Posted on 01/24/2015 2:44:39 PM PST by lifeofgrace
President Obama has changed his scheduled departure on his trip to India so as to personally meet the new Saudi King Salman (according to CNN). The POTUS is literally running to be among the first world leaders to genuflect to the new Saudi leader, only days after he was appointed.
Vice President Joe Biden was originally set to have led a delegation to Saudi Arabia on Obama's behalf.King Abdullah passed away Friday, at 90 years old. The mainstream media describes him as a “moderate”, although Saudi Arabia is far from any kind of liberal reforms (see Repair Man Jack’s analysis on RedState). King Salman is a spry 79 years old, and he’s no newcomer to Saudi politics.However, the schedule for the President's departure from India has been adjusted to allow Obama to stop in Riyadh himself on his way home, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Salman, 79, is "a stalwart of the royal family" who is "viewed as a pragmatic and cautious reformer, much like his predecessor," says CNN's Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi.I wouldn’t expect much “cautious reform”.He has served as defense minister and deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia, a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, for years. Like Abdullah, he's one of the dozens of sons of Saudi Arabia's founder, King Abdulaziz.
Yet, our President refuses to meet Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in February, though Netanyahu will be a few blocks away at the Capitol, speaking at Congress’ invitation. You won’t see Obama changing his schedule, tee time, or sports-watching schedule for Israel (except to help remove Netanyahu from office). At the same time Speaker Boehner was reaching out to the Israeli PM to schedule the joint session, Obama was reaching out to Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s political opponents, and former members of his coalition government. From December:
Netanyahu’s fragile coalition finally fractured, with both Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, dismissed, and Netanyahu’s dissolving of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) with new elections to be scheduled.Those elections are now scheduled for March 17. Now in a tsunami of irony, Obama cites the upcoming elections as his reason to shun Netanyahu.
"As a matter of long-standing practice and principle, we do not see heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections, so as to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country," White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said in a statement. "Accordingly, the President will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu because of the proximity to the Israeli election, which is just two weeks after his planned address to the U.S. Congress."She should add, “even if we had a hand in causing those elections.” How convenient.
For everyone else, the line to meet Obama forms at the right left, but you can cut if you’re a Youtube or Twitter celebrity—he’ll only come to you if you lead a repressive, women-hating, terror-supporting regime run by religious extremists who flog bloggers who disagree with them. Perhaps Obama wants some tips on dealing with his own dissidents.
(crossposted from RedState.com)
H/T to bluegrasspundit.com.
Amen, brother.
Comrade obamatollah’s goal is the overthrow of America and replace it with a satanic/muzzie “utopia”.
islam = satan’s death cult
allah = satan
Birds of a feather . . .
Never has any one person so embarrassed the entire USA. Or done us so much damage.
And bow, too! AWESOME!!!
It was reported King Abdullah couldn’t stand Obama (that makes two of us buddy). I wonder if he ever passed those sentiments onto now King Salman.
He has to bow down to his new King. Acts speak louder than words. He is true to his muslim faith, just like he said when he slipped in that interview in ‘08.
India must be happy.
Why do you suppose the guy on the extreme right, is looking totally away - - ?
Just told someone today....you hide and watch. He’ll bar the press from their first meeting, so he won’t be shown bowing again. But he will bow.
0bama looks more Arab than Black, just sayin
Original plan was for Barack & family to vacation in India.
Wouldn’t expect anything less from the wahhabist bastard.....
he has to bow before his new king.
/no sarc
“”changed his scheduled departure on his trip to India””
“”the President’s departure from India has been adjusted to allow Obama to stop in Riyadh himself on his way home,””
WHICH IS IT? On the way to India or on the way back????
I really wouldn’t care if he never came back but we are not going to get that lucky!
worthless bitch-boy.
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Would scarcely matter if he did, or not. If I've read reports correctly, Salman has dementia, and has trouble even remembering his own name, from day to day.
With "The Magic Kingdom" now totally surrounded by forces extremely hostile to the House of Saud, things could, and likely shall, become real interesting in very short order. While I never much cared for King Abdullah, the timing of his passing now becomes very problematic for the continued stability of the Arabian Peninsula...
the infowarrior
“King Salman” - I had to fight typing “King Salmon” myself...every time. And think about fish.
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