Posted on 03/13/2009 10:25:37 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Rio de Janeiro (AP) - His meet-and-greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.
But when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes the first Latin American leader to sit down with President Barack Obama this weekend, he brings undisputed clout.
Silva runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy and has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba. Even Hugo Chavez has asked Silva to carry an olive branch to the new administration.
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Denmark better be on the lookout...they’re offending roughly in alphabetic order.
alphabetical works too
Too bad this isn´t a joke. Too bad I won´t wake up and it will be Nov 3rd, 2008 tomorrow.
This will be fun to watch......at our expense, as has become the norm.
There is something very odd going on in the White House.
Obama seems to have little time for foreign leaders and the underlings handling the details are very sloppy.
This indicates something far more important is going on.
Britain, Brazil...we’ve got China worried...
LOL
I don’t believe this is a careless error. It, like that of Britain’s PM visit, appears to be a full fledged snubbing of critical US allies throughout the world. And I’ll bet anyone who cares to do so that the Obozo WH will not snub petty tyrants or misspell their name.
Thank goodness Obama is restoring America’s reputation around the world after 8 years of that illiterate bully, Chimpy McBushitler!
Obama seems to have little time for foreign leaders and the underlings handling the details are very sloppy.
This indicates something far more important is going on.”
Or that there are just dumb ass punks running the country.
I choose the latter.
“something very odd going on”
I don’t know what it is, but it strikes me the same way. All jokes and criticisms aside, it just doesn’t seem rational.—JM
With interest.
They teach kids today that the embargo was put in place because Cuba is Communist, and they naturally believe that.
So, they misspelled his name, hey, no harm no foul-after all, it’s not like they were Republicans, right?/s;)
The Saturday meeting will get bumped too....it’s the weekend and Barack doesn’t work on the weekends.
I bet Obama doesn’t mispell Chavez or Castro’s name.
I wonder if they will let Joe Biden handle a future India state visit based on his knowledge of convenience stores, slurpees and Asian Americans.
Amazingly enough Castro, Chavez, and that little sawed off Iranian’s names tags are always perfectly spelled by this administration...
This pattern that we’re seeing from this administration on foreign relations is bizarre.
Beat me to it :)
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