Posted on 03/25/2009 2:33:53 PM PDT by tobyhill
The European Union's crisis of leadership during this severe economic downturn was thrown into sharp relief on Wednesday, as the prime minister of the country that holds the rotating presidency lambasted President Barack Obama's emergency stimulus package as "a way to hell" that will "undermine the stability of the global financial market."
The blunt comments of the Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, coming just a week before a crucial meeting of the Group of 20 that is supposed to show leaders coming together to cope with the crisis, were greeted with embarrassment by many Europeans, who believe that the Czechs do not represent the consensus in the European Union in any case.
What made the situation even more absurd was that Mr. Topolanek lost his parliamentary majority in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, with his new lame-duck status further weakening Prague's European presidency. Adding to the awkwardness, Mr. Topolanek will host Mr. Obama in Prague a few days after the G-20 meeting, at a United States-European Union summit.
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Can’t have people telling it like it is.
YO, EU muckitymucks!!
Czech REp has it ABSOLUTELY RIGHT... IF Obama is allowed to do what he’s TRYING TO DO .. he will destroy the US ECONOMY, and thusly ... the ECONOMY of the Entire world..
Read history about the Great Depression ... OBAMA is doing the EXACT same thing as FDR DID... and needed a WORLD WAR to End it...
is THAT what you in the EU want??? Give the Czech Representative a MEDAL for being HONEST, FORTHRIGHT, and CORRECT!
bump
If they throw him out will the Czech bonce?
It sure is strange to me that at a time when the world needs a strong USA, we send in zero.
I hope Mr. Topolanek offends Zero in the same way that Zero offended Brown, Sarkozy, et al.
BTTT!
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