. Obama phoning congratulations from AF-1 to Pres-elect Vladimir Putin of Russia.
As the New York Times reported earlier in the week, there are serious charges that Putin rigged the election: “A day after claiming an overwhelming victory in Russia’s presidential election, Vladimir V. Putin on Monday faced a range of challenges to his legitimacy, including charges of fraud from international observers and a defiant opposition that vowed to keep him from serving his full six-year term.”
Even the State Department called for an investigation into the election earlier in the week.
Yet with President Obama reportedly calling to congratulate Putin, apparently the White House isn’t too concerned with the fraudulent election–or even its worrisome outcome.
What a little, little man.
Obama is just afraid that a mysterious birth certificate for Bibi show’s up in Hawaii and Bibi runs for office here.
Little Stevie Dunham is one pathologically spiteful individual.
Obama! You petulant prick!
0bammer should have sent out a Tweet saying, “Bibi, congrats on kicking my flabby backside. Boy, am I clueless.”
I am embarrassed to have such a cad for leader
And a majority of the Jewish people in USA will continue to vote for Dem’s. Why?
That should be “skinny backside.”
Obama’s shear pettiness never ceases to amaze me. He has the character of a badly spoiled nine year old.
If Herzog won Obama would have Lewinskied him.
Shameful.
Good catch. At least Obama had to show his cards. Hope Jewish voters don’t forget that in 2016.
Obama would’ve cheered, “THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!”
You nailed it. Jealousy has always been at the root of Obama’s hatred of Netanyahu. When Bibi is in the room all eyes are on him. He has the charisma and prescence of the great leader that he is. Obama is left looking like the man child he is.
Would love to see them living in the white house instead of what is there now.
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