Posted on 03/13/2010 12:05:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.
But Washington figures with access to Mr Obama's inner circle explained the slight by saying that those high up in the administration have had little time to deal with international matters, let alone the diplomatic niceties of the special relationship.
Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.
A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to "even fake an interest in foreign policy".
A British official conceded that the furore surrounding the apparent snub to Mr Brown had come as a shock to the White House. "I think it's right to say that their focus is elsewhere, on domestic affairs. A number of our US interlocutors said they couldn't quite understand the British concerns and didn't get what that was all about."
The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.
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Oops. Well, nothing seems to have changed.
WHY did you redate this article. It is from last year and clearly has the correct date on it.
Too hungover
I WISH HIM REST......E *****L!
Maybe he was too exhausted?
Gordon, gotta light?
I thought this article sounded familiar (damn photographic memory)
This is from 2009!
Putz. Exactly! Shmuck, shmageggy comes to mind. Oi, so sick of this putz I am! :-)
I agree. So why did the American people elect a little man as president?
Nicely done. Seriously, he is the most delusional pompous @sshat ever.
And how all of these countries, the French and the Brits and the Germans too were all atwitter about Obama! Well, how do you suppose they like this lazy-ass, responsibility-avoiding, blame-assigning, trash-talking swamp-running black Marxist piece of crap now? Europe’s disappointed in Obama? Get in line!
I hope Obama at least sent an iPod with his speeches or a nice DVD collection.
pathetic little man-child finding himself playing in an adult world and woefully ill prepared.
a common enough result for those elevated via affirmative action over substance.
LMAO!!! As if he has spent any time on the economic meltdown. It's been ram the health care bill either down our throats or up our asses 24/7. Do they not think the lies out or do they say the first thing that pops into their brain cell.
Don’t send a boy to do a mans’ job, period!
Updated March 12, 2010
President Obama Is Pooped!
By Brian Doherty
- FOXNews.com
According to London’s Sunday Telegraph, the president’s decision to not welcome British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last March with the customary press conference and State Dinner was not a result of a deliberate slight, rather POTUS was tired.
“I’m so tired, haven’t slept a wink, I’m so tired, my mind is on the blink,” the late John Lennon sang in 1968, while he and the Beatles experienced “transcendental mediation” under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.
Channeling the late Beatle in an early release of the cover story in this Sunday’s New York Times magazine, Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel exclaims, “I’m so tired, I’m so tired.” Congressman Heath Schuler is quoted, “I can see it in his eyes…it’s taking a toll on him.”
Lennon wasn’t really tired, he was reportedly suffering a major case of the lonely hearts when he penned the song, obviously unmoved by the Maharishi’s teachings that give practitioners the ability to walk through walls, levitate and become invisible.
The Obama administration hasn’t picked up the ability to walk through walls; instead, according to the Associated Press, the New York Times and other publications, they are walking INTO walls for lack of sleep.
“Big first year leaves Obama tired,” the AP’s Julie Pace wrote on December 29 of last year. “After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.”
The president was open in explaining his pooped-out appearance. “You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people…Absolutely that weighs on me,” the fatigued commander-in-collapse sighed.
And according to London’s Sunday Telegraph, the president’s decision to not welcome British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last March with the customary press conference and State Dinner was not a result of a deliberate slight, rather POTUS was pooped. “People say he looks tired more often than they’re used to,” said an anonymous strategist.
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