He TWITTERED his change in plans instead of having the ambassador to Japan personally deliver his change of itinerary? Jeez, I am an ignorant gaijin and even I know how insulting this is. It is worse than sending the Queen of England DVD’s as a present.
I can imagine that just the sudden change in plans would rile Japan and the other countries he is traveling to. I’m sure they’ve gone through a lot of time and expense to set up this trip, keep him secure and all that, and now he’s just changing plans on a whim. They might have been more understanding if his reasons had to do with a real crisis or emergency, but delaying his trip because he wants to see death care passed is not a good reason. If I were these countries, I would be insulted too.
It’s like you plan to visit a friend — he/she takes off work, buys plenty of food and plans some kind of entertainment...goes through all that trouble, and then you just blow your friend off. Good job mr. president.
Because they have little to no experience in either business, diplomacy or international affairs and sensitively handling people abroad. They are elitist Marxist professors and standard bolshevik street scum community organizers, probably many of them with passports for the first time in their lives. Propel them suddenly onto the world stage and the big leagues: and you get THIS.
The Japanese weeklies were reporting in November about how RUDE Obama's November Tokyo delegation with him was, and that includings Gibbs, Jarrett, Emmanuel and Axelrod, some of them who were nodding off in the summit meeting with Prime Minister Hatoyama. Sheesh. Jet lag, smet lag. That's what coffee is for you jerks! And toughing out a Tokyo meeting after arriving from the US, until one gets back to the hotel room and can then catch up and crash/collapse.
Actually, it was the blind Prime Minister who was the recipient of the DVDs. The Queen got an Ipod filled with Obama's speeches.
It is worse than sending the Queen of England DVD’s as a present.
Unviewable DVDs.
Bought for cheap!!!
What if Obama's NOT supid - what if he's intentionally insulting our friends?