Posted on 05/13/2020 4:27:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Friday [Sept 28, 2008] ushered in a surreal new chapter in the duel between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney over how to approach relations with Israel and Iran’s nuclear program, as both candidates hopped on phone calls with Benjamin Netanyahu a day after the Israeli prime minister delivered a fiery U.N. address on red lines for Iran in New York.
During Obama’s conversation with Netanyahu (see photo above), the White House announced, "the two leaders underscored that they are in full agreement on the shared goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." Romney told reporters that while he and the Israeli leader spoke about red lines in a subsequent chat, they did not delve into the "kind of detail" that "would define precisely where that red line would be."
The bizarre episode raises the question: Is it normal for presidential candidates to insert themselves into global events by dialing up heads of state? In fact, Obama did pretty much the same thing — multiple times, no less — as a candidate during the 2008 campaign ...
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Obama, like Romney, embarked on a foreign trip as a candidate, meeting face-to-face with leaders such as Afghan President Hamid Karzai, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (headline: "Obama Talks Tough About Iran During Visit to Israel"). But he also placed several phone calls.
In January 2008, for example, Obama reached out to the two leaders at the center of a bitterly disputed election in Kenya, his father’s homeland. "What I urged was that all the leaders there, regardless of their position on the election, tell their supporters to stand down," Obama explained at the time. The Bush-era State Department, which coordinated the calls with Obama, praised the effort. "Any time you have a person of stature … who is pushing for a peaceful, political resolution, that’s a positive thing," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Then, after hostilities erupted between Georgia and Russia in August 2008, both Obama and Republican challenger John McCain phoned Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, while condemning Russia for violating Georgia’s sovereignty. In fact, the candidates called Saakashvili so frequently — the Georgian leader said he heard from them "pretty often" — that it became a bit of a contest; when pressed by Fox News, Saakashvili conceded that McCain had called first but that Obama was "very supportive." In September, the prime minister requested a call with Obama to thank him for mentioning Georgia in his convention speech.
The campaign-trail diplomacy didn’t stop at phone calls. McCain sent two of his allies in the Senate — Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — to Georgia at the height of the conflict, while Joe Biden, then a leading contender to be Obama’s running mate, made the trip himself.
ROFLMAO !!
Candidate Obama in September and October went to Iraq, had private meetings with the Iraqi government. And told them not to sign any status of forces agreement with President Bush, because he would be elected very soon and things had to be done according to his policy. So yeah,
When he lost, his mohammaden supporters mau maued the Christians, murdering many icluding burning alive hundreds in a church where they took refuge.
The kenyan government bent over and created the position of prime minister for him.
Hussein renounced allegiance to the USA when he went to Berlin (of all places!) and declared that he was “citizen of the world”.
Oh, that is GOOD!
He is a citizen of the world.
Literally.
Born a British subject and Kenyan national wherever he was born from his Kenyan/British subject father.
Later added Indonesian citizenship and may still be an Indonesian citizen for all we know.
He used that Indonesian passport in college, as an adult.
He knows he’s ineligible and laughing about it.
Trump wasn’t a “candidate” when the calls were unmasked. He was the duly elected President Elect, and Flynn was his National Security Advisor. Every President Elect begins establishing communications before inauguration.
Trump wasn’t reaching out to international leaders before the election because he was not expected to win. I’ll bet Hillary and her minions were busy talking to leaders around the globe right up to the morning of November 8th.
GOD I LOVE IT!!
Recall the economy was in free fall and he was barking orders to Congress how to fix it.
If the pattern looks familiar (taking advantage of a crisis), on the basis of the crisis, he and his minions got Obamacare passed then too
I believe I heard that they have found communications in Brennan’s stuff that confirmed that the Russians wanted HILLARY to win......I sure hope those communications come out!
And don’t ever forget, he appeared behind a FAKE PODIUM, with a made-up ‘Seal of the President-Elect’.
All political theater (including the fake pillars on the stage in Denver), until he started destroying this great country...........
I forgot about that.
He has been operating a shadow government since he"left" office.
Don’t you wish!
Probably to boss them around.
Yeah I remember zero and his team conducting presidential business with his fake seal....
Bookmarked.
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