Posted on 12/22/2009 7:46:54 PM PST by Abakumov
Barack Obama is not used to being the guy not invited to a party. At the Copenhagen global warming conference, however, he found that not everyone wanted to hang with him. Our president can't take a hint. ..."We weren't crashing a meeting," an Obama flack later explained defensively. "We were going for our bilateral meeting." But that didn't stop him from walking in where he wasn't invited. Clearly, Mr. Obama learned a few things from his own White House party crashers.
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I guess at least one question about him has been answered. Why have none of friends come forward? He does not have any. Once you meet him, you realize he is people repellant!
“But that didn’t stop him from walking in where he wasn’t invited”
As an Illinoisan I can testify to that fact.
“But that didn’t stop him from walking in where he wasn’t invited”
As an Illinoisan I can testify to that fact.
I just want to see the bc
Hmmm- party goers crashed the hwitehouse, and got prosecuted (or are goign to) so does htis mean that obama will be prosecuted for to prevent him from crasjhing the meeting? Perhaps he and the [artcrashing the meeting in copenhagen? Why wasn’t there more security y goers who crashed his event can share the same cell
Funny stuff. I’m surprised that we haven’t heard anything of Shrillary thrwoing a hissy over this. Hope she had to stand up the entire meeting.
Fine way to act as President of the United States groveling and begging entry into a meeting he was obviously not invited to nor wanted .
Thanks alot to voters suffering “suburban liberal white guilt” to cast their lot with the magic negro (in reality a bi-racial marxist bastard who has not an inkling of what his urban brothers experiences are)
MORE TO THIS. See the report from Die Welt quoted on Belmont Club.
The Copencabana December 21st, 2009 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/12/21/the-copencabana/
His arrival was immediately followed by a pithy presentation. Right after his arrival at the conference center, he let it be known to those present: The time for [mere] talk is over. He would assume leadership of the negotiations.
Together with Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leaders of Russia, Brazil, Japan, the European Union and of other important countries, Obama went to work. But it did not go quite as the Nobel Peace Prize-winner had imagined. Only Norbert Röttgen, Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety remained optimistic. In spite of the tough negotiations, a compromise can be found, he said. Today the die will be cast.
Instead a fiasco had begun making itself visible and felt. It began during the night of Friday and Saturday. A small group of negotiators assembled from among the 30 important and representative countries, among them Germany, were still discussing the main features and principles to be included in a twelve-point document. It was titled The Copenhagen Accord and consisted of a three-page collection of vague aims, without specific legally-binding goals that were to be achieved.
Although China is among the worst climate polluters and has had a long ascent in becoming an industrial power deserving of respect and recognition, Premier Wen Jiabao was not among the participants in the talks-not that his participation was not desired. To the contrary!
According to rumors in the Bella Center, US President Barack Obama at about 11 PM, had impatiently asked to speak with Wen Jiabao in order to advance the discussion. But Obama had to wait. Wen, who, it was rumored, had rarely left his hotel room, could not be found. Finally, the US delegation located him in a room set aside for negotiations. A visibly furious Obama, according to reports, stormed into the room. Are you now ready to talk with me, Premier Wen? he was reported to have shouted. Are you now ready? Premier Wen, are you now ready to talk with me? What a scene for a US president.
Wen was not alone in the room at the time when Obama quite literally burst into the room, according to participants. At the time, the Premier was in a conversation with Indias head of state, Mammohan Singh and South Africas President Jacob Zuma. Suddenly the group saw itself forced into a conversation with the US president.
At the insistence of the impatient Obama, this unplanned and coincidentally-assembled negotiating round and participants, agreed on a minimal compromise.
Obama should have discussed, coordinated with and agreed to this compromise with his closest partners: the European Union or the G77 Developing Nations. Instead, at about 10:25 PM, he called together a number of American journalists for an impromptu press conference. There he announced, the Copenhagen Accord as the conclusion and product of the two-week long conference. He was aware, that many countries would consider the result as insufficient and unsatisfactory. More, however, was not achievable.
He thought it a significant achievement and milestone that large developing countries like India and China had, for the first time, recognized the necessity of reducing emissions and accepted to limit warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
With that, he packed his bags and flew home. Chancellor Angela Merkel also left and went back to Berlin. Both left Copenhagen without having achieved a clear result. And, what is even more serious, without having bothered about a follow-on to what had been announced as an historic conference. Dealing with climate was left to others. It was a serious mistake that would soon make itself manifest.
Even while Obama and Merkel were on their way home, late during the night, the EU Commission, even as they gnashed their teeth, declared themselves prepared to accept Obamas minimum compromise. Unlike the Europeans, many African nations were not prepared to follow. At the plenary session, Sudans head, Lumumba Di-Aping was beside himself. No one is entitled to destroy Africa said the Sudanese who was the spokesman for the G77 Developing Nations. He said the document would mean the death of millions. Finally, Di-Aping aroused outrage in the main meeting hall by comparing the accord to the Holocaust.
The Pacific island-states also declined to agree to the Obama document. With an eye toward the promised $30 billion in aid mentioned in the final document, the president of the Maldives declared he was not prepared to sell-out his islands for 30 pieces of silver.
The erratic and unfocused-appearing Danish president, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, at 8 AM declared that he, as president of the 193 nation-conference, could not agree to the Copenhagen Accord.
One final last-minute attempt was made to avert the total failure of the climate conference. For that reason, a negotiating session was announced. After hectic bilateral talks, at 10:30 AM, the conference agreed to recognize the existence of the Obama Document. With this lowest-level of diplomatic recognition, the outright rejection of the compromise by the United Nations was narrowly avoided. But no more.
A visibly furious Obama, according to reports, stormed into the room. Are you now ready to talk with me, Premier Wen? he was reported to have shouted. Are you now ready? Premier Wen, are you now ready to talk with me?
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